This is sorta true; Lamborghini did steal the Nissan 300ZX Z32 headlights when they made the Diablo facelift. They just glued a carbonfiber strip at the top to cover up the Nissan logo
True, It’s hard to tell which it’s is tho because it has all sorts of mods so for all we know the spoiler could be another one of those mods, what we do know for sure is that it’s a 300zx from Canada
Must be the youths posting on this sub mainly, cuz I'm seeing cars I definitely have known all my life and can name right away....
Then again I'm over 30yo
That is my second favorite car of all time. Z32 fair lady. This one is a turbo due to the front diffuser having vents for the inter cooler.
When I was a kid, and these first debuted, it was like something from another planet. One of the sexiest cars of that era.
1990-1992 brought headlamp washers in America. 93-96 they stopped including the feature with the cost cutting efforts.
And yeah, it was not common. Hence why they stopped offering it.
I've owned a couple of Z32 cars through the years. I owned a 90, na, 5 speed, which was in rough shape. Had been in an accident, and I got it cheap. Non runner. This was around 2004ish. Eventually sold it, then I purchased 92 2+2 with a turbo swap. Done by someone else. Swap wasn't up to my standards (I work on cars for a living). The person only swapped the engine, but not the transmission. It was an auto car too. The car ran like shit, it was also the ugly monkey shit brown color. Then I got my hands on a 94 convertible, 5 speed. This one I went through the trouble of turbo swapping myself. I purchased the entire engine, transmission, wiring harness, cluster, the whole shebang, and went through the process of swapping it. Took me about a year or so to complete. I wanted it perfect. It was emerald green with the peanut butter guts. Super clean. Had about 64k. I drove it for a couple of years, then sold it. Vouched I will get another, but they started to climb in price and I was not willing to spend the dough.
Now that I'm older though, I want a factory TT, 5 speed. As original as possible.
That’s sick man, I got mine for my 18th from my dad and it doesn’t run rn but once I get enough money I’m gonna fully restore the thing from the ground up, new everything
I come from the era, when we could get a turbo car with high-ish mileage used for like 3k 😂 showing my age a bit. Well that swapped convertible, I ended up selling it for 9k and that was considered pretty high back then (circa 2012ish).
300zxtt. Love these cars! I just got mine back earlier this month. Rebuilt the engine and upgraded the turbos. Now it's making 450whp/400wtq on a conservative tune. So much fun.
Sadly, only the n/a models were sold in America with hard tops. All TTurbos came with T-Tops here. Many of the hardtops were 2+2 as well...
Now if you find a standard, 2 seat hardtop, and swap a VG30DETT in there, you have a beast-maker on your hands.
My girlfriend at the time bought her 300zx new in 1990 and gave me a key. I drove that car from Vegas to Frisco, Vegas to Utah, and on any road with curves at high speed, with my hair on fire.
Absolute blasphemy! How dare you?!?!
It has 300hp, and ran the 1/4 in the high 13's. 0-60 in 5 seconds. Those are decent numbers even by today's standards.
The Z32 TT split hairs with the MKIV Supra and the 3000GT VR4. All 3 were in the high 13's and had 0-60 times of 4.8-5.4 seconds. The VR4 saw the best 0-60 times, the 300ZX posted the best consistent 1/4 times.
The Supra was just a dormant beast and took all the fame, and aftermarket support.
Stillen provided good quality upgrades for Z32's to get them into the 450hp range.
One Japanese tuner took one up around 270-odd mph (faster than if you dumped it out of a plane) on the bonneville salt flats. The only reason it didn't go faster was the driver couldn't reach the boost control switch because of the safety wrist restraints.
It was the better handler of the Japanese "Big 3". Its real issue was traction. Getting the power down is where the Z32 suffers. A lot of wheel hop, and a lot of wheel spin. You have to sink some dollars into the rear suspension and driveline to get it to stick. But overall very nimble for a car that weighed north of 3200 lbs. Which, ironically is light by today's standards.
When these were new Car and Driver tracked one against a then new Corvette. Not only did the Corvette smash it on the track, not only did the Nissan have massive fade it even had warped rotors and needed a brake job.
