Never thought this would happen
 

So i have a silver 370z, but my dad has a 2008 snakeskin green dodge viper with white stripes. So we go to dinner but we drive separately and park next to each other. well my entire family was at dinner and i was watching out the window of the restaurant and i see 3 guys walking over to my dads car. Not anything unusual so i continued to watch, then i realized not one of them had looked at the viper but all of them were inspecting my 370. so i got the whole family to look because it made my day, but im still wondering why they were looking at my car?

370Z>Viper


Obviously.

Not sure, but I have noted I get more stares and looks in the Z than I did my vette.

Are you really expecting us to have an accurate and trustworthy answer?


if not, then:

370z > everything but a GTR , thats why! :p

viper is tired. Basically the same looking car for the last decade. :yawn:

370z is new and fresh, Viper has been around the block already :tup:

When I see a viper, I'm like, oh, there's one of those again, that car where the door sills got so hot a magazine literally cooked breakfast on them. Wow, awesome engineering, if you like your calf meat cooked when you get out of the car.

Riiiight. :icon14::icon14:

The GTR is a POS.

I'll bite. How so?

LOL...I love when people try to pin poor "engineering" on American cars as a last ditch effort.

You forgot to mention the interior is not up to par with other $90K cars. :bowrofl::bowrofl:

I happen to notice that I get more attention when I'm in it...Lol
Nice story though.

Last ditch effort to what exactly? Maybe you should take a look at the photos of my previous cars before you call me out as an american car basher. :rolleyes:

It's new and something they know they can probably afford.

I didn't mean to get in the middle but can we all watch?
:drama:

Regardless, dismissing the engineering of one of the best performing cars money can buy because of the routing of the exhaust is laughable. :superghey:

While you might not fit into the category if you insist, such a statement is directly in line with what a brainless "American car basher" would say. :)

Engineering that burnt the hell out of people's legs? Ya, i'm WAY off base. :rolleyes:

I agree with frost here...and I also own a '66 mustang and a '55 chevy truck...so I'm in no way an american basher...

Right. I mean, it's not that I would turn it down or anything, and I would/have had fun driving them; but to say a big honkin v10 in a stripped car is some impressive feat of engineering just doesn't cut it for me. Would you call an ls2 attached to a gocart great engineering? No. But would it be fun to drive, fuckin-a-right.

that reminded me of a convo i had with my friend. I told him that i wanted to tint my windows black in my pikes peak white 05 z. He said i ought to slap you, with a car like that you want everybody to see its you driving it haha.

:iagree:

:stirthepot:

Viper/Gay

Z06/Sex

370Z/Sex/More Sex

nuff said.

I think I'd look at both.

How did this become a domestic/import bash? It seems like only two people got that impression, and Frost wasn't one of them.

They are both nice cars, but like it was said before, the Z is new and attainable so it generates interest. Just about everybody has seen the drumstick cooker at some point in its 17 year reign. Besides this isn't a side by side comparison of two totally different cars, its about the interest they generate. The PT Cruiser got a lot of looks, so did the Prowler, and so will the Volt.

When the Volt comes out you might see people checking it out instead of a Z.

New design=interest.

I can support the poor engineering claim on the vipers. Lets talk cam timing 370z rotates the cam using oil pressure inside the gear. 08 and up Vipers opt instead to use a HOLLOW Cam with seperate intake lobes mounted to another shaft running down the center of the first one (super hollow there is like no wall thickness to these things). I know a guy who has gone through 3 SETS of cams for his 08 viper with stock redline. He tracks the car maybe twice a month for four months until winter hits. He's had it and ended up making the dealership swap in a solid camshaft.

Oh and even the '09 has an engine that is 127% larger than ours but produces only 80.7% more power and 107% more torque

Oh and it weighs 200lbs more

Oh and I've tracked with a couple mostly stock vipers and sure they had their way with me on the straights but i never saw anything special in the corners so i could keep up in really twisty spots (bad part of that is i recieved one stone chip in my windshiel from his fooken 11.5 in tires with no real bumper behind them and my front end is chipped all to hell to the point where i'm going to want to get a new one eventually.

Oh and on a personal note I was almost carjacked once by three guys when i pulled into a gas station to take a nap on a long drive. I think i drove over one guys foot.

Screw the cart just hook up some casters and a rear end and I'll straddle that baby:driving:

Punk @ss comments like that/Moron

I always wanted a Viper, but I can afford a Z, and it scratched the itch for me.

exactly...you will get more head turns to look at your car cuz its new...it looks abit different then the 350z but all the vipers pretty much look the same. I seen 3 vipers last night on won street...not many heads turning to look at that car but then i drove down the street in my 370z and alot of people looking at it.

I've had the 370 for a little over a week now and this has happened to me 3 times while driving: I will pass a car. The car that I pass races back up to me and paces me for a minute or so, and then falls back. I guess they just want to get a better look. LOL. It is a great looking car.