Test drive Nissan 350Z compartment since 2007 coupe

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The road sign with a zigzag in a white triangle not only denotes dangerous turns. He says that the road for the Nissan 350z.
In press releases, it is customary to write about their product exclusively flattering words. In a notebook on the Nissan 350z, the word no-cormipromise is most often found from epithets.
Today, when the automotive industry has reached such peaks that even with extreme driving, the process of the driver depends less and less, and any hydraulics-electronics make many cylinder monsters available even to a weak sex, many fans of sports machines require uncompromising. This is so that without an amplifier of the steering wheel and brakes, without ABS and ESP, without air conditioning and the king in the head. So that the fight against the road was at the same time and the fight against the car ...
Meanwhile, in the yard of the 21st century, and the creation of a sports car is precisely the art of compromise between physical education traditions and technological progress. To make sure of this, try cutting off the drive of the steering wheel in your swallow. And including the air conditioning, remember what faces Michael or his younger brother swallow oxygen from the hose during an eight-second pit stop.
Time to think - do we need this? - There is still: the issue with Russian sales Nissan 350z is still being resolved. The main obstacle, as they say in the representative office of the company, is the bad quality of Russian gasoline. In the meantime, European journalists were given the opportunity to try how 350Z travels in German.
Not without breed. Even the most uncompromising athlete, so as not to be known as an upstart, must represent an eminent club and have some charisma. This, of course, is not about the mass product of Mitsubishi, but about a certain image, the absence of which interferes, for example, to one German company that made the name and money on low -profile, it is good to sell sedans of a representative class. Nissan with this, by the way, is all right. Many in Europe have not yet managed to forget the cult of the cult from the company Datsun-this is how Nissan was called Nissan in the 70s, as well as the recent loud victories of samurai on races in Le Mane.
Another sports car should be strict, but beautiful. Of course, it is a matter of taste, but hardly anyone will turn to say that the designers failed to pitch a very lady and harmonious body. True, they didn’t pay much attention to us on German roads, and at the gas station where we asked for the road, one German patriotically noticed that in profile our car looks like Audi TT, and behind the Porsche Boxster. Let it be so, in the FAS and in details, the Nissan design school is unmistakably recognized. No wonder there is something in 350z from Infiniti FX35-perhaps the most catchy car of the current auto-zason.
 
 
Without stupid things. By the number of Nissan 350Z seats, it is really uncompromising. No rear shops and other attributes of the 2x2 formula - behind the back only speakers of the speaker system. In addition to Bose, the top version 350Z Pack includes a cruise control standard, heating black leather seats, while a red leather interior is an option.
But in terms of luggage placement, everything does not look so uncompromisingly. A voluminous glove compartment in the central console, where over time, the monitor of the navigation system is most likely to fit, a locking chest behind the passenger chair, next to the glove box. In the posterior, hidden from prying eyes, part of the trunk is placed in a solid suitcase, in the front - under the glass - the bag is a little smaller. Between them is a massive beam with Litera Z on polished aluminum. In general, you find more these signs on the back and in the cabin than on the cover of the plates of the singer Zemfira.
In our version, the chair has two electrical regulations. One key changes the angle of inclination of the back, the other drives the seat pillow along the rails, plus the angle of inclination of the latter is manually adjusted. Nevertheless, if your height is more than 185 cm, then you will have to sit with twisted legs. And you will not hold the steering wheel too sporty - the column is adjusted in height, but does not have departments for departure. By the way, the dashboard leans together with the column, as once in Porsche, and therefore your right hand will always close the speedometer zone from your same eye, showing speed from 140 km/h and above. Therefore, the mentioned indicator is more convenient to observe in the left of the three dashcasses taken to the very top of the central console.
In this window, the triple-computer sometimes showed us numbers 260! Either the devices lied, or the Nissanists did not manage to configure the electronic limiter. By the way, the Nissan 350Z American dealers are declared as a car that accelerates to 264 km/h.
Without a break. The most important thing is to have time to switch to the third gear: the second after 40 km/h fills up the tachometer arrow into the red zone and the engine immediately withered. On the third, you can comfortably go in urban mode from 30 to 100 km/h. True, if you want to move actively and constantly keep the motor in the area of \u200b\u200bthe maximum permissions of 4.5-6 thousand vol./Min., Then you have to pull the handle often. The programs of 350z are included extremely clearly, and you will never confuse the same third with the fifth. The lever move is short, and the handle itself barely rises above the central tunnel, so that it can only be operated on with the movements of the brush by laying the elbow. That's just a leather cuff, covering the backstage, rubs very unpleasantly on the hand.
True, you quickly forget about this, because the car already resembles a simulator in the gymnastic hall. A tight steering wheel, which, in order to be obedient, must be kept very tightly. Unsuitable pedals. Especially the clutch: it feels very reminiscent of pumping the wheel with a knife pump. Plus, after half an hour, the lower back begins to whine - with each intensive pressing on the gas, the rear -wheel drive athlete painfully hits you in the back. Moreover, you can significantly accelerate even on the fifth, direct gear. We admit to the sixth, we haven’t reached it: after all, the destiny of such cars is winding serpentines, and not the straight lines of the autobahns.
 
