hey guys,
I've been after a 350z for the last few months, and i finally bought one this weekend! i pick it up on Wednesday night, and i cant wait.
I've only ever driven BMW's in the past, and i've just traded in my E46 328ci coupe. Its a beautiful car, but very boring to drive! its fast, but there's no driver involvement. Although my buddies on bimmerforums.com would strongly disagree - i've not told them im leaving yet :-)
So anyway... its taken me 5 months to find somewhere that'll insure me at a half decent price (£2400 for the year - i've only been driving 3.5 years, and have 2 years NCB). Its frustrating cos i turned 24 this month, but my buddy at work is a year older than me, and he can get insured on the same car for less than a grand!!
its gonna be my daily driver, and im doing around 20k miles a year, so because of that i've gone down the import route - spend less, lose less!
I went to see 2 z's at the same garage... a red version t, and my silver version s. I have to say that i didnt like the interior of the t, due to the oem sat nav, with jap writing everywhere! And ithe nav wont work anyway, so why pay more for just the leather seats?
So, i went for the version s, which is a tiptronic auto (prefer that with the traffic jams i sit in!)... but then to my suprise, when i started it up for a testdrive, a motorized touchscreen popped out, and its a full aftermarket sat nav system!!!! I couldnt beleive it - arent they like 1200quid??
I had a 20 minute test drive and it drives great... and just as we got back to the garage the salesman went "ah crap, you're in Snow Mode"... so he switched it into sport and it made all the difference! I was enjoying myself anyway, but then it was like YES!
I've attached the pic of my car... and you can see the only thing thats wrong with it - the drivers side headlight is fogged up. I know it'll really annoy me, but i'll never fork out the £200 or whatever for a new unit! Any tips (and yes i've searched!).
So hello all!
Chris.
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