I am very surprised at some of the reactions here.

For $1100, you expected a $20k paint job?

From this low res photo, it is still obvious that they did get more of that brushed aluminum effect. Like others have said, the effect may not be as obvious in direct sunlight. Most of the colors on the Z don't look their best in direct, bright sunlight. The sunlight tends to wash out the color.

Like most things, I will reserve judgement until I have seen it in person.

JD

 

Sorry Scaf, I only have the hardback edition. I wouldn't have enough HD space for the PDF. If I e-mailed it to you it would cause a great disturbance in the very fiber of the internet. And you thought that Blaster and SoBig were bad?

 

What happened to "late availability"?? This color is out in the first month of production?

 

Jkoyasak,
Thanks for the pic. I echo the sentiments of many so far - why 3 silvers and no yellow or darker blue or Caribbean blue? And if you're going to do 3 silvers, why not make the 3rd one a serious gunmetal one? SS isn't dark enough for me. Oh well....

 

I assume they did the 3rd silver because they plan to charge a premium price for it. Since silver is what the majority of people purchase, they have a better chance of making money on the option.

 

WE HAVE A WINNER!!! ... more people are buying silver so why not add another and charger money for it!.. it is a win situation for nissan

 

No more Brickyard for THAT!?

 

Looks like Liquid Aluminum is only offered on the Touring coupe model and you can get burnt orange leather with it as well. Wish I knew that, would of loved to have that combo. Oh well...

 

silverstone looks better for 1100 less assuming that pic isn't far from accurate. i'm happy though, I thought i'd be jealous of liquid silver

 

Well with all the silver's who's going to pay a premium for LA when they can get one of the others without the added costs. Maybe I'll wait until march or April & pull my Brick on a lot & see what kind of "Premium" I can get for it. I should have at least 30 coats of zaino on it by then.........What am I saying!! No way I can sell my car

 

If there are 30000 Zs, and 50% of all Z owners buy a silver, say 10% of those opt for the rare - and better looking (in some opinions) 1100 dollar silver. Thats a total of 1500 buyers and $1,650,000 for nissan. Say they had a brickyard 1100 dollar paint job. Brickyard sold around 8% (just a guess, but it couldn't have done well if they no longer make it) of all Z owners at a non premium price. If they can't even sell alot of them at the regular price, how many do you think they could sell at a premium? Its simple numbers here.

 

I just put 2 coats of Z-5 and 2 coats of Z-2 after washing with Dawn and claybaring... It took several hours to do but it was the best time I've spent detailing my car >period<

 

jkoyasak...

was just looking at your pic. From a distance, it looks like the droptop on the right could also LA (but, I'm guessing CS since the convertible has no LA option). With a SS on the left. All three silvers in one shot. Looks like, from a distance, you couldn't really tell LA from CS... hmm... $1100 rip off...

 

Hmm. I don't think it's that the Brick didn't do well. They didn't make near as many as silver or some of the other colors (thankfully ). My point is that by April all you're going to see on the lots are muti shades of silver Z's. Pull up in a Brickyard & see what kind of reaction you get from the buyers. My guess is it would be extremely possitive.

 

No offense to the brickyard owners, but according to several dealerships in N. Cali, the brickyard did extremely poor in this area.

Several salesmen tried to sell me a brickyard and were willing to wheel and deal with that color while they wouldn't even budge on the other colors.

Don't get me wrong, I think it's good looking color, but I think the numbers just didn't pan out for Nissan and so they dropped it.

 

The LA really does look like a slightly lighter shade of CS. I can't tell any other difference from the pics I've seen. What do the eyewitnesses think? It seems like a major disappointment, but I'm really not upset that I have CS now...

 

I would gladly pay an extra 1100 for the Sonic Orange color that was used on the original showcar. Paying extra for another shade of silver is outright BS.

 

No offence taken but I don't believe you should trust what any dealer has to say. I looked all over the bay area (and beyond) looking for my Brickyard and dealers never had them on the lot so my guess is either they were selling them as fast as they were getting them in, or they weren't getting very many (probably a little of both). Funny thing is, when I was looking the dealers told me it was an extremely popular color & very difficult to find. I think it's funny now that the same dealers are saying just the opposite now that the color is discontinued. Just confirms that they (the salesmen) will say anything to sway you towards what they have or can get on their lots. JMHO

 

As I mentioned before in another post, I think RodH's CS looks a lot more like LA than these new pics.

 

No, I think both in the background are CS.