Test drive Nissan 350Z compartment since 2007 coupe

Black envy

This is not a feeling and is not a sin, this is Nissan-350z.
My heart clogged more often, I saw in the dark corner of the underground parking its tense profile.
A recent Nissan-350Z update was an official reason for acquaintance: it means that he remains to live for another three years. What then? Skeptics are sure that the next generation will grow electronics and remove the driver from control. In the meantime, the Z-car, as fans around the world call it, remains one of the few honest sports cars for its money.
Judge for yourself: the rear -wheel drive and 300 horses (instead of the previous 280) in a stylish body and all this for 27 thousand dollars. Wrap, take it! Alas and ah, so much after the compartment is asked in America. To become its owner, we need to lay out more than two times more. Lucky Yankees!
While he struggled with a feeling of envy, he somehow imperceptibly got used to the salon; The hand itself reached for the ignition key, and the awakened engine announced the garage dungeon with such an appetizing roar that there was no more strength to stay in place. Let's go, let's go! Forget about the editorial office, forget about the house: I haunt this black compartment from which I cannot force myself to come out!

Contrary to expectations, planting 350z is not too low, the chair is moderately hard, the efforts on the pedals are small. The steering wheel of a modernized machine with varying effort, it does not bother when parking. Suddenly, Nissan turned out to be the owner of not the very dental suspension: such a curse of the driver as tram tracks does not become an insurmountable barrier. Know yourself roll on the boulevards on the fourth, since the engine is perfectly pulling from 1,500 rpm until three hundred and fifty is driven into the framework of the decency of the garden ring, almost nothing gives its true face. Away from the city!

In the vastness, flexibility is replaced by a frantic disposition. Z-Kap is constantly provoking the pedal on the floor and willingly reciprocate: it hit the ears with a hoarse cry of the motor of the famous VQ series and, slightly embarrassed by the stern, explodes with acceleration. Only a couple of seconds, and already the second! Having twisted a short -lived lever, you get a new portion of acceleration. Yes, as if Nissan had a good kick.
If you still have little adrenaline, turn off the stabilization system. Unlike most competitors, here it is really completely inactive and is not even going to interfere at a critical moment. To check if this is so easy: just start to move with the soul, only, for the sake of God, carefully! Even on dry asphalt, the car does not cost anything around its own axis!


Now they envy me: onlookers draw circles around Nissan and look into the salon, it is worth leaving the car unattended for a moment; Drivers at traffic lights strive to overtake, but where is there! 350z is not only fast, but perfectly and clearly controlled, and with the electronic collar turned on, it is harmless even in the hands of not the most experienced driver.
We put the car on a joke until spring, we did not find studded rubber, Nissan reported in the representative office when I reluctantly returned the car. Then I remembered about how I could not enter my yard, afraid to hook the curb with a low bumper; And about the fact that it is better to refuel the 98th, and the envy has subsided about the unimportant visibility when traveling intersections. But in the spring it will probably return!

 



 
   



Mikhail Gzovsky

A source: The magazine "Driving"