Where are people getting their HP figures from? I've seen
240, 260, 280 and onwards. This for a car that in every
test has put down disappointing straight line performance
with a simple promise that somehow somewhere nissan is going
to magically find a bunc hfo hp.Fact....NOBODY knows how much hp that car will have. In practice, the HP it's getting out in the Maxima probably
isn't far from its peak. I wouldn't expect the peak
hp figures to budge much higher than 260 with the emissions
regulations it has to face. Saying there's going to be turbo'd or supercharged versions
of the car is pure speculation by people who think they
heard someting from someone who thinks they know someone
that might work for Nissan. If there was a version of the
car that might do 0-60 nearly as fast as a 911 or Vette
you'd be hearing about it already. The C5 vette (even excluding hte Z06) will be the
performance leader on American shores for a long time,
the Z will not come close to its performance numbers, perf-
ormance to dollar ratio, or how it looks. On the other hand, my TT runs with a C5 already and if I
bought some brakes and bigger wheels would do adequately
on a road course. Oh well....my TT and my M3(my future daily driver someday)
will both absolutely destroy the 350Z and that'll make
me smile. I'm sick of slow cars that try to pretend to be fast, thus
one reason I laughed like a schoolgirl when I completely
embarassed the RSX last night and the WRX a few weeks
before. Just like the S2000s that barely crack the 14 second mark,
the WRX that is suprisingly slower than the magazines want
you to believe, the RXS which is blah....the 350Z will
probably be a pitiful little car that gets bullied by
cars a decade older.
rich
'91 300ZXTT
"Stage 2.5 10psi" 298.5RWHP / 302.5FT-LBS
13.48 @ 105.65
Z32.org
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