crash1369

You're right, and that is the hand I intend to play when I talk to Nissan. I don't know where the other guy got his information from but he says the car has no roll over protection and so it is not allowed on the track.
The only thing I could find on the internet was oddly worded but it said car has "Zero Lift Aerodynamics" rather then roll bars. Supposedly that is supposed to be good enough, of course we know that's BS. Besides the car has roll bars and they wouldn't have put them on if they didn't need them. That same site also made it sound like the roll bars were functional though in different parts of the article.
I've also seen pop up roll bars mentioned, but I don't know why.

Anyway I am going to try and contact Nissan again and get more detailed information, and something in writing. But they told me before the bars were functional, if they tell me now that their not, or are for side/ rear protection or any other nonsense like that then I'm calling shenanigans!

If the bars are in fact really not functional then that means we are risking our lives every time we drive it and were mislead into thinking these cars were equipped with a level of protection which is apparently only cosmetic!

I wonder how Nissan will respond to the safety card. That's my story and I'm sticking to it... Until I get fed up enough to sell the car.

In related news, the Dodge Viper is of course on the list of pre-approved raceable cars. As it should be, but the roll bars on that car are tiny, don't stick up very far at all, and don't look like they would actually offer any protection. The roll bars on the Z are much beefier and stick up well above the seat, if they don't actually work I would be surprised.

I'm sure it's just Nissan's attempt at dodging liability but their gonna have to admit to either tricking me into buying an unsafe car or commit to the fact that the roll bars do in fact offer protection and provide documentation to support that.

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