Originally Posted by dat370zguy

It all depends on you man, do you want all the creature comforts or do you want the bare minimum?

I'm on the bare minimum side, I'll buy the most base car with absolutely no add-ons and fix what I want as I go. I take that approach since I don't really care for any of the add-ons from the sports(brakes,lsd,syncrorev,wing) and touring(navi,bose sound,leather heated cars, better head unit.

I especially don't like the autorev stuff so I refuse to buy a sports package. The leather I don't care for, would rather carbon fiber bucket seat. Not to forget all the other add-ons you can add, like light in the door floor?, rear wheel guards and some other crap, personally I'm cool off of that.

Why spend 40k+(socal) on a fully loaded 370z sports touring, when I can spend 28k(if I luck out) on the base model and spend 12k on mods, that will perform much better than a sport touring. In my case that's why I justify buying a base. But that might not be your case, it all depends on what you want out of the car.