I can't be certain but it appears they shortened the front over hang by a little. Also notice the silver rings around the gauges inside the housing.

They answered our requests to have a true single projector like the S2Ks and a better cup holder. But dang, there are some issues...

1. What is up with those 4 LED's in the headlight housing when there is a 3 dot theme going on everywhere else on the car?
2. Why is there no pattern to the LEDs in the tailight housing. They look randomly placed?
3. Still no black housing in the headlights...
4. There was absolutley nothing wrong with the minimalist original door panel.
5. The center console, A/C controls look like something GM would design. Big and clunky.

My only hope is that this is not a final design and perhaps just a test rendition of the 06 update. Hopefully it will be more refined when it is released.

 

Yeah i noticed that...I was checking the Nissan website and it also said the 05 Enthusiast has power seats? Any 05 enthusiast owners can confirm that?

 

5. Make motor 330-340hp.

 

Not really diggin the new looks but then again we're all accustomed to what we have. The real projectors are a nice addition but like someone said, wheres the simplicity???

The Z could use another 30 to 50 horses to make it a potent car. But then again, the hell with that. Theres already enough Z's around, no need for others being swayed.

 

Yeah. That's more of a want then a need but it definitely would be good to have more HP AND TQ on the newer models (Don't forget that even though more HP is good, more TQ is just as important.). Just have them boost the HP/TQ closer to 350 to match the model number . Most of the items I listed are issues that most people have run into. Perhaps the 2nd one sounded like a want but I was actually thinking of all those complaints/issues about people grinding out while shifting & issues where people had to replacing their trannies.

 

My 04.5 has cloth power seats

 

Overall, I think the changes look pretty good. The headlights aren't my cup of tea, but I'm sure they'll grow on me. I love the rear LEDs. I am slightly dissappointed with the interior, I figured the changes would be more drastic. Sho-Time, did you think the interior looked higher quality/more luxurious? I should hope so, for Nissan's sake.

 

I like the new interior door panel. I really dont like the "dip" in the front (under grill). Rear lights are nice, fronts arent so nice. Over all its a good change, not too much.

 

The roadster has standard power seats. At least I know my enthuisiast roadster does.

 

Interior seemed slightly nicer for the rear half of the door panel, w/ padding. The front half of the door looked like the same materials as now.

 

one projector, so i'm assuming they are bi-xenons.

Don't know, not really feeling the look of the lights, the Z looks "dorky"

The taililghts look nice.

 

Like a 911 porsche, I wish they would stick with the design and just improve it mechanically each year. After all, it seems many people on this forum purchased their 350Z for it looks (at least it was certainly a major reason for it). The 350Z should perform equal to more expensive performance cars. Look at the C6, most people that seemed to jump over to the C6 from the 350Z was mainly performance, not looks.

 

i think the car looks kind of "confused" with the headlights

 

+1

 

You're cool because you got to take pictures of it.

 

05 roadster cloth power seats here...

 

cool...seems like 04.5+ Enthusiast Roadster has power seats...my 04.5 Enthusiast coupe doesn't.

 

New Stillen hood definitely an improvement on the old one, IMHO

 

My 2005 Enthusiast does not have power seats. I have no use for it since I am the only authorized driver for the car.

 

I don't like the headlights, they are WAY to bug eyed, but who knows, maybe with a lip and different grill they could look decent! The tail lights look ghetto rigged, I admit as soon as I saw LED's in the rear tailights I was all excited too, but if you look at them, it has like 10 crappy placed LED's in the rear tailights, I'm sure for the price of those tailights you could get some custom placed ones that would look way better, you want to see good LED's look at the tailights of a G35, those are phat, the ones on the Z look like a sideways rainbow lol....GAY

I like the black A/C controls in ours over those big silver ones. The silver around the shift doesnt flow either, I SERISOUSLY thought this was a photo chop joke when I first saw pics of the Z, I think that the changes are just marketing gimmicks, I think it looks like crap....