Hi all
I'm considering moving to a 350Z from a Porsche 924S. Am just looking for something that goes a fair way to retaining the "old school" great driving feel & charm of the 924S (ie something quite mechanical in feedback, and not too "artificially" light on feet), but that is a little more modern in terms of power and ability, is a bit more of a daily driver type (ie fewer things likely to go wrong), and I've also got one eye on the fact that the ULEZ zone will be covering my south London location from October.
From research, the 350Z seems to fit the bill nicely. Has anyone driven both the 350Z and the 924S (or any of its bigger brothers - 944/968/928 etc) and have thoughts?
I'd quite like to pick up a relatively low mileage & unmolested one (ideally not much more than 30-40,000 miles on the clock), but I realise that's getting less and less likely as father time continues his relentless forward march. The 350Zs I've seen in dealers with this type of low mileage tend to be pushing toward the 370Z in price (~30-40,000mile 350Zs currently seem to be priced around £9-10k, while roughly equivalent 370Zs seem to be around the £13k mark – please let me know if you think that valuation is off – am just going from mental averages of what I’ve seen the past few weeks, so I realise these could be inflated/misprices).
I'd say my upper budget would be approx £10k – therefore I probably wouldn’t be able to push toward a 370Z with low mileage. But with the above in mind, do you think a 370Z with say 80,000 miles is a better value proposition compared to a 350z with 30-40,000 miles - if they're priced the same? Any significant reliability issues popping up at that higher mileage point?
I'm not likely to pull the trigger until late March or so, so I’m very happy to hear opinions in the meantime. If you were in my shoes, what would you go for?
Final point, if it matters for your recommendations - it'll be street parked - a relatively quiet and safe street, but not garaged any time soon. And with that, I’m unlikely to do any significant modifications in the near term… but then a lot of people say that when they first get one of these don’t they…
Thanks in advance for any advice!