Is Porsche the highest in the automotive food chain you've climbed? If so, I'm puzzled as to why you'd refer to a ~$30-$40k+ car as a "throw away" and a "cheap commuter." A person who owns Ferraris would at least be financially-proportional to those claims if not patronizing... But a Porsche driver, who are you kidding?

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Great car. I only have 4000 miles after a year. My weekend car. I had a 1978 280z which was stolen in Bridgeport Ct in 1983 and prior to that an E-Type Jaguar.

The 370z represents an practical sports car with a guilt free price.

My dream cars however would be an E-Type Jaguar coupe with modern electrics and fuel injection or a Porsche 911 4S.

After driving a Hyundai Veloster, I'm not sure what the Z means to me anymore???
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Trading my car in for one sometime soon, and it will represent the same thing that this does. An escape from reality when I want to go cruising after a bad night at work, a symbol to myself that I am not living in my parents garage, and a piece of machinery that I thoroughly enjoy. I like things like guns, watches, etc. Find joy in technology.

All about mindset. My G20 is a throw-away car to me, but I maintain it and keep her running because she has utility. In some other countries, the president/ruling person would consider it his Airforce 1, lol.

Mindset and circumstance.

im going to be sharing the same car as the importcovert?

time to sell the Z... :icon17: haha

:bowrofl: that is IF he ever actually BUYS one.

Was buying today but the other dealership said the car was sold. Only one like it in the nation :( still, its 11 and the tsunami did hurt production. I'm not too surprised.

i think heard the french guy say on cnn he will be in full production by year end. :tup:

oh wait, that's :ugh2: in our case...:icon17:

The wife and myself worked our asses off since we got married. Put 2 kids through school. We've been married 37 years this year. I told her, prior to our 35th, that if we made it that long, I'd buy her a "sports car" and we'd drive Route 66. She saw a black cherry 370Z in a Nissan dealership in Florida, while visiting her mother. She fell in love with it. She said she'd never seen a car like it before. After looking at BMW's, Mazda Miata's, Corvettes, etc., she still wanted the 370Z. Had one hell of a time finding a black cherry one, but did a dealer trade from Indiana. Took delivery in April of 2010. Drove route 66 in August of 2010, our anniversary. I think she loves that car more than me!

that is an awesome story! congrats. :tup: :tup:

True, but I would argue that your mindset and ability to abandon the value of a ~$40k car would be limited by your wallet. In my opinion, I don't think owning a Porsche creates enough monetary distance between a 370Z to entitle someone to bill it as a "cheap commuter."

It depends on if they own a Porsche and live in a shack, or own a Porsche in a garage next to a Veryron situated on a nice $20M Estate.

Any way you slice it, nothing should truly be viewed as throw-away unless you soon want to find yourself wishing you hadn't.

Absolutely, that's why I have a lot of respect for the people who keep something like a 1995 Accord in pristine condition. That mentality is a rarity.

I was inbetween sports cars at the time and it looked like the best thing at the time (Feb 09) and by golly if it wasn't getting "best of" in every magazine at the time :eek: