Nice, notice the price will sell it now for.

I'm going to bid $4,000 for fun.

This may be my new ZX.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Cars-...=p4506.c0.m245

 

Mr Katayama The Father And Designer Of The Z Car Would Be Proud

 

Damn, this is nice...

 

that's too nice for me. i'd never want to upgrade it. i'd like to bring a car to that quality, but i wouldn't buy it like that. soooooooooo nice

 

That car has been on ebay for about a month now... last listing it got up to $13k but didn't hit the reserve. I'm sure reserve is somewhere around the $18k Buy It Now price.

 

wow... what a *** i'd let it go for 13k he would probably still be making a profit off it including original sticker price and all the maint it has probably had. which is probably non to minor since it was probably sitting in a time machine. lol

 

Yeah... $13K is probably what the sticker was on it, or close to it....probably more, now that I look at the sticker from mine.

I just don't get why the Z doesn't have the appreciation of some other cars from the same era.... but I won't get into that debate. It's been beat to death.

 

The sticker on that car was $18,674.00 in 1983... Which is the equivalent of about $40k in today's dollars.

 

really... thats gay cause didnt the S30's just 10 years prior go for like 7k or something...

 

wow. I guess the turbo cars cost a lot more.
That makes the current Z look really inexpensive.

I'd pay $6k for that Z, no more. or I'd steal it, roll it, and pull the engine.

 

Yes, the original sticker was $18,000+. That is the reason they stopped making the zx. It was getting to expensive for the times.

 

I'm pretty sure that wasn't the reason... The Z31 started in that same basic price range. If it were too high of a price, and not enough sales, they likely wouldn't have designed another.

http://www.az-zbum.com/information.original.msrp.shtml

 

I copied the below from the Xenon site. Don't get me wrong, I personally had no problem with the price. It seems that others did.

The Nissan 300ZX came about as an evolution in the line of Z-Cars, started in 1970 by Nissan under the brand Datsun in the USA with the introduction of the 240Z. The 240Z and the rest of the Z-Cars were designed with a simple concept: To make an inexpensive and dependable, yet sporty and enjoyable car. There were many cars that came along with offers of many option packages and attractive gimmicks, however with these gimmicks came a major increase in price and a decrease in fundamental areas, such as agility and value. Who in their right mind is going to pay tens of thousands of dollars for a sports car so loaded to the brim with pointless extras that nothing else on the car is worth anything? It should not be at all surprising that many lines of sports cars have gone by the wayside because they were not profitable. The Z-Cars, however, enjoyed a long run, starting in 1970 with the 240Z and evolving as necessary in order to remain successful. It should be noted that in 1984, having encountered a negative association with the brand name Datsun due to their participation in World War II, the company officially dropped the brand Datsun and used their name Nissan. And in that same year, gave birth to the 300ZX.

 

Reading comprehension owns you...

That paragraph states "other" sports cars had a major increase in price, while the Z car "enjoyed a long run." The only other notable thing about the changeover from 280zx to 300zx was that Nissan dropped the "Datsun" name.

EDIT:

 

i like the edit for the super grin face.

 

I hear ya. I think the author could have been more clear about what he was trying to say- like - against these odds the z "enjoyed a long run"

I think you could comprehend his statment in multiple ways.

I understood his statement to say the z's also became to expensive probably because that is what I always heard and didn't have information to think otherwise.

So why did they stop manufacturing the z before bringing out the 350?

 

If I remember correctly the 300zx (Z32) was in production until 1999, but only available in other countries. Sales were sluggish and a redesign was in the works anyway.

Here in the US, we lost the Z32 in '96 due to high prices and sluggish sales. I remember seeing some factory tricked out Z32 in Dallas at a dealer with a sticker of $99,999.

 

seriously? in 96? that's beast

 

i thought they stopped importing the z32 to the U.S. because of OBD II which came out in 96 and the z's werent OBD II and would need major modifications to accomidate the OBD II

 

No, they stopped importing them into the US because they sold barely 3000 of them in 1996. In order to meet OBDII compliance, the 1996 300ZX lost the variable valve timing that was available in the turbo up through the 1995 model year.

300ZX production continued in Japan up until August of 2000.

My 1992TT 300ZX cost $35k in 1992.

In 1996 the Convertible 300ZX was stickered at $45,500... If you take inflation into account, that's about $60k in today's money. What would you buy if you had $60k burning a hole in your pocket right now?

You "young" guys have to remember also, this was smack in the middle of the SUV craze that started in about 1990 and sales of the 300ZX were going through a steady decline since the 1990 300ZX was released in 1989 to the point they barely sold 3000 in the final year of US deliveries after selling nearly 40,000 300ZX's in 1990.

 

the variable valve timing was an option on tt's only? how did it work on those? i've always been curious about that. strange thing: my cars engine has a sticker on it that says variable valve timing somewhere. i forget where. i'll look back again. even though, it obviously has no variable valve timing

 

it was a different economy then too, $35k in 92 wasnt probally such a big deal any more. i have noticed a trend the the past few years with the cheap econo boxes that every one is buying other car prices are comming down in price....unless you buy from a Lithia store