All-new 2023 Nissan Z makes world debut!

[vb22]

Hard to tell what we're looking at. 2nd proto previewing a color choice or the production car?

https://www.nissanzclub.com/forum/threads/is-nissan-teasing-the-production-z-and-color-option.141/

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[2JZ-No-Sh*t]

What a cock tease.. ?

 

[AutoDelight]

I'm excited for this car. Honestly, i hope its well received. We may be seeing an emerging golden age of JDM sports cars once again like in the 90's. With the GR86, 400Z, Supra (yeah, i know its not a "JDM"), NSX and MX5, two door sports cars are coming back. Hopefully Honda pulls through with a S2k successor and Nissan pulls through with a new GTR. Unfortunately Mitsubishi will not be joining in on the party and Mazda may not have one last rotary sports car...

 

[Supraman]

Digging the new Frontier. The Pathfinder doesn't look all that bad either. That grey Z in the back looks to be the production possibly. The wheels on it look more like a stock production ready wheel (although the ones on the proto are sweet). Plus no carbon fiber lip or side skirts like the proto has. Or it could be a case study prior to the proto.

Either way I'm glad Nissan is trying...NOW lol, their entire line needed a refresh years ago. Regarding the GTR, I read somewhere a while ago that the R36 has been put on HOLD for now. I'm assuming they want to see how this new line up does for the next few years before investing $$$ they can't afford given their circumstance.

 

[XtremeMaC]

Mazda may not have one last rotary sports car...

Yeah, it'll live as range extender, which was expected years ago.
https://www.motortrend.com/news/mazda-mx-30-rotary-ev-range-extender-details/
Such an oil thirsty engine

 

[AutoDelight]

Yeah, it'll live as range extender, which was expected years ago.
https://www.motortrend.com/news/mazda-mx-30-rotary-ev-range-extender-details/
Such an oil thirsty engine

I like my engines like how i like my ladies!

Haha don't tell my gf i said that!

 

[supraboi]

 

[H2O_Doc]

I owned two 370Zs through the years and enjoyed them both. I thought the 370Z in the Sport trim was one of the best looking cars made; the NISMO was a bit overstated for me.

I thought the car handled great, but it was an oil cooker. I had to put in a big oil cooler because it would start limping after being pushed hard. Still a fun car, but the real problem was that it took a small fortune to get it to make more power.

I’ve never been overly concerned about the looks of a car (it matters, but not that much), but wow I am underwhelmed by this new incarnation. And all of the talk about various styling elements tying back to previous generations: so what. Heritage has been a bad excuse for doing horrible things in so many instances and I think this is another example.

I’d rather have the inline-6 over the V-6. That and a couple of other things made me decide I didn’t need to wait for the new Z: that the Supra was the right choice. The price is interesting: if it is as affordable as rumors would have it, I think it will sell better than the 370Z. It could also pull from the Supra owners that are only marginally comfortable with the Supra’s price. I suspect some might like that segmentation within this niche market.

Manual? Lots of folks will praise: fewer will actually buy, but I applaud its availability. I would have bought my Supra with a manual, but am glad I have the ZF8 at the end of the day. I use it in manual mode most of the time and the argument of car-driver connection is increasingly no longer applicable. Sure, no clutch, but that’s a nostalgic inefficiency anyway in an era where we are careening towards electric vehicles anyway.

Again, I applaud Nissan here, but had I wanted the things that would have driven me to the new Z, I’d have bought a C7 Z-51; a car that the Supra lovingly talked me out of “don’t do it: it’s me you want.”

looking forward to seeing it on the road.

 

[vb22]

Specs from the game Project CARS 3.

444hp and 3252lbs.

https://www.nissanzclub.com/forum/t...he-nissan-z-proto-nissan-z-gaming-thread.142/

 

[2JZ-No-Sh*t]

If that's true, game over Zupra...

 

[Supra93]

 

[H2O_Doc]

I’ve been a Z car guy for a while, having owned two 370s. Ive stated here before that I’m glad the 400Z is coming out and I could have easily been a purchaser: I am in no way a hater. Having said that, I’m and surprised and disappointed with the uninspired morphology of this new iteration of the Z. Performance matters more, but that body could cure my insomnia.

 

[Captain_Kirk]

 

[BrettS]

If that's true, game over Zupra...

If it’s true it’s game over for a lot more than just the Zupra haha

 

[2JZ-No-Sh*t]

If it’s true it’s game over for a lot more than just the Zupra haha

Right, but a lot of cars in this segment have already been or will be killed off soon. A moment of silence for the following: Mercedes SLK/SLC, Audi TT, and 4C Spider (I think the coupe is next). The Cayman and F-type are still hang on though.

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