370Z May, 2009, sales lowest since launch......

wellarmed

What Nissan needs to consider is..... this oil temp issue going unresolved is real bad press for the market that they are trying to sell this kind of car to.
The question is....... can they be slapped awake enough to do the right thing.

I'll bet the people at Nissan who engineered this car, knew it should have a cooler and wanted it to have a cooler, but got over-ruled when it came down to comming up with that final price point.

They let some bean counter decide to take care of the oil over temp issue by using the built-in 'limp mode' and "that took care of that!"
No doubt that sounded like the perfect sollution for keeping some 'enthusiest' from overheating the motor to him.

The problem is... that looks exactly like what it is. A halfassed shortcut to save money at the expense of necessary engineering, and at this point their response to what to do about it now is looking alot like what many of us came to expect from Detroit.

Maybe Nissan should go back and consider exacxtly why so many Americans stopped buying the big three and starting buying Honda/Toyota/Nissan.

Maybe the current economy and the decision to curtail production related to that will hide the fact that there may be a significant number of potential 'enthusiest' buyers going elsewhere due to the oil temp issues. Nissan will probably only see that they have demand equal to what they're making now and not care about doing the right thing.