An employee at a Nissan Manufacturing Plant was browsing around for a new lease and stumbled upon the 370Z drop down menu. It gave him the SAME Z trims (370Z and 370Z touring 7AT or 6MT) as it shows on the other thread here.
Here is his/her exact quote:
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I went ahead and clicked to the final checkout screen to give me the weekly rate of the lease. (Only options I opted for was the aero package.) I was $84 a week.
Of course we have a different lease system than you can get from a dealer. All you have to do is place an order through this computer for a car. Send it in, and usually you will have the car delivered to the plant in around 6 months. Your lease will last one year and you pay no money down. Then all you have to do is pay the weekly fee and your insurance, and pay for gas and thats it. Nissan even pays for the oil change and required service every 7500 miles.
So I found the weekly fee for a touring model. I then went and found the fee for a coupe with not options. That was $75 a week. I then set out to find what the msrp would be for these two trim levels.
The way I went about this seemed logical. On this same computer there is a screen that will give you a listing of what a certain vehicle will cost if you went to a dealer and bought a vehicle. A price with the Nissan discount and one without. So I compared the lease rates of vehicles we can currently lease with their dealer price. I used the new Rogue, 2009 roadster, Maxima and Altima. I then compared their rates and prices with that of the 370Z.
What I came up with was a 370Z coupe 6MT with no options should sell between $32,000 and $33,000. Which is what everyone has been hearing. When the touring model 6MT is figured up it is between $34,000 and $35,000, and that is only with the aero package option selected. MSRP on an G37 coupe is $34,900. Thats not that much of a price difference now.
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