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Old 04-22-2021, 05:23 PM   #145
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Originally Posted by SUB-FT86 View Post
Let's make a bet for $50 that it'll start in the 30's? People seem to forget that when the Z came back as the 350Z and 370Z, Nissan was always trying to compete with Ford and its Mustang for bang for buck. Nissan learned that taking the Z upmarket(300ZX) was an epic fail. I can't be the only one here old enough to remember all of this.
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Originally Posted by PulsarBeeerz View Post
I remember that, but they were trying to compete with the 3000GT, MK4 Supra and RX7 that all got more expensive and that all priced themselves out of the market eventually.
They didn't "price" themselves out of the market. The Japanese economy got super hot in the mid-90s so on the strength of the YEN the cars became crazy expensive for the time a '96 300ZX TT, was something like $46k in '96 dollars.

That's well over $70k adjusted for inflation.
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