2009 Nissan 370Z and 2009 Nissan GT-R: IL Readers' Most Wanted

"You know, sometimes we take flack for this blog not having cars our readers are interested in. Um, hello. "

I think there is a difference between 'most wanted' and practical, usable information for making a car purchase. Obviously if you put at Aston Martin in a category, I'm going to say that I "desire/want" it...but that doesn't mean I'm more interested in it then I am in a subcompact.

I agree with dougtheeng... I may want a BMW or a 370z but what can I afford or live with on a daily basis for many years to come. Completely different.

You sometimes wonder, what came first: The chicken or the egg?

In this blog's defense, if it were loaded more with the 'practical' vehicles and with less of the 'interesting and desirable' ones, I probably wouldn't bother reading it.

I drive a practical car - and practical cars are practically all the same. I love reading a blog that is loaded with 'I want one' type of cars.

I would actually like to see a 128i in your long-term fleet. I still want to know, on a long term basis, if a decked-out Cooper S is a better BMW for your money than a base 128i. Obviously they are very different cars, but I am still curious.

Interesting they were so popular but I almost never see either one.

I have only seen one GT-R and a couple of 370Zs.

I don't want to take too much credit away from these cars, but see my post in Straightline about this so called survey.

Well, some people complain that Top Gear doesn't spend enough time talking about practical cars, either. But who wants to see a Nissan Sentra race the bullet train across Japan?

I like reading about interesting cars, but not something that's completely unattainable. Keep writing about Jeeps, WRXes, G8 GTs, Evos, and Flexes, but I don't care about Camrys or even Enzos (we all know the former is an appliance and the latter is something nobody here will ever drive).

"Well, some people complain that Top Gear doesn't spend enough time talking about practical cars, either. But who wants to see a Nissan Sentra race the bullet train across Japan?"

So are you saying that IL is now at the same level as Top Gear? Which is pure automotive COMEDY/ENTERTAINMENT and nothing more...

I don't know about you about I come here for real informations on cars that I might be purchasing in the future. So yes, fill the LT fleet with Corolla/Sentra/Civic will be boring but when half the fleet is filled with 2-door coupes (let me count them: S5, GT-R, 370Z, 135i, Challenger) and duplicate models (Jettas and Evos...) really doesn't help the reader at all.

I don't think IL is at the Top Gear level yet but the recent trend here in the LT blog is alarming.

"The BMW 128i also grabbed a spot on the list, which essentially means three cars in our long-term fleet are favorites of our readers."

Well, you have a 135, and it seems the readers prefer something else in the 135 price bracket. For "under $30K" they might vote for the cheapest BMW, but maybe for $40K there are nicer, roomier cars.

That's funny - I think I only voted for ONE of the winners: the Mustang. I may have voted the GT-R and 370Z for something, but I can't remember.

I guess that means I'm not like most IL readers, which means I'm not an import fan-boy.

I opted out of even completing the survey since one was *forced* to pick from pre-selected options. Of any of the 'Car of the Year' choices, as I recall, I probably would've gone with the GTR. But then, it wouldn't have been my overall choice...because you guys didn't give the option for my choice and didn't allow write-ins. If you tell people to choose their favorte soft drink and the choices are 'Seven Up' and 'Dr. Pepper', guess what, either Dr. Pepper or Seven Up will win. Shocking, isn't it? I aborted the survey after the third question where I couldn't choose what I wanted to.

the survey is weird... its like, "what is your favorite all time car?" and your choices range ford pinto to bugatti veyron. even if you have a ferrari wedged in the middle somewhere, more people would likely choose the million dollar car.

Wow - I guess I speak for a lot of the other voters as 5 of my picks won! :P

I'm glad that Inside Line has so many fun cars. I wouldn't visit this site at all if they only had boring econoboxes.

Ditto on what zacbol said. I stopped the survey part way through to for the same reasons.

Good for Nissan I suppose. I really like the new Maxima too.

I like that IL has all the cars I will never be able to buy, like the GTR, the R8, the M3. I wouldn't be here if they were testing Camry's, Minivans and pick-ups!

Yeah I'd like to see a Maxima in the long term fleet myself...

I think we've had enough Nissans and BMWs for now.

...and Mitsubishi's.