The Japanese automaker Nissan has announced that the new Fairlady
Z Roadster is already on sale in the sports car's home market.
It's a one - off design study Nissan calls the «ultimate factory
Z Roadster,» with amazing styling, open air pleasure and 350hp.
The Z Roadster features a power - operated soft top with glass rear window, which transforms from top - up to top - down in about 20 seconds.
For the launch of the new Z4 sDrive 28i, BMW brought out a bit of a history in the Z1, which started the company on its trip down
the Z roadster path.
And yes, Nissan will launch a new
Z roadster as well, though that's not expected to happen before 2021.
The show car retains
the Z Roadster's cloth top under the hard tonneau.
Easy, take the Z NISMO coupe, transplant its 350 hp / 276 lb - ft powertrain and performance suspension into
the Z roadster, then add all the swell - looking NISMO bodywork and aero tweaks.
332 horsepower and 270 lb - ft motivate
the Z Roadster's 3,500 pounds with enough urgency to feel interesting.
For the first time in Europe
the Z Roadster is available as an automatic and Nissan has developed a sporting transmission that perfectly matches the character of the car.
The Z roadster is as good to drive as it is to look at, and it's a car that seems like it would be fun to live with, as well.
Nissan says the transformation from coupe to roadster adds 200 pounds, but the 370Z roadster feels lighter than the coupe when you're tossing it in and out of turns, thanks to Nissan's efforts to retain structure rigidity in
the Z roadster, which can be a challenge for droptops.
Not exact matches
The
Z M, as this site calls it, is actually the M
Roadster.
And as Joe Lorio points out, the new 370
Z Roadster has none of the awkwardness that afflicted all previous
Z - car droptops.
The new 2019 BMW i8
Roadster seats only two because its all - season fabric soft - top needs space to fold vertically in a
Z - shape.
Nor has the
Z been given the opportunity to jump on the wrap - around cockpit bandwagon that currently seems to be all the rage with
roadsters.
The biggest issue facing the Nissan
Z is that most buyers have ditched the segment and with a price tag starting at $ 29,990 for the coupe and $ 41,820 for the
roadster, the latest
Z is out of reach of most buyers.
In addition to the open - air 370
Z Roadster, the iconic Nissan
Z ® is also available in four hardtop 370
Z Coupe models, plus the motorsports - inspired Nissan 370
Z NISMO Tech, which is for buyers seeking the ultimate in factory tuned
Z ® performance and style.
When in the down position, the convertible top is concealed beneath a full body - color hard tonneau cover, which extends forward to help create the
Z ®
Roadster's classic «double cockpit» style interior.
The 370
Z Roadster's exterior design incorporates the signature
Z ® long nose / short cockpit proportions.
The 370
Z Roadster utilizes the
Z ® Coupe's advanced 4 - wheel independent suspension.
The SLK will compete with two other high - profile German sports cars, the BMW
Z - 3 2.8 and Porsche Boxster
roadsters, also priced at around $ 40,000.
Following on from an illustrious line of cool and desirable
Z sports cars dating back to the 1970s, the 2 - seat 2018 Nissan 370
Z — available in Coupe,
Roadster and track - ready Nismo styles — wears its years well.
According to their sources, Mercedes and Nissan did talk about the possibility of working together on a new platform that would be shared between the
Z and SLC
roadster.
With the other cars being four - seaters and the
Z a proper two - seat
roadster, the hole in the roof letting in the daylight naturally ends up being a good bit smaller.
In hardtop form, the 370
Z NISMO accounts for 20 percent of total
Z sales, indicating that a
Roadster version of the same car would be pretty popular.
The new 370
Z will be offered in Coupe,
Roadster, and NISMO
Z configurations and will go on sale in June 2012.
The list of 10 cars included in the new Launch Bonus Pack include: 1997 Lexus SC300, 1965 Mustang GT Coupe, 2011 Ruf RGT - 8, 2011 Tesla
Roadster Sport, 2011 Koenigsegg Agera, 2011 Alfa Romeo Giulietta, 2011 Subaru WRX STI, 2011 MINI John Cooper Works Clubman, 2011BMW 1 - Series M Coupe, and 2011 Honda CR -
Z EX.
With enhanced equipment levels, revised suspension settings and greater refinement, the 2011 Model Year Nissan 370
Z Coupe and
Roadster are set to continue thrilling drivers in the finest tradition of «
Z».
There's not much storage space in the
Z - car, you can carry one cup of coffee and basically no luggage, the trunk in the hard top is rated at 6.9 cu.ft, but that roof needs to go somewhere and so the
Roadster is blessed with just 4.2 cu.ft of space.
The 2019 Nissan
Z ® is offered in a total of 10 models — five 370
Z Coupe models, two 370
Z NISMO models and three 370
Z Roadster models.