How much did you pay for your 370Z?

jginnane · 06-02-2009, 06:49 PM

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Originally Posted by koojo

Did you have to order the Parsimmon or did they have it on the lot? I can't seem to find a Touring+Sport with Parsimmon anywhere

This was an extensive search -- I looked at about 400 dealerships using nissanusa.com, but the dealer I bought from actually had a wider access.

Using nissanusa.com, first "build" a Z. Then when you check dealer inventory, select a city you could fly to: Chicago, NY, Boston, Miami, etc. Then select "100 mile radius", and you can find all Z inventories at dealers in that area.

At the time I looked, there were persimmons in the 100-mile radius around Richmond, VA. Chicago had mostly blacks and greys. (Look in the warmer states for warmer colors.

Beware of FL if the dealer's price isn't identical to that seen on nissanusa.com

A good dealer is going to find exactly what you want -- you'll have to pay freight, and probably buy the floor mats, etc. Or ... you can try dealing directly with the dealership that has the car you want, then you'll have to physically get there and drive it back. (If you use Robert's VPP procedure, you'll have to verify they'll work with you on that.)

I was prepared to travel at least as far as Dallas/FTW because the trip home would be a semi-vacation and chance to learn the car, but there was a good, aggressive Nissan dealer about 35 miles away who did most of the work for me.

Hope this helps! I strongly suspect that since you're getting Touring/Sport, they may try to get you into a Nav system, too. (Just make sure you're sure you don't want a G37 Coupe before you knock yourself out for the exact combo.)

koojo · 06-02-2009, 08:25 PM

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Originally Posted by jginnane

This was an extensive search -- I looked at about 400 dealerships using nissanusa.com, but the dealer I bought from actually had a wider access.

Using nissanusa.com, first "build" a Z. Then when you check dealer inventory, select a city you could fly to: Chicago, NY, Boston, Miami, etc. Then select "100 mile radius", and you can find all Z inventories at dealers in that area.

At the time I looked, there were persimmons in the 100-mile radius around Richmond, VA. Chicago had mostly blacks and greys. (Look in the warmer states for warmer colors.

Beware of FL if the dealer's price isn't identical to that seen on nissanusa.com

A good dealer is going to find exactly what you want -- you'll have to pay freight, and probably buy the floor mats, etc. Or ... you can try dealing directly with the dealership that has the car you want, then you'll have to physically get there and drive it back. (If you use Robert's VPP procedure, you'll have to verify they'll work with you on that.)

I was prepared to travel at least as far as Dallas/FTW because the trip home would be a semi-vacation and chance to learn the car, but there was a good, aggressive Nissan dealer about 35 miles away who did most of the work for me.

Hope this helps! I strongly suspect that since you're getting Touring/Sport, they may try to get you into a Nav system, too. (Just make sure you're sure you don't want a G37 Coupe before you knock yourself out for the exact combo.)

Thanks man! I didn't even know Nissanusa.com had an inventory search option. I was mainly looking at cars.com and autotrader. I'll have to spend a couple hours looking on there now haha. I'm pretty set on pearl white 370z T+S. No nav. I want either black or persimmon seats.

Mergnthwirker · 06-10-2009, 11:28 PM

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Originally Posted by jginnane

At the time I looked, there were persimmons in the 100-mile radius around Richmond, VA. Chicago had mostly blacks and greys. (Look in the warmer states for warmer colors.

Beware of FL if the dealer's price isn't identical to that seen on nissanusa.com

I used the site inventory search extensively. I looked long and hard for a Pearl White with Persimmon. I'm in CT and the only listed one was loaded, with Nav, in Dallas.

For mine, I ended up with Pearl White with Grey. Black was just too much like living in a cave. In fact, the dealer swapped the grey interior from another car into mine, otherwise I was going to walk away from the deal.

Prices are clearly coming down now that the hard core faithful have gotten their fixes. Should have room to negotiate on price now.

HTH

Herbert J. Mergenthwirker

gatorfast · 06-11-2009, 08:20 AM

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Originally Posted by Mergnthwirker

For mine, I ended up with Pearl White with Grey. Black was just too much like living in a cave. In fact, the dealer swapped the grey interior from another car into mine, otherwise I was going to walk away from the deal.

Really??? That seems very unusual for a dealer to do. Nice that you got what you wanted though.

Mergnthwirker · 06-12-2009, 12:20 AM

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Originally Posted by gatorfast

Really??? That seems very unusual for a dealer to do. Nice that you got what you wanted though.

They claim that they do it frequently and it's "no big deal." Of course with the Touring, it's really just the door panels and seats, so they're probably right. They had at least 8 of them on the lot, so there were several alternatives from which to choose, but no Persimmon interiors (sigh). So I got something close to what I wanted, e.g. NOT all black. I know there's now a blue one that started life with a grey interior and is now offered with black!

Picking mine up on Monday. Can't wait!

HJM