Originally Posted by Chteelers

Off the top of my head, what the Z's main selling point could be: technology.

Put in heads-up display. Give it an awesome sound system with touch screen standard. Make the interior and exterior lighting more interesting. Hell, install front and rear video cameras that can be activated by steering wheel button to record some awesome driving. Press a button to share to Facebook via your bluetooth phone. Seriously. Nothing screams Japanese like some geeky technological stuff.

Surely this could be added for less cost than trying to make an engine that beats the Americans at their own game. Forget a 500hp twin turbo monster. The muscle cars will beat it the very next year; that's what they do. Give it a moderate HP bump to 360 hp, but make it techno COOL. A drivable iPad, that feel like Tron inside, bumping to dubstep.