On paper, the Nissan 350Z is a sportscar. It looks sporty, encourages you to drive sporty and has a sporty nose coming from that big V6 engine. In many ways, it's built like a sportscar: engine at front, manual gearbox at the middle and rear-wheel drive at the back.
But while it does all that, it's not a true sportscar in the sense that you can't drive it to the limit. The 350Z is more of a cruiser, which you drive at 8/10 to ensure it's safe and maintain traction.
Want proof? Here's what happens when you take a corner to fast in the Z at the Nurburgring. You run wide and hit a barrier during this weekend's tourist track day. The owner of this car, which looks suspiciously like a Senner tuned one, had to pay not only for the damages to his car but for those to the track. He smashed a 12 meters of side barrier and the track authorities made him pay €1,200 to replace them. Ouch!
Mihnea's favorite cars have already been built, the so-called modern classics from the '80s and '90s. He also loves local car culture from all over the world, so don't be surprised to see him getting excited about weird Japanese imports, low-rider VWs out of Germany, replicas from Russia or LS swaps down in Florida. Full profile
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