One thing to remember is that Top Gears supposed "stock" cars are almost never stock. I've seen videos where there were indeed changes made to some of their older cars that they called stock.
Like in this one you can tell they're full of crap saying how certain cars are stock... I'm sorry but the S30's were simply not even close to as fast as the z32 TT or the z33s.
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Originally Posted by Mag350Z
One point I think worth making is that when the 300ZX TT came out, it was outperforming the Corvette and most other cars on the market.
The 350Z and 370Z are both crushed performance wise by the Corvette.
Relative to the other cars on the market at its time, I think the 300ZX TT was a superior car than either the 350Z or 370Z is relative to today's performance cars.
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This was only true for 1990 and 1991. In 1992, the Corvettes came out with the LT1 motors that turned the tables in just the base cars. And through out the years of LT1, they kept getting faster with power at 300HP and 340Lbs Tq. and a cost cost $31K. They were extremely competitive with the Z32 TTs and ran a 13.7 1/4 mile. They also had the ZR1 models that were making between 385 and 405HP from 89 to 95 which ran a 13.1 1/4 mile and the LT4 models in 96 that made 330HP and ran the 1/4 in 13.4 sec.
Yes, though, the Z32 TT did beat the 90 and 91 Corvettes that were VERY slow. They were getting beat by 5.0 Mustangs. The 90-91 Vettes had L89 motors which were 235HP and not very responsive motors to boot.