One of the quotes
Said it before, will say it again. The 350Z is NO sports car. The car flatters to deceive and is nowhere near as good as some magazines would have you believe. It's real problem is the weight. It feels 'pointy' but push beyond that and I always found it would lurch into understeer. The chassis is good in the respect that oversteer is easy to control and modulate, but I soon got sick of juggling between dull understeer and mad mad oversteer, dull understeer mad mad oversteer.
The build quality is absolute pish as well 2 clutches in 10,000 miles, more blinking lights than a christmas tree.
Consumption? Like you observed, absolutely shocking. Even trying to get decent consumption was nigh on impossible. I commute 100 miles a day and it would cost me at least £100 a week in petrol.
By the way i'm sick of writing about crap cars so I'm not even going to mention why you shouldn't even consider the 3.0 Z4.
Good reviews as always though
Sorry these sorts of quotes pi$$ me off