Everyone with oil temp issues

lww

What kind of gas mileage does your little Insight get...? Sorry, I couldn't pass up the opportunity!

The issue here is that we could have gone out and bought any number of other cars that are competing for this segment of the market and NOT had this problem. I believe the VVEL system is a fantastic technological and engineering achievement, but I also believe it is the culprit.

If I don't see a reasonable resolution soon, my money is going to another manufacturer that has a product engineered to support the use it's owner's expect out of a capable "Sports Car". Porsche, BMW and god help me, even Chevrolet fills this bill.

The statement from the CS person TheWeatherman spoke to is spurious:

If by an awful lot, he means one 20 minute session in a track day, then I call bs on that statement. Track days have become one of the most common "after work" activities for sports car enthusiast/owners as evidenced by the number of track day organizers that have sprouted up over the last 10 years. The number of 350Z's I see at track day/HPDE events is enormous and I see none of them with similar problems. P.S. I'm an HPDE Instructor for several event organizers.

If Nissan won't engineer a product to support this EXTREMELY important "enthusiast" segment for their "sports cars", I question the competence of their marketing organization.

For the same money or less, I can buy a nicely depreciated Porsche, BMW or Corvette and never have to worry about these issues again AND have better resale value in 5 years than the 370Z is going to have after it's first month.

Unfortunately, I'm going to look at a Boxster S this afternoon...

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