Cheerios are no longer considered a balanced meal after a full week of eating them breakfast, lunch and dinner. This discovery led me to the grocery store in our 2009 Nissan 370Z last weekend.
I was skeptical that the rear cargo area was deep enough to hold my bountiful feast. But there was more room than I expected. See for yourself. Even loaded with my grocery purchase, there is still at least 9 Cheerios boxes and 2 gallons of milk worth of space remaining. I'm impressed.
Mike Schmidt, Vehicle Testing Manager @ 18,600 miles
wobbly_ears says:
02:02 PM, 01/21/10
* Puts on the Eco Green sunglasses *
Have you thought about buying a reusable bag to cart your grocery & not using the plastic bags, Sir?
jeepsrt says:
02:43 PM, 01/21/10
My Wife and I went to the grocery store once in our C4 Corvette and bought a ton of stuff, as we came out of the store we remembered what we were driving. Luckily everything fit as it has a deep hatch area.
jackson611 says:
03:30 PM, 01/21/10
wobblyears:
* putting on the realist glasses *
have you ever considered that many of the reusable "environmentally friendly" bags are often made of much stronger plastic that will take longer to decompose and impossible to recycle, unlike the current ones?
tatermctatums says:
03:43 PM, 01/21/10
I take my RX-8 grocery shopping all of the time. At first glance it looks like you're going to end up with a lot of bags in the back seat but that's never been the case for me. Could probably fit more if it didn't have the optional spare in the trunk (Honestly, when did having a space become optional?)
tatermctatums says:
04:00 PM, 01/21/10
edit: having a spare, not having a space
brn says:
06:33 PM, 01/21/10
Has anybody here ever not had room to carry grocery bags?
cr_driver says:
07:02 PM, 01/21/10
^LOL
firstwagon says:
09:23 PM, 01/21/10
+1 jackson611
I should mention I REUSE (one of the 3 Rs) all the grocery store bags as garbage bags. Other wise I would have to buy even more plastic bags for the sole purpose of throwing them in the garbage.
firstwagon says:
09:25 PM, 01/21/10
As for the Nissan, I'm bet all that would fit in the truck of a Miata too.
solidred says:
04:14 AM, 01/22/10
I am glad that the 370z engineers didn't design for maximizing grocery bag space as a critical feature. The 370Z is an uncompromising, unapologetic, and unrivaled sports car value. Sports cars should be sports cars, not shopping cars or passenger haulers. Thanks to Nissan for building a sports car that does what a sports car should. I enjoy the hell out of mine and would buy another one in a heartbeat. It delivers as advertised: goes fast, handles well, accelerates incredibly, carries one (and two if you must), and makes sports car noise. For me, grocery shopping is not, and has never been, on the list of sports car attributes. Keep up the great work Nissan, don't compromise.
carlisimo says:
09:45 AM, 01/22/10
It's actually pretty difficult to fill a trunk with groceries. I've always been able to fit mine in my Miata's trunk, mostly because groceries can fit in every corner of a trunk (unlike boxes or luggage).
cabriniman says:
10:09 AM, 01/22/10
I use my 350Z to go shopping all the time. It does look a little out of place among all the SUVs at Costco but I've never had a problem fitting all our stuff.
lucien4 says:
10:35 AM, 01/22/10
Why is the trunk so shallow? Is it because it's RWD?
The Audi TT quattro is bit deeper and little bit more usable space with rear seats folded so why couldn't Nissan design this differently?
carlisimo says:
03:41 PM, 01/22/10
Lucien, the brace that used to get in everyone's way in the 350Z is now upside-down, underneath the trunk floor. That raises the trunk floor. The real question is why that brace is necessary in the 350/370Z... maybe the car needs to extra stiffness over the TT, maybe it doesn't.
banhugh says:
06:58 AM, 01/23/10
Apparently it does...
wrinklebump says:
09:36 PM, 01/24/10
Grocery shopping in an S2000 will bring even the most brilliant Tetris players to their knees
tettes says:
02:12 PM, 02/ 1/10
jackson611 says: have you ever considered that many of the reusable "environmentally friendly" bags are often made of much stronger plastic that will take longer to decompose and impossible to recycle, unlike the current ones?
Hmm...I have three reusable bags and they're all made of cloth. In fact, I've never seen a reusable plastic bag. Maybe those 'realist glasses' are actually 'BS glasses'?