if you were to sell your zed what car would you buy, it has to be a realistic car so no astons etc. and i dont wanna hear ''i wouldnt sell my zed'' lol

Dreams and aspirations aside...

Seeing as the average Zed strugles to fetch 3k, unless you plan on saving up double the value of your car you ain't gonna get much.

I have about 1.5k set aside and if i were to get 3.5 k for my car, there is absolutely nothing I can afford that's worthy of taking my Zed's place.

Top choice woud be an FD RX-7... But I'd never find one for 5k that doesn't need a couple extra grand spending on it!

new it wouldnt be to everyones taste :rofl: :p

plus there front wheel drive iirc ??

The new shelby mustang was running at santa pod last time i went. It was getting mid 14s every time. pretty slow.

plus there front wheel drive iirc ??

 

rear wheel drive based on the Alfa 75 platform with 3.0 v6, 'Il Mostro'

I love the late 60's early 70's American muscle, had a few yanks, I did say yanks!!

 

would love a plymouth superbird

or the Dodge charger daytona

both got to have the 426 Hemi engine or 440 6 pack

 

but to be practicle i like the....

 

xk8 jag......please dont hit me for that :slap:

'71 hemi 'cuda too

I would buy another zed

s15 sylvia, or an RX7 not cos i think there better than the zed just for a change and maybe less hassle,.....well the s15 at least.

..........................but to be practicle i like the....

 

xk8 jag......please dont hit me for that :slap:

 

I wouldn't hit you as I'm a bit of a Jag fan.....

 

......however having driven a couple of XK8s I can honestly say they are crap! I looked at a getting one earlier this year and found them a bit ponderous and a lot more lardy than a ZX. The 300zx is a much better sports/GT than the Jag - I just kept my ZX and bought an SLK instead.

 

However the XKR is reputedly a great piece of kit but I have not driven one, especially with the suspension upgrade. A chap near my old house had a Paramount Performance modded XKR pushing out well over 500bhp; it sounded better than a TVR and went like stink - awesome!!

 

Richard :cool:

M5

as above^^^^ :cool:

Lotus Esprit........preferably the V8. Mmmmmmmmmm

 

ohh yeah, count me on that one :nana2:

I would never sell the Zed.

There are a coouple of other cars I would love to have with the zed.

 

Rover P5b

Ferrari Spider

well the bloke selling the TVR turned out to be a total ass.. sold it for £1500 more than i wone it for leaving me with a £11000 loan, a usless train ticket and a day off work i cant use! :mac1:

iv also sold my Z so dont have a decent car anymore! :cry:

 

some bloody people :mac1:

well the bloke selling the TVR turned out to be a total ass.. sold it for £1500 more than i wone it for leaving me with a £11000 loan, a usless train ticket and a day off work i cant use! :mac1:

iv also sold my Z so dont have a decent car anymore! :cry:

 

some bloody people :mac1:

Report him to Ebay!

 

A winning bid is supposed to be a legally binding contract or so they keep saying.

 

"A bid or Buy It Now purchase on eBay is considered a contract and you are obliged to complete the transaction. "

 

He sounds like a :xxx: !!

Dodge Ram V10

well the bloke selling the TVR turned out to be a total ass.. sold it for £1500 more than i wone it for leaving me with a £11000 loan, a usless train ticket and a day off work i cant use! :mac1:

iv also sold my Z so dont have a decent car anymore! :cry:

 

some bloody people :mac1:

 

Geez mate sorry to hear all this I know how much you were looking forward to getting that car!

 

Will Rob sell it back to you? have you exchanged v5 etc?

 

Next time your on guard use that ticket to go pay that guy a visit with your rifle :p ill cover you on the gate :D

 

Plenty more nice motors waiting for ya :hyper:

 

Speak soon bud

And keeping in tune with this thread i'd go for some serious 4x4 fun such as a scooby pro-drive or the evo FQ's.

well the bloke selling the TVR turned out to be a total ass.. sold it for £1500 more than i wone it for leaving me with a £11000 loan, a usless train ticket and a day off work i cant use!

iv also sold my Z so dont have a decent car anymore!

 

some bloody people

 

i would report him to ebay and try and claim some expenses back from him. have you got his address?

