Originally Posted by OutOvTuch
The 350Z is a joke. Go to the 350Z forums and there are a lot of complaints about the shady quality of the car. People are reporting bald tires at 4 K miles. One owner went through 3 sets of tires by the time he hit 10 K.
Comparing the two lookwise is the equivalent of Rosie O'Donnell and Marilyn Monroe. The latter being the Crossfire. I have yet to see an uglier sport car than the 350. The convertible is even more pathetic looking. The car doesn't even retain the same shape. It looks like a pick up truck made for midgets when the top is down. Only bad thing about the Crossfire is having the paparazzi follow you when you go out. Car is a show stopper.
The car isn't fast enough argument gets a little old too. The car has plenty of power for the road. Anyone needing anything faster is just going to run into a lot of tickets. A clown in an M5 was motioning for me to race him today. I ignored him and kept doing 50 in the 50 while he sped off doing about 80. Wow...was I impressed. So a 350 Z will take this car 0-60...whoop dee do. A 20 thousand dollar Dodge Neon SRT4 will take the 350 Z out.
A german made and engineered SLK in an american body that sticks to the road like gum to asphalt with a 35 K MSRP that you can get for 26 K is a no brainer.
Uglier sports car= 1974-1982 Chevy Corvette to name one.
And about the M5 on the highway, if you stood a remote chance in hell against the M5, which you didn't, you would have tried. So........ you are the guy in the left lane doing 50?
Well you are right about the SRT-4 take the 350Z, and that's why I now own one.
But the 350z not only takes the crossfire 0-60, it takes in the 1/4 mile and in the top end. Brakes just as good, 60-0 in 113ft as the crossfire. And the 350Z slaloms faster and pulls more G's according to MT. I am sure you can find some better figures, but these are here in front of me.
And I guess you can beat a crossfire for 26k, that's why the 350z outsells the crossfire by alot. people judge a sports car, well if you want to call the crossfire one is being nice, by performance, and the 350z outshines the Crossfire. And base 350z can be had for 24,900. Not bad for brand new. Or you could max yourself out and buy the anniversary edition for around 33k, if that floats your boat.
And our crossfire have gremlins of there own. Don't forget the manual console can act as if it were snakes in a can.