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Old Oct 25, 2007 | 06:22 AM
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I am looking to find a 07 SMB Enthusiast possibly touring if its the right price, 6MT how would I go about doing this. Is there anyway I can search on the nissan website or do I actually have to go in. I know dealerships by me dont have what I am looking for so I might have to travel some ways.


Just need a little insight. Thanks.

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Old Oct 25, 2007 | 07:56 AM
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Using Nissan dealership locator- I have found zero tourings in the Northeast and three Enth. black 6 speeds. Confirm availability yourself-these could be demos, damaged, modded, sold etc.

BRUCE BENNETT NISSAN - Wilton, CT
STAR NISSAN - Bayside, NY
BALISLE NISSAN - Warwick, RI

Good luck.
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Old Oct 25, 2007 | 01:21 PM
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Use the Nissan locater as indicated above. You may have to enter other towns you are willing to travel to and look for all dealers within, say, 100 miles.

In 03 I wanted a Enthusiast Brickyard color w/o a spoiler. I ended up looking at virtually every dealer in Cali. Eventually found a Performance Brickyard w/0 spoiler in Visalia......300 miles south of me. Bought it.
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Old Oct 25, 2007 | 06:10 PM
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Use the Nissan locater as indicated above. You may have to enter other towns you are willing to travel to and look for all dealers within, say, 100 miles.

In 03 I wanted a Enthusiast Brickyard color w/o a spoiler. I ended up looking at virtually every dealer in Cali. Eventually found a Performance Brickyard w/0 spoiler in Visalia......300 miles south of me. Bought it.
I'm a Nissan dealer employee. My Nissan North America locator is a lot different than yours...
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Old Oct 25, 2007 | 06:31 PM
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Originally Posted by ErinFaulk
I am looking to find a 07 SMB Enthusiast possibly touring if its the right price, 6MT how would I go about doing this. Is there anyway I can search on the nissan website or do I actually have to go in. I know dealerships by me dont have what I am looking for so I might have to travel some ways.


Just need a little insight. Thanks.
you probably have to wait till 08. i got my SMB enthusiast 6spd in the 2nd week of september. there were 2 of them at different dealers. i guess i got lucky
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Old Oct 25, 2007 | 07:26 PM
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"I'm a Nissan dealer employee. My Nissan North America locator is a lot different than yours'

I just went to Nissan site; got to 350Z. Then hit dealer locater; entered "Los Angeles, Ca." and 100 miles. 48 dealers showed up. Then click on a dealer for inventory. (I'm in Sacramento).

What's so tough about it?
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Old Oct 26, 2007 | 01:59 PM
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Originally Posted by The Brickyard Rat
"I'm a Nissan dealer employee. My Nissan North America locator is a lot different than yours'

I just went to Nissan site; got to 350Z. Then hit dealer locater; entered "Los Angeles, Ca." and 100 miles. 48 dealers showed up. Then click on a dealer for inventory. (I'm in Sacramento).

What's so tough about it?

I work for a car dealership too. The general website is nowhere near as accurate as what dealership employee's have access to.
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Old Oct 26, 2007 | 02:24 PM
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Originally Posted by The Brickyard Rat
"I'm a Nissan dealer employee. My Nissan North America locator is a lot different than yours'

I just went to Nissan site; got to 350Z. Then hit dealer locater; entered "Los Angeles, Ca." and 100 miles. 48 dealers showed up. Then click on a dealer for inventory. (I'm in Sacramento).

What's so tough about it?
Let's see...without cheating, see how long it takes you to go behind me and scour the whole northeast to locate those same three cars...probably hours if at all.

Dealership websites are designed to get you in the door. Salesmen that you call or visit are trained to do the same. Combine this with wildly innaccurate inventories posted/maintained by individual dealerships and browsing through however many websites to obtain said information, and you have the recipe for frustration/missing out.

i.e. I just hooked the OP up big time.
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Old Oct 26, 2007 | 04:10 PM
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Well, aren't you special! LOL!

Good, I'm glad you could help the OP.

As an aside, it took me about an hour to find my Performance Z with the dealer locator plus one call to my car broker and ten minutes on the phone with sales mgr to get my Z delivered to my door without leaving my house.

See? I'm special too!
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Old Oct 26, 2007 | 06:56 PM
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Originally Posted by ErinFaulk
I am looking to find a 07 SMB Enthusiast possibly touring if its the right price, 6MT how would I go about doing this. Is there anyway I can search on the nissan website or do I actually have to go in. I know dealerships by me dont have what I am looking for so I might have to travel some ways.


Just need a little insight. Thanks.
I used autotrader.com to find the touring version of what you are looking for. There was 1 in Memphis that sold before I could get up there, 1 in Orlando that I bought, and 1 in Atlanta (enthusiast and touring versions) that were still there as of last week.
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