This Aussie magazine tests the Z. I don't want to give away too much but the guy tested it on a dirt road and complains about the ride being to harsh!

http://www.autospeed.com/cms/A_1841/article.html

 

since i read that retarded article from Australia about the rx-8 being a better car than the 350z i havent been able to trust any car review from down under. i dont think these aussie writers seem to understand what a sports car (not a rally car, or rally inspired car) is supposed to be, all that rally racing has tainted there minds.
http://www.racv.com.au/Coporate/Roya....asp?d_id=2354

 

Hehehe you pulled that from the friggin RX-8 idiots didn't you Blue. Since reading that forum I've lost all respect for the car and the idiots who buy it.

 

What an idiot. Specially tuned for driving on real roads? Where does he get this stuff? The Z was tuned for driving on a track! It's in its best element at autocross or a real track. My road to/from work is nowhere near as bad as his, but even on this road I can sense bad parts of the road I never knew about in other cars. Because it's NOT A ROAD CAR!

Sure it's made to cruise around town. It would be pretty stupid not to accomodate that. But this is a performance car. Maybe he should have gotten the G35. Or the Maxima.

 

Just awful....almost every positive point about the RX-8 in that article had nothing to do with performance and everything to do with a cushy interior...

--D.J.

 

This article was posted before.... with the same comments from members of this site that all seemed to say..

The reviewer is the biggest bag of BS windage on the planet.... and hasn't the faintest idea what is is talking about - with perhaps some understanding about roads, but absolutely nothing about cars.

"Home and Garden" would be a better forum for that idiot.

 

what he said ^

old

 

Yup thats where I got it.

The www.rx8club.com if FULL of bitter owners ready to bite the heads off of any outsider that presents facts. They are running low 15's at weak 92MPH traps at the most. When you ask them about it they make SO many excuses like the person didn't know how to drive and it wasn't broken in. They think by waiting the numbers will get better like the horsepower fairy is going to visit thier car after X miles.

 

The disappointing thing is the amount of bandwidth wasted on this guy.

Julian Edgar is best known for being the biggest fool under the sun. He is the poor journo that cant make it with the big kids and tries to make a name through the use of bold statements such as " I dont give a ****"

My thoughts is send him a mail bomb telling him how much of a tosser he is!

Now I will lighten up. the Zed came No 2. in the Motor magazine bang for your buck. The new STi came in first for performance vs $$ which is what this was about.

Mike

 

um....

He lives in a remote area accessed by thin dirt mountain roads. What's he doing with a sports car? Get a Jeep. lol

"In fact the roads are treacherous. I have lived here only two years and in that time I have seen perhaps ten serious accidents, and there have been at least four fatalities."

 

"On my demanding, real-world roads, where I have driven perhaps fifty different cars, the 350Z was simply woeful. Suspension so stiff that on the Tamborine Village road, the stability control light was on perhaps half the time. Can't get power down if the rear wheels are bouncing off the road, y'see. Suspension so hard that through The Corner From Hell I was way slower than my fastest speed - and I was also finding it hard to see the road as I was thrown around the cabin. (And the fastest car through The Corner From Hell? It's the Mitsubishi Magna Sport AWD, where I ran out of courage before it ran out of handling. Not grip, but handling. The Lancer Evo 6 would probably have been even faster through there, but I didn't get a chance to try it in earnest... The Magna was quicker than the Monaro - and soooo much happier - and faster than an Audi S6, faster than, well, all other cars I have driven.)

Look, it is bloody easy to make a car that can get through a smooth corner fast.

Real fast, even.

Dial-out the roll and fore-aft weight transfer, use big sticky rubber and give the car quick steering. Nine out of ten drivers will then sing its handling praises. In the dry, anyway. But real handling is nothing like that.

Real handling gives a measure of body roll, using it to telegraph to the driver just what the car is doing. Real handling takes into account the treacherous spatterings of gravel over bitumen, considers the impact of wet roads, thinks about drivers who make mistakes and then need to catch it. Real handling recognises that a driver being bounced around the cabin isn't likely to be making the best of decisions. And then even better cars have engineers who carefully consider all these things - then put into place electronic stability control strategies that take real-world handling to the next level.

Handling that saves those tourists when it's raining and they're tired and Tabitha in the back is screaming because she hasn't had her feed and Timothy didn't get the toy he wanted and wasn't this supposed to be a good holiday - and Oh ****, We're Off the Edge of the Road and Please God, Get Us Back Onto it.

Handling that not only save people's lives, but also rewards in a way that in happier times makes your blood sing and your skin goose pimple. Handling that lifts your day and makes you so glad to be alive. (And that very handling also makes your chances of being alive so much higher - think about it....)"

What a doofus...

He's looking at the wrong car. He seriously needs a Land Rover or a Jeep...

 

"The 350Z is way back in the Ark, back in a time where a stiff ride and explosive (and so dreadfully non-linear) throttle response were regarded as something good. It is the result of engineers lead into a dead-end, producing a car where on my roads its shortfalls are shown in ghastly brilliance. In fact its inadequacies are highlighted so clearly that it is left just a pretender car for those who want to impress their mates but who never get it out on real roads and drive it."

Non-linear throttle? Did he drive the car? The electronic throttle is so linear in our cars that people complain about having to push the peddle all the way down! lol

He keeps making reference to "real roads", as if banged-up, potholed, and rough roads are "real roads" for sports cars designed to be maxed-out at the track!

This guy is an off-road, four-wheeling, Jeep driver who's out of his element.

 

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He keeps making reference to "real roads", as if banged-up, potholed, and rough roads are "real roads" for sports cars designed to be maxed-out at the track!

Testify! ^

--D.J.

 

Don't waste bandwidth on this idiot - his "review" is an attempt to get noticed.

For the record there have been lots and lots of very good reviews on the Z here - its the main reason I bought the car. When a car such as the Z gets so many good reviews as it has here you always one or two f$ckwits who really have no clue at all.

Next time I go to Queensland I'll look him up and disconnect his brake lines!! That should make it exciting on that road!!!