Winding Road Comparison: 370z vs. Hyundai Genesis Coupe vs. Ford Mustang GT vs. BMW

jakoye

Heh. Indeed that may be true, as a lot of these reviewers are reviewing cars from the standpoint of them being used as daily drivers.

For a daily driver, I would think the Z's allowance of road noise to penetrate the cabin, especially from road debris hitting the rear wheel wells, would be less than satisfactory to a lot of people. It kind of depends on your tolerance for road noise in general, as you imply.

Also, the Z's din is probably more noticeable when driving other cars back-to-back. I would think most Z drivers have just gotten used to it and are having too much fun driving this little pocket rocket to worry about a little road noise.

Regardless, it's good to know what people see as the "issues" with this car before I go buy one, even if those issues are not particularly important to me.

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wstar

Yeah, it's not a car for commuters that occasionally want to beat their co-worker from a stoplight. It's a driver's car, and a fun one at that. I pretty much only turn my radio on when I'm cruising at constant speed on the highway, or when the girlfriend is riding along and I'm taking it easy. The rest of the time I'd much rather be listening to the car.

I've even grown to like the loud fenderwells. It gives me an extra point of data to drive by. On most of the streets around here, the strip of pavement between the usual driving line and the curb has more accumulated dust/rocks than the center of street does, getting markedly worse as you approach curb impact, so hearing the sound of a small amount of dirt kicking up into the fenderwells helps let me know how close I'm carving towards the curb.

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