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Old 05-29-2007, 02:58 PM
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Originally Posted by rockinbboy
Get the coupe. the ZR only looks good with the top down.

To each their own....especially when you dont have to worry about snow vs. playing golf on Christmas Day with a ride, top down, to the course unlike in Maryland, eh?....ha. LOL.

Playin' with ya Dude.

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Old 07-02-2007, 11:28 AM
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Old 07-02-2007, 12:11 PM
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The Ventilated Seats SUCK...PM after you buy it. Ill give you a great deal on my cloth seats for yours
Old 07-02-2007, 08:42 PM
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Get the roadster if you can enjoy it at least nine months of the year.

Otherwise, get the coupe.
Old 07-02-2007, 09:52 PM
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yeah i have a roadster and love it...its the best of both worlds...the soft top for the z seals really good and does not flop in the wind or ne thing...very "solid" soft top...if u know what im saying...plus you can have the top down and thats bad a$$...i was going back and forth for awhile between coupe and zr but im happy i got the zr....but either way ur getting a z so u cant go wrong!
Old 07-03-2007, 06:56 AM
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On the topic of VDC and TCS, do all Touring models come with VDC and TCS? I have an 04' touring and i can only see a TCS button but none for VDC?
Old 07-03-2007, 08:36 AM
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In my 07 GT (coupe, 6spd) I have the burnt orange leather and love it. You have to put in the burnt orange shift boot cover though. The VDC is just unbelievable, if you like to play all you have to do is just turn it off . I ordered my car without the factory navi and place a garmin 680 in the factory compartment. I LOVE THE GARMIN. Plus you can still shut the cover (door) and it is not exposed for viewing. It was half the price and if you ever travel and half to rent a car you can take it with you.
Old 07-03-2007, 09:13 AM
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I loved the look of the coupe but once you ride on a curvy mountain road with Nismo exhaust and top down you will be a roadster fan from then on. IMHO get the roadster. Yes you will be a girlie man because you will be able to put a girl in the passenger seat any time you want.
Old 07-03-2007, 12:06 PM
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Originally Posted by davidv

I don’t know which model suits your needs, but I can tell you what members are driving.
David, I'm curious, looks like it's about 3% roadsters. Is that truly what members of this forum are driving, or is that total U.S. (or world?) sales?

That's a lot fewer than I would have expected. I thought it was closer to 10 - 15%. For no reason, just my own assumption and guesswork.
Old 07-03-2007, 04:57 PM
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I also test drove both, and ended up with the roadster. Something about being able to put the top down and cruise...
Old 07-03-2007, 10:20 PM
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yeah dude another cool thing about roadster is there is not alot of them...you see alot of coupes and its kind of cool rolling in something different!
Old 07-19-2007, 09:45 PM
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haven't been in here for a while..lol
anyways,,thanks for all the imputs..
and I'm still in the market..but it looks like that I won't be getting the Roadster for sure..heard that soft top's are NO GOOD up in Norcal..
I'm going to Berkeley Univ next year and people told me to not bring the soft top Convert..I mean they tell me to not bring a-good-looking-car at all
Old 07-19-2007, 10:08 PM
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i got my carbon silver 2007 6MT Z base
and dont regret a thing
my friends got the vdc and tcs and there off all the time
so why have them off when you just dont have to have them
and i didnt get the stock navi i put in a pioneer Z1 its nice i like
Old 07-20-2007, 03:05 AM
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I hate the negativity toward the zr... buy what you like...
Old 07-20-2007, 04:21 AM
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ZR doesnt come with vdc.. only coupes....

vdc controls the understeer and oversteer of the car by controling your breaking while turning keepin your z goin the direction you want it to go(direction your wheel is turned to)

TCS controls your throttle. if your wheels are slipping your engine will cut power to prevent it from spinning out.
Old 07-20-2007, 09:22 AM
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I bought mine used so it came with Stock Navi. I never use it unless I travel (when I use it a lot). I would not have purchased it if I bought the Z new, instead going with an aftermarket unit I could move from car to car. Also this would allowed for more storage space in the car.
Old 07-20-2007, 09:43 AM
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Originally Posted by Sunset350ZR
I loved the look of the coupe but once you ride on a curvy mountain road with Nismo exhaust and top down you will be a roadster fan from then on. IMHO get the roadster. Yes you will be a girlie man because you will be able to put a girl in the passenger seat any time you want.

So true!!

tony
Old 07-20-2007, 11:28 AM
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NOTE: You can not get the stock nav and the orange vented seats in the Roadster. That will definitely influence your decision.

J
Old 07-20-2007, 11:48 AM
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Nice cars get screwed up around telegraph . . . might as well just bring your beater to college. (Assuming that's the reason you're going to UC Berkeley, and not for grad school or whatever).
Old 07-20-2007, 11:56 AM
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I had the same choice when I was looking at Z's, and in the end I went with the Z coupe. The things I like about the coupe the most has to be the extended cargo capacity of the hatchback (extra space has come very handy many times), and the noticeably improved performance. That and while I loved how the Z roadster looks with the top down, I couldn't get over how crappy it looked when the top was up. So that and the roadsters very poor visibility when the top was up just killed the ZR for me.

So I can only recommend the Z coupe unless you absolutely love top down driving. I also highly recommend the stock nav, since it really makes the Z's interior look a lot more exotic IMO with how nicely it is enclosed. That and it really does come in very handy when traveling or whenever lost.


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