Testing The Nissan 370Z - Fifth Gear
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- čas přidán 23. 11. 2016
- Tiff takes the 370z to Reims-Gueux in France.
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There is absolutely no car on the roads like this, it is beautiful (a piece of art), very responsive, and comfortable. The other cars which come anywhere close to this may cost you twice or perhaps three times as much. The only problem??? I live in Maine, USA which means it has to stay in the garage for at least 4 months, snow and salt on the road are my enemies.
I sympathize with you. I have a 2019 all-black 370Z sport coupe 6M and I live in the SF bay area. I'm lucky in being able to drive it every day.
Was I the only one impressed by the jump they did?
Finally someone showcases the syncro rev
I think it was a stroke of genius by Nissan!
One of a pretty small number of affordable real sports cars, as opposed to tuned mainstream cars.
On a mainstream car chassis (Corolla?)
@@weareallbeingwatched4602 ? The Nissan Corolla?
@@mfmf100 generic car platforms mean that really... if you were to work it out from the history... it's very likely all a bunch of Buick. Can't remember off the top of my head which saloon car chassis the 350Z is based on, but at that time Nissan was 50% owned by Renault. All the corporate cars are the same sandwich, basically, but the 00s Z platform is very much generic saloon car - as the designer of the 240z said - it is very similar to say a bluebird or the leopard, and at least it has proper double wishbone front suspension, rather than the dreaded macpherson strut, which is only really suitable for aircraft undercarriage wheels - and are largely a trick to improve crash safety - using the collapsible steering system to write off the vehicle as profitably as possible.
Tiff's driven pretty much everything so to see him genuinely enthused about S-Mode was great. :-)
Finally I've got my very own and can hardly believe it sometimes! Truly a driver's car....fast or slow it keeps me smiling!
I was pleasantly surprised when I reviewed the 370Z. Very easy to handle and progressive, if not the fastest or best handling car in the segment.
i think you missed the Toyota GT-86n and Mazda Miata
@Joseph C. they're cheap, reliable and easy on maintenance while being fun to drive.
For a young petrolhead they arent overrated, in fact they're affordable right down to the insurance level.
unlike the usual BMW's and Audi's which hurt on all levels
@@The-Cat The miata is a bit hard to stomach man. It is just so, so tiny. I'd feel like a little girl in one.
Em Em lol from the outside they look faster than they really are. These cars are SO slow
Dave C. Sounds like you need to stop thinking about what other people think of you.
I bought a 2019 370Z sport coupe all-black 6M and love the car. It's an old-school performance sports car with some modern-day refinements but at its heart it is a narrowly focused driver's car, as I exactly wanted. The design philosophy was based on the Porsche Cayman S with the intent to match the performance as closely as possible at an affordable price to purchase and to maintain. I like the S-mode rev matching and have played with it but I still prefer manual blipping of the throttle during downshifts, to maintain my touch and sense of timing for the gear changes. Since the car is such a capable car in the handling department, I can focus my efforts on refining my driving techniques to get smoother and more precise handling. The car makes my daily drive to work and back, plus my occasional road trips in the canyons and mountains of Northern California, a real treat in trying to perfect my driving skills. It's not the car for everybody, or even most, but for those who appreciate what this car was designed to do, and not do, it is a real gem at an affordable price. I recently added Hotchkis stiffer sway bars front and rear which virtually eliminated body roll and greatly sharpened up the steering response, with the tradeoff of somewhat more ride harshness.
Bought the Nismo. Great cars. This is my third Z
thank you for these honest thoughts, i'm seriously thinking about buying one myself.
@@Greylin91 If you're a driving enthusiast you won't regret getting one; you'll only wonder why you didn't get it sooner. What I also forgot to mention about the car is how much it turns heads when I'm parked at a curb and there's pedestrian traffic walking by or when I'm stopped at a light. Part of that may be due to the fact that I had a multi-stage paint correction and ceramic coating done on the car that gives the car a very deep wet glossy look that always looks as if it's been freshly waxed. I'm in the process of having some of the bright metal badging removed or blacked out, making it look even more sinister and aggressive.
I just bought a used one for 11000 dollars. Fantastic car.
i’m still saving up to get a 370z. i’m the type of guy who hates how modern cars are infected with electric garbage all over the place. i want something fun, lightweight with good handling and Manual. i hate Automatics with passion. so yall think 370z is the perfect car for me? if yes i’ll keep saving up
There is nothing like this today on the roads, you can pay twice as much still 370Z will remain a graceful princess in the land of ugly jelly beans.
Yeah you said
The thing about owning a Z is that it's in a class of its own that hardly exists anymore. Besides the Miata, BRZ/86 and the Z4/Supra, there are very few modern roadster offerings at all. This presents a problem when racing as you are, at least in theory, either punching well above or well below your weight most of the time, but what's crazy is that I worry much more about losing to awd turbo hot hatches than I do V8s.
Did i just watch Tiff downshift into 1st gear at around 20 MPH? I thought that was on the "never do that" list for manual cars.
I used to downshift into 1st at 30 mph a lot. the car was totally fine
4:20 Golden Moment
Love my 2010 z car it beautiful
What color is that?
What a beauty👍
It is definitely a winner
Bought a 2020 Sport Touring Pearl Blue awesome machine 💙☕⚰🇩🇪
3:04 To find out we have to detour from the circuit and head for some Bendsssssasssss
Beautiful car!
4:22 👍
These are nice. Quick too- 7AT is a 12 second car. But the G37S is like 300% nicer to live with while only giving up maybe 5% of the performance.
looks gucci
Must find a way to disable that 155 Mph speed limiting circuit.
