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Originally Posted by LMBmikeZ
 but those other cars are selling due to there name, a lot of people go  when you say you drive a nissan  (american made domestic heads) but these can also be the same idiots who say the corolla is import and not made domestically mean while it's made in the town they live in  dummies
The Nismo HQ looks sweet! Makes me want a GTR |
I promise you, it's not the "Oh, it's a Nissan" that is keeping the 370Z from selling. Do you know where I live? I live in Shreveport, LA. Can you think of a more import hating place than next to one of the largest military installations in the US in a Southern town where the Daughters of the Confederacy and the NAACP went at it daily over a patch of ground flying a Confederate Flag down town in front of the court-house up until a year or so ago? I cannot. (PS. I hate this town).
Anyway, I get more compliments in my 370Z than I have gotten combined in my Mustang GT, Z06, or two Trans Ams before that. All prime redneck and 'Murican loved vehicles.
No, sir, it is NOT the "It's an import"...
that is keeping the 370Z from selling. It's not brand, it's not image. It's lack of substance in the numbers department. 'Murica buys a car because of how much she has under the hood. The 370Z doesn't have crap under the hood by 'Murica's standards, so the fact that it weighs less than the boat of a Challenger/Charger doesn't matter, really. The fact that there are no back-seats for the single baby-momma's in this town are a huge killer. Everyone here has some form of child or ten. They need a car with back seats. Please, Nissan, don't...
...but that's part of why it doesn't compete with the Camaro, Mustang, and Mopars twins.
'Murica wants to go fast in one direction toting it's EBT-enabling cargo squalling all the way. At least, the 'Murica I live in.
Then you take a single guy who hates kids and doesn't care who made it, as long as it's quality gear, and we try the 370Z out. We discover that the brakes don't work so great, the shifter is worse than the Tremec's in the American cars, the handling in the GT Track Pack is more neutral, and we say...damn. 'Murica! and we never look back. Nissan is a "one and done" for us, because we looked past the other things that weeded others out, but once we actually got the product, we found out it was all sexy curves, cute little catch phrases like "dynamic weight transfer", and no balls or brawn when it comes time to actually DRIVE the thing and we wind up with warped rotors and hating the front-heavy handling and all those little nitpicky things after a day of driving to and from work on a road with a few kinks in it.
That is why it doesn't sell.
Those who would buy it, can't fit their life into it, and those who do buy it, figure out that it's not half the car it seemed like in the product brochure.