Wow great thread..........This is MY total dilemna summed up.

 

At a stretch I can change my car for whatever but........

 

I fail to see what I can have that realistically would be a better bet right now and a lot of test drives are a dissappointment to say the least.

 

One of my two business partners just bought an aston DB7 vantage plaything and the other a 2005 M5 but the former is an unreliable piece of crap and the Beemer is cool-as-hell but still a saloon car that well er looks like a saloon car and still is electronically limited to 155mph :( It is not paid for either which I am not sure I would like.

 

We go to the ring at the end of this month and my Zed holds its head (and its timeless looks) way high amongst this crowd. A lot of the guys that work for us are petrolheads and ex-auto-design-industry types so we have a DB9 owner, some lotus elises (great track cars) a very important (historically) De Tomaso Pantera (ex works racer), mercs and beemers and then the usual jap stuff. Evo's, Scooby's etc.

 

Skylines do it for me performance-wise but the looks are just too in your face for me. I would love a Nismo 350Z but two seats won't do.

 

I am hoping the New GTR is as good as the hype but then again i got some inside info last week on the Supra replacement and that is sure to be a beast of a car.............

 

So many so-called desirable cars have image flaws to me:-

 

Ferrari - hairdresser image and ridiculous servicing regime

Porsche 911 - smacks of male menopause and that handling (after a good handling Z I defy you to not feel that a 911 is just the triumph of engineering over physics!

Porsche Boxster - screams i'm a porsche label wannabe owner with MR2 turbo performance

Aston - Too pipe and slippers

Merc - Crap crap build quality label long past its sell-by date

Beemer - New ranges are all ugly as sin

All 'Offroad' 4 X 4's - Screams bluewater shopping mall chav wagon and does not fit my need for a sporting 4 seater GT

Maserati quattroporte - Hmmmm Close but

 

I look at my 300 which makes me smile every morning and whenever I drive it then I ask myself why buy a car i am not passionate about? Should I buy a new car or invest in some more property?

 

Bottom line..........

 

Until a car comes along that I can get passionate about like my Zed I will stick with the Z and do other stuff with my dosh.........

 

Hmmm problems problems

 

Chris

Wow great thread..........This is MY total dilemna summed up.

 

At a stretch I can change my car for whatever but........

 

I fail to see what I can have that realistically would be a better bet right now and a lot of test drives are a dissappointment to say the least.

 

One of my two business partners just bought an aston DB7 vantage plaything and the other a 2005 M5 but the former is an unreliable piece of crap and the Beemer is cool-as-hell but still a saloon car that well er looks like a saloon car and still is electronically limited to 155mph :( It is not paid for either which I am not sure I would like.

 

We go to the ring at the end of this month and my Zed holds its head (and its timeless looks) way high amongst this crowd. A lot of the guys that work for us are petrolheads and ex-auto-design-industry types so we have a DB9 owner, some lotus elises (great track cars) a very important (historically) De Tomaso Pantera (ex works racer), mercs and beemers and then the usual jap stuff. Evo's, Scooby's etc.

 

Skylines do it for me performance-wise but the looks are just too in your face for me. I would love a Nismo 350Z but two seats won't do.

 

I am hoping the New GTR is as good as the hype but then again i got some inside info last week on the Supra replacement and that is sure to be a beast of a car.............

 

So many so-called desirable cars have image flaws to me:-

 

Ferrari - hairdresser image and ridiculous servicing regime

Porsche 911 - smacks of male menopause and that handling (after a good handling Z I defy you to not feel that a 911 is just the triumph of engineering over physics!

Porsche Boxster - screams i'm a porsche label wannabe owner with MR2 turbo performance

Aston - Too pipe and slippers

Merc - Crap crap build quality label long past its sell-by date

Beemer - New ranges are all ugly as sin

All 'Offroad' 4 X 4's - Screams bluewater shopping mall chav wagon and does not fit my need for a sporting 4 seater GT

Maserati quattroporte - Hmmmm Close but

 

I look at my 300 which makes me smile every morning and whenever I drive it then I ask myself why buy a car i am not passionate about? Should I buy a new car or invest in some more property?

 

Bottom line..........

 

Until a car comes along that I can get passionate about like my Zed I will stick with the Z and do other stuff with my dosh.........

