The Z is most definitely a fun car. I currently DD mine. At least once a month I find myself in a situation where I had a bit more room for my daily stuff, but it comes and goes. The wife has the Rogue for when we really need people/stuff moving capabilities, and that's really the main reason why I swing a Z as a daily.
For just daily stuff, there's no question that if I only had one car, the Z just wouldn't be it. The G would very likely be my choice because the backseat does occasionally come in handy and so does a usable trunk.
djwarner wrote:
Sad to say, in a recent poll where people were asked if they would buy their car again, the 370Z faired very poorly. It may be the overall utility of the vehicle becomes apparent after you've owned it for a while.
The poll was from Consumer Reports and it was a completely useless pile of statistics. They're borderline meaningless in the grand scheme of things, especially with the group of cars in the group.
"Sporty" cars is quite a lofty, non-committal term in this case because it tries to do too much at once.
One car I would immediately discredit is the Corvette Stingray. What percentage of owners are still in the "honeymoon" phase? Silly to gauge owner satisfaction there. I know that every car I ever owned, within the first year or so, I would likely say "yes I would buy it again." Is that a fair sentiment when you have most of that car's owners and their satisfaction levels gauged against a likely equal pool of people with a 6 year old 370Z? Of course, at that point, they're likely going to be like "yeah, it's time for something new". Completely asinine. Of those cars on that poll, the 370Z is one of the oldest platforms.
The other piece of it is - why wouldn't you buy again? How many of the people who can afford a Corvette Stingray likely can afford a more practical car to handle life? I challenge you to take that demographic and compare it to Z owners - they likely won't buy another Z because life simply won't accommodate a 2 seater as things happen and they have to move on. Most Vette owners are in their 50s and 60s. There are plenty of Z owners in their late teens and early 20s, and it's their only car.
Then, to combine those two cars, the demographics in each, and compare them to a FWD four-door Civic SI? Or an AWD Audi S4 sedan? A Focus hatchback? A ******* FIAT?
This is why anything Consumer Reports piles together is a load of ****. While there are valid points made by many people in this thread about shortcomings of the Z, the report itself... nothing to see here.
/RANT
