A popularly priced two-seat GT with six-cylinders, a long hood, a deck that is short, a fastback roofline, as well as a back hatch competently describes 1970 versions and 2016. That is Corvette-quality staying power.

Over that point, the Z car's contemporaries have moved on.

In a sense, driving the 2016 Nissan 370Z is similar to bumping into an old buddy in the locality. "Vinnie, you haven't altered a bit!" For now the 370Z does it the tried and true manner, having a big-displacement, port-injected, naturally aspirated V6 turbocharged, supercharged, or electrified anything here. That is fast enough to out-drag the foundation Porsche Cayman (5.3 seconds).

Nevertheless, the grey is revealing at the temples of the Z. The VQ gets grainy at higher revs as well as the sound (at least of the $30,815 foundation 370Z we examined) is not really zoomy. Active noise cancellation and more for the Touring, Sport, or Sport Tech trimmings quells the coarseness while active sound improvement highlights the melodious items through the normal Bose premium sound system. Becoming clutch takeup is predictable and linear and the short-throw shifter on the Z's close-ratio six-speed manual functions with precision. We did, however, find some annoying fore/aft driveline lash in our foundation 370Z evaluation auto when tipping in and lifting off the accelerator; the automatic downshift rev-fitting of the Sport and Sport Tech versions can help mitigate that.

However, the 370Z's fundamental no nonsense good and bang for the dollar can not be denied. Despite the fact that directing effort may not be a bit light on-centre, the Z tracks accurate and straight; gets you there without play or fiddling and decide a line by means of a corner as well as the auto correctly. Brake result, in spite of the smaller components on the base car, is tight and simple to modulate. At 0.90 grams, supreme grasp with the 225/50R-18 front and 245/45R-18 back Yokohama Advan Sports can not match the Cayman's 1.03 grams of stick, and the Z's 167-foot stop from 70 miles per hour can not top the Porsche's fantastic 148-foot amount. But at an as-tested price of $30,940, the foundation 370Z is just half tariff of Porsche's least-expensive mid-engine coupe. Or looking at it another way, the foundation 370Z signifies an opportunity to score a sports car that is committed for the same or less money than a softly optioned Ford Mustang EcoBoost with outstanding functionality stats four-cylinder.

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