Design heritage — Infiniti platform basis

Community speculation (unverified but circulated as a plausible explanation) suggests the X80's chassis design was copied/derived from Infiniti models, specifically drawing on Infiniti's four-wheel-steering rear-suspension architecture ¹. Chinese engineers are believed to have replicated the Infiniti rear suspension layout but omitted the functional rear-wheel-steering actuation in the production X80. One community member connects this theory to a concrete observation on the front end: the presence of bearing supports ("опоры с подшипниками") on the front suspension that appear to be legacy design elements inherited from a donor platform that was originally engineered to support steering actuation hardware, rather than being purpose-designed for the X80's actual (non-steering) front suspension ². Understanding this heritage is offered by the community as a possible explanation for otherwise puzzling hardware choices on the car's suspension.

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Sources

This page is compiled from 2 community messages. Every fact carries a numbered reference to its original author and message.

Last updated: 2026-07-24