Mrs T is not an impulsive person. She thinks things over carefully before coming to a considered decision. For instance, she thought about marrying me for 10 years or so before making the leap (many would argue she should have not been so hasty). When she purchases something expensive, she does not just punch that ‘Buy Now’ button. She makes spreadsheets – boy, does she love a spreadsheet – and carefully weighs up the pros and cons. All very sensible.
However, even the most sensible souls amongst us can have their heads turned. And the car you see here – Nissan’s 350Z, or Fairlady Z in its domestic Japanese market – once turned her head so hard that the resulting whiplash led to her buying one brand new, cash down, sight unseen, before ever having sat in one, let alone driven one. It was 2002, I was working for Nissan – on far more mundane fare than the car that hardcore Nissan fans know by its model code Z33 – so I knew it was in the pipeline, but of course she did not know what it looked like until the first images appeared in Japanese magazines.
She instantly got all misty-eyed and pronounced that she simply had to have one. Sure enough, a few months later she was poised unblinking over her keyboard, fingers twitching, credit card in hand, as she jostled in the virtual queue to become one of the first UK owners of the launch edition of the car.
