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Lovely, so what are the characteristics of each car and if you could only keep one which would it be?
So true!! Although I would also argue that the TVRs were pretty fuzzy chested cars too!
My neighbour's 4.5L Griff was often confused about which end should exit the corner first
. But my friend's Sagaris, man alive, it just blew me away!! 
I'd still take the Z and TR6 though over either of them. Yes the TVR burble is a mating call but you can really enjoy putting the power down in the other cars without your chocolate starfish twitching under you the whole time!!!
Ali K
On the difference between them, they all have their own identity.
The TR6 has a full race steel engine, puts out 230bhp, its a handful and hard work, you know you have been in a sixties car when you've arrived!
The TR7 has a 3.9 V8, that is very much more a modern chassis and car overall with brutal grunt.
The Z is the smoothest of the lot, turbine smooth even when pushed and very modern feeling, certainly to the TR6.
It's a nice varied group, TR6 for the country lanes, TR7 for blasts to shows and I can use the Z for my 2 hr each-way commute comfortably.
Steve
The TR6 has a full race steel engine, puts out 230bhp, its a handful and hard work, you know you have been in a sixties car when you've arrived!
The TR7 has a 3.9 V8, that is very much more a modern chassis and car overall with brutal grunt.
The Z is the smoothest of the lot, turbine smooth even when pushed and very modern feeling, certainly to the TR6.
It's a nice varied group, TR6 for the country lanes, TR7 for blasts to shows and I can use the Z for my 2 hr each-way commute comfortably.
Steve
johnymd
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Never had a TR but a friend of mine has a GT6 when I had my first 240Z in the '80s. The Z always felt much more refined than the other sports cars of the time and truly was a car you could drive every day. I still think they make a great daily driver now and its a shame lots of people think they are too precious to use all the time. I quite fancy another 240 to use as a daily run-around. I tatty but solid original-ish looking import would fit the bill perfectly. Trouble is, I'd always wish I was in the blue one.
That's interesting what you say about the 3 cars. I'd have expected the TR8 to be smoothest and easiest to commute in. The TR6 looks the best (Datsun wheels let the car down but they are Datsun wheels after all). I can understand why the TR6 feels the rawest, they are simple, old-style British cars.
Z as a daily driver - I'm in a great position to sell my 370Z and run my standard Z as a daily car, even my mate up the road suggested it. Three things to consider:
My wife doesn't drive so she would have to 'sign-up' to it and that is very unlikely.
Do I want to subject my very original car to road salt, rain, wear and tear and mileage?
Thirdly I have got a bit soft in my old age (no not that way) - I like my central locking, demisting/heating, decent wipers, lights, inertia belts, sound system etc etc.
Z as a daily driver - I'm in a great position to sell my 370Z and run my standard Z as a daily car, even my mate up the road suggested it. Three things to consider:
My wife doesn't drive so she would have to 'sign-up' to it and that is very unlikely.
Do I want to subject my very original car to road salt, rain, wear and tear and mileage?
Thirdly I have got a bit soft in my old age (no not that way) - I like my central locking, demisting/heating, decent wipers, lights, inertia belts, sound system etc etc.
Rob - you disappoint me! Your Z may not have all the little comforts but at least it has a soul! We are only on this planet for so long - would hate to see written on your gravestone 'Wish I had driven my Z a bit more'!
I aren't having a gravestone, just an old 240Z radiator
I have a clear conscience, been driving 240Zs for 18 years and I drive a Z wherever I go every day
Also let my kids drive em.Steve, your 2 hour commute sounds horrendous - how often do you use the Z for that and what's your annual mileage in it?
Hi Rob
If it means anything, I travel from Brentwood to Brentford and back every day!
I don't use the old cars that much for work, every now and again in the 6 week holidays.
Annual mileage on Z is in the hundreds
Its not my commuter car, thats an Evoque.
Steve
If it means anything, I travel from Brentwood to Brentford and back every day!
I don't use the old cars that much for work, every now and again in the 6 week holidays.
Annual mileage on Z is in the hundreds
Its not my commuter car, thats an Evoque.
Steve
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