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Sneak pique.(Infiniti wagon; free Mercury Cougar with Lincoln Blackwood purchase)(Brief Article)

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After writing about the forthcoming Dodge Magnum (AW, Nov. 25), an Audi Avantissimo-like wagon shown at a consumer clinic, now comes word of yet another clinic-tested player entering the wagon fold: Infiniti.

Our clinic insider reports Nissan's luxury brand is seriously considering a wagon carrying the G35 or G35X nameplate. If brought to market, we're told the wagon would have ``big tires and plastic cladding as well as all-wheel drive.'' Our observer also reported the wagon as Volvo Cross Country/V70-sized, which means it would be much larger than a G35-based wagon, so maybe the G35 nomenclature was a decoy.

Why is Nissan flashing its future before consumer clinics? ``At the end they showed us the new FX45 and asked whether we thought the wagon would ...

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