New Nissan Z sports car to spawn 475bhp V6 Nismo model
Successor to the 370Z confirmed; flagship Nismo version to have hot V6 and four-wheel drive
The new sports car is expected to be shown in coupé guise before the
end of next year ahead of UK sales starting in 2020, some 50 years
after the original Z car arrived here.
Future generations of the Z model are understood to have been in
doubt because of struggling profitability in the sports car segment, an
issue felt more widely across the industry. Honda has admitted a similar quandary about an S2000 replacement and Toyota and BMW have teamed up in order to cut costs in the creation of their respective forthcoming Supra and Z4 sports cars.
Nissan design boss Alfonso Albaisa told Autocar last year that he was
in favour of a new Z car to replace the 370Z. He said the sports car
market was a challenging one but was “personally advocating” a new Z
car.
The forthcoming model is known internally as the Z35 – a codename
that continues a process started with the Z31 model launched in 1983. It
has been twinned with the next Infiniti Q60,
with which it will share its rear-wheel-drive platform, engine line-up
and electric system, according to senior officials from Nissan.
(AutoCar.co.uk)
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