Follow-up analysis to Car & Driver crashing Nismo 370Z at VIR

semtex · 05-02-2010, 06:50 AM

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Originally Posted by ZKindaGuy

I think alot of folks here need to get real and finally come to the long and overdue undertanding with the fact that a "sports car" and a "race car" are entirely two different types of vehicles.

In addition folks here need to finally come to the understanding that the act of buying any car doesn't include making the car dealer or the manufacturer your personal indentured servant who will pay for everything to convert the car into something you think it should be meant to be.

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Originally Posted by BrianMSmith

Personally, I would not expect a standard road car to survive extended track use, at the speeds of an expert driver without modifications. I would track my Z, but I would not be going at near the speeds the journalists are. I took a Honda CBR600 motorcycle on the track once, in the slow group, and it's brakes would fade after 5 laps too.

I agree with both of you, but the problem is that Nissan markets the Nismo as its 'track-ready' variant of the Z. They're not marketing it as a standard road car. So the issue here is one of false advertising. Don't market a car as track-ready it if isn't. In some circles, that's called fraud. Now, according to the article, Nissan responded to this incident by now offering high-performance pads as a $580 option. In doing so, Nissan has pretty much admitted that they didn't equip the supposedly track-ready Nismo Z with brake pads that fit the billing.

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