Hehe... lets see who can get this first... I'll give a clue, it has to do with something a looong time ago

 

Come on now.. i thought you were all true Z enthusiasts

 

The three dots stand for: "newness, high-quality and Z-ness"

Did my reading in 'Lust, then Love', it is a GREAT book

 

Alrite.. i'll give it to you... Back when they first advertised the 240Z's, the advertisements would have a dark screen with a Z
and after it "dot" "dot" "dot"... <-- like that then they would show the car. The 3 periods basically hearken back to the original ads for the car from over 30 years ago. These turned out to be the most popular ads for the car.. Now you all know why that design element was invented.

 

I can now sleep tonight

 

What's really weird is a guy I race with was telling about those commercials of the original 240Z with the Z then ... I never even thought about the new Z symbol with the ... in it.

 

Well your answer seems to make sense, but I'm not sure that you are correct on this. As Grey Matter posted above, the three dots (that appear not just on the door handles, but on the wheels, kick plates, radio face, strut tower bar, and elsewhere...) represent "Newness, High Quality, and Z-Ness" according to the book "Lust then Love" by Ron Sessions.

Ethan

 

they should have made the door handles flush and the same color as the car body for a much cleaner look. A door handle isn't a design element that needs attention drawn to it.

 

I thought it was because 4 wouldn't fit, and 2 just didn't seem like enough.

 

They might represent that, but apparently they used the "Z..." back in the 70's in television advertisements. The manager at my dealership mentioned it to me (he was about 60) and so did some random guy who was looking at my car who used to have an old 240Z.

 

But where did the "..." come from even in the original ads? I'll answer that question and the original question at the same time.

Look at the dashboard of a Z, 240 - 350. What do you see?
Right smack in the center there are three circular gauges: OOO That's a major design cue of the Z line and that's why you see it so much on the 350Z.