Nissan Determined To Make The 370Z A Time Capsule - No Successor Anytime Soon

We’ve said it many times before, but the ageing Nissan 370Z is long overdue a replacement. And yet Nissan continues to neglect its current Z sports car with minor updates, as we saw with the recently revealed new 2018 model. According to former Nissan Australia managing director Richard Emery in an interview with Motoring, we may still have to wait several years for a Nissan 370Z successor. Remember the rumors about a Nissan 390Z concept being be revealed at this year’s Tokyo Motor Show? Emery knows nothing about it.
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CANADIANCOMMENTS - 9/6/2017 5:33:55 PM

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Sales peaked in the US at 10K units in 2010. Last year they were 5,900 sold. I wonder if it is still profitable to even make this model for Nissan. Out of a US market of approx 17m cars sold annually, the take rate for this vehicle is not even a rounding error.

MDarringer - 9/7/2017 6:58:22 PM

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The revival of the Z was stupidly done. The 350Z had no "Z" DNA and was rather fragile. When they replaced the 350Z with the 370Z, they made everything that was wrong on the 350Z even worse. The initial 370Zs were notorious for a braking system that could not stand up to rudimentary track time. Fade was dangerous. Transmissions liked to grenade themselves. For the money it's neither the fastest nor best handling.

Nissan should go fully retro and evoke the 240Z with a track-oriented 240Z (2.4T), a comfort-oriented 370Z (V6), and a muscle oriented 560Z (V8).

The Z was never taken seriously as a Boxster/Cayman alternative that the fanboys like to think it represented.

MDarringer - 9/8/2017 8:20:21 PM

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Bingo, so of course buying Mitsubishi was a good move.

mini22 - 9/11/2017 6:50:33 PM

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Now more than anytime making affordable sports car's is a tricky business. Take Toyota with cooperation with Subaru for the BRZ/86. Again with the Supra/BMW Z4 or 5. It's clearly a lot easier to go in with a partner today. Porsche, BMW, Jaguar, Corvette all charge above 50 grand for their sports car's enabling a reasonable profit margin. Unless there is some sharing of component costs to cope with reduced volume a sports car generates it is not necessarily financial feasible. Saying that Nissan could easily share platforms with Luxo maker Infiniti that they own. In fact the previous G35, I thought shared. componentry and chassis with the Z. Maybe with the new generation it does not. Perhaps the cost on the chassis brings it out of the Z's price range as Infiniti is really competing in the 40 to 50K bracket now. Still that does not make sense as the Supra and Z5 are going to be in very different price brackets. In the 25 to 30 K bracket maybe there is simply too much competition and not enough profit to invest in a platform where there is no sharing. Of course Renault that Nissan has a business sharing arrangement with could supply a FWD chassis from the Renault Megane(widely thought to have the best handling FWD chassis produced). I don't think Renault would share Alpine technology as it is expensive and Nissan would still have to make changes to suite a Z car.It is probably cheaper to keep producing the same car.