Your thoughts on the 370z and Follow the Z Tour?

frost

I attended the Glendale AZ visit you guys did, and have some feedback since you're asking:
1. You folks were out an outdoor mall, and I had a little trouble finding you. Some signs or something would have been handy. I was also confused as to whether I was supposed to park with everyone who had Zs and Gs, or if that was for some kind of VIP.
2. I was a little disappointed that there was not a handout. In fact, I seem to remember being fooled by that, because there was a table, opposite the DJ that had some stuff on it, but I believe it was just junk.
3. I would have liked for you guys to give it a quick drive by the crowd, so we could have heard what the exhaust sounded like, as well as the rev match blip.
4. I'm not sure how you could pull this off, but I was interested in getting some pictures, but found that to be too difficult because you couldn't get people away from either car for even a couple seconds.

That being said,
I liked the variety between the two cars.
It was nice to have music.
It was great how you pretty much let us do whatever we wanted to the cars (I pulled up the back carpet and took the woofer out of the spare tire to see how it worked).
The staff was more knowledgeable of the car than I was expecting out of some non-nissan employees.

As for my thoughts on the Z itself:
The interior is leaps and bounds above not only my 350, but my previous C6 and C5 vettes.
The handling it awesome. Although I have not had an a-- calibration, I would say it handles every bit as well as the vettes, and far better than my previous GTO, Trans Am, SSR and so on.
Although it is technically faster than my 02 trans am, it actually felt slower. That may have something to do with the torque, I'm not sure.
The trunk of the 70 is much easier to use than the 50. Moving the bar forward was a great idea.

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FricFrac

So when is the Canadian tour?

AK370Z

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shumby

^^^^ hey no making fun of the Canadians it is against form rules. lol

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Originally Posted by SAM@GTM
Engine detonation is not normal and it should never never happen, and whoever told that need to do something else for living .
Sam

AK370Z

I am sorry. Yes, you guys def should have a tour. The 370Z was in NY for the longest time because the Miami vanue was in January 4th. They could have taken the Z to the Canadian cities close to Northern border of NY(i.e. Niagara falls area ). Oh well, may be next Z.

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FricFrac

You'll need a set of rain tires though

semtex

And block heaters.

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shumby

Block heaters can standard on all nissans/infiniti's that come to canada

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Originally Posted by SAM@GTM
Engine detonation is not normal and it should never never happen, and whoever told that need to do something else for living .
Sam

RCZ

Both Z tour cars are sitting at the Moroone dealership here in Miami, I saw them earlier.

I also put a deposit in for my Z

MC

hi mike i was the one who helped the HIN and hozman group guys organize the interim stop for the Z's in NC before they went to the big chantilly VA stop on the east coast

the tour was good seemed to be well organized and got the word out in a grassroots way. especially getting forums and clubs involved we got to spend a whole day with the cars.

overall i thought the guys did a good job.. but if i had set up the marketing end of it i would have made it maybe a little more interactive. i remember last year subaru did a traveling event where they set up a mini autocross and let participants do like a couple 20-30 second lap around cones in their demo WRX and STI with a subaru staff member... something like that would have been cool for the 370z since its targeting the same demographic. that way you could have shown people the rev matching and other features first hand


the Z rally must have been a success because i noticed that GM was trying to do the same thing by bringing the camaro around to a few dealers in a very similar fashion


as for the car ive driven both the auto and the manual my thoughts are here

http://mygtr.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1359

MikeZ

Thanks for all taking time out to respond. This kind of feedback helps immensely.