retro rockets..

The 350Z only captures the experience, not the look... True...

It was never meant to. It is doing quite well, in fact, Nissans in general are a bargain for what you get. The 350Z is an amazing machine, if I had a choice between a mint 240Z and a 350, I'd honestly take the 350... ... handles way better, way faster, better build quality, and respectively cheap vs the original (in its day). For what it has, it can't be beat. The Infinity G35 is also wicked. (Same car basically, see multi-platform sharing).

Anyhow, I'm tired of retro cars....

The Chevy SSR is a great example, no sales, no wonder, it's expensive, looks retro, and that nice hard plastic dash is tacky.

let's touch on modern, leave the old cars behind... if we had that mentality, we'd bring back the Chrysler Cordoba, or heck, some 40s cars.. The Mustang was the last of the lot, however, it 'looks' retro, it certainly is not.

With today's safety regs, it is hard to make a car look like its former. Look at the NSX, PERFECT example, this car today looks ugly as sin (with no pop up headlamps). That was done partly because it has HID lamps, and second, regs... But it is ugly! bleah.


And at least Alfa is coming back here, no, they don't make RWD cars at the moment (unless the Brera is RWD), but no one said "dammit, I won't buy an Alfa cuz the tranny isn't in the back anymore (Milano/75/GTV/Alfetta). Shoot, when the 164 was available here, everyone flocked to buy them... THE SPIDER is FWD!!

So, in reality, accept it, or just drive our Xs for many more years to come. Until Fiat says "we are building this car with FWD", this is a waste of energy.... They are the engineers, they build to what Fiat wanted.

Even the X1/9 story, FIAT directed Bertone on how/what went where, not Bertone... There is a great amount of information out there regarding that.

Anyhow, everyone have a great day. I think it's great that IED put this thing out, with a Fiat badge on it. I'm glad the X1 projects are out there... I'll buy one even if it was FWD (as long as it handles somewhat similar to a RSX, sure. ...