Am I too old for a Z

Waiz · 10-09-2010, 04:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Zaggeron

Here is a biased timeline for when you should have a Z.

1. 18-22 -- rich or parents bought it for you. Go for it
2. 22-26 -- pay off your damn student loans first
3. 27-33 -- first good job after college -- Z time

Branch point M = Married S = Single D = Divorced

33-38(M) -- buy furniture, curtains and a minivan -- no Z

33-38(S) -- buy video games and a motorcycle. Got a garage? Get a Z

39-48(D) -- wife took furniture and curtains -- still got garage? Get Z
39-48(S) -- take a social skills class and get a date (jeez are you picky or just ugly)

Branches Merge

49-60 -- tell kids to pay for their own damn college -- get a Z
61-70 -- tell grandkids to pay for their own damn college -- get a Z and a Porsche (80-89)

So classic and so true!!

Jquad · 10-09-2010, 04:14 PM

ROCKED ON OSANG

ImportConvert · 10-09-2010, 05:04 PM

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Originally Posted by TreeSemdyZee

I tend to be blatant, so thank you.

I just tend to think that "being able to afford" and "being able to finance" have gotten confused.

Afford=pay cash.
Finance=downpayment.

Financing is cheaper, when you weigh interest-rates against deflation and how long it would take to save $40K. With the low APR's you can get, why throw money away saving it and fighting inflation? Not only that, but you delay a cheaper gratification in favor of a more expensive one.

ImportConvert · 10-09-2010, 05:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zaggeron

Here is a biased timeline for when you should have a Z.

1. 18-22 -- rich or parents bought it for you. Go for it
2. 22-26 -- pay off your damn student loans first
3. 27-33 -- first good job after college -- Z time

Branch point M = Married S = Single D = Divorced

33-38(M) -- buy furniture, curtains and a minivan -- no Z

33-38(S) -- buy video games and a motorcycle. Got a garage? Get a Z

39-48(D) -- wife took furniture and curtains -- still got garage? Get Z
39-48(S) -- take a social skills class and get a date (jeez are you picky or just ugly)

Branches Merge

49-60 -- tell kids to pay for their own damn college -- get a Z
61-70 -- tell grandkids to pay for their own damn college -- get a Z and a Porsche (80-89)

All depends on what you went to college for in the first place.

Dwight Frye · 10-09-2010, 07:15 PM

Nope, not too old. I'm 55 and have always driven some type of performance car and hopefully always will. To me though, a Corvette driven by guys in their mid-40's to mid-50's says "mid-life crisis". My neighbor is 72 and has a twin turbo 300Z plus a G35 with a Stillen intake and some type of aftermarket exhaust system, and every time he sees me in the driveway washing my 370Z he comes over and tells me he's thinking of trading in the G35 for a new Z.
When I was younger my nightmare was to have to own a minivan with child seats and now my nightmare is to have to own a grandpa car like a Buick or Oldsmobile. Don't listen to your buddy. Test drive a Z, if you like it buy it and don't look back. And by the way, I get lots of compliments from 30-something soccer moms about my car, I think it doesn't have the negative connotation that a 'Vette has when they see a guy in their '50s driving one.

sonic370 · 10-09-2010, 07:30 PM

Get it you will love it. Can't drive it when your dead.....

I don't care if your 18 or 88 are how anyone paid for it thats personal.

As long as you show respect to others on the road to each his own...

By the way my next one will be the vette....

Red__Zed · 10-09-2010, 10:08 PM

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Originally Posted by ImportConvert

Afford=pay cash.
Finance=downpayment.

Financing is cheaper, when you weigh interest-rates against deflation and how long it would take to save $40K. With the low APR's you can get, why throw money away saving it and fighting inflation? Not only that, but you delay a cheaper gratification in favor of a more expensive one.

Most interest rates right now won't beat inflation....if you you like 2%, maybe...

I think it's ok to finance, but putting down like 3-5k on a 40,000 dollar car is not enough...

I personally pay cash for everything I buy, but I'm kinda weird like that.

skydvr · 10-09-2010, 11:35 PM

Go for it. I'm 55, last summer I sold my pristine Porsche 911 Targa that I owned for the last 8 years and bought a 370Z Nismo. I couldn't be happier I love everything about the Z.

doubleG370Z · 10-09-2010, 11:59 PM

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Originally Posted by TongMan

Yes. You should be driving a Corvette at that age.

make sure you slick your hair back, wear a big gold chain around your neck with the open shirt down to your belly button.

zmyride · 10-10-2010, 01:45 AM

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Originally Posted by sheps58

I'm 52. My Porsche friend said I'm too old for a Z and not from the correct country of origin for a Vette. Is my friend guilty of age discrimination and racial profiling?

I rally enjoyed the 370z.

Driving a Z at 52 is not old. Driving a Toyota Camry, Cadillac, or Buick at 52 is old.

