"Fairlady Z re-badge"

onzedge · 10-08-2011, 05:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Waizzz

Hmmm what about the GT-R? or the R390?

OK -- "sports car" meaning it was originally designed as a 2-seater (sorry, but cars with back seats are not really sports cars). The R390 was always a race car and never street legal (I think), so it does not really count.

Waiz · 10-08-2011, 05:30 PM

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Originally Posted by onzedge

OK -- "sports car" meaning it was originally designed as a 2-seater (sorry, but cars with back seats are not really sports cars). The R390 was always a race car and never street legal (I think), so it does not really count.

2 road-going versions of the R390 were made

Side note, the original Fairlady's are pretty damn small, this is one from the 2010 Z Store meet..

HKYStormFront · 10-09-2011, 09:57 AM

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Originally Posted by onzedge

OK -- "sports car" meaning it was originally designed as a 2-seater (sorry, but cars with back seats are not really sports cars). The R390 was always a race car and never street legal (I think), so it does not really count.

wow

some of the best sports cars in the world right now have 4 seats, some even have 4 doors *mind blown*. also, straight from the R390's wikipedia page (yea i know, take it with a grain of salt):

"Only 2 R390 road cars were ever built, and one is stored at Nissan's Zama warehouse. The street-legal road car is capable of running 0-60 mph in 3.3 seconds and 0-100 mph in just 6.8 seconds. The 1/4 mile is accomplished in just 11.1 seconds at 134 mph (216 km/h). The top speed is 220 mph (350 km/h)."

i heard they had to make a few roadgoing versions of the race cars to pass hamoligation rules just like porsche with it's street versions of the 996 GT1. try a google search before spouting info

onzedge · 10-09-2011, 10:11 AM

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Originally Posted by HKYStormFront

wow

some of the best sports cars in the world right now have 4 seats, some even have 4 doors *mind blown*. also, straight from the R390's wikipedia page (yea i know, take it with a grain of salt):

"Only 2 R390 road cars were ever built, and one is stored at Nissan's Zama warehouse. The street-legal road car is capable of running 0-60 mph in 3.3 seconds and 0-100 mph in just 6.8 seconds. The 1/4 mile is accomplished in just 11.1 seconds at 134 mph (216 km/h). The top speed is 220 mph (350 km/h)."

i heard they had to make a few roadgoing versions of the race cars to pass hamoligation rules just like porsche with it's street versions of the 996 GT1. try a google search before spouting info

Perhaps I should have been more specific with regard to the R390 and stated that "Nissan has always called its production, road-going sports cars Fairlady. And, I beg to differ but cars with back seats are not sports cars. They are more appropriately called "GT", but they are not true sports cars.

Waiz · 10-09-2011, 04:09 PM

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Originally Posted by TongMan

I was too. So I ended up not removing the "370Z" emblem. I applied my "FairladyZ" emblem in the passenger dash. It looks nice.

I really hope you never get into an accident or your passenger will have Fairlady Z on their forehead after the airbag deploys

Quote:

Originally Posted by HKYStormFront

wow

some of the best sports cars in the world right now have 4 seats, some even have 4 doors *mind blown*. also, straight from the R390's wikipedia page (yea i know, take it with a grain of salt):

"Only 2 R390 road cars were ever built, and one is stored at Nissan's Zama warehouse. The street-legal road car is capable of running 0-60 mph in 3.3 seconds and 0-100 mph in just 6.8 seconds. The 1/4 mile is accomplished in just 11.1 seconds at 134 mph (216 km/h). The top speed is 220 mph (350 km/h)."

i heard they had to make a few roadgoing versions of the race cars to pass hamoligation rules just like porsche with it's street versions of the 996 GT1. try a google search before spouting info

I already posted that info yesterday chief in my post with the roadster in it.

He is right though, the true sports cars have always been Fairlady's (other than the R390 or GT-R's)

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