 

Hmmm problems problems

 

Chris

 

half your luck mate if you can talk in the relms of ferraris, maserati's, astons etc, i see your dilema, you got to much money, your spoilt for choice lol

 

im sure ive read this thread before? But anyway

 

If your thinking of spending that sort of money on a car, spend it on the zed and you will have one hell of a zed :D

 

May i give you an idea of other stuff you can do with your dosh, if you want to spend it on a car, you can buy me any one of the above i dont mind :rofl:

has anyone here driven a skyline 350gt? (the 4 seater 350z type car) i know they look a bit crap but do they drive any good?

half your luck mate if you can talk in the relms of ferraris, maserati's, astons etc, i see your dilema, you got to much money, your spoilt for choice lol

 

im sure ive read this thread before? But anyway

 

If your thinking of spending that sort of money on a car, spend it on the zed and you will have one hell of a zed :D

 

May i give you an idea of other stuff you can do with your dosh, if you want to spend it on a car, you can buy me any one of the above i dont mind :rofl:

 

I know this is a problem for which I will get little sympathy but the thing is so much of the car purchasing behaviour that we learn as we grow is driven by price that we dream of stuff on the journey but when actually faced with actually doing it there are different things vying for your money. School fees or a Ferrari? Property investment or a porsche, Life experiences or the acquisition of stuff?

 

For sure sitting in a £100k car going nowhere on the M6 soon puts the whole experience in its place believe me.

 

My real problem........

 

I had for a while started leaning from the Z to a ferrari 456GT V12 2+2 (i love the idea of uberfast 2+2's that don't look like estate cars hence the Z.) The 456GT Pinifarina themselves describe as the most beautiful car they ever styled and it sure is nice. It also has a classier image than most of the range without the british stuffy tweed feel that an aston has. BUT.......................

 

£33,000 for a twelve year old car is what it is..........

 

The question I put to you whether you care to consider it or not is.....

Is it worth 26K more or not? My Z has been fettled to probably good as new stop, go, handle etc and maybe worth 6k

 

I concluded what the extra 26k would get me?

 

Kudos? OK more than the Z but the Z is nicely rare enough to not be an everyday sight and i like to wear my labels on the inside having gone through all that designer stuff when I was a wannabe. Looking back i realise how fookin ridiculous I looked armani'd up at 21.

 

Performance? ok slightly very sightly more but my Z has enough upgrades for it to be no difference

 

MPG !!! not a factor for me really (most costs incurred doing business so I re-coup those)

 

Getting extra snivelly sucking up service by some establishments.....Dont want to eat / drink / sleep in such shallow places anyway.......I'll leave that for the nouveau A/B/C list whatevers!

 

Anyway pst. I want to share something about our Z'ds.

 

They are cool as fook because they come from an era when engineers could still spend loads on a 4 wheel steering system and not have some accountant veto it because of cost. They are so so good that the leap to 'the-next-level' whatever that might be is still not enough after all these years to truly make it worth it.

 

let me explain...........

 

One of my business partners came to a meeting the day he got his aston and placed what I swear was a ford focus key on the table next to my titanium Z key, call me shallow but I could not stop laughing out loud and all gathered had to laugh along........The aston, Its Good but not that good.

 

Meanwhile the Z is a car that was so good in its day that even now i don't ever think it reached the respect that its abilities and value for money should command. Now if the badge was different and the japanese had never caught-up and passed the europeans we would not be having this conversation.....Funny ol thing progress. Similarly if the business grows i have concluded that to buy say a lambo you really have to be so into cars (and I think i am) that you would choose it over everything else or maybe there is a point where cars become something you buy out of your loose change like a sandwich before you can enter the 'supercar' market. Unless.........

 

Come on nissan honda and toyota put the cat amongst the pidgeons with the GTR / Supra and NSX2 quickly

 

Chris

well said!

damn right minestwinturbo, thats my line of thinking too, theres not much more i can add because you pretty much got it all down.

damn right minestwinturbo, thats my line of thinking too, theres not much more i can add because you pretty much got it all down.

 

Well said you two! :cool:

 

BTW, the car I forgot about was the MAseratti 3200gt - around £20k gets a nice 2000/2001 car with that Ferrari engine.........

 

Richard :p