Yep ...$35K touring bought October 2002. The car is very noce after I did approx $5K worth of upgrades to the sound system and put in the xenarc TS and Chazzg PC, and replaced the wheels. There are some plastic parts which are not fitting well (for example the passenger side door armreast etc) after they were popped out a few times to put in the new speakes/dynamat, but other than that the car holds up very nice. Everytime I detail it I fall in love with the curves/design of the exterior/interior. And I'm not even jealous of the RX8 when I see one on the road. nuff said...

 

Was yours covered under warranty? That just happened to me and I'm waiting to see how much they are going to charge me?

 

I think they could have done a little better job on the quality of the interior. The interior looks a lot better then pretty much anything in it's class, but I have had to replace a lot of parts ex. middle console, steering wheel, plastic piece on the passanger seat, and now the door handle. Can;t wait to see what Nissan wants to charge me to fix that I have had several cars in my time and never had this much trouble keeping the insides together. I mean give me a break the car is 3 not 30.

 

your not using armor all on your interior are you? i had all sorts of plasticky interior parts break/fall off on my 98 Camaro SS. No such issues with the Z so far. You think the interior of a Z is cheap, rofl, go ride in a F-Body.

 

I think it's cheap b/c I have had a lot of things replaced already like the steering wheel, plastic on the passanger seat and the middle console. I would expect a little more durability from a car that is barley 3 years old wouldn't you?

 

Nothing plastic has broke off mine. Maybe you bought one of the Chinese made 350Zs.

 

You know why they're cheap because the company CEO needed to bring back Nissan from the red. They were in debt for billions and the only way to bring back a company like that was to do cost cutting and in this case they had their trojan horse the 350z. They knew people will flock to the car and be soo excited about its return that they'll disregard its flaws. So they built the car with the cheapest leathers and plastics to have a bigger margin of profit for them. I mean Nissan is a business they needed a way to make some money and this this case it was at the expense of quality and customer satisfaction. I believe that as they begin to get back into the green they'll begin to build better cars.

 

its true... i took off the rear speaker thing... and 3 of them broke lol... ahh well =(