Not meant to stir it up

shadoquad · 11-18-2011, 07:53 AM

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Originally Posted by Skeeterbop

IMO, The Japanese manufacturers are sitting back now that they earned a rep for cheap reliable cars and have stopped taking the risks with fun cars like they did when they were getting established. Now it is Ford and GM making the cheap, fun, reliable cars as they try to get back the market share they lost while they made crap cars.

Not to veer too far off topic, but it seems to me that Korean automakers are now taking the risks that the Japanese manufacturers used to. Look at Kia and Hyundai. They're directly competing (although largely through imitation), but they are daring other companies with their warranties, their pricing, and their on-paper performance. Isn't that what Honda and Toyota did to become huge?

Red__Zed · 11-18-2011, 08:10 AM

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Originally Posted by shadoquad

Not to veer too far off topic, but it seems to me that Korean automakers are now taking the risks that the Japanese manufacturers used to. Look at Kia and Hyundai. They're directly competing (although largely through imitation), but they are daring other companies with their warranties, their pricing, and their on-paper performance. Isn't that what Honda and Toyota did to become huge?

Yep. The Korean crew is taking a page from the Japanese tactics from the 80s

GZ3 · 11-18-2011, 08:54 AM

this has always been my biggest beef with Nissan, other than the flagship, all they do is worthless little megar power increases just to barely stay competitive. Table scraps, its ******* pathetic...

Honeslty i dont know where the Z is really going to go from here

A) Hybrid v6- no thanks for me
B)its already a 3.7...how big do they really plan on making the V6 at this point?? the flagship is 3.8 anything larger than that is small block v8...nissan do a v8 Z...that would cool, that would be the day
C) Turbo Z---that will hike the price way out of the current demograph

If i had to make a prediction....this is going to be the last Z for a long time

quicksilverCC · 11-18-2011, 09:59 AM

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Originally Posted by GZ3

this has always been my biggest beef with Nissan, other than the flagship, all they do is worthless little megar power increases just to barely stay competitive. Table scraps, its ******* pathetic...

Honeslty i dont know where the Z is really going to go from here

A) Hybrid v6- no thanks for me
B)its already a 3.7...how big do they really plan on making the V6 at this point?? the flagship is 3.8 anything larger than that is small block v8...nissan do a v8 Z...that would cool, that would be the day
C) Turbo Z---that will hike the price way out of the current demograph

If i had to make a prediction....this is going to be the last Z for a long time

Everyone here might find this article as an interesting read: Nissan Z - 2013 Nissan Z - Future Sports Cars from Nissan at RoadandTrack.com

and hello, I recently bought a 370Z Nismo and I've been lurking around reading up on what I can. Thought I would say hi and join the community

370Zsteve · 11-18-2011, 12:17 PM

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Originally Posted by quicksilverCC

Everyone here might find this article as an interesting read: Nissan Z - 2013 Nissan Z - Future Sports Cars from Nissan at RoadandTrack.com

and hello, I recently bought a 370Z Nismo and I've been lurking around reading up on what I can. Thought I would say hi and join the community

Welcome!!!!

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