best motoring 09-10 Nismo Z vs Z4 vs Porsche's

JoeD · 09-18-2009, 10:41 PM

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Originally Posted by galtamar

It does says in the article that they cant explain why the NISMO has less grip than the standard model. But theres one explanation; the tires in the NISMO suck

I would have to say that's a factor.

The factory RE050As on the non-NISMO are very good tires.

Lug · 09-19-2009, 09:00 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by galtamar

It does says in the article that they cant explain why the NISMO has less grip than the standard model. But theres one explanation; the tires in the NISMO suck

Quote:

Originally Posted by JoeD

I would have to say that's a factor.

The factory RE050As on the non-NISMO are very good tires.

Bad tires (for example, harder rubber compound) would expain almost every deficit on the NISMO. Slighly lower acceleration due to bad hookup at launch but good trap speeds, poor skidpad and slalom numbers, etc. If that turns out to be the case, Nissan really dropped the ball and damaged the car's rep over a small and easy to fix issue.

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