Why the Nissan 370Z marks the end of an era

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Written by Vijay Pattni
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As an entirely fictional but eminently wise young man once professed, life moves pretty fast. If you don"t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. Problem for the Nissan 370Z is, life has moved really fast, and we fear the punchy Zed car might have stopped to look around for a little too long. Simple point: in a world of steroidal hot hatches and EVs and turbocharged nutters, is a moderately straightforward, powerful, naturally-aspirated rear-drive coupe even relevant anymore? And if it isn"t, is this the end of the road for cars like this? Before we get to the end, we"ll start at the start. First previewed in 2008 and introduced in 2009, the 370Z took over from the riotous little lump of 350Z; a line of rear-drive Nissan sports coupe that could trace a lineage all the way back to the halcyon days of the 1970s and the very first Z" car, the 240Z.

Date written: 25 May 2018

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