Originally Posted by modulator

Hi Folks,

A friend just bought a 350Z Roadster ( auto) and let me drive it yesterday.
This is a pretty car and looks fabulous - it's bronze.
My overall impression of it performance wise is - Z doesn't stand for ZIP. Even though it has 300+HP it felt like I was driving a 4-cyl... absolutely gutless- granted, I never fiddled with the autostick/tiptronic shift (or whatever Nissan calls it) but I sincerely hope that the manual version has more giddy up. I was not impressed with the steering/handling either, the car felt dead to the road- like the cardboard box I pretended was a car as a kid:-)


I'll keep my beautiful, fast and road hugging Crossfire coupe... thanks anyway, Nissan. :-)