370Z at Nurburgring
 

Does anyone know the 370Z's lap time at Nurburgring? I recall hearing it did a sub-8 minute lap, but that seems impossible given the list of the top 200 lap times (posted as a sticky in this forum).

No possible way its sub 8. The Cadillac CTS-V barely cracked 7:59 and it has 556HP with a 3.9 0-60 and a 12.0 1/4 mile.

Yeah. All I could figure is the road holding of the Z beats the caddy. Doubt that would make the difference though.

LOl and how does that mean the Z does it slower than the caddy? Its a freakin boat for crying out loud

I don't think they counted the oil cooler timeouts on the Z.

Because the CTS-V is the fastest production 4 door car in the world.

speed in a straight line means nothing in the ring... do you have any idea how many turns it has? I am sure a Z would do better than a SL55... why not a ctsv?

and FQ400 > CTSv and its 4 doors too

Well, we'll just have to wait and see I guess.

Not until it's been around the Nürburgring.

you really think a fq400 would do less well on the worlds most technical track than a caddy?

No, I'm just saying it's not the case until it happens - you understand? I should just veto any results from that car since you really can't consider it a production vehicle given all the tuning shops it has to go through before you can purchase 1 of the 100 being produced.

m3 csl (e46) gets a better time then the m3(e90) and the e90 has more hp so im sure that hp doesnt matter as much as the handling of the car.

Track setup is clearly important. YouTube confirms this in the GT-R vs 370Z battle with the gtr only besting the z by a second or two on a short curvy course. The cts-v has 0.9g road holding while the Z is 0.98. Now the Nurburgring is the mother of all tracks as it incorporated almost every track element. How straight line acceleration competes with road holding isn't so clear. You can also compare braking as well where the Z also prevails. In the end, the Zs superior handling may mean a lot more than the caddy's hp.

Someone get a Z on the nurburgring already!

i completely agree. the new z is gonna do some damage

I love my Z, and the handling is great, but I think a stock Z isn't going to rank very high on the 'ring, it lacks the raw power for it.