From what I've seen a lot of the articles putting down the z seem to look at it as a boxster, or the cheap, base version of something else. The nismo is there, but it isn't different enough, more like an add-on or second sport package. With that kind of mindset, you start looking at all of the things that could be better as missing features. They're applying a comparison with something better, that doesn't exist, instead of looking at it objectively. Nissan made an objectively great car that outshines whatever else someone might be comparing it to in their price range. But if you ignore money (which isn't reasonable) it might be easy to put the z next to the cayman s or carrera and say the interior isn't as good and talk about the name recognition and decades of refinement, handling characteristics that evoke emotional responses that are really just imagined because of what you heard someone say on top gear... But then, since you're already spending double, why don't you just buy a 911 GT3 because that would be even better...
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