Thanks for the advise. I appreciate the suggestions. I hope you are right and that I can weight down the back, throw on some snow tires and be on my way.

 

I use to LOOOOVE the G35C concept and picked it above the Z. The Z design started to grow on me and I asked myself:

"What Japanese luxury coupe from a few years back is not bland and still hot?"

none...

I'll take the Z.

 

I'm not going to get into which car is nicer, that's for you to decide. But the people who are claiming the G has fewer problems are mistaken. They are essentially the same car. Same transmission (which can grind but will be replaced by nissan) and both are built similarly (both have a few rattles but they're stiff so expect it). If you look on G35driver.com and do a search for posts, you'll see the 03 G35 drivers had the same probs the Z owners did. And 99% of both cars had very minor problems that nissan has fixed, feather notwithstanding.

The probs that the Z has that I'm not aware of in the G: Grease streaks on windows (an easy dealer fix that shouldn't sway you either way), and Tire feathering. I'm willing to bet the G would have feathering problems, but its tires are a littler harder wearing and suspension is softer so it's probably less pronounced.

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