This car is starting to sound more disappointing all the time.
https://www.caranddriver.com/reviews...issan-z-drive/
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Ratchet up the pace and intensity, however, and the Z does not respond in kind as a sports car should. Pushed hard, the damping starts to feel insufficient, and the suspension bounds vertically overmuch, especially if the corners are uneven—as they often are in a fault zone. Understeer starts to creep in as the Z's nose weight comes to the fore, and the Bridgestone S007 B-Silent summer tires soon reveal they don't generate modern levels of sports-car stick, as evidenced by their 0.93-g showing on our skidpad. The brakes keep up their end of the bargain in terms of fade resistance and feel, but the tires limit the Z's 70-mph stopping performance to 166 feet and an unimpressive 331 feet for the stop from 100 mph. Both are better showings than the aforementioned 370Z (0.89 g and 180 feet), but they are far from class leading.
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Those numbers didn't come without work, either. Our Z needed more than the usual number of cooling passes and a few key-up restarts to keep it operating properly. As it turns out, this engine's 400-hp rating requires 93 octane, but 91 octane is the local brew in the Western U.S. This was also a pre-production sample, so its engine-control unit may not have had final production software. Nissan lent us another car to try in Michigan on 93 octane, and its 60-mph performance improved to 4.1 seconds on the way to a quarter-mile time of 12.6 seconds at 115 mph. Still, past 370Z results showed little difference between 91 and 93, so either this new turbocharged engine is more octane sensitive than the outgoing naturally aspirated one, or our California test car indeed had some pre-production teething issues.
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It's an improvement on the 370Z but this car is evidence that you can only do so much with an ancient chassis. Not great that performance drops off a lot with 91 octane gas. Not sure why they didn't outfit the car with better tires as it looks like the Bridgestones aren't doing the car any favors.