I remember seeing a doc that very effectively outlined the differences...anyone remember it or was I dreaming?

 

Did someone ask for a "Doc"???

 

heres something that might help. This is a link to a thread that i started and somebody posted a link to a document for the specs of the car (and features exclusive paticular models).

https://my350z.com/forum/showthread....3599#post23599

 

I made an Excel spreadsheet to help with this. You can see a bitmap of it here:



Or download the actual Excel file for it here:

http://www.garlic.com/~zamara/350z_options.xls

 

What do the numbers below the prices on that excel spreadsheet mean?

 

The difference in price from the next lowest priced model.

 

Correct. Other notes:

• Descriptions are direct copy/paste from info on nissandriven web site
• Only manual-transmission models are included (sorry, that's what I was looking at)
• Items that are common to all models are left out to make this useful as a comparison (rather than an advertisement saying all the neat stuff the car has).
• Can you spot the embarrassing error? (Hint: calendar year not equal to model year!)

 

BTW, I made this spreadsheet when I was trying to decide which one to get back in March. At the time, there wasn't anything that laid it out clearly like this.

After looking at it, my decision was to go with Performance as the best bang for the buck. I definitely wanted VLSD and cruise control, so that brought me to at least Enthusiast. I didn't like the look of the 17" wheels and I wanted the higher-performance wheel/tire package, and I'm a bit embarrassed to admit that I was kind of impressed with the tire-pressure monitoring stuff (I'm a sucker for cool gadgets).

The extra big bucks for leather and power seats in Touring didn't seem worth it to me, and I'm not crazy about the feel of leather anyway (and I only need to adjust the seats ONCE since I will be the only one driving it).

Track? I think the Brembos will have better heat-soak capabilities which really is useful at the track (go figure) but definitely not worth the added cost on the street, where I will be driving it 100% of the time.