Great article.
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My old friend, Nissan's VQ family V-6, is more powerful than ever, but it's also gotten noisy and harsh in its old age. Rev it to 5000 rpm and hold it there, and it'll vibrate your fillings. And it's not a pretty noise -- its just noise, like an industrial blender with bad bearings. This engine was creamy smooth at 3.0-liters, still nice from an NVH standpoint at 3.5, but unacceptable in this configuration, at least in this car. Nissan can and should do better.
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This is not the first time it's been said that the new VQ almost seems maxed out to many automotive reviewers. Nissan is def reading these reviews and I think they are going to put a TT engine in their next Z update. With the GTR, they already have the technology in their hand. All they have to do is make a smaller (or detuned version of the GTR engine) engine with turbo and we will have our first TT factory ____Z
