Nissan 400z Car rumoured (twin turbo - lol)

Ev0 · 23 Mar 2018 at 23:18

HummuH1 said:
A bit of Datsun 240z in those images, which is good, as the 240z was one of the prettiest cars ever built imo.

Had the pleasure of seeing (and hearing) this one running when I was there a few weeks ago

https://torque-gt.co.uk/car/datsun-240z/

Dis86 · 23 Mar 2018 at 23:31

That's lovely

ubersonic · 29 May 2020 at 12:25

Nissan released a teaser video for the 400z today

https://youtu.be/aiqOLRJi7nU

(I know the threads been inactive for two years but it made more sense to bump the established thread than start a fresh one)

MouthBoy · 29 May 2020 at 12:40

It's like they have just mocked themselves for making SUVs and now have admitted the 'mistake'.

Look forward to seeing details on this.

grudas · 29 May 2020 at 14:40

MouthBoy said:
It's like they have just mocked themselves for making SUVs and now have admitted the 'mistake'.

Look forward to seeing details on this.

you gotta sell boring stuff to make interesting stuff..

sadly the reality, sports cars are a tiny market compared to jacked up hatches

MrRockliffe · 29 May 2020 at 14:47

Nasher said:
Easier to fudge emissions tests with a turbo :/

See lots of people post this but don’t understand why - could you point me towards an explanation?

grudas · 29 May 2020 at 14:54

MrRockliffe said:
See lots of people post this but don’t understand why - could you point me towards an explanation?

guess what he meant is that turbo engines are more efficient and easier to get through emissions

Chris1712 · 29 May 2020 at 15:13

Hope they put a good DCT in it this time. I tried a 350 & 370 in the past and found them a bit confusing, it's in the wrong place on the Sports<->GT scale IMO. Still though nice to see the sector not completely dying, be some nice competition against the new Supra.

Silent_Scone · 29 May 2020 at 15:24

Chris1712 said:
Hope they put a good DCT in it this time.

Get in the sea

Frozennova · 29 May 2020 at 17:14

The VR30DDTT is a peach of an engine, reasonable power gains to be had from basic bolt ons and tuning.

And a weapon with some AMS Love

Silent_Scone said:
Get in the sea

Anything would be better than the horrible Jatco torque converter they use in the current 370Z.

It's also what they use behind the VR30DDTT in the Q50/Q60

Edit: It's got the Supra to go toe to toe with now, so while the purists aren't going to enjoy a turbo engine it wasn't going to compete.

Alibaba99 · 29 May 2020 at 18:41

MouthBoy said:
It's like they have just mocked themselves for making SUVs and now have admitted the 'mistake'.

Look forward to seeing details on this.

It's the current way with things, SUVs sell. You have Porsche who are now an SUV manufacturer who also make niche sports cars.

Nasher · 29 May 2020 at 19:20

grudas said:
you gotta sell boring stuff to make interesting stuff..

sadly the reality, sports cars are a tiny market compared to jacked up hatches

People want sports cars, but buy boring stuff because most people are sheep. Then they want their boring stuff to be "sporty". So we have a load of SUVs with a horrible ride quality with tat glued to them, fake exhaust noise, etc.

Clarkey · 29 May 2020 at 20:53

Nasher said:
Yea, also with rear wheel steering which randomly went wrong and put people in to trees when it got old

that's actually complete nonsense

Malevolence · 29 May 2020 at 21:10

No matter what they do, it will never be as good looking or as good to drive as an early 90s Z32.

Nasher · 29 May 2020 at 22:09

Clarkey said:
that's actually complete nonsense

But not really. A lot of people got rid of the rear wheel steering on the 300zx because it started to go wrong.

ubersonic · 29 May 2020 at 22:45

Nasher said:
But not really. A lot of people got rid of the rear wheel steering on the 300zx because it started to go wrong.

That kinda applies to every 1990s JDM car with 4WS, when you were buying them in the 00s "remove the 4WS" was pretty much standard advice, hell companies even made replacement axle kits to do it for models that never had a 2WS variant lol. I lost my BB4 VTEC Prelude after the 4WS ECU decided we needed to go off the side of a (luckily stone) bridge) lol

Chris1712 · 29 May 2020 at 23:41

Silent_Scone said:
Get in the sea

I appreciate the sentiment, but you gotta face facts eventually

. Most cars are daily drivers, and autos are better for that. Beyond that they are also better to most people’s perception of sportiness, for years ‘flappy paddles’ have been the token of supercars and now they’re on hatchback sprog wagons.

I wouldn’t go back to a manual on my daily, and actually I’d say anything quicker than 5s to to 60 (ish, I know I’m generalising) would be so much of a handful it would be less fun for the rare occasions you get to use the power for everyone but experienced enthusiasts.

Silent_Scone · 30 May 2020 at 06:36

Chris1712 said:
I appreciate the sentiment, but you gotta face facts eventually . Most cars are daily drivers, and autos are better for that. Beyond that they are also better to most people’s perception of sportiness, for years ‘flappy paddles’ have been the token of supercars and now they’re on hatchback sprog wagons.

I wouldn’t go back to a manual on my daily, and actually I’d say anything quicker than 5s to to 60 (ish, I know I’m generalising) would be so much of a handful it would be less fun for the rare occasions you get to use the power for everyone but experienced enthusiasts.

I had an A45 as a daily and it was the most uninspiring thing I’ve ever done in my life. I had counselling over it.

Rich1988 · 30 May 2020 at 22:58

Silent_Scone said:
Get in the sea

Genuine Lol from me. I agree though

wesimmo · 30 May 2020 at 23:07

I looked at Z cars but ended up buying an NB MX5 and supercharging it, because that's just my preference, small and agile.

That said, my mate does have a 370Z and it is kinda fun, but then it's the only big V6 I've been in so the novelty is probably the biggest thing.