Motortrend Article on the new Z....

Here's some of what Motortrend has said about the new Z....

"... When the production car actually reappears in the late summer of 2002 with a slightly more subdued visage (and a convertible to follow shortly thereafter), Nissan claims it'll have a price under $30,000 and will outperform everything in its price category-plus many cars priced well above. Sounds like a winner to us, but how?

Here's what they will tell us: Under its sports car skin, Nissan admits the next Z's platform will be shared with a yet-unspecified future Infiniti product, and its V-6 engine will be a high-performance version of the lauded 3.0L "VQ" block from the Maxima, punched out to 3.5L of displacement. The Z's circumspect, official 260-plus-hp figure exactly matches the mathematical product of multiplying the Maxima's specific output (75.9hp/L) by 3.5 instead of 2.988L. That's too convenient, so what remains to be seen as of this writing is how much the "plus" is, by what means they intend to achieve more horsepower, and on what platform the Z ultimately will be based. "

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