Enter the Lady in Black
 

I got my Z one week ago and so far loved every minute I spent with "her"!

Unfortunately, streets were wet when I left the dealer with only 19 kilometers on the clock, so she got dirty on the way home already.
Since then, weather hasn´t improved much and there was no sunny day to take nice pictures yet.
After one week, I already drove 690 km with her and she needs a bath before taking good pics.

I´m gonna start a journal and a gallery to share my experiences with my new Z with you. And I would like to thank everyone here for the help and for sharing my enthusiasm and happiness!

Congratulations on your new babe, she's awesome in black. Have fun. :tup:

Nice! Congrats. Are those custom tags, or is it a coincidence that Z and 370 show up? I'm jealous that you guys up north get the rear wiper, it would have come in handy down hee in Maryland since we've been having so much rain lately.

Congrats, love the black!
Enjoy in good health!

Congrats! beautiful! :tup:

Lol, I was just thinking to myself "boy, Id sure hate getting that rear wiper"

Ummm.. the title to this thread is misleading. I want a refund.

:icon18: I did the same thing though. :|

Congratulations! Great looking Z.

Thanks, guys!
Sorry for disappointing those expecting something even more curvaceous...:p

From your point of view, I´m not "up north" but rather far east, kinda 'cross da pond 'n' stuff.
Us old-worlders all get the rear wiper as standard, I guess, as well as the rear fog light.

The tags are custom, as far as possible.
Here in Germany, the tags are standardized like this:
First 1-3 letter group has to be the city or county you live in.
Major Cities are single-letter (B=Berlin, M=Munich), smaller cities or counties are 2 or 3 letters.
Then has to follow a 1 or 2 letter group and then a 1 to 4 digit number.
Many communities allow to customize those last two groups within the rules and if not already taken, of course.
Many people do it, to get their initials and birthdates onto their car tag.
For my city (ED=Erding), "ED Z 370" was already taken, so I added my first name initial and took "ED WZ 370" which was free.
Something including "370Z" will not be possible in my country due to the abovementioned rules.
If no custom registration is requested, the community administration will assign a random one.
Custom tags cost me €12.- extra added to the registration fee.

Yea you should be.. j/k have fun with the new Z.

Did anyone notice how one almost does NOT notice the front and rear parking sensors?
I was fearing that they would look ugly on the car´s beautiful plain curves.
But on the black paint, you almost don´t see them from only a few feet away.
And also the retracting headlight washer arms don´t hurt the car´s looks at all, IMHO.

Don't rub it in! here in the states don't have that option available or the rear wipe.

It wasn´t my intention to rub anyone, and there´s also no reason to complain.
You are going to get the rear camera as an option for the nav or a mirror monitor, that´s even superior.
Haven´t heard of something like that for the European market yet.
If it helps you feel better, we don´t get tyre pressure monitoring and our navs don´t have harddrives or AV inputs.

I´m not into comparing d**k lengths here. I´m happy for everyone who got what he wants and what makes him happy.
I´m grateful that people are happy for me and my new Z vice versa.

And you´d all be sorry for me or laugh at me if you looked at what I had to pay for all this, compared to U.S. pricing...

welcome! I love your country, planning on doing a Euro delivery for my wife's Z4 over Oktoberfest.

Thanks, Mike!
However, I´m not shure whatmeans...?
I understand it has to do with your wife´s Beamer and it´s happening the next weeks, but I just don´t get the full meaning.
You coming over here?

I´m looking forward to another 3 weeks of fun insanity!
Oktoberfest.de - The Oktoberfest Website

nice car....bah i wish i would have been patiant and waited for a black or red 370z..lol

No, next years o'fest: we will be picking up the z4 over there and then hopefully also going to the ring. BMW has a program where you can pick up the car in Munich, drive in Europe for up to a month, then drop off in any of about a dozen cities. The best part is it's 7 percent cheaper price than buying at the dealer, and I am an airline pilot, so we fly for free!. Last time we went to Ofest, we stayed at a small b&b in Hohenschaftlarn.

Ok, got it now, thanks!
Sounds like a plan.
On your job, do you fly over here from time to time or mostly domestic?
If you´re flying into Munich on the job and not only as an o´fest pax, chances are we already talked.
I´m a Munich TRACONtroller.

Gotcha. For some reason, I was geographically challenged this morning (I blame the lack of coffee in my system) and thought you were posting from Canada. Technically though, I think you may be a little north, as well as considerably east. Now that I know you are in Germany, that's cool. Hopefully you are getting to see the sights and experience all the culture there - I keep telling myself one year I am going to go to Oktoberfest and drive the Nurburgring, but not necessarily in that order.

It all makes sense now - thanks for explaining the plates situation. I didn't even notice the front and rear parking sensors until I went back and looked for them. Enjoy your Z, I'm sure there are plenty of awesome roads there.

I used to fly in there, but I have moved on to the ultra long haul stuff now. Asia, India, S Africa, Mid East and Australia (Delta air)

I had a look at your gallery - really nice!!!

You are the first German I know so far, who has got his Z.
And as it is almost exactly the one which I ordered a few weeks ago, I can imagine clearly right now, what the car will look like when it arrives.

Can't await November to come :excited:

By the way: I think I have to order the sideplates as well, they look really classy!

And what's the story behind the funny slogan on your plate: "Jet noise, the sound of freedom"?
I have to think of you driving around the area near Frankfurt (where I live), where a lot of people would get really annoyed by this :rofl2:

Have fun with your car!

In the mid-'90ies I served in the Luftwaffe.
In 2006, I found this plateholder at a merchandising booth in the Netherlands while visiting the RNLAF Opendaagen at Leeuwarden Airbase.
I went there because it was the first time in 30 years that the USN Blue Angels displayed in Europe.

I live very close to and work at Munich airport, Germany´s second largest after Frankfurt.
I bought the holder and now finally put it on for my own pure pleasure.
But of course, I have certain beliefs that stand behind me liking the plateholder.

- Most Germans unjustifiedly take their freedom and peace for granted and generaly look down upon their military as an almost unneccessay and outdated profession.

- In the regions around Frankfurt and Munich airports people tend to forget whom they owe their wealth or jobs, directly or indirectly.
Farmers around Erding and Freising were able to stop working and became millionaires just by selling their land to housing projects when the airport was opened in 1992.
Now all surrounding communities are fighting against the planned 3rd runway.
They ignore why they are amongst the richest communities in Germany and those with the lowest unemployment rate despite global crisis.
FRAPORT is Germany´s largest employer, employee number wise.
Frankfurt would not be Germany´s and continental Europe´s financial center without Rhein/Main International.
Still, the whole region fights its airport for over 40 years.

People are stupid.
If someone is stupid enough to touch my Z for the plateholder slogan, he´s up for some Darwinian extinction.