IKR? one thing i have to say though, the leather seats are not as nice as i would have hoped. they still have red stitching and everything. but the cool colored nismo embroidery we have is just a leather brand on the JDM nismo. you can barely even see that it says nismo. but still........ LEATHER. and the satnav looked damn nice instead of that dumb *** cubby for like.... sun glasses or a wallet lol. thats about all that fits.

I had to choose between either leather+nav or Nismo. The adult in me won that argument. I'd have happily paid the extra for a Nismo with all of the creature comforts.

well lets start a petition against ALL OF JAPAN. tell them that, maybe they havent gotten the idea that the nismo, sti, evo and all other japanese "elite sport" versions of their cars are already targeted at a specific audience as it is, so i see no logical reason at all that all the versions should be BETTER in japan than in the US. as you said, i myself as well would happily pay the premium for a premium product. they always reserve the cool versions of everything for themselves, like versions of the NSX, the STI spec A and C, the automatic NISMO, just to name a few that are well known. why? makes no sense. if they want a hennesey SS camaro they can ******* BUY ONE. so why cant i have an STI 400R or a spec C? americans cant afford it? not worthy?

hell even the 380rs 350z was available in a limited run of cars there, and was only 48k american dollars. im sure they will make an RS nismo 370 sooner or later available only to the japanese market. WHY, my gut tells me more americans would buy them than japanese. my fiance is japanese, and she says that most japanese try NOT to own a japanese car if they can help it. if they can afford it, they buy mostly european cars. even her family drives all BMW's.

It's all based on sales. The Z doesn't sell very well at all. We should be happy enough we get the Nismo at all. I wish that weren't the case, but it is. BTW, the STi Spec C in 2004 was very similar to the USDM 2004 STi minus an awesome set of Recaros and wheels. It's the S204(5,6,7) we should be petitioning for.

It goes back to the cost again, it might not be expensive to sell per the price you got, but there is no profit.
Nissan needs to meet a certain margin to sell a car, especially the Z, to produce certain things. Making a special edition for Japan is cheap because they built it and roll it down the street. For the US, they build, ship, have to promote/market. Also, Americans are power hungry, and many JDM specialty editions do not fit this. They add wheels, seats, suspension tweaks, etc. but never touch the power; Americans look at it will instantly dismiss it.

yeah they have vids of most of the japanese cars v european cars on youtube all the time. dont remember what its called. but the spec c and S204 SPANK THE **** out of the poor nismo. but a regular american 2013 sti v 2013 nismo would really be pretty damn close. sales, i agree are the problem. but answer this...... why cant i buy one? why cant i just BUY one from japan and ship it here? but they can buy whatever the **** they want from every country, USA included and ship it there. hell, last time i was there i saw a 2013 GT 500 super snake. and thats both ford, and a 3rd party! and they can buy the damn things! wtf. land of the free huh?

Government regulations, the US is very strict on it meeting certain standards. So buying X car and bringing it here will get it taken away (look at the R33/34 stories).
Also, that GT500 SS is not sold by Ford or Shelby in Japan and probably even brought in under the radar.

good, dont feel so bad about it now. regulations of what? emissions? crash test ratings? the same car with more HP isnt going to change the crash test of the car. emissions can be fixed in 15 minutes. and ive heard there are random things like.... plexiglass rear windshields and such on japanese cars to reduce weight. well yet again, something most would be willing to change to meet these invisible unjustified regulations. sounds like it involves MONEY along the line somewhere to me.

That's a lot of work to sell a few more units. Enthusiasts like us are way in the minority of car buyers. With the way the Z has sold in the last year or two, I'm kinda surprised they haven't killed it off again.

And now you get it.....money.

I got my car back yesterday. They had to replace the Slave cylinder, it was leaking and air got in it. All replaced for free.

i was right:tup:

I just replaced mine with the one from Z speed with a Southbend stage 3 ,no more worrying when it will decide to give out.:tup:

Ill do this the next time it goes out. I will be ready for it this time. This came out of no where and i didnt want to wait for delivery.

That's when it happens ,out of nowhere ,I got my clutch ***. 2 days after I ordered it.