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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
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.
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I had a mint '87 Mustang for a few years in the mid 2000s. It only had about 13,000 original kms on it when I bought it (barn find). My main reason for selling it was how dangerous it would have been in an accident. I don't have any interest in owning older cars for that reason alone.