For Pete sake, they were short 400 cars, it's like you guys are "day trading" the car market, Nissan has a lot of money in the Z development, it will be around for at least a couple more years with minor improvements and then maybe a restyle.

MR2s big problem is space, not only is it just a two seater but you can't even load the ever important golf clubs (I don't play, but this seems to be the standard).

Chris

 

exactly.

January represents the slowest month in the year for ALL retail sales. unless they're comparing these "losses" with January 2004, they dont mean crap.

 

Plus the new Mustang came out as well.

 

I can understand why Altima sales dropped. I got so tired of seeing the "All New Altima" commercials. What is new about it???? Basically the same body style for the past few years and it is ALL new???

 

I wouldn't consider the Z maxed out. It has 3.5L of displacement and is making 300hp. The M3 and S2000's engines are maxed out. Not the Z's.

 

Hit the nail on the head, wait and see how its doing come april, then we will really see for sure

 

there are more used Z now than there were a year or 2 years ago. And you can get great deals on these used cars which will hurt the new car sales.

 

they didnt. They compared them to december,

Fred...

 

Just to get the record straight...The comparison is from Jan. '04 to Jan.'05. Not from Dec. to Jan. & not 400 less.
January'04 2,431
January'05 1,728.....difference = 703 less Z's sold.

Also they had production problems, changing plants & etc. in Dec of '03 which in turned inflated the higher amount sold in January of '04. Taking that into consideration....If I had to guess....it would of been very close to even sales!! That's excellent!

 

Yes, I would like to see the comparative figures for the Phoenix and Florida areas for the same period. It's difficult to think Z when you can't get to the dealorship to look at them!

 

I bet snowmobile sales nose dive in June too.

 

winter has a bunch to do with it and people have to remember that Nissan had a huge year in 2004 gaining a big piece of market share and sales records almost monthly for different model lines. Sometimes there are going to be months where stuff doesnt sell as well.

 

And - for those of us who have no intention of doing the race-track style is often number one with us!

 

I thought I read somewhere that they didn't need to sell much more than 20,000 units a year of the Z. Might be mistaken, but it isn't expected to be a volume car, it is a "halo" car. I'm like some of the others here: I prefer not to see a lot of Z's on the road. Keeps it fresh and so when you do see one, it is still the "wow" factor. I hope it never gets to the point where it is like "...oh, there's another Z..." like it is with Altima's, Camry's and Accords!

 

In that respect. I feel the same way. Where I live I'm the only one so far in my city driving a Z. Heads are still turin' & especially with the top down. I've only seen about 10 Z's on the road since they came out on the market several years ago.

 

That wouldn't surprise anyone, but that's not (once again) what the comparision is about. In your example, the comparision would be about looking at sales for snowmobiles in June of '05 and comparing that to sales of snow mobiles in June '04. It's the same period, different year.

There are multiple posts in this thread that seem to miss this point.

 

There are a couple Z's I see around NJ where I live, but thats it. Not a billion of them like Altima's, Civics, Accords, etc.