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Originally Posted by n2oinferno
Welcome to the real world where safety matters more than performance. Cars are appliances and enthusiasts are a dying breed. I'd rather have it this way though, since a large portion of people on the road don't have a clue what they're doing.
Though I completely disagree. I drove an NC2 Miata and a 370Z back to back, and the Z feels worlds faster. If you want to feel fast, buy something old. I like a mix in between. I like to feel and go fast. I could floor the hell out of my Yaris and zip around town, but I wasn't fooling myself.
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The new Miata is a pig. The Yaris is a front wheel drive econobox. Not a fair comparison.
If I cared about 0 to 60 and quarter mile times I'd import a 370z-raping Mustang Boss 302 from the USA. A 2011 Mustang GT BASE can be had for $28k and it will still be .1 seconds faster to 60 than a 370z but honestly who gives a fuck. The 370z is an absolutely beautiful (but flawed) car with the sexiest production rims on earth. Seriously, those Rays give me fits. They make my buddies 350z look like a newer car. EDIT #2: The 370z test drive was partially ruined by the horrible sales person. He was condescending, uninformed and overall very rude. He assumed I couldn't afford the car and treated me as such (I can but it would be a stretch). My Dad golfs with the Nissan dealership owner but I didn't say anything about the sales guy... I didn't like the car anyway. I got to see his GT-R last weekend... WOW! His mansion in Florida has a gas truck deliver fuel to the house for their half million dollar boat. Now that's living!
Nissan hates Canada: A BASE 370z is $40800 here. The exact same car in the US is 31450.
EDIT: Huge props to Hyundai, they offer cash rebates in Canada so their cars are actually cheaper/same price here as they are in the US. Hyundai just became the number 2 auto seller in Canada. Audi, Nissan, Infinity and Subaru shit on Canadians every chance they get. Ford and Toyota have done a better job adjusting for the fact that we are the only G8 country with a sound financial management system. BMW is pretty bad for markup but not even close to Audi. When our dollar was 1.05 US Audi was charging a $10000 premium on average for every model. My tenant, a 25 year old hot blond, just picked up an 09 A4 convertible with 14000 miles from a dealer in the US for 31k to replace the same car that was totaled. She made almost $10000 off insurance because the average selling price for Audis in Canada is so much higher than the US.