I saw a CZcams video of a Z that did a top speed run on the German Autobahn with the speed limiter disabled. The real-time view of the dash from a camera mounted on the strut brace bar showed the car topping out at 175 mph.
@@videomaniac108 That's fantastic!
If you want a big luggage compartment, you shouldn't be buying coupe, but go for SUV or Truck.
Just how old IS this vid?
The same years M3s were limited to same speed !!!!!!!!!! Even in the US. If Im wrong ? well >
here where i live a brand new base model 370z goes for 43500€ :(
Don't get the brand new base unless you just have to have a brand new car for some reason, just find a used 370z nismo 2015+ in good condition and 6 speed if you can, you wont regret it. The only brand new base model was like $40k usd and i was kind of shocked crazy mark up, got a nismo for like low 30k with low miles
@@letsroll2463 yea im currently looking at the used market, oddly enought the higher end models and newer ones are cheaper to insure than the earlier years. but ill see what im going to get , depends what salary i get when i start working again
You're funny. Here they go for 63.000 euro....and up.
i love these cars. they get a lot of bad hype but i dont care, i'd love to have one.
The guy says 350z
And he jumped it😏
Is it zed or zee?
Zed for UK Europe and Canada, Americans use zee
Zed zed top is a good band
And this car is still on sale today. That's how old it is.
$28,700 Costco price for the least expensive 2019. Europe screwed as usual...
Yeah man, getting tired of this shit.
I just found out, we won´t even get the new camaro, although it has 5 star safety rating, just because the aero shape of the car is "too dangerous" for euro standards.
This needs a 4.3 liter V-6. That's the same bore as a 350ci V8...
3.7
go hide under your rock trumptard
In a few years I'm thinking of having a stroker crank and some oversize pistons installed that would bring the displacement to about 4.3 liter. It won't be cheap but I think it would be worth it.
4:23 ;)
I love my 370Z. But I hate the fact my slave cylinder blows up every 20k miles.
And it's internal. Which means you'll be fucked by labors costs once it's out of the 35k mile warranty.
On my G35, the slave is external and it still fails too. Easy access though being external. Buy it from O'rileys auto with a lifetime warranty for $40. Replace it, for free, every time I flush the slave cylinder. GTR brake fluid is what nissan called for the help make the slave last longer, it does seem to work. I did a stainless steel line and wrapped it DEI heat tape to keep the fluid from turning black. I figured the internal design would keep it away from the heat, but then I saw it was actually a design flaw from stretching the lip too far in the cylinder and thinned the metal too much, not heat is making them fail. Mine is external and sees the elements is why it fails so I think they put it internal thinking that would solve that issue. Having to drop the transmission to replace the slave is ridiculous, in their effort to make it last longer.
Get the Z1 Performance Heavy Duty CSC and never worry about it ever going out again. I did and I have had no issues.
zspeedperformance.com/ZSpeed-HD-Concentric-Replacement-Clutch-Slave-Cylinder-CSC-zsp2006.htm
By an aftermarket one dumbass, hopefully you figured that out in 5 years 😂
I'm hitting 43k miles on my 2019 and haven't had a problem with the clutch or the CSC, although I do flush the clutch fluid out with high temperature hydraulic fluid at regular intervals.
@@videomaniac108 I could have worded this comment better but it looks like I was angry when I wrote it.
I have a 2009 with 6MT. My csc blew up at 40k miles. Got it replaced with the hd slave from zspeed. Cost me $600 for the labor. at the time the part was around $250. Havn't had a problem since, but It still only has 61k miles.
I've seen dudes on forum posts that say their stock csc lasted til 120k miles. But that's them and not me lol.
6 CD changer eh? pls no
I know this is old af...
He sort of dodged the handling and ultimate grip issues so not a very informative test. Now we have the new Z but still based on the 370, hopefully some tester somewhere will really do a proper test.
My "beauty" is stunning, snow is gone, I am lucky to drive it every Sunday, what a joy to have this BABY. She is prettier than the most beautiful 21 years old girls (please do not call me a sexist, I love girls, but I cannot drive them)..
Sorry, I only have the ugly brother of the 350z. The G35
That's not a bad car.
Omg I don’t care about the history of the racetrack
Prefer the 350z.
I miss my 03' Q_Q
thatguymichael yup
so happy I test drove the genesis 3.8 rspec before I bought the Z...
genesis wins in every way...every day.
lol then why did you buy the Z
GameOn Friday what I meant was I wanted to buy the Z.... but when I went to see the genesis in person and test driving it... I bought the genesis without hesitation.. too bad the genesis gets a bad rap because of the hyundai badge.. cause its an amazing car and if it came with a nissan badge and a 380Z it would sell like crazy...
Right... except the Genesis is slightly slower than the Z, doesn't handle as well, and doesn't hold it's resale value as well either. I also think the Z looks better, but that's subjective.
Prefer 350z
You got to be pissed
Wrong car
Who the fuck is this guy.
rather have the toyota 86
slow as shit
I have one, and im looking to trade in for a 370z
Why would u want that ? Than this I have a 86 and I’m buying this next week
I see your point, my preference would be a Yugo.
G37s coupe looks way better
Really? I just thing the g37 is only better for practicality i dont like the look cause the g looks like a altima coupe. I just like the 2 seater Z look
370z looks too ugly look like maxima but 2 door
@@ricardosantiago702 are you trolling or
You must be on the vodka
Its just so bland looking.
not the Nismo