if the only thing holding you back is the MT vs AT, then go with the GTR. Its not a slush box. its a dual clutch transmission, they aint boring and you have full control of the gear the car is in when you want to.

Yea, I had an '07 Z touring...had to get to get rid of it bc of the winters in NY! I have since moved to Arizona and have been riding out this lease (I've been tempted many times to just eat some money but I've refrained)! Now come April, I'm in a pretty good position financially and I want to make that one car purchase I plan on keeping forever (it won't be my DD, I get a work car and my wife has a car)

Awesome advice...I appreciate it all guys, thanks

sounds good man!

did you have snow tires on te Z in winter up here?

Take my word on this, my parents own a pearl white GT-R

It is such an awesome car, they use it as a DD and they have never regretted the move from MT to AT.

The gear changes that this thing can do is just insane. I have droven it several times now and I would dump my Z for it so ******* fast haha. Sometimes its almost like the car changes gear before I touch the paddles

Maybe you should look at the maintenance costs between the two cars before you make your decision.

The Nissan tech was telling me the difference in cost to do a brake job on the Z vs the GTR. The dollar figure I THINK I heard is staggering, so much so that I am not going to risk spreading mis-information by saying what I THINK he said.

If any of you on the Forum do know the answer to this please post it so SMcK23 will have the right info to use to make his pick.

Sometimes just the purchase price is not the big deal, but the cost of just may be to some.

Did you have it in full auto? :roflpuke2:

No, I was about to throw them on because I did for my prior mustangs I had...but decided against it and just traded it in (big mistake)!

I've been following a lot on the gtr forum (nagtroc.com) and it seems like tires and brakes are ridiculous and the transmission fluid change as well, but for guys who don't DD it (like I won't) it's pretty manageable...I won't be pitting more than 5k a year on it!

Boring transmission???
I'll be watching those boring old Formula 1 cars in the morning (on TV) with their boring 7speed trannies. :icon17:

:iagree:

I wish I had an AT on the Cross Bronx Expressway today :mad:

lol no. it is the deep connection between human and machine. :roflpuke2:

Lol yeah it is stupid as hell, it was cheaper for my father to get the AP-racing J-hook brake discs and racing pads than the official GT-R ones

Oil change is something you can do yourself.

tires is something that you yourself decide how expensive it will be.

Brakes yeah apparently third parties are cheaper :roflpuke2:

and the car is very manageable as a DD. they have over 30.000 miles on it now and they only had to get 1 oil change(which they requested before we went to francorchamps) and a big maintenance.

That is probably the one only car I was considering over $50K USD while I was shopping this summer. As a buddy put it: "I'd sell my mother to own a GT-R". :icon17:

I get heresay info as well that the maintenance costs ARE staggering. I figure if you're gonna have them service that hand-built engine, it's gonna cost even more. You should research this.

I feel the same way, believe it or not: I'd miss a stick. And though I'm sure it's sick when nocking GT-R shifts doing the mid-3sec 0-60, you'll most likely drive it that way a fraction of the time. In normal city driving, it'll feel just like another slush box. If you get it, I'd definitely track it (or xcross).

One more thing - the 2009 has the first iteration of the buggy launch control. The main item steering me away from the 09's. "Never launched" was always on the "For Sale" listings, but how could you trust it 100% of the time? It has been "fixed" via software, but what the original launch control program could do to the gear box scared me enough to look at '10's instead; and those models were WAY over my price target.

Seems you can stomach the price; if you can get your arms around the maint. costs, and get an '09 that's been babied verifiably - I'd bite.

And crazy? Nah - we ALL are; especially when it comes to Godzilla. :tup:

Another person who is calling the GT-R a slushbox in city driving.

this is 100% ********.

the gear shifts are as smooth and fast as when your racing.

or you could put on the transmission to R and be even faster :roflpuke2:.