Usually when a car gets as many mid-life updates as the
Infiniti Q50 is getting for 2016, it happens when said car is a complete and total failure, in desperate need of revamping to revive its fortunes. That isn’t the case with the Q50; it was always a decent car, just not a great one, and up against some of the fiercest competition around.
Now it gets an array of improvements, most notably an all-new 3.0-liter twin-turbo V6 with 400 horsepower and 350 lb-ft of torque, plus massive tweaks to its drive-by-wire Direct Adaptive Steering system. After driving it, I can say the Q50 is closer to
