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Originally Posted by dirk diggler
never liked the 350Z or 370Z. liked the second gen 300ZX and absolutely love the old 240Z style. they should come out with a new updated 240 Z, that car was a gem.
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They can't anymore. The original 240Z weighed about 2300 lbs. With modern equipment and safety requirements, you just can't make a car like that out of anything but pure carbon and have it be mass producible. If they were going to make a new one it would need to be a manual Alfa 4C coupe, and it'd cost close to a hundred grand. Which, to be fair, I would probably still buy, but part of the charm of the original 240Z was that it didn't sell at high-end prices.
Having totaled a 280Z, I can tell you that there was not much in the way of safety or bolstering in that car's construction. The thing barely had anything you could describe as a structural pillar... Great visibility though.