Follow-up analysis to Car & Driver crashing Nismo 370Z at VIR

semtex

Maybe I'm misunderstanding your logic, but it seems to me you're trying to have it both ways. On one hand you want to say that track-ready means it's ready to be raced out of the box. But then you immediately say that all it is is a foundation and you can't really race it without additional extensions. Well which is it? If you can't race it without additional stuff, then it's not ready to be raced out of the box, is it?

As for more robust parts, what parts does the Nismo come with that are more robust than the standard sport pkg? Definitely not the brake pads (which is what this particular thread is about). They're the same pads as on the standard non-Nismo models. I'm not sure why you're dragging the oil cooler issue into this; I don't recall anyone saying anything about the Nismo's lack of a cooler in this thread.

Anyway, the only point I was trying to make was that the Nismo isn't track-ready, or race-ready, or however you want to put it, without a number of upgrades, like the brake pads, for example. I think you and I agree on that point. The same thing can be said for the regular non-Nismo models, or pretty much any other car for that matter, so this doesn't make the Nismo a special exception. But that's my point. There's nothing terribly special about the Nismo as far as track-readiness goes. If the Nismo Z isn't track-ready without additional equipment, then the standard non-Nismo Z is just as track-ready as the Nismo Z; the standard non-Nismo Z is just as good a foundation, as you put it, as the Nismo Z. Both variations require the same additional equipment, do they not? (e.g., upgraded brake pads, oil cooler, etc.) And the only reason I'm flagging this as an issue is because it contradicts Nissan's marketing. Really, it's Nissan's marketing that I have a beef with, not the car itself.

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