Dan Cohen
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- First Name
- Dan
- Joined
- Sep 20, 2021
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- Location
- NEW JERSEY
- Car(s)
- SUBARU
- Occupation
- sales
I am in the same boat as you, saved all year and ready with a cash buy. No cars. I have been managing a Subaru dealership for 37 years and I have never seen a bigger screw up then the launch of the new Z. This is totally ridiculous at this point. No information from dealers or corporate. Frustrating to say the least. I once ordered a 1977 Corvette and waited 8 months for it to come in and vowed never to do that again especially since the vette was crap and sold it and got a 280Z. Very disappointing from Nissan corporation and they really dropped the ball on this one. They do not even provide any updates at all so therefore they have lost a lot of buyers for this car. And as far as any ADM, never will happen with me. I will gladly pay MSRP period or I will do just fine buying another brand sports car.I was going to post this rant in the thread dedicated to those who have bailed out, but I can't find it.
Nissan sucks. I try to be empathetic with the circumstances, but would it surprise anyone if tomorrow we woke up to the news that Nissan folded?
My local dealership has basically no, or insignificant inventory. Either Nissan hates them or Nissan is unable to manufacture anything. I suppose that the latter is true.
My wife thinks I'm insane. I made our household watch the official Z reveal, and that seems like more than a year ago.
I have saved my money so I could buy one with cash. There's no Z to buy and I hear that dealers have become so arrogant as to reject cash buyers in favor of financed buyers. Then there's the inevitable ADMs.
So, I did everything "right" I saved my money. I watched the Nissan official reveal. I got excited. Now I'm left with what?
Where's the reasonable updates? I can understand if Nissan communicates to us that they may be facing significant challenges. Why can't they fucking level with us?
I told y'all that the reveal video showed the Z driving in obvious fall weather. That seemed cynical enough. Now I can clearly see, even this winter, aside from a few ugly ass Protos (sorry 71Zman, chock it up to jealousy) we're not getting shit. I'd be fine with honest communication.
Again, at this point, it wouldn't surprise me to hear that Nissan folded.