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We just got our first look at the 2013 Nissan 370Z, set to be unveiled at the Chicago Auto Show on Wednesday. The changes are brief but good god, what did they do to those wheels?
Nissan lists the 2013 changes as
- Refreshed front fascia with vertical LED daytime running lights
- Revised 19-inch aluminum-alloy wheels (Sport Package equipped models)
- New 18-inch wheels for 370Z Coupe
- Red-finished brake calipers (Sport Package equipped models)
- Dark-finish fuel gauge trim
- Euro-tuned shock absorbers (Sport Package equipped models)
- And two new exterior colours – Magma Red and Midnight Blue
Hopefully the car is just as good to drive as the previous Z cars, but if I ever bought one, I’d have a nice shipment from TireRack waiting at home, and a buyer lined up for those tacky ninja-star-esque 18s.
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My Eyes!
Nissan, what are you doing?
You keep tweakin’ the Z and making it uglier and uglier with every little change.
This list of updates reads like a malaise era “SS” package from Chevrolet. We gave you new rims, new paint, we painted the brake calipers because everyone knows that adds 10 HP per wheel, and best of all, European tuned shock absorbers!!!
Well the front ends a little nicer, but I could do with out the Audi running lights, and certainly without the exaggerated Eagle Talon wheels.
>>”Dark-finish fuel gauge trim”
At last!
/finds checkbook
//runs off to local Nissan dealer
OMG, you are right. Those do look like the Eagle Talon Turbo wheels. I had one 20+ yrs ago!
I would love to get a job at Nissan Design. First day on the job, I would grab a sawzall and cut all that ghastly flat area around the wheel wells off. “There. Fixed it.” Then I would lower the car to compensate. A little body-matched spray paint, and the door handle no longer looks horrid. I would also tell the LED running light designers to go back to the Made-in-China Ebay store they came from after unplugging the electrical connectors. Then I would put the car up on cinder blocks. That way, any prospective owners can have an easier excuse in lieu of explaining those wheels.
I like those wheels, they look like crab claws! I’d have to powdercoat them black though.
Those wheels are certainly a game-changer for me.
Yeah I’d be playing with my blow torch and plasma cutter if I ever got my hands on a set…
And the rest of us bought Mustangs, as usual.
“what did they do to those wheels?”
They aren’t any better or worse than last years offerings. Both seem to be trying too hard.
They still look like metallic varicose veins.
JC Whitney Hubcaps (?) Need spinners, though.
What IS the matter with Nissan? They have a pack of ugly cars (especially the Murano and the Juke), and now they take the one really good looking car and add wheels that look like four chicken feet stuck together at the ankle. Sheesh!
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I’m indifferent about the wheels.
The only car company that can pull off unique, but also good looking rims, was SAAB.
Don’t care about the wheels. At 6’4″, I simply don’t fit.
Put the wheels on the QX. They will totally fit the styling, then.
I own a 2010 370z convertible with the sport package and the wheels are awesome. These are ugly as sin. Car still looks nice though. However, I’m a rag top car guy, so the coupe doesn’t do it for me.