I said a reason to need a 4 seater, not a reason for my parents to try and kill me :icon17:

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glad you are enjoying the car man!

You posted pics on ms? Forum is down right now it looks like...shoot me a link and I'll check it out when it comes back up

Before I forget the topic of this thread... to the OP, Lemers, to answer your question bluntly (now that I have my 5.0 in my possession), the short answer is YES. And the long answer is YES.

Good thing I'm limited by my parents then since I can't get a loan under my own name. I guess I'll just have to wait and see where I am next fall. I still gotta graduate and get a full time job first :icon17:

Why can't you get a loan? You should have no problem, especially since it wouldnt be much over the z

PM sent to you, Steve, and Lemers...

and yes, ms is down right now... but I got it in before it went down :D

Well I probably could when it would be time for me to buy, but not now. Also, my parents probably won't let me get anything before we get a house. That will probably kill my hopes of getting a new GT-R, but I can still go for a used one.

What's funny is... I'm prolly still the only Asian guy around her driving a Stang... everyone sees me and goes WTF? haha....

Dan, Steve, how do you adjust the steering effort? I know you can with the BBK...

I have it on sport all the time.

I don't have a 2012 so I can't adjust it outside of turning sport mode on.

Dan, how please? haven't had time to read... lol I want to do it after I get off work.

I forgot this fact!

It's in the cluster control. Don't recall exact procedures offhand.

I think you select Setup then cycle through.

crap I gotta figure it out before heading home.

Ok so let me know if this plan makes sense or if it's just completely retarded.

If all goes well in my job search I should be working full time by Summer 2012 and can start looking at cars in the fall/winter, let's assume a purchase time of January 2013. Now the end goal for me is to buy a GT-R like 3 years later, say January 2016. I can either keep the Z in that time or buy another car.

Option 1: Sell the Z in January 2016, when it will be ~7 yrs old and with estimated 100k miles. I'm assuming I drive around 15k miles per year. I could then sell it for around $10-12k (based in 2004-2005 350Z prices). This would give me a $10-12k down payment on the GT-R.

Option 2: Sell the Z January 2013 for around $20-22k and buy a new car for $35k. So I would spend like $10-15k extra on the new car. Then I could sell that car in 2016 at 3 yrs old and 45k miles for around $20-25k. Subtract from that the money I lost from buying the new car and I have like $10-15k to spend on the GT-R.

Damn I didn't expect those numbers to come out the same. Of course I know this is a really rough estimate and their are too many factors involved to predict this accurately. Does the logic somewhat make sense it am I embracing my inner ImportConvert a little too much? :icon17: