It’s rare that a car manufacturer passes up an opportunity to celebrate an old stager with an all-new model, but 2019, the 50th anniversary of Nissan’s ‘Z-car’, will be gone before the now ...
The Z, latest in a long line of rear-drive performance cars dating to the Datsun days ... but I gravitated toward the 240Z. This is the proto-Z, the original formula in its most essential form ...
The Datsun 240Z story starts with Yutaka Katayama, tasked with bringing the Datsun brand to the United States in the early 1960s. Early products, mostly small utility vehicles, sold slowly ...
And that's when a modest Datsun 240Z began its transformation into the ... while the Techno Toy Tuning R200 rear-end conversion stuffed with an OS Giken limited-slip differential updated the ...
It draws elements and lines from the prior six generations, such as the long, sloped hood and wide rear flanks, which began with the Datsun 240Z in 1970. And although the new Z drops the numerical ...