Interesting Video

[ggarrard]

ONe of our club members put together the specs from Road&Track magazine for each of the Z aand ZX models produced...including the 350Z. http://www.tizcc.ca/zeds.htm

GWGarrard

Thousand Island Zed Car Club

[KDMatt]

Ahh, interesting daddz ... I had always assumed that the weight on the door-jamb plate was, the weight of the car. My bad sir, thank you for catching this oversight!

[KDMatt]

Ahh, interesting daddz ... I had always assumed that the weight on the door-jamb plate was, the weight of the car. My bad sir, thank you for catching this oversight!

EDIT:

Quickly going back to the topic about the Top Gear show and the obvious bias against american vehicles... I watched the video of the Ford GT test drive that guy did... he loved it so much he took it home... well the GT-X anyway. He said, "This car is like the American Navy, created by the British, and then improved on" or something to that effect... I'll have to go find it.

Oops... looks like I clicked quote instead of edit... sorry folks!!

[JimmyZ]

As I mentioned earlier the test was poorly done and all for the fellows personal gain. There was no interest in doing a true performance comparison. A range of 0-xxx speeds and braking performance, handling, etc would have been the right thing to do. Off the top of my head here is what I think the outcome would be given an average of total performance. This is PURE opinion

1st place 300zTT

2nd 350Z

followed by

240 (handling isn't so hot w/o rear sway B.)

260

280

280zx

I did a quick look at the 0-60 of the 350Z and it's much faster than the 240. Norm Simpers old, slightly modified 240 (way before his 12sec car) would do about 145 tops.

My '71 struggles to get to 130 and is close to stock.

Fuel for the fire:)

[KDMatt]

As I mentioned earlier the test was poorly done and all for the fellows personal gain. There was no interest in doing a true performance comparison. A range of 0-xxx speeds and braking performance, handling, etc would have been the right thing to do. Off the top of my head here is what I think the outcome would be given an average of total performance. This is PURE opinion

1st place 300zTT

2nd 350Z

followed by

240 (handling isn't so hot w/o rear sway B.)

260

280

280zx

I did a quick look at the 0-60 of the 350Z and it's much faster than the 240. Norm Simpers old, slightly modified 240 (way before his 12sec car) would do about 145 tops.

My '71 struggles to get to 130 and is close to stock.

Fuel for the fire:)

Hrm, interesting... but you've left a few out ... NA Z32/Z31 300zx, Z31 300ZXT and, of course, the 280ZXT

[JimmyZ]

I'm just going with cars I've seen raced over the years. Basing things on the principle of "well if this car beat that one but was beat by that other... etc etc.

I've known people with these models. Whether or not they knew how to drive them competitively is another story.