Z needs more publicity!

cab83_750

I like 2-seaters.

My car has 4 seats. And guess what? After, 65,000 miles no one has used the rear seats.

What a wasted space - well 70% of the time.

HEK

Good day to review that movie as it's a blizzard here in my neck of the woods. I've always wanted a 2 seater as well but the family came first, now is wifey and I so there is no excuse not to have the car I've waited since it came out in 2009 (the no disrespect to the 350Z owners but it seemed that there was always something missing in them). Also times have changed since the insurance companies used to rape you with the rates if you drove a 2 seater)

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njobe89

put them up

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Kaldaien

I like how little publicity it actually has, it's just right at the moment.

When you get stopped in traffic you never know if it's going to be someone who knows the Z heritage and genuinely likes the car or if it's another person who has confused it with a Porsche I thoroughly enjoy telling the unenlightened that it's a Nissan and watching their reaction:

It's almost 50/50 between those two things. Where as if you drove an actual Porsche it'd probably be 95% people who just think the car's a neat status symbol and 5% who are genuinely Porsche fans.

It's also not a good idea to publicize your oldest and most mechanical car when you're trying to establish your brand as having high-tech electronic doodads at an affordable price; a fully loaded z34 is well behind even the last generation Altima in this category. That's how it should be in a pure sports car, but consumers are convinced otherwise by the likes of Lexus, Audi and Porsche.

Consumers either think the 370Z doesn't have enough horsepower because they're comparing it to a muscle car or they think that it's too raw and unrefined because they're comparing it to a luxury sports car. I don't think that publicity is going to change that perception, Z just lumps itself into a category that is hard to define especially in the current market where the Mazda RX is gone, Pontiac is gone and Toyota/Subaru have brought to market a sub-30K RWD sports car that does not totally suck.

It'll get plenty of publicity when the z35 launches if some of the rumors prove accurate. A turbo hybrid sports car for significantly less than the NSX is something that a company like Nissan would publicize the hell out; between the Leaf and said car, they'd be carving out a nice little "green" niche.

Duc_Z09

+1.

Well, except for the Toybaru part. Breaking loose at 20mph because you've got Prius tires isn't a good thing IMO.

I think the best direct competition for the 370 is the Z4 or Cayman. There aren't too many 300-350hp RWD 2-seater sports cars out there.

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Kaldaien

That particular problem can be fixed without spending a great deal of cash :P I think they did that purposely to make it oversteer and feel like more of a wild beast than it really is. Nissan went the complete opposite direction with the 370z and its staggered rears.