Why is the Z slower than comparable cars?

Akurei

I figured that was an oddball number but I was at work and had to get numbers quickly off of websites.

Was the reason I put they are not accurate numbers but close enough for you all to judge and confirm that we are still doing ok but not the best obviously as stated before by everyone

ped

13.8 according to this test:

Hyundai Genesis coupe Reviews - Hyundai Genesis coupe Price, Photos, and Specs - Car and Driver

So a half second slower.

Firebase99

Yea, the mags say that but I personally saw faster. Neither here nor there. Its not as quick a 370 in any flavor not debating that. I just dont see the Z as "slow". Its a canyon carver with some power backing it up. Unlike BRZ/FRS.

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Spooler

370z Nismo's flat out like the mountain roads.

Akurei

Not knocking on Nismos because obviously Zs are not menat for drag times completely. Here is a post by Cars and drivers

Well, for one thing, the automatic is quicker. By our measure, the 370Z NISMO automatic shot to 60 mph in 4.9 seconds and passed the quarter-mile mark in 13.6 at 106 mph, 0.3- and 0.1-second quicker than the last manual-equipped370Z NISMO*we tested. We still haven’t been able to match what appears to have been a particularly quick,*non-NISMO 370Z automaticwe tested a few years back (and not for lack of trying). Even with 332 horsepower, that car hit 60 in 4.6 seconds and powered through the quarter in 13.1 seconds at 108 mph.

Depends on the driver and your intentions of the car. I believe the less weight of the base is the reason

Firebase99

I remember vividly that review. They pitted it against a $200k Aston. Shocking numbers from a stock Z in a Mag review in 2009. It was blue. Lol.

Firebase99

Not that the 370 isn't quicker than a 3.8 Genesis. It is. Owned both. It's just not over a second quicker in the 1/4. I miss my 370. Sometimes. When the weather is great and the roads clear, miss my track days, rowing my own gears. But it was so few and far between. The current Z is quick, handles like a dream. Yea we all want more power and speed, me included. Someone a while back said in a rebuttal about more power speed etc in reference to the 86 twins that it's "not deal breaking slow". Which IMO, the Twins are. That being said to keep up with the pack a true Z car is a cheap Porsche fighter. It's gonna need mega weight savings or a mega power bump.

Spooler

I don't even count the American made cars. They don't handle worth a squat. Especially a Dodge. My car has to turn, and do it well.

Hotrodz

This thread make no sense, if you want to drag a 370z do it because that is what you want to do, but you are not going to beat muscle cars bone stock or even juiced horse power to horsepower. And for all the rest of the comparisons just look at were the Z competes in road racing at the highest level. It plays up, not down in the same classes as many of the cars mentioned that are three or four times the price or more. Hell it competes with 911s and Z28s and beats them!!!

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njobe89

i honestly don't get how some people that aren't boosted get such low mpg's... i have a cbe, intakes, and tp's, plus a tune and i'm still averaging about 22mpg's. no, i don't drive like a grandma.

also, if you bought this car for the mpg's, you bought it for the wrong reason

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BC416

City driving. I think my average MPH isn't even 20 so I'm around 18-20mpg.

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UNKNOWN_370

I get 16 mpg's... It is what it is. At least gas is reasonable

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ped

My MPG averages moved up by 2 MPG in both city and highway after my breathing mods and UpRev tune.

FairladyZ40th

Could you post a link? If it's a purchasable upgrade online?


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ped

https://uprev.com/secure/

Some people on this forum will tune by email - they send you a base/safe tune, you drive around collecting data and send it to them, they tweak the tune and send back for you to flash and test and so on. Supposedly can get close to optimal tune, but the best way is to take it to a tuning shop that has a dyno where they do before, during and after dyno runs to tune it right.