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JoeyD · 04-02-2009, 12:59 PM

I don't have the time to read this whole thread this morning (I'll get to it tonight probably). Has anyone mentioned the following?... Car magazines, publications, and TV spots are all forms of advertising for Nissan. They deliberately misled the press by installing non-standard and non-available parts on the test cars. Isn't that false advertising? These parts make the press cars and the market cars two different animals. This is the old "bate and switch" at its best. This goes beyond mechanical problems and into the realm of legal and ethical debate. The fact that they put these parts on press cars is a blatant admission that there is a temperature problem and Nissan had prior knowledge of it and released the car anyway. This could very easily turn in to a class-action suit IMHO.

And just to be clear that I'm not coming out of left field here...this weekend I did my first ever autoX event. After one 90sec run my temp was already close to 270 and continued to rise for at least 5 minutes after the run. I have no doubt that if I had done two consecutive laps my car would have surpassed the 280F mark.

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JoeyD Enthusiast Member Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Raeford, NC Posts: 305 Drives: 09 NISMO 370Z Rep Power: 186	I don't have the time to read this whole thread this morning (I'll get to it tonight probably). Has anyone mentioned the following?... Car magazines, publications, and TV spots are all forms of advertising for Nissan. They deliberately misled the press by installing non-standard and non-available parts on the test cars. Isn't that false advertising? These parts make the press cars and the market cars two different animals. This is the old "bate and switch" at its best. This goes beyond mechanical problems and into the realm of legal and ethical debate. The fact that they put these parts on press cars is a blatant admission that there is a temperature problem and Nissan had prior knowledge of it and released the car anyway. This could very easily turn in to a class-action suit IMHO. And just to be clear that I'm not coming out of left field here...this weekend I did my first ever autoX event. After one 90sec run my temp was already close to 270 and continued to rise for at least 5 minutes after the run. I have no doubt that if I had done two consecutive laps my car would have surpassed the 280F mark. __________________ When was the last time you did 230MPH in something with 4 seats? Last edited by JoeyD; 04-02-2009 at 01:03 PM.