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Last edited by Enigma8750; 09-23-2011 at 04:07 PM.
REVIEW 1.. THE 2012 Nissan 370 Z Nismo Edition.
True to Form..
This car featured on Superstreetonline.com site is a perfect example of what the 71 240 Z is still capable of. After lots of Dollars full of expensive upgrades, overhauls and months of blood sweat and tears, you get something along these lines.
While in it's heyday of the early 70's when this Datsun 240 Z Model first got off
the ground it put Japanese cars on the Map as True sports car makers. The Z Car, as it was affectionately called, has evoled, devoled, died and was then resurrected..
Introducing the 2012 Nismo Edition 370 Z
The New body and the New lines is true to form with the original Z's of the Past of some 40 odd years. While one Sales Manager was reported as saying that Nissan was staying true to the 240 Z alone.. I would have to humbly disagree.. I think this particular Model Z is true to many famous and infamous Z's of the past.. I can see some240, 260 Z in it..
Some 280ZX in it and even
some of of the more modern Z's of the past few years.
This one is destined to be a classic with not much after market
needed as the original Z car did, and if you put your costs down for updating
an Older Z to new car standing and buying a New one you would get the same car at the same price. Of course the new one would have a warranty, bumper to bumper, full coverage Insurance, and new car smell to say the least.
While $44.000.00 US Dollars it is quite a bite out of the old pocket
book, the Level of SPORTS CAR that you get for this money is equal to Cars
asking more than 3 times this price. The only downfall that I saw in
this car was a little too much Plastic under the hood, No Vented
Disk breaks the and the Porsche 928 rear end the new Z Car car is a Driver's Car Bottom Line.
I even loved the All cloth Nismo seats for extreme comfort and durability over the years because, if you buy this car they are most likely going to have to pry it out of your cold dead hands to make you let go of it, and you are going to put it in your Last Will and Testament to have yourself buried in it.
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I could see an new owner driving this car with both windows open, the car radio off and A/C slightly blowing while the wind forcefully blows in. He or she is in a blissful mood as they are crusing some hilly country road at amazing
speeds, upshifting and then down shifting with complete sycronisity
with the Car as its Moves. The steering wheel becoming an extension of the driver with both car and driver lovingly dancing like a pair of star crossed lovers. The only sound is the wind, the engine and the tires as they grip the open road through impossibly deadly curbs and blind hills with a perpetual smile on the driver's face as he or she feels like a first class Indy Car Race Car Driver.
The Cars handling is transmitted to the driver in a Movement of loving
respect from both partners on some lost winding, twisting country road.
That may sound a little dramatic to the average car driver, but if you are a True driver that enjoy's every feeling that a car can give you as you drive,
You know exactly the feeling I just discribed.
This car IS true to the Z Car Form and Philosophy. Build the Best Sports
Enthusist Car at the best price and you have a winner with
the 2012 Nismo Edition 370 Z..
This Car Gets All Five of my Cool Points.
Special Thanks to Crown Nissan In Hoover Alabama for letting me take Pictures of this gorgous Car. Thank you.
Last edited by Enigma8750; 09-24-2011 at 12:38 PM. Reason: takes time for Perfection