Nothing Close for the Money!

I loved my 350Z. had it for 4 years and did all sorts with it, great for roadtrips and weekends away, very comfortable, big boot (if you can work around the strut brace!) plus a design that still looks good 18 years later.

However, it only got 27mpg so wasn't the best daily driver, and it only runs on super unleaded. I'd happily run one again as a weekend car now though.

few other points of concern - you or someone you love WILL get clonked on the head when the struts supporting the tailgate fail. also, the CD player is terrible and skips all the time but lucky you'll have a tape deck (!) into which you can plug a cassette adapter... and lastly, the electric windows will probably fail, which makes drive thrus and getting car park tickets interesting.
 
I got the Z4 Coupe as more of a practical GT car rather than raw performance. I think it suits that really well, though is also reasonably good fun through the bends.

Since the F Type has come up a few times on this thread, can anyone compare the practicality of the F type coupe vs the Z4 Coupe?

From the numbers, the F type has a bigger boot (407 litres vs E86's 300), but looking at photos the F Type looks smaller!

Reason I ask is it would be a daily for me, and the E86's boot is big enough for the two of us to go away for a week or two (and also to fit a spaniel sized dog in).

Is the F Type really more "practical" from this standpoint?
 
google suggests 310L for the f type coupe boot... so might be not that much in it. but certainly looks like the f type has a longer, but very shallow boot, whereas the z4 coupe is shorter but a lot deeper.

as with all sportscars with questionable boot space, squishy bags FTW!
 
I wish took a pic of my packing job in my coupe for a weeks camping in devon. I was well chuffed, got a 5 man tent in with everything else too, tent was 17kg in of itself!
 
Jakg said:
Timely thread.

I bought my Z4 for a bit over £3k.

I want a RWD convertible, relatively light on it's feet, that I can drive a bit like a hooligan, that doesn't rust.
Ideally I'd like a turbo and an LSD in it's replacement.
A generation newer - i.e. something with iDrive or equivalent - might be nice.

350Z / S2000 don't really feel like a step up, and I'm not sure a Boxster fits in the "hooligan" box.
A Z4M roadster does fit the bill, but at £10k is it three times the car?
At that money, the E93 M3 seems much better value at £12-£13k - hooligan and RWD yes, but it weighs 200KG more than my 335d E91, and it seems mad to have two variants of ultimately the same base car.

I've skipped the E89 as that's a different class of car - although I think a remapped N20-engined E89 could be interesting.
35is would be lovely but the prices are just too much IMO.

In hindsight I regret not splashing out a bit more on one of the £5k 3.0si's when I bought mine.
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Pbondar has a 2.0 E89 that he has tuned and tbh its a well sorted out car, having been behind him on some meets in previous years its no slouch and handles extremely well given the lighter engine and some of the mods.

I looked at S2000 before getting the coupe but I had done I4 before and really wanted to try out an I6 and honestly I'm glad I did! S2k is a lovely machine and the engine is very impressive but its still a Honda :rofl:


brillomaster said:
google suggests 310L for the f type coupe boot... so might be not that much in it. but certainly looks like the f type has a longer, but very shallow boot, whereas the z4 coupe is shorter but a lot deeper.

as with all sportscars with questionable boot space, squishy bags FTW!
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The boot in the F is very shallow iirc its a bit odd actually especially considering as you say the Z4C which is essentially the same sort of car actually has a fairly deep boot, not sure whats under there in the F that makes it puddle deep :rofl:
 
Nissan 350Z sounds like a good recommendation. Never really looked at those but do like the look of them. F Type convertible boot is ridiculous so count that one out for the future!
 
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