Other standard interior features include four 12V power outlets, rear air conditioning with dual controls (front and rear), rear heater duct, driver and front passenger one-touch auto up/down power windows; rear auto-down power windows, 12 cup and bottle holders (some big enough to hold 64-oz. bottles), standard HomeLink Universal Transceiver ,and rear area ceiling/floor-mounted cargo tie-down points and cargo net.
A big vehicle with this much equipment is naturally going to play up at the far end of the scale, and QX56 certainly does at 2430 kg for the rear-drive version and 2554 kg for the AWD version.
As a result, an engine that would be a barn burner in a smaller vehicle tends to feel merely adequate. That engine would be the 5.6-liter DOHC Endurance V8 that produces 315 hp at 4,900 RPM and 390 lb.-ft. of torque at 3,600 RPM.
That's clearly a lot of juice, but when if you pile in three or four people and a bunch of their stuff there can be moments when you're wishing for another bucket or two of torque.
In any situation, the standard five-speed automatic seems to be up for the job, possibly because it was ''geared specifically for use in high torque situations and includes an advanced torque converter design for improved fuel economy and an advanced powertrain management program for smooth shift quality.'' That would do it.
It's also good that every model has Vehicle Dynamic Control (aka stability control) and Active Brake Limited-Slip, since they are technologies that are very good at keeping the vehicle and you out of trouble.
The 2004 QX56 is available rear- or all-wheel drive, though it's hard to imagine anyone in Canada paying big for a vehicle that's not good in the snow and ice.
The AWD model features a full-time all-wheel drive system with RWD/4H/4LO modes, and an electronically controlled part-time transfer case with low gear.
The two-speed electronic transfer case allows drivers to select between auto, full-time all-wheel drive and 4LO, though most of them will probably just leave it in ''auto'' and let the system do the thinking and the work. It is, after all, designed to instantly distribute torque to all four wheels whenever road conditions warrant, resulting in optimal traction.
A rear auto-leveling air suspension is also standard on every QX56, Igo says, and that ''helps provide better handling stability and ride comfort when towing or hauling cargo. The air suspension also maintains uniform ground clearance and departure angle, even when towing or carrying cargo, by automatically adjusting the air pressure in the system's air bladders.''
A big vehicle with this much equipment is naturally going to play up at the far end of the scale, and QX56 certainly does at 2430 kg for the rear-drive version and 2554 kg for the AWD version.
As a result, an engine that would be a barn burner in a smaller vehicle tends to feel merely adequate. That engine would be the 5.6-liter DOHC Endurance V8 that produces 315 hp at 4,900 RPM and 390 lb.-ft. of torque at 3,600 RPM.
That's clearly a lot of juice, but when if you pile in three or four people and a bunch of their stuff there can be moments when you're wishing for another bucket or two of torque.
In any situation, the standard five-speed automatic seems to be up for the job, possibly because it was ''geared specifically for use in high torque situations and includes an advanced torque converter design for improved fuel economy and an advanced powertrain management program for smooth shift quality.'' That would do it.
It's also good that every model has Vehicle Dynamic Control (aka stability control) and Active Brake Limited-Slip, since they are technologies that are very good at keeping the vehicle and you out of trouble.
The 2004 QX56 is available rear- or all-wheel drive, though it's hard to imagine anyone in Canada paying big for a vehicle that's not good in the snow and ice.
The AWD model features a full-time all-wheel drive system with RWD/4H/4LO modes, and an electronically controlled part-time transfer case with low gear.
The two-speed electronic transfer case allows drivers to select between auto, full-time all-wheel drive and 4LO, though most of them will probably just leave it in ''auto'' and let the system do the thinking and the work. It is, after all, designed to instantly distribute torque to all four wheels whenever road conditions warrant, resulting in optimal traction.
A rear auto-leveling air suspension is also standard on every QX56, Igo says, and that ''helps provide better handling stability and ride comfort when towing or hauling cargo. The air suspension also maintains uniform ground clearance and departure angle, even when towing or carrying cargo, by automatically adjusting the air pressure in the system's air bladders.''