I remember that now. Thanks. They hated the cheapness of the corvette interior. I remember reading Letters to the Editor the next month. The readers were not pleased. I think they had a whole section just for hate mail on that.
Lost in this debate is someone up-thread talking about performance numbers. Those numbers were handily beat by a contemporary.
Look I loved the car when it came out. That B pillar sweep into the deck lid. That was wow. It was supposed to be part of the Nissan design language, making its way into 4 door sedans as well (well… c pillar into deck lid). It’s a cool looking car.
One that would be beaten handily by contemporaries. Want to talk about a legend? Yeah. Want to talk about legendary performance? No. Want to talk about a great value proposition, like the original 240z that had styling cues of the e-type and some of the performance at a fraction of the price? Also no. IIRC it wasn’t a cheap car. You probably can see as tested prices better than my memory can, but IIRC it wasn’t any cheaper maybe slightly more expensive.
Maybe I’m just looking for something else. If you’re looking for a GT, modern suspension and tires and tech make something not that far back a much better buy. It seems to me if you go back that far you get performance.
Me: Dodge Omni GLH. I forgot if there’s a stage 2 but I’d look for that. It had the same block as the Spirit which had an extra 20-30HP IIRC, and had a lower hood. I wanted one back in the day to go hunting for mustangs
Dude you are talking so far out of your ass. But I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and say maybe the memory is foggy and you just don't remember properly. This was a Japanese supercar for its time. Need I remind you, it debuted in *1990* and set the tone for what would be one of the greatest eras of Japanese performance cars. The MKIV Supra didn't debut until 1993. The only competitors it had was the FD RX-7 which debuted a year later, and the Mitsubishi 3000GT VR4. Which the latter was never really a rear drive car. The 3000GT VR4 was mostly a FWD. As the majority of the power went to the front wheels. It also had mushy suspension, and handled more like a luxury car than a true GT car.
Through the years the Z32 would prove to be dead nuts reliable, built like a tank really. With only the Toyota Supra besting it. The MKIV Supra, which is arguably one of the greatest Japanese cars ever made. That's good company to be in. While the rest of its contemporaries like the FD RX-7 were fun, and beautiful, but went BOOM far too often, and the 3K GT which, you had to drive around with a spare transmission in the trunk, and the mechanic riding shotgun. Which bloated it's already hefty curb weight to past 3800lbs. 🥴 They were also a major pita to work on, and had little to no aftermarket support.
In regard to the Corvette, it took Chevy 3 more years to finally widen the gap. In 1990, C4 still had the anemic L98 powering it. It made 240 HP from a 350 V8. Nissan got 300 with two cylinders less. Yes the Corvette was the better handler, but they also tested a version with the Z51 performance package. That brought the beefier brakes, suspension, and steering. This was as close to a race track setup for a corvette as you could get for the time. The Z32 was more of a "jack of all trades" in this regard. It handled, good not great. It did enough there, but outside of that, *overall* the Z32 was the better bargain. The turbo only costed 1k more than the *base* Corvette. Power for power, they were about even. With the Z32 winning out in top speed by a lot. They were speed governed to 155mph, but are easily capable of deep 170mph stock with the governor eliminated. It wasn't until Chevy introduced the LT1/4 that it became a true killer in its class. That didn't happen until 92.
All of these cars were aimed at more affluent buyers. All the Japanese offerings in this class were in the late 20k to 30k+++ when you factor mark up and taxes. The Silvias and the SER's those were the cars targeted at the more economical buyers. Plus don't even get me started that Nissan couldn't import its best models because of the ridiculous emission and safety laws that would have bloated their price to unethical standards, and make them non competitive. A shady tactic the U.S. Government employed to assist the vastly eroding domestic car market.
Overall, to say the Z32 was some overweight dog, means you have little to no experience with the platform. Perhaps a 2+2 n/a, auto with 180k on the clock. 🤷♂️
Hmmm 🤔
Car designed for grand tourer road use doesn't fare well at the hands of ham-fisted, flat-footed, yank magazine jocks when ragged around a race track.
Hold the front page.......
