MAY Best Motoring: 370z S-tune vs 370z and Porsche 911

spearfish25

Are we sure that Porsche that took off like a rocket wasn't a Turbo? There were a lot of Japanese characters after one of the Porsche 911 labels when the car was introduced on the video (eg Porsche 911 XXXXXXX). The other cars had numbers at the end of the characters which made them appear to be a 4S for example. Who would be surprised if a 911 Turbo smoked the Z...of course it's gonna happen. The Turbo is also 5x the price and a completely different bracket of sports car (all the 911s are really, but it's fun to see just how great the 370z is...it can hang with the big boys, especially on curvy tracks).

batman_4

^ negative....all Porsche's where Carrera's, none had the turbo exterior cues.

also i've been inside a Turbo and it doesn't sound like that....IMO a Turbo 911 sounds quieter

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'09 6spd. Touring: Eibach / SPC / Motordyne / Berk / Z1 / Oneighty / Mines / SSR / Stillen / CFE

RCZ

yeah those were carrera's. Are you guys surprised? come on.

My favorite part was the nismo coming around the last corner or tsukuba. So flat and fast and well driven.

FairmanZ

Correct. I can read and speak some Japanese. These were all new '09 911 Carreras, which sport a lot more hp compared to last year's models. Some had "launch control" as well. I believe the Grid line up was as follows:

1) Nismo S-tune Z
2) Silver 911 - Carrera
3) White 911 - Carrera4 (might have the colors reversed on white vs. silver)
4) Yellow 911 - CarreraS
5) Black 911 - Carrera4S

So the black 9114S came from way behind to shoot into the lead.

I'll be in Japan later this month and will look for this DVD if it's on sale then.

RCZ

Umm... I got this already.