Okay, I just went to a nearby dealership to check out their new Sentra.......................haha, j/k......the new Z of course
; and man is that thing BEAUTIFUL! Pictures don't really do any justice. Yes, the car does look good in them but SOOOoooooooo much better in person. It looks even smaller in person that what I had expected. I was really surprised.
The wheels also look much better in person. Whenever I get a Z, I think I will stay with the stock ones for a little while. At least until I get most of the payments out of the way.
The dealership only had an automatic PW (that's why I'm posting here rather than somewhere else...hehe) in stock. Let me try to explain how great the car looked. It was late evening when I was there, the daylight was fading, the weather was crappy (cloudy, frigidly cold, windy), and this damn color just stood out like biatch.
It looked DEAD SEXY
. Of course the car was detailed and kept clean but man, you can still see the pearlescent effect from the paint. This is the only color that I've seen in person on the Z so I don't want to be too quick to judge but it's arguably the best color for it. It just fits the car well.
I don't really have much to comment on the test drive mainly because it was rush hour and where the salesman had me driving, it was kind of busy. So I was never able to open it up and play with it for a bit. Plus, the drive was short. He basically had me drive in a big circle. Oh well.....some other time I guess. But coming from driving compact cars all my life, driving the Z was a little awkward at first. In my current car (00 Civic SI) I can almost see the road right in front of me. In other words, I can see where the hood meets the bumper. In the Z however, as with most sports cars I assume, the point of view is much different. It was hard to tell how far the front of the car was. Also, when turning, it was a little awkward because I lost sight of the curb sooner than in my small compact. In my SI, I can almost see where the curb meets the wheel (haha...not really but you get the point).
All in all, the car just feels much bigger than the SI,.......which it should.....because it is a little. Bigger in the sense that it's much wider. It's actually smaller length wise, which I was surprised. Anyway, it was a cool experience non the less. I didn't get a chance to look at peoples' expressions as I was driving because I was too distracted admiring the car and checking stuff out as I was driving. I wasn't too crazy about the 7 speed auto. When put in "manual," the responsiveness between shifts was not up to par as a
true manual. I've never driven these new simulated manual transmissions (that cars now a days come with) before so I was expecting quick, snappy shifts....kind of like what you see on F1, rally, etc...
Anyway, up until this point I have been leaning towards the PG, which I have yet to see, I'm now really considering the PW when the time comes.
