These *cough* $200 floor mats that look excellent and that I want.

I had “where in Time is Carmen San Diego” entirely because the cover shot had her sitting on something that I imagined as a futuristic motorcycle (It probably wasn’t but that’s not what 7 year old me thought.)

This may just be my personal experience, but I feel like Dune 2 didn’t really start the RTS boom. It was popular among people who knew, but i’d argue Warcraft really took that genre to the mainstream even if it came afterwards.

I dunno man, you bring up a lot of “only Russell Westbrook was less efficient...”

Yeah but early 2000's BMW’s didn’t have “chronograph” instrument clusters!!!

Man, its tough to not immediately act defensive when someone calls you out for your shit. Even when you know they’re right.

You’re take on the “brits were good ole lads who protected HK from big bad China from persecution by respecting hUmAn RiGhtS” is more than a bit misleading, just google british empire in Asia. It’s not that hard.

Thank you, that is some great added context.

Quick and dirty Taiwan:

Yes. Nissan 100 percent thought they were targeting the Porsche Boxster when the 350Z went on sale. It was all over their PR material “the 350Z out accelerates and out handles a Porsche Boxster with these specific performance metrics!! Therefore its a Boxster Competitor, not the mustang competitor it so obviously…

Everything is expensive right now on the used market.

Do you also think the C5 is the same as a C6? Third and fourth generation mustangs? 1st and 2nd generation Eclipses? 4th and 5th generation Celicas, etc.? Almost every manufacturer does this, updates a platform with new styling and a ton of changes, while only modifying the underpinnings rather than starting with a…

I think the complaint is more the “350Z is the same car as the 370Z.” They’re definitely related, they share plenty of pieces, but they’re the same car in the same way a C5 Corvette is the same car as a C6 Corvette. Zero body panels are shared, zero interior bits (despite a similar layout) different wheelbases etc.…

I also don’t need to do any research to be confident that the price was climbed over the years

I expect it to be the same price as a Mustang GT. That’s how expensive the 350Z was when it launched and I’m sure Nissan wants a repeat of those early days of the 350Z, when that car had real presence in popular culture and sold well.

I’m assuming they meant “First generation, post refresh Tiburon” as the second generation Tiburon was (My opinion) pretty good looking.

So many roadtrips in a 2-tone, long wheelbase aerostar as a kid. Granted, it was an auto, but I was seven and not driving anyway.

C5/C6 is a great analogy for the 350Z/370Z.

The base car with the same engine and transmissions were sub $30k when the 350z came out in 2003 and they were sub $30k when they stopped selling the Z 17 years later.

They’re more different than people think, but I’d agree that the 350/370 are more closely related to each other than a GT-r. But the two z cars don’t share a single interior bit, nor a body panel and they have different wheelbases.