The good:
The huge 2010 Infiniti QX56 can take a lot of cargo and pull 9,000 pounds. It comes with plenty of cabin tech standard, including a hard-drive-based navigation system with traffic data. It can rip CDs to its hard drive.

The bad:
Fuel economy is poor and the ride quality is rough--hardly befitting the Infiniti brand. iPod integration isn't available.

The bottom line:
Although it has a few nice tech features, the 2010 Infiniti QX56 lags behind its Infiniti stablemates in both performance technology and cabin electronics.

Specifications:
Body style: SUV ; Available Engine: Gas See full specs.

Compared with sporting and lively cars such as the Infiniti G37 and FX50, the 2010 Infiniti QX56 is an odd throwback, a journey into yesteryear before the first hybrids stride the earth. Built on a truck frame, it rides like a railway car. The engine, big enough to pull the near 3 tons of the QX56 around, plus an extra 9,000 pounds towed from the rear bumper, burns gas at a visible rate. And the QX56 is big, so big that we wanted to put traffic cones around it every time we parked. The ride height is on par with public transportation.

leather and wood insets. Infiniti also gives the QX56 its latest cabin tech package, a suite of gadgets we've liked in other Infiniti cars. But these gadgets don't make as smooth a transition into the QX56; iPod integration was lost somewhere along the way, and the cabin tech controller was placed in an awkward position.

The spacious interior of the QX56 includes three rows of seating, although our review vehicle came with captain's chairs in the second row, allowing total seating for six. Luxury accessibility comes in the form of a power-operated rear gate, and power-folding third-row seats. With the second- and third-row seats down, a huge amount of space is available for furniture, bicycles, and probably a Liechtenstein.