Perhaps the Majestic White would be a better look. . .

By Gary S. Vasilash

When you have a vehicle that has “Luxe” in its name you figure that it must be, well, luxurious. But one thing about the QX60 Luxe as driven here is that it has the “Black Edition Package,” a $1,900 option that provides gloss-black 20-inch wheels, gloss black roof rails, black grille, and black headliner on the inside. And the Black Edition Package makes it possible to select from three premium paints: Mineral Black, Majestic White, or a newly developed color, Harbor Gray.

The first two rows of the three-row SUV have leather, which also happened to be black. (The front seats are the comfortable “Zero Gravity” style that Nissan had initially launched in the 2013 Altima and which have been improved since; the second-row seats (and know that the outboard seating positions back there are heated, while the front seats are heated and ventilated).)

But the thing is, the whole execution seemed less luxe to me and more like I was living in Wednesday Addams’ world.

The QX60 is powered by a turbocharged 2.0-liter I4 that produces 268 hp @ 5,600 rpm and 286 lb-ft of torque at 4,400 rpm. It is mated to a nine-speed automatic.

The vehicle weighs 4,696 pounds.

And it really seemed that in some cases when I planted the accelerator (e.g., coming off a freeway ramp into the speeding traffic) I would have been happy with, say, a couple more cylinders. (To be fair, however, it should be noted that a competitive vehicle, like the Lincoln Nautilus (though it has two rows, not three), also has a turbocharged I4. While it has 250 hp, the vehicle is lighter, so it turns out that a power-to-weight ratio is essentially a wash. The point being that this is something that is characteristic of the vehicle type, it seems.)
It should be noted that the fuel economy numbers are 22 mpg city, 27 highway, and 24 combined, so there is something to be said for not having two extra cylinders.

It checks the boxes with a sizeable touch screen (12.3 inch) and an array of standard safety tech (forward emergency braking with pedestrian detection, predictive forward collision warning, rear cross-traffic alert, rear automatic braking, blind spot warning, lane departure warning11 and high beam assist). There are also things like traffic sign recognition, intelligent cruise control with stop-and-go, and other features and functions.

New to the 2025 QX60 is a key fob that is recognized by the vehicle such that when you approach the vehicle with said fob there is a beep from the SUV announcing that the door is unlocked. When you turn off the SUV and exit, once you’re a few feet away the vehicle beeps and the doors lock. Clever, but I was a bit concerned when I happened to be repeatedly walking by the SUV with the fob in my pocket. I was afraid that the repeated beeps and locking-unlocking would cause the processor to throw an electronic gasket.

That didn’t happen.

Convenience really matters when you actually need a three-row vehicle (i.e., you have your hands full—figuratively and often literally). Which is probably why there is that fob arrangement.

Credit to the Infiniti folks to be thinking of things like that.