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[pauls]

[Kojack]

Oh yea! Have you seen the US Top Gear ep with Tanner Faust beating the American cars in a 300zx? Some NASCAR-history challenge from memory

[zed31]

http://www.streetfir...t-1_2095664.htm

Yeah its pretty funny, the 300 takes it. lol'd hard at when he jumps the Cadillac

[Rat1314]

Me and my brother in-law (the one who owns the 280) saw the US one the other week. I would like to say that we were 'shocked by their biased opinions towards US made cars' but we kind of expected it. It was almost comical the fact that the Z31 was superior in all the tests (the Cadi didn't survive the jump so the Z wins in my book) but they couldn't really find anything positive to say about the car.
At least when the UK Top Gear tested British Leyland cars they used a Datsun 120Y and referred to that as the 'superior' car.
Now I'm not saying Nissan/Datsun are the be all and end all of cars, just they were (in my opinion) unfairly represented in the US Top Gear. By the way I've only watched the one episode of the US version(only because it had the Z31) and I won't be watching another.

[Master__09]

Wow, even they joke about it catching fire... 8:30.

EDIT: Has anyone yet tried sleeping in a Z31? I did it once at a party. Got pretty drunk and didn't make it inside, so I crashed in the passenger seat. Glass roof almost froze over, it was horribly cold, and man is it uncomfortable...

[pauls]

Master__09, on 09 August 2012 - 01:31 PM, said:

Wow, even they joke about it catching fire... 8:30.

EDIT: Has anyone yet tried sleeping in a Z31? I did it once at a party. Got pretty drunk and didn't make it inside, so I crashed in the passenger seat. Glass roof almost froze over, it was horribly cold, and man is it uncomfortable...

Memories... Driving to Adelaide in my first z31, had no space saver spare as they were worth 1k or so.
As there was 3 of us, took the full size spare out.
Anyway hairline crack in my expensive 16" rims at the time resulted in all 3 of us sleeping sober in the z while we waited for a friend to organise & get to us with my spare tyre.
Seeing him arrive with the tire after this experience was one of the greatest moments of our lives!

[zed31]

Master__09, on 09 August 2012 - 01:31 PM, said:

Wow, even they joke about it catching fire... 8:30.

EDIT: Has anyone yet tried sleeping in a Z31? I did it once at a party. Got pretty drunk and didn't make it inside, so I crashed in the passenger seat. Glass roof almost froze over, it was horribly cold, and man is it uncomfortable...

haha! I normally fold the rear seats and usually bring a pillow and blanket, its actually really comfortable

[Timbo]

Ive slept in the back with the seats folded down with another person, i was 18 at the time though, lol.. It wasnt too bad! More recently I slept in the drivers seat at a party and that was shiit, so cold and uncomfortable.

[Master__09]

Timbo, on 13 August 2012 - 08:27 AM, said:

Ive slept in the back with the seats folded down with another person, i was 18 at the time though, lol.. It wasnt too bad! More recently I slept in the drivers seat at a party and that was shiit, so cold and uncomfortable.

Exactly what I did. My girlfriend scored the more spacious passenger seat, and the back seats weren't an option as I had them down to make room for 2 12" subs facing forwards, almost hitting the back of the front seats for "epic dubstep beats and shit".

[THRTY1]

Slept in mine at an r31 club meet 2 nights in a row. I'm 6"4, and stand by the fact it was better than a dorm with 20 people snoring.