Car names factory

[WingZr0]

Dosen't Z stands for Zero ??

Chris

HAHAAA , I like this reason for tha name better .

But interesting topic non the less, although I know my Z knows her

name already regardless of date.

[AndysPlit]

did you make it up?

yeah, just messing around. :squareeye Wish I had an answer for you.

[AndysPlit]

Dosen't Z stands for Zero ??

Chris

"No limit".

Scroll right above the clay model and it makes mention of this.

http://www.zclubhungary.hu/EZHist.htm

[Carl Beck]

Sadly - the Webmaster of that site has plagiarized about 99% of its content. The history presented at that hyper-link is all but an exact copy of my writing several years ago. I had requested that he remove it, both because it was copyrighted material, and because it contains many errors of fact, that I have corrected on my own site.

There is no character in Japanese, that resembles the roman letter Z. (according to Nissan's Historian)

Creators of other Datsun History related web sites have also complained to the Webmaster at that sight about his copying word for word their work. I believe we will have to take our case to the Sponsors of that Club/Website

FWIW,

Carl B.

[m4xwellmurd3r]

yeah, I was going to say...the kanji for Mugen is on every performance honda hat there is XP (I own a honda mugen hat actually)

Hmmmm I don't see a Z anywhere. Mugen means infinity though.

[Carl Beck]

Carl;

When I read this, my thoughts were that he was referring to either it's "code" name or it's "project" name when in the design/ prototype stages.

He may be referring to the story that the Z was named for it's "project" name because Fairlady wasn't acceptable to the US market, or the story of where it was named Z because it's the last letter in the alphabet, another variation being that Z is the last letter of the Japanese alphabet... which is ludicrous since they use symbols and not roman letters.

Maybe this will help

E

Hi E.

Actually it is quite common for Japanese Industry to use roman numerals and letters for numeric or alphabetical filing systems. The Design Project Folder was assigned the file name "Project Z". The 240 of course came from using the 2.4 liter L24 for the US, and the name Fairlady was continued in Japan. But "Z" it was and "Z" it still is. Datsun 240Z or Nissan Fairlady Z (of course DAT, DATSUN, and Fairlady came from the English language as well).

They didn't name it "Z" BECAUSE that is the last letter in the alphabet. Rather they named it Z because that follows "Y", which followed "X". Z was simply the next available letter not already assigned. If "Z" had already been assigned to an earlier project they might have named it AA.

FWIW,

Carl B.

[d240zx2]

No man can be as tough as a Z. And women have it over us sackers in so many ways it's hard to list.

Therefore, by the process of deduction/elimination, a Z can only be a woman. Us men lavish $$thousands on her. We abuse her constantly. We work her into a frenzy with high octane fuel, special oil, wheels and tires. Then we park her. In the garage. Under a cover so no one can see her. She waits....patiently, for us to pay her some attention. Again.

When we do, we abuse her yet again when dodging cones or other cars on track day. Then we take her home, to the garage, under the cover....until we "need" her again.

Yeah, a Z is purely female. Can't be otherwise. It just doesn't make sense.

Frank

[20 foot Z]

Not sure what the ? is but for the record Mr K told me that the Z with the mark in the center is a Japanese symbols meaning indisructable but we saw it as a regular Z when it came to the United States

[m4xwellmurd3r]

I dunno about that. find the kanji for it ald then well see XP. because the japanese/english dictionary I use online, has no such kanji that is used for the word indestructible (and it's a very good dictionary)

http://linear.mv.com/cgi-bin/j-e/FG=r/inline/dosearch?sDict=on&H=PS&L=E&T=+indestructible&WC=none&FG=r&BG=b&S=26&I=on

[26th-Z]

Zulu

The Z is a symbol for infinate...ultimate.

zulu.bmp

[Carl Beck]

I have no idea where that came from...

The Flag as used as a Nautical Flag represents the letter "Z". Flown by itself it means; "I need a tug"

When the "Z" is preceded by number flags, the first two represent hours, followed by minutes. In that case the "Z" represents Zulu Time.

Zulu - is part of the NATO phonetic alphabet... which assigns code words to the letters of the English alphabet (Alpha for A, Bravo for B, etc). - so that critical combinations of letters/numbers can be pronounced and understood by thoes transmitting/recriving voice messages via radio/phone.

The most commonly used sign for "Infinity" is the Lemniscate of Bernoulli.

The Latin word "lemniscus" means pendant ribbon. This name was first used in 1694 by Jacob Bernoulli (1654-1705) to describe a planar curve, which is now named after him. (see image below)

FWIW,

Carl B.

[AndysPlit]

Sadly - the Webmaster of that site has plagiarized about 99% of its content. The history presented at that hyper-link is all but an exact copy of my writing several years ago. I had requested that he remove it, both because it was copyrighted material, and because it contains many errors of fact, that I have corrected on my own site.

There is no character in Japanese, that resembles the roman letter Z. (according to Nissan's Historian)

Creators of other Datsun History related web sites have also complained to the Webmaster at that sight about his copying word for word their work. I believe we will have to take our case to the Sponsors of that Club/Website

FWIW,

Carl B.

Gees, I had no idea. Sorry about that.