PHOTOSHOOT: NISSAN 370 Z

last week brought the turkey and the autoshow.  one car that i was really looking forward to finally seeing was the nissan 370 z, the latest in a long line of z cars.  i had seen sneak peeks and concept designs online, but i was looking to the auto show for some face to face time.  

however, my plans for seeing the new z rotating under spectacular lighting was slightly altered as i saw a yellow 370 sitting in the parking lot of a japanese marketplace called mitsuwa in torrance.  i remembered thinking, "well, that was anticlimactic."  but after some browsing online, i found that it was the test drive car for a speedhunters.com driver who was doing a review.  you can read about it here.

anyways, here are my shots from the auto show.

not too sure about those shoes though...

i hated the headlamp construction, but it is growing on me.  i like how the angle of the headlamp lines up with the aerodynamic accent in the grille.

you can't deny the aggressive stance though.

however, the taillights are not growing on me.

i read that the black square between the exhausts is for a fog lamp.  this feature was built for the european version of the 370, but the nismo tuned version that will be available in the states will have an extra brake light embedded in that spot.

overall, i think it is an improvement over the last generation z car as that one was just an amorphous blob of nothingness.  but this car does have quirks that i don't especially like.  and because it was sitting right next to its faster, prettier sibling (the gt-r), its chances of capturing the hearts of this enthusiast was next to nothing.