Age of 370Z owners?

blackonblackz

Im 19 but I was 18 when I got my Zex Panther

msb3079

I'll be 30 in a few weeks... ugh... thanks for reminding me...

Doug&Michelle

43 but still feel 23

Three7D

I work my *** off because I got the bright idea to drop out of high school! Something like 65 hrs a week, on a shipping dock! You gotta pay to play!!! If I want it I go get!

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Thankyou!

I bet it pisses you off when people whine about you having nice things, too. People just like to assume that anyone with something better than them somehow got it as a product of their environment/luck instead of their own means and hard work. It's how people with a perception of an inferior lifestyle feel better about themselves, and it grates on my nerves. I bet that makes them happy, lol.

Rone

I'm 25 now, but will be 26 (bday 27JUL) when I get my first Z (370). Ewwww, I'm getting old!

98intrigue

I'll be 26 July 3rd and July 28th will mark my 1 year anniversary with my 40th anniversary.

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oleg

ill be 18 when i get mine in a month or so, gift for college from parents

houkouonchi

I am 25. I got my 370z Just a few months after turning 25 after buying a house almost right when I turned 25.

I have some college but no degree. I was a big computer geek when I was a kid and it paid off in the end. I made 75k last year which I would say is pretty good being 25 with no college degree. Not only that but just before the new year I got a review and a 10% raise so I will be pulling in more this year.

I did get help by living with my dad while working full time for a few years (When I first started working at this company I was only making 35k/year) but I saved up my money to buy a house and only after that the car that I have been wanting for many years. I prioritized getting the house over the car myself.

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Congrats!

I did things backwards from that, because I started off with limited credit. I got taken on the car (7.34% for 72mo, but plan on paying it off earlier) in preparation of getting a better rate on a house (much larger principal/longer time financed).

In the long run, it will cost me around $14K to finance the car for the full 72mo, but I bet I save that much or more on the house after paying off the car boosts my desireability to the bank.

Footloose301

I'll be 25 in March. I didn't have a ton of money to put down on the car as I work a full-time job that pays OK, and I go to school full-time as well. I pay all of my bills myself, including my schooling. I do live at home with my parents for now. However, I do pay them rent each month as well. I make enough to make ends meet and still have enough to go out and have fun occasionally, but I cannot afford any mods to my car without extra income such as my tax return, or my annual bonus at work. If I stopped having fun on the weekends and stopped taking my gf out to dinner and movies each weekend then I would be able to have some stuff done to my car. But hey, I think I'm doing pretty good for 24years old.

Before my current job I was a construction manager for a new home builder and made $73k/yr when I got laid off a couple years ago when the market crashed. When I worked there I was able to buy everything I needed at that time, like a $4k Apple Computer fully built up, a $4500 LCD TV(Tvs are much cheaper these days), and all other kinds of things. I paid cash for everything so I don't have many bills that kids my age have.

Sorry for the length here but I'm tired of the older people assuming that we don't work for our toys when of course they had to work on a farm, milk chickens, and walk to school in the snow barefoot as a child. Times have changed.

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jpritche

One thing I learned the hard way is just because people have nice things doesn't mean they have always had them. I personally had some family problems and we ended up losing everything, but my dad worked his A$$ off the past 6 years, started his own company, and is now making half a million a year. Of course running a business means needing to have overhead, so not all that money goes to us, but lets just say the company needs a bunch of vehicles to work

I busted my A$$ off helping him get where he was. I have been with him every step of the way, so progressively every year I have gotten a newer nicer vehicle. at 16 I got a 2006 Silverado 2500HD diesel, at 17 I got a 2006 Toyota Tundra X-SP, and last year for graduation at 18 I got my 370z. He feels like I deserve nice things for helping him get where he is today, but I don't try to take advantage of that, so for christmas, I asked for nothing.

So just because people have nice things, I cannot/will not cast judgement because I don't know what they have been through....

houkouonchi

7.34%? Ouch! That is one reason I am glad that I got a credit card at a decently young age (around 18-19) and I was responsible with it. It allowed me to slowly build up my credit as I made all my purchases on it. I also leased a much cheaper car ($200/month) for 4 years before getting the 370z as it made a lot more sense financially considering what insurance on a 350Z would have cost me back then.

I am also glad I did not wait too long after getting the house to get the 370z. In the process of getting the houses I had a crapton of credit checks and stuff ran on me (just to make offers on some houses I had to be approved for their own credit although I didn't have to use them). When I got the 370z my credit score was just over 800 so luckily I was able to get around 3.25% APR. After my credit scores 'caught up' I went down by a good 60-70 points which might have prevented me from getting such a good rate. At over 7% I would definitely try to get that thing paid off ASAP.

Staying in good shape on the loan should help you with your credit score. I am pretty sure mine went up quite from when I first got the lease to the end of the lease.

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I have had an LOC for about 2.5 years now. I really wish I had gotten into building my credit younger as well. The 7.34% is on a 72mo loan, could have gotten 6.34% on a 5 year. Anyway, I was only a mid/upper 600's beacon, so I was in B-tier category. I plan on re-financing in a couple of years. You are 100% right, though, getting credit rolling when you are young is the way to go! You really need to help finance your highschool car/college car, so you have car credit. That is prime.

I bought a Z06, and not a 370Z, so I can't make tripple-payments or somehting like I could with the 370Z. I am shooting to re-finance in 2 years, and pay it off in 60mo.

I always wanted a Z06 or a Viper, so I got one. The difference in my notes at 7.34% vs. 4.25% (about the best you will find at 72mo regardless of who you are) is less than $100 a month the way I structured it (payment every 2 weeks), and quite frankly, that $90 or so a month isn't very important to me vs. the several years it would have taken to end up in the 720+ region, considering I wouldn't waste my money on another car, and didn't want a house, that climb would be infinitely SLOW.

For example, I paid my debt down from 100% to 50% debt/credit ratio, got a new credit card and used the hell out of it and paid it off several times a month, and took out and paid off a little $1000 loan. During the 6 months I did all this, my credit score went up...by 8 points. I need a car or a house on there to actually make any changes to it, and I don't want a house, and I already have a DD that's paid for. The fun-car was the only thing lacking in my life, and like I told my banker, anything other than the car I want, is just a waste of my money because I won't be happy with it.

Unique_Z

18 here. i purchase my Z last year and it's my first Z, my first car was a 1993 Mitsubishi Evo 3

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