370Z... modern day FD RX-7?

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Originally Posted by AK370Z

Sweet car. I think somewhere down the line you'll regret selling something like that. 350Z/370Z are mass produced cars. ANYONE can walk up to a dealership and get their own. What you have in your garage is something not easy to find. Thanks for sharing

Here's the thing. In the mid 90s, the reason why the 'twin-turbo' Japanese sports cars died is because the yen-to-dollar ratio (the yen was 'overvalued' relative to the U.S. dollar) turned $35,000 Japanese cars into $45,000+ cars. The Supra MKIV twin turbo was like $52,000 brand new. This alone made all the Japanese car manufacturers vastly reduce their outputs of these twin turbo cars. Look at Toyota now, they are no sports cars for sale. MR2 sypder and Celica=bye bye. But if Supra is revived, then 370 might get whooped on. They're into what sells mass quantity-wise i.e. Prius, Camry and the likes. And also, changes in trend back then, SUV's started becoming popular thanks to rap-stars.

It's not that they were rare per se, it's just they were getting too expensive i.e. becoming poor values and people dramatically started buying less of them.

The average rate of inflation is 3%/yr. A $35,000 sports car in 1993 is a $56,000 car today.