weight difference between models....

Crash

The added weight isn't that bad. Just don't eat at McDonalds and wear Puma shoes. That should be enough to offset the weight.

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2003 Corvette Z06 50th Anniversary

par4bmw

From nissanusa.com:

Curb Weights (lbs) 370Z™ TOURING
Manual transmission 3,232 3,278
Automatic transmission 3,269 3,314

I have not seen sport. Wheels are lighter and the other parts would add weight. Do not know the net.

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I tellya what, its got this s-mode thing down here...it moveees so incredibly... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7JsL...e=channel_page

FairmanZ

I have a Japanese brochure and the curb weights listed are different from the US. I am really beginning to doubt the US figures, because from my past experience the JDM cars either weigh the same or less than their US counterparts.

Base = 1480 kg (3263 lb)
Base + Sport = 1500 kg (3307 lb)
Touring = 1510 kg (3329 lb)
Touring + Sport = 1520 kg (3351 lb)

These numbers can also be found on Nissan's Japan website. But the numbers don't add up either. Sport is 44 lbs heavier than Base. But the Touring is 66 lbs heavier than Base (it's 46 lbs according to Nissan USA). But again the Touring + Sport is only 22 lbs heavier than the Touring?

So either the Sport is somewhere between 22-44 lbs and/or the Touring is 46-66 lbs heavier than the Base.

But what really makes me believe the NissanUSA numbers are a lie are the car mag reports. Road & Track, MotorTrend, Car and Driver, Automoible Mag have all reported curb weights of 3350-3380 lbs. The test car in every case has been a Base + Sport 6spd MT.

So if you take the worse case figures for a fully loaded car: 3380 lbs (Base + Sport), add 66 lbs for the Touring, another 37 lbs for the AT, and 5 lbs (a guess??) for Nav...

...and you have a grand total of 3488 lbs. That's heavy!

I think Nissan's claim that the new 370z is lighter than the 350z is BS. It perhaps applies to the Base model only.