Pearly White goodness.
 

Hey all, new owner here... I took a random trip down to one of the local Nissan Dealers and stumbled onto the exact Z I was looking for. I lurked here for a few days to get a handle on pricing, but went down earlier today and signed the papers.

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Roof looks funky, but nonetheless congrats!

BTW, I know your probably babying it, but how do you like it compared to your 8?

Florida humidity (condensation).

And grats by the way, you can't beat the tremendous deal that is a Base + Sport and 6MT! If I weren't so damn stuck on having the factory Nav, i'd have done the same. And i'm a big fan of the leather seats ;)

I gave up on comparing new cars to my VIII, because its was so heavily modified. Seeing as I haven't really been able to push the Z yet, I can't really say how the two stack up. My Evo was cam'd and pushing 22-ish PSI, not to mention all the other little mods that supported those two biggies. Steering wise, the Z is a lot smoother. If I sneezed while holding onto the steering wheel in my Evo I'd end up in the next lane over. While that kind of response was nice, it took a fair amount time to learn how to be smooth. I'm also enjoying the more linear response from having an NA engine. The Evo basically had an on/off switch at 3k rpms when the turbo finally spooled up. The little burble from the VQ is pretty nice too :)

I wasn't real hung up on leather or navi, although I would've liked the Bose stereo... but it wasn't worth the extra thousands of dollars it would have ended up costing in the end.

Nice! Which dealer did you buy from? I'm shopping around.

Grats, I'm looking to get the same thing.

"Pearly White goodness"??? Dude, do you know how scared I was to open this thread??? ;)

Congrats, btw.

FloridaMike.....you've got a nice one baby!!!!!

Yeah, I realized that just now when I clicked the link... hindsight man, hindsight.

For the poster who asked, I got this Z from Reed Nissan. They were decent with me, but nothing I'd right home about. I went in with the price list from this site, and an excel spreadsheet I had worked up with all the varying costs laid out, as well as a finance breakdown for different APRs and different prices so I'd know exactly where I stood each time they came back with numbers. After the requisite ******** (about .5-1 hour worth of haggling), they basically came out with the exact numbers I had walked in with for my trade-in, and the price of their car.

Lesson for the buyer, be prepared! I have my spreadsheet which I can upload if anyone wants it. Parts of it are dynamic (you could change the numbers to suit you), but other parts I had to manually enter in data.

Post that spread sheet. Where in FL Mike? NIce looking car btw :D

Chris