where you getting your numbers from? i would be willing to bet that there is more produced that come into the USA than what you say is world wide.. i could be off base but im just going by my numbers we sell. but we sell about 40 a year. and then you figure 2000 dealerships across the country. some will sell more some will sell less. but 5000 world wide seems awfully low

 

Only thing I could find was Nissan sold 36,728 350z Coupes in 2003...

In comparison..

2003 Ford Mustang - 140,350
2003 Corvette - 27,974
2003 Acura RSX - 24,292

Hey John, how many 350z Coupes do you sell a year? rough number will do..

 

roughly 120 a year. give or take a dozen

 

I read somewhere that 80% of the Z production is sold in the U.S. If you look at Nissannews.com, and look at the monthly sales figures, it appears that roughly 2 - 3,000 Z's are sold each month, sometimes a bit more. The chart doesn't break it down by coupe and roadster, but as a guess, maybe the coupe outsells the roadster about 5 or 6 to 1? So, let's be generous and say 40,000 sold per year total, that would work out to maybe 6,000 roadsters and maybe 30 - 34,000 coupes.

Take 80% of those world-wide 6,000 and you've got 4800 sold in the U.S.

Just a guess, but probably not too far off.

 

So about 1/3 of the 350z's you sell are Roadster's... I read that Nissan sold over 100k 350z's in its first 3 years (2003-2005), since the roadster didnt come out until 2004 the 2003 #'s of 305z's were coupes only (which was 36k) so they sold 46k 350z in 2004-2005 model year. If we use your dealership as the typical percentage of roadsters sold, that would mean Nissan sells around 7.5k roadsters a year in the USA. Although this is a really rough number

Although im guessing your a fairly big dealership, if you figured in that 1/2 the dealerships out there are about 1/2 your size, then it could be that only about 4k-5k roadsters are sold a year in the USA

 

I think your math is a little off. He said he sold about 40 roadsters and about 120 coupes. That's a total of 160 Z's all together.

40 (roadsters) of 160 (total) is 25%, not 33%.

Anyway, same conclusion, roughly 5,000 or fewer roadsters sold in the U.S. per year.

 

Whoops my bad...

 

thats my point. it was said 5000 world wide and im figuring 5000 minimum just in U.S sales.... not a big deal i was just wondering where the nimbers came from