Infiniti's New Sport Muffler Uncorks The Q50's Exhaust Note: Video

While Nissan's GT-R makes regular appearances at supercar shootouts, the company's upmarket cousin Infiniti has been largely absent from the performance discussion.

Because while the 560-horsepower Q50 Eau Rouge garnered plenty of praise upon its reveal at the 2014 Detroit Auto Show, and was reportedly green-lit for production, in a recent conversation with The Car Connection, Infiniti design chief Alfonso Albaisa seemed to suggest—as brief Infiniti boss and current Cadillac president Johan de Nysschen publicly has—that the model isn't going to happen, though the performance division is likely.

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