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With a history dating back forty years, the Nissan Z is a known quantity. Also well known are the Z's positive characteristics: powerful engines, spirited dynamics, provocative styling, and value-driven prices. Okay, the Nissan 370Z isn't an inexpensive car. When measured alongside similarly capable vehicles, however, it's the Z that offers the most for the least.
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THE GOOD 12 v3.0 - PART VIII
NISSAN 370Z
With a history dating back forty years, the Nissan Z is a known quantity. Also well known are the Z's positive characteristics: powerful engines, spirited dynamics, provocative styling, and value-driven prices. Okay, the Nissan 370Z isn't an inexpensive car. When measured alongside similarly capable vehicles, however, it's the Z that offers the most for the least.
Unlike the 350Z, the Nissan 370Z comes across as a much more refined sports car. Noise, vibration, and harshness have all been reduced. The clippity-clompity once heard (and felt) by 350Z owners on rough roads is nearly absent from the proceedings. Fortunately, the Z isn't growing soft in its old age. This is a high-performance car; capable of tackling a track at a moments notice and setting a better time than the otherwise excellent Hyundai Genesis Coupe or the sublime Mercedes-Benz SLK350.
All this happens to sit well with the 370Z's improved design. Nipped here, tucked there - the Z is a tauter version of its old self. Nissan has given the Z such a strong rear-wheel drive stance; it looks about as fast as it actually is. The place where you'll while away the hours has been improved, too. What's not to like? Perhaps only the fact that Nissan's ability to steadily improve the Z means something even better this way comes.
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Engines: 332 horsepower; 270 lb-ft of torque from a 3.7L V6
Base USD Price: $29,990
City Mileage: 18-19 mpg
Shrinking: Weighing in 107 pounds lighter, measuring 2.6 inches shorter from nose-to-tail and a hair shorter at the roofline; the 370Z is in better fighting shape than the old 350Z. The acceleration benefits of an increase in power and a decrease in weight are obvious. Slight improvements in fuel economy aren't so bad either. Besides, with a bit extra in the hips, the 370Z looks better: ya know that whole longer/lower/wider thing? It works.
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- Nissan Drops The Top On Its 2010 370z Roadster - Official Design Sketches
Nissan has registered a series of official design sketches for its upcoming 370Z Roadster at the European Trademark Office. Like its predecessor, the 350Z Roadster, the drop-top version of the all-new 'Z' coupe that was introduced towards the...
- Nissan 370z - First Live Photos From European Gathering
It's only been a week since Nissan dropped the first official shots of the brand-new 370Z into the web and even though the sports coupe is supposed to make its first public appearance at the upcoming 2008 Los Angeles Auto Show that runs November 21...
- Nismo Prepped Nissan 370z Photo Hits The Web
Nissan might have been successful in keeping the all-new 2009 370Z under cover until the release of the first official photos earlier this week, but its in-house performance division NISMO (abbreviated from Nissan Motorsport) didn't manage to do the...
- New Nissan 370z - Best Scoop Picture Yet?
In less than a week's time and, in particular, on Wednesday, 29 October, Nissan is expected to lift the veil of its all-new 370Z with the release of the first official pictures of the sports coupe. Since four days in internet time is like an eternity...
- Speed At Any Cost? Nissan 370z Value Assessment With Hyundai Genesis In The Shadow
One could make the case that March 25th "Speed At Any Cost" comparison between the Nissan GT-R and the Nissan 370Z revealed the very high-value GT-R to be a rotten deal. Now, that was neither the post's purpose or the truth. However, one all-too-true...