ProfessorDave · 10-10-2010, 07:32 AM

[QUOTE=sonic370;758778]Get it you will love it. Can't drive it when your dead.....
QUOTE]

What!?! Are you sure? I'm pretty sure the sales guys at the dealership said I could

Nizmo0533 · 10-10-2010, 07:58 AM

for the Z you are not ! For the Evo yes!

badair · 10-10-2010, 08:29 AM

I'm 69 and enjoy it more than any car i've had in the past.

Jeffblue · 10-10-2010, 08:46 AM

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Originally Posted by DanGizinski

Most interest rates right now won't beat inflation....if you you like 2%, maybe...

I think it's ok to finance, but putting down like 3-5k on a 40,000 dollar car is not enough...

I personally pay cash for everything I buy, but I'm kinda weird like that.

interest rates are so low, that unless you would otherwise have the cash you would put into your Z wisely invested (and lets face it a lot of people are just staying in cash right now because of the volatility in the market), you're not going to be earning much on it. The idea of holding onto the cash and eaerning <1% on it in a savings account and taking on a loan for 4%-5%+ doesn't seem to make financial sense.

ImportConvert · 10-10-2010, 08:54 AM

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Originally Posted by DanGizinski

Most interest rates right now won't beat inflation....if you you like 2%, maybe...

I think it's ok to finance, but putting down like 3-5k on a 40,000 dollar car is not enough...

I personally pay cash for everything I buy, but I'm kinda weird like that.

I think 20% down including TTL on invoice price is good to go. My bank agrees. I wish I could afford to buy stuff all cash, but I am 24 and not established in life. I would rather get hosed for $5-8K on interest financing my car and then have bullet credit from making consistant payments for 72mo so that when I buy a house I am looking at a much larger savings because I bit the bullet on the car payment, soaked up the 5-8K interest, and got a GREAT APR on the house/land because of it.

Further, if I bite the bullet on a new Z06, pay it off, by then the C7 Z06 will be otu for 2-3 years and be refined, and I can trade in the C6, and walk out with a 20-30K note on the C7Z. I end up paying peanuts for a car-note on a C7Z, finance for a short period of time, wash, rinse, repeat until I am down to trading in every 2 years and not hurting myself at all hardly with something like a $2-300 note on it each time.

It's getting STARTED in life that is so expensive.

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10-09-2010, 11:35 PM	#53 (permalink)
skydvr Base Member Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Yuma, AZ Posts: 66 Drives: 370Z Nismo PG #0020 Rep Power: 16	Never 2 old Go for it. I'm 55, last summer I sold my pristine Porsche 911 Targa that I owned for the last 8 years and bought a 370Z Nismo. I couldn't be happier I love everything about the Z.

10-10-2010, 07:32 AM	#56 (permalink)
ProfessorDave A True Z Fanatic Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Scranton, PA Posts: 1,580 Drives: In the fairway Rep Power: 18	[QUOTE=sonic370;758778]Get it you will love it. Can't drive it when your dead..... QUOTE] What!?! Are you sure? I'm pretty sure the sales guys at the dealership said I could __________________ Rain, snow, sleet, hail: 2009 Mazda 3 sGT HB Everything else: 2009 370z, PW Touring 6MT

10-09-2010, 07:15 PM	#50 (permalink)
Dwight Frye Enthusiast Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Occupied California Posts: 423 Drives: '09 Tour/Sport/6MT Rep Power: 15	Nope, not too old. I'm 55 and have always driven some type of performance car and hopefully always will. To me though, a Corvette driven by guys in their mid-40's to mid-50's says "mid-life crisis". My neighbor is 72 and has a twin turbo 300Z plus a G35 with a Stillen intake and some type of aftermarket exhaust system, and every time he sees me in the driveway washing my 370Z he comes over and tells me he's thinking of trading in the G35 for a new Z. When I was younger my nightmare was to have to own a minivan with child seats and now my nightmare is to have to own a grandpa car like a Buick or Oldsmobile. Don't listen to your buddy. Test drive a Z, if you like it buy it and don't look back. And by the way, I get lots of compliments from 30-something soccer moms about my car, I think it doesn't have the negative connotation that a 'Vette has when they see a guy in their '50s driving one.

10-09-2010, 07:30 PM	#51 (permalink)
sonic370 A True Z Fanatic Join Date: May 2010 Location: Orange Texas Posts: 1,574 Drives: 09 370Z Sports PGK Rep Power: 17	Get it you will love it. Can't drive it when your dead..... I don't care if your 18 or 88 are how anyone paid for it thats personal. As long as you show respect to others on the road to each his own... By the way my next one will be the vette....

10-10-2010, 07:58 AM	#57 (permalink)
Nizmo0533 Base Member Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Seattle-->New Jersey Posts: 116 Drives: 10 370zNismo PW Rep Power: 14	for the Z you are not ! For the Evo yes!

10-10-2010, 08:29 AM	#58 (permalink)
badair Base Member Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Austin, TX Posts: 2 Drives: 09 Nissan 370z Rep Power: 14	I'm 69 and enjoy it more than any car i've had in the past.