Car and Driver Crashes a Nismo 370Z

shabarivas

... did it ever cross your mind that maybe the people driving said car drove it like asshats and never bothered to check the brakes? On "Track" cars you need to be ready to change out pads every couple of track days - so why does that not apply here? If you are buying a track car you better be ready to pay the bills.... dont expect it to run forever...

TARDCORE

I have the C&D issue when they FIRST tested the NISMO Z. The morons tested it as soon as they drove it off the lot. No break in period, no oil change, nothing. It performed horribly I can post the pic if you like but I am sure most of you read it. Sorry if this is a re post in this thread. I do not like Car & Driver's reviews. Their performance numbers always seem to fluctuate among other cars and this car. Obviously different drivers doing the tests but they seem to be biased towards luxury (especially BMW, man bimmer fan boys rejoice at C&D mags) from what I have seen. I like their magazines but I remember one issue where they tested the Subaru WRX and STI. The WRX had VERY similar numbers to the STI. Ever since then the only reason I pay $20 for 24 issues is for the pictures of the new cars and to see whats new in general and to get a ball park figure of how fast a car is. If C&D says a car runs a 14 sec 1/4 mile, seriously consider adding + or - 3/10 of a second there. And from what I saw from their NISMO test possibly consider adding + or - 5/10 of a second! If only C&D put pictures of hot girls, then itd be worth it just for the pics.

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Technik330

That's a creative idea; I bet they didn't check the tires either, on said car. At least half a dozen other auto reviewers drove the piss out of the Nismo Z and didn't have this issue, maybe it was a fluke.

Either way, where's Nissans defense behind not outfitting the "test" Nismo Z's with a half way decent pad for track use? Where's the reasoning for equipping the "test" Nismo Z's with oil coolers, but not better brake pads, and even further not equipping the production Nismo Z's with a factory oil cooler?