Infiniti Etherea goes to mass production

In the beginning of month the automotive news portals wrote about Infiniti plans to return on the market of front-wheel models, and today company management told the first details about the future car with a drive gear on a front axle. During press conference at an exhibition in Frankfurt head of Nissan Carlos Gon told, Infiniti model construct on a new front-wheel platform of Mercedes-Benz, and the design of an exterior of the car will be cast by shape show penalty Etherea which world premiere took place within the limits of the Geneva showroom. It is supposed that the front-wheel car intended for realisation first of all on European market, complete both petrol, and diesel engines. The Vice-president of Nissan Andy Palmer expressed hope that on a share of the competitor of Audi A3 and BMW of 1st series it is necessary to 40 % from total number of the sold models of mark of Infiniti in the Old World. Because of a high yen exchange rate will exhaust the new car of luxury division of Nissan outside of Japan. Infiniti front-wheel drive vehicle should appear in the market roughly in 2014. Let’s remind that the first car constructed on a new front-wheel platform of Mercedes-Benz is the second generation compact B-class, whose premiere passed at an exhibition in Frankfurt.