I autocrossed and did some light duty laps on Nissan's Grandrive test track in Japan 2 weeks ago. Its a nice rework of the car. Talked for at least an hour with the suspension engineer, he did a great job on it, the car didn't plow at all in the autocross, even when it was raining on us.
As for the M235i, thats my daily driver. I took it out for a session at Atlanta Motorsports Park and in my opinion, it behaved better than a stock 370z. I can't say how it would fair against the 15 nismo though.
Also, word I got in Japan is Nissan is committed to the next Z, but they don't have the budget for development right now, so it won't be out before 2017, and that is at the earliest.
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NISSAN: 75 280Z / 86 300ZX GLL /87 Sentra SE / 03 350Z / 23 Z
Porsche: 93 968 / 23 Macan GTS / 93 968
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