German on Line Article on 240z

[240260280z]

Datsun 240Z: Bezahlbarer Traumwagen - autozeitung.de

[HS30-H]

Are you recommending this, Blue?

It's yet another short article that makes mistakes. They quote facts and figures for the North American market cars and fail to properly explain the German ( Euro ) market specs. The car in their pictures is one of the 'Vintage Z Program' cars on German license plates ( so it's not even an original German market car ) and appears to be something of a parts hotchpotch, too.

"Die 240 Z-Karosse geht auf einen Entwurf von Albrecht Graf Goertz zuruck...." According to whom? According mainly to Albrecht Goertz, that's who. None of the main players in the creation of the S30-series Z attribute even a small part of it to Goertz. The Goertz story relates to another design which never reached production.

What a pity we still have to see Goertz getting a namecheck, but no mention of the people who actually were responsible.

[240260280z]

The internet is full of errors and lies. These are similar to pot holes in roads.... one learns to steer around them and enjoy the ride.

That article also has 4 of the highest quality photos of a Z that I have seen on the net. This alone makes it worthy to look at.

[HS30-H]

The internet is full of errors and lies. These are similar to pot holes in roads.... one learns to steer around them and enjoy the ride.

Perhaps you might like to point out the presence of the pot holes to other road users who are following your directions...?

You've posted links to similarly flawed articles with no comment in the past. I think it's worth commenting on / querying / correcting the mistakes here ( where better? ) as well as on the original site ( should they actually allow comments to be posted ) as that's the only practical way to promote the truth.

[240260280z]

I am not the internet police... the net is full of crap... we might as well all turn off our computers if one is not permitted to point to a site that has errors.

Some of us here just like the cars and like driving you know. We are not proof readers.

[HS30-H]

I am not the internet police... the net is full of crap... we might as well all turn off our computers if one is not permitted to point to a site that has errors.

Yes, the 'net is indeed "full of crap". It's like a Typhoid-infected well at times.

It may be a token gesture, but we've spent a lot of time and effort on this forum over the years trying to get the story surrounding our cars right. If there's one place where we should try to get it right, surely it's here? Why should the Goertz Myth be repeated here, of all places? Our well should have clean water in it.

So by all means point at the site, but if you know it contains blatant errors then please flag them up. If you don't, it looks like some kind of endorsement.

Some of us here just like the cars and like driving you know. We are not proof readers.

I like the cars and I like driving too ( you think I don't? ). But if more of us were virtual "proof readers" then perhaps we might not have to wade through quite so much nonsense being written - and repeated - about those cars. Other make and marque enthusiast groups don't stand for it, so why should we?

[djwarner]

While the informed among us can pick slivers of misinformation from the body of the article, I was particularly amused at Windows's German translation. This alone made the time spent worthwhile:

"Who manages, in Germany to get an early Datsun 240Z , the must is lucky. Fast times in one who is looking for a copy of many Internet automotive Internet-exchanges, test drive and pay that do not work, because this sports car from Yokohama in Japan under the name Fairlady sold, are not easy to find."