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Old 08-26-2010, 07:34 PM   #127 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Zsteve View Post
Man I have to tell you that the Porsche has better quality. Here is something I have found in the Z that kinda made me say HMMMMM. If you look at the guages in the front where all the check eng lights come on when starting up and the sun is hitting the gauge from behind the car, you can see that Nissan used a cardboard pice with the guage icons cut out and just put over the whole thing. Kinda like a carboard cutout. Now in my other cars Ive owned it was atleast plastic cutouts put over. And Im not talking about the clear plastic piece. What is funny is that the cardboard cutout has intentations that can be seen when the sun hits its showing its unevenness. Its not a biggy but thats the little things that tell me the Z is not at the Porsche BMW Audi or Merc levels of materials. I love my Z but I make no pretense its quiality was as good as my Audi material wise and even parts wise. Like I said I went down in quality going to the Z but I wanted the more power so its something you have to live with. Now I will have to drive the vette soon and get a feel for the ride and comfort of the seats but Im only 5'8 so Im sure they will be fine for me. Even in the Z when I went from GA to TX my legs started hurting from the long days rides.
IT does make one go "hmmm", but who is to say it really IS cardboard? Have you touched the material to know? It may have a similar corrugated construction and not be cardboard, which would have all sorts of issues in high-humidity, which is why I think it is NOT cardboard as we think of it.
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