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Originally Posted by MacCool They gotta make things that they can sell and get a reasonable ROI. I suspect that the only reason the Z34 is even still in the

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They gotta make things that they can sell and get a reasonable ROI. I suspect that the only reason the Z34 is even still in the lineup is that there hasn't been any re-tooling, re-design, or R&D on that ancient platform in 8 years.

Nissan is a pretty successful car company. They might not be making what you and I want to buy, but their overall marketing effort to the rest of the world seems to be pretty effective. The vast bulk of their target market appears to prefer cars that aren't particularly exciting. Exciting cars tend to be "niche" vehicles with a limited market due to their expense and/or relative impracticality.


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It's 2 niche cars. And one of them, they're commanding a hefty chunk of change over it's worth. DCT's are no longer $30,000 transmissions. Those days have been over for at least half a decade.
I can't stress enough the Z has been an infiniti parts been sports car for over 13 years. It's not that complex of a build considering it's not built on its own proprietary platform like a corvette. It doesn't have a proprietary transmission like the GT-R.
There's no rocket science behind the Z outside of Synchro Rev Match for the manual and maaaaaybe vvel
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It's 2 niche cars. And one of them, they're commanding a hefty chunk of change over it's worth. DCT's are no longer $30,000 transmissions. Those days have been over for at least half a decade.
I can't stress enough the Z has been an infiniti parts been sports car for over 13 years. It's not that complex of a build considering it's not built on its own proprietary platform like a corvette. It doesn't have a proprietary transmission like the GT-R.
There's no rocket science behind the Z outside of Synchro Rev Match for the manual and maaaaaybe vvel
Yep. The Z is a niche car. It's not a Nissan mainstay, it's nostalgia. The market for it is too limited to ever expect Nissan to show it much love. I suspect it, or some version of it, will be in the lineup for at least awhile, but I can understand why it's been on the market unchanged for 8 years.
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Yep. The Z is a niche car. It's not a Nissan mainstay, it's nostalgia. The market for it is too limited to ever expect Nissan to show it much love. I suspect it, or some version of it, will be in the lineup for at least awhile, but I can understand why it's been on the market unchanged for 8 years.
Mitsu and Nissan now have something in common, the EVO and the Z both have been mainly unchanged, only thing is Evos actually hold their value
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