Badass 370Z: 2009 Nissan Nismo 370Z @ Willow Springs

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It's called "The Fastest Road in the West" for a reason. Willow Springs International Raceway is known for its staggeringly high lap speeds, and it defines itself with one of the gnarliest, high-speed corner combinations anywhere in the world: a long decreasing-radius bend from Turn 8 to Turn 9. And so in an effort to preserve the world's population of auto scribes like us, Nissan has created a makeshift chicane to successfully emasculate these corners during our test of the 2009 Nissan Nismo 370Z. Smart move.

Fortunately there are ample opportunities elsewhere on this track to explore the car's increased performance over the standard 2009 Nissan 370Z. Namely Turn 6, which apexes at a blind crest and is followed on the downhill side by a huge midcorner bump that makes the standard Z-car wallow like a Buick LeSabre over a Wyoming frost heave. It's here that the Nismo Z sells itself.

In the Sport Z-car we're afraid. Afraid of physics. Afraid that the track will toss us — like a Buick — into the unforgiving desert. But after a few laps in the Nismo Z, we're confident. And we're faster. We keep our right foot planted all the way over the Turn 6 crest and across the bump, gaining enough speed that a few hundred yards down the track we ingloriously annihilate most of the orange cones that Nissan deployed to keep us alive. Nice.

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Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• 2009
• Nissan
• Nismo
• 370Z
• 350Z
• GT-R
• DOHC
• 3.7-liter
• V6
• engine
• motor
• auto
• drift
• race
• Japanese
• street

[tylerksmith221]

stiff and harsh? buy a minivan, pussy

[johngorgis]

sports cars all should have stiff springs

[thedenimvault]

no oil cooler, no torsen LSD, FAIL. $40 grand can get you an Evo or STi, or even a 302 boss.

[telurdadarwin]

i never get what inside line try to say,sport car should have stiff spring but they are complaining abut it, same thing like when the compete the infiniti m56 against bmw 550i, they were saying that the 550i was lacking, but at the end of the vid they said that the 550 was a better car, make up ur mind inside line

[MrGelboy]

Stiff and harsh? fuck.. more stiff means more control

[alvaroalomia1993]

this is the only sports car we can afford thats why we like it more then the others

[camcuber]

@Floor226 haha yep ;)

[Floor226]

@camcuber WoW you're RIGHT! its got the little amber reflectors on the front bumper! You know ur Z's!!

[ormand3000]

Overpriced and bland. Reminds me of the Mugen Civic Si...just more marketing to appeal to the ricers.

[JohnDincontro]

@TKO52286 Ight bro. Thanks my favorite color is red. I want to make it primry red but put everything in black.(wheels,windows,back lights,ect...) Or maybe in white and put everything in black.

[TKO52286]

@JohnDincontro

The infamous answer, my buddy has one he got it last year and has never looked back.

I've driven it a few times and I gotta say for my next car when this lease is up I am seriously considering getting the Nismo 370Z

[JohnDincontro]

@TKO52286 Do you have one?