 
Without complexes. Not without reason, the designers called the location of the Front-Mid motor-the engine is slightly shifted towards the base, which provided the weight and rear axis in the proportions of 53/47. When braking before turning, the loaded front axle allows you to better prescribe the trajectory, and after exit from the turn, when you open the gas to the full, the perfect balance is 50/50.
The suspension of the car, as it is appropriate, is very stiff, and 350z turns are passing without noticeable rolls. Contrary to the extremal to aspirations, the car is equipped with active security systems, but, in fact, it is nice, the electronics corrects the driver very correctly. It is worthwhile to turn the steering wheel to more than the laws of physicists, an angle, and even through the closed windows it will be heard how rubber sings. Sings about what a little more - and the car will slip into the outside of the turn. Bridgestone Potenza RE040 tires, as befits a sport-car, on the rear axle wider-245/45 versus 225/45 in front. ESP worked with us only once, when we turned at a speed of 60 km/h at a T-shaped intersection, the German asphalt of which for some reason was abundantly sprinkled with sand.
  Purely Zet. We are also used to the fact that sports cars are distinguished by an uncompromising price, because we must pay for pleasure. The Nissan 350z saved in this regard and clearly went to meet the consumer. In Europe, the car will begin to be sold in October at a price of 33.5 thousand euros, which for an athlete who accelerates to hundreds in less than 6 seconds is very modest. It will be distinguished from the Japanese-American version-a record for the class-an 80-liter fuel tank, a larger radiator, a modified suspension and something in trifles.
Alas, so far in the Old World Roadster 350z, which Americans already have the opportunity to purchase, paying $ 37.2 thousand. But most importantly, Europeans will not receive Nissan 350z Pure - a clean version, for which the states are asked for completely funny $ 26.2 thousand There is practically nothing in it, except 280 hp. and six -speed mechanics. But is this not enough?
Text Dmitry Gronsky, photo of the author and Nissan
 
Model/Modification Nissan 350z
Manufacturer/ country Nissan Motor Co Ltd/ Japan
Number of doors/places 3/2
ENGINE
Type/number/location of gasoline cylinders/6/V-shaped
Working volume (cubic cub) 3498
Power (kW (L.S.) at about./Min.) 206 (280) at 6200
Moment (nm at about./Min.) 363 at 4800
TRANSMISSION
The rear drive
The gearbox is mechanical, 6-speed
Brakes, safety
Front/rear circular ventilated
ABS, assisting electronic systems 4-channel, EBD, Brake Assist, ESP, TractionControl
Front and side airbags for the driver and anterior passenger, inflatable and
Dimensions/mass
Length/width/height (mm) 4310/1815/1320
Wheel base (mm) 2650
Tires 225/45 R18 in front, 245/45 R18 from behind
Mass weight (kg) 1500
The volume of the fuel tank (L) 80
Maximum speed (km/h) 250
Acceleration to 100 km/h (sec.) 5.9
Fuel consumption (city/highway, l/100 km) 11.7/9.0
The price in Moscow is not determined
 

Source: "Autopilot"