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Thread Bump. I wanted to let you all know that our car will much indeed become a classic. Almost every single day I drive around, I have random people come up to me and ask me things about my car. They also leave quite a few good comments in the conversation.

Put it this way, Ford produced more than double the amount of 2013 Mustangs on the street than the production years (2009-2013) 370z.

If you don't believe me, sell your 370z and buy the stang, maro, or brz/frs. We will see who is laughing in another 20 years. :tiphat:

You make a solid case USAF Control, however, i think that it will take more than 20 years for the 370 to be considered a classic. I just hope to be around and owning my Z by then... :icon14:

im sure the 370z will be a classic for its great looks like the 240z.

MKIV Supra was rare in numbers

FD3S RX7 was rare in numbers

These two are classics...So I think the Z34 will be one too.

The last 6 months, I've seen so many 370z in my area. I hated it!!!

By definition, it is merely a car that is at least 30 yrs old. It does not have to be a limited production run, or the fastest, most powerful in its class, or have groundbreaking technological advances.
Anyone ever seen a VW Bug at a classic car show..... How many millions of those were produced, with like 35hp!!! or an exploding deathtrap Pinto, ect, ect.

I think not a classic but a collectable just like the Ford Pinto and AMC Pacer :)

I think with the little we know about the Z35? It has much more potential to be a classic. The 370 is an awesome car. But wasn't track-worthy enough compared to other cars of this generation. At best a collectible. In 09 my answer was the opposite by 2011. That changed.

See, I think I would classify it differently. Any car can become a classic, but only the more desirable can be a "collectable". Just My Humble Opinion.

Forbes agrees......... 2014 370Z NISMO - In Photos: Now And Future Classics: The Best Collectible Cars Today - Forbes Its in pretty awesome company, as well, looking past the obligatory "ford sponsored"
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I'm neither here nor there, whether it is or not. It certainly won't be while I'm around. My grandson ending up with mine is unlikely, and I know it would get treated like crap through all the lean 'teen' and early-twenties years anyway.
No point worrying about it.

I don't even consider 240s, 260s and 280s as classics. I had way too many friends with them so I'm real blase about them. The 260s didn't have a great rep even back then. Meh.

Saw one of the last Supras today. Plain Jane with skinny winter tires on it. It looked like a**.
OTOH, there is a beautiful black on black modded out one around here that looks simply spectacular.

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Um ... obviously Chevrolet thinks syncro-rev matching is a good idea. It's in the Corvette. It is one of the primary reasons I went with the Z. I was contemplating Camaro/Mustang when I bought the Z. The Z does look much better than either of those as well. It'll be a classic.

One of the problems it will face is the haters in the car rag community. They had an off track experience with badly failed brakes and that was it for the Z as far as most of them seem to be concerned. I have to wonder what happened between Nissan and the car rag folk when that happened because after that story, coverage just dried up. Before that story the car rags were all aglow about the Z. However, we are now seeing stories emerge that speak of used 370Z's as an inexpensive speed and handling bargain.

So who knows. I voted yes. Cuz I have one and it looks and drives like I want a sports car to look and drive. And it doesn't cost an arm and a leg to own it.

It has more of a chance than the wanna-be throwback cars <ahemMustangCamaroChallengerahem>.

If you actually drive it though, it'll never be worth anything. I don't see the point of that.

I almost never see Z's in my hood. Production numbers on the 370s are pretty low; i also have a hunch that a lot of 370z are either totaled or trashed. I am willing to bet that they will be pretty rare 30 years from now.

Not sure if it's been said but I say no. The 350's are way to much of a teenagers ricer civic of the 90's. Now the 370's are starting that way. You can't have a "classic" if they're all destroyed and hacked up like that.

I'd argue that most of them getting destroyed might actually help the status of the remaining ones in the future. Things like initial production numbers, quality, and who drives them seem to have little to do with collectability decades later; I mean, who would have predicted in the 60's that Mustangs and VW Beetles/Microbuses would ever be worth anything? Those ricer kids are going to grow up someday. And when they do they're going to want a car that reminds them of their youth, but this time they're going to want one that isn't all $h*tted up like the one they had when they were 18.:rofl2:

Can't wait for all G35C to retire...except mine. :p

The 350/370 will become classics once hydrogen cells are the norm and gasoline is a rare commodity.

I'm going to remember this car as first production srm, one of the best v6 NA engines made.
Made so well its the hallmark of the infiniti brand. Heck even the z33 heart is in the Nissan cars

Providing that the car is in great shape, only 6mt 370Z's will be classics. :icon17: Of course auto's will still be a classic, just not as desired. :stirthepot:

Here's why, in 20-30 years there will be no mass produced 3 pedal manual trans cars made, plus the Z34 was the 1st 3 pedal manual trans car with SRM. Also this will be the last Z to use Nissan's famous naturally aspirated VQ engine and if that's not a classic, I don't know what is.

I have to agree, the manual will be more desirable just like collector cars are today. Classic Mustangs are worth a lot more with sticks than autos....same with Corvettes.

If the z35 sets a trend in reduced displacement / turbo, then I would say definitely. The 370z will be the last of an era when Nissan slowly increased the displacement and each revision could be numbered using that statistic. Beginning with the z35, if they followed the 40 year international naming convention the newer model would have a lower number.

Nothing else about the 370z feels particularly special to me though. There is less of a difference between the 350z and 370z than the two revisions of the 300zx (z31/z32), just significantly lower production numbers.