The dream Mr. K offered in the Nissan 300ZX is alive and well - Automotive News (blog)
I would see a sexy, wild and beautiful Nissan 300ZX. In clever prose, the announcer narrated a fantasy of speed, freedom and a promise of power. The car exuded something feminine that appealed to me in a way many of the macho muscle sports cars of the time did not. At the time, I barely had enough money to buy a bus ticket, let alone a car. And it was my dream to own a Nissan 300ZX. So when I finally had saved enough to buy a new car, naturally Nissan was my first choice. Maybe the Z was out of my financial reach, but -- much like wanting to date Brad Pitt but hoping merely for the chance to meet his fourth-removed, long-lost cousin -- another Nissan would do. I bought a 1992 Sentra sedan. I ordered my Sentra in red, because “if I had a Z,” that’s the color it would be. It would be nearly 20 years until, as an auto journalist, I would get to drive the Nissan 370Z in the press fleet. The car single-handedly proved Nissan’s products were high quality. It lit up the scoreboard for Nissan in the world’s biggest and toughest car market at a time when U. S. consumers were not embracing Japanese cars. Source: www.autonews.com