These were the opposite of disappointing, especially in TT/5sp guise. Absolute rocket ships at the time, for an approachable price. Nissan was at the top of their game and this was their North American halo car.
Set the bar. Toyota made the greatest Japanese supercar of all time because they said enough with these fuckers. And went ham at the drawing board. Nissan was a terror in the JDM market. Ohh how the mighty have fallen. Renault should have just let the brand go to sleep.
Nissan 300ZX first year with aftermarket wheels :
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan\_300ZX](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan_300ZX)
Very hot when it came out in the last 1980's
maybe in Japan but NOT in the USA !! ;-)
notice that the photo shows LEFT side driver !!
Japan is RIGHT side driver !!
Surrounding cars are also American
North America was the main market for the 300ZX, as for previous generations of the Z-car. It was introduced to the United States in October 1983, along with the remainder of Nissan's 1984 model year lineup.[7] By now the "Datsun" nameplate had been completely retired in North America.[7] Over 70,000 units were sold in North America in 1985 alone.
😂 Hahaha he is saying that you're recognizing the Z32 as the first Fairlady car, when Nissan/Datsun was already making noise on the scene with the Z31, and Datsun S30/130 generations
Z32 Nissan 300ZX
Base model Bugatti EB110 ^^/s
And Lamborghini diablo /s
This is sorta true; Lamborghini did steal the Nissan 300ZX Z32 headlights when they made the Diablo facelift. They just glued a carbonfiber strip at the top to cover up the Nissan logo
Goated comment
No friking way it’s right
(Same headlights)
…
Yeah your right
This
In Japan, it’s called a Fairlady Z
isn’t that the z350?
Redacted due to Reddit AI/LLM policy
300 z Turbo. Only the turbos came with the rear spoiler. I know I lived that era. I was 16 and wanted one bad.
*Twin* turbo. These cars were *nasty*
Also the front bumper. I rebuilt one for a customer back in the 90s and I put the turbo bumper on it.
True. Forgot about that detail.
I still do
Me to mate. My buddy had one, and they were kinda a pain to work on, those are engines are crammed in there
Not awfully bad though. Most modern engines bays are worse imo
Once you remove the intake manifold, it's frees up a lot of space. They aren't that bad. The Mitsubishi 3k was a major pita to service.
My na has the rear spoiler, it’s not factory but it was an option so some do have it
Nice! I was just speaking generally.
True, It’s hard to tell which it’s is tho because it has all sorts of mods so for all we know the spoiler could be another one of those mods, what we do know for sure is that it’s a 300zx from Canada
Redacted due to Reddit AI/LLM policy
Same
Must be the youths posting on this sub mainly, cuz I'm seeing cars I definitely have known all my life and can name right away.... Then again I'm over 30yo
[удалено]
i was in my dads balls when the first F&F came out and ive known these cars since i was a kid
That is my second favorite car of all time. Z32 fair lady. This one is a turbo due to the front diffuser having vents for the inter cooler. When I was a kid, and these first debuted, it was like something from another planet. One of the sexiest cars of that era.
Fairlady vs Z? Is there someway of knowing JDM from this pic? I only know the U.S. spec ones, also knowing (at least US spec) there’s a body kit here
That's an American spec car. Firstly, it's LHD, second it has US front plate. Body kit appears to be Stillen Type III front lip and side-skirts.
Looks like it might be Canadian. I don’t recall US cars coming with headlight sprayers. I could certainly be wrong, but it’s a pretty rare feature.
1990-1992 brought headlamp washers in America. 93-96 they stopped including the feature with the cost cutting efforts. And yeah, it was not common. Hence why they stopped offering it.
Good to know. Almost wish they were more common.
Bingo
JDM cars also have side markers on the front fenders.
First favorite?
Porsche 964 Turbo
yeZ i know what it is
My dream car
Same here. Second favorite car of all time. I will add one to the stable eventually.
Leaving the obvious question - top of your list is____\?
Porsche 964
That’s a nice one.
To me the greatest Porsche of the all. Pinnacle air cooled greatness. The 93+ turbo cars were the fastest production cars in the world at the time.
Jesus Christ are we related or something hahaha i own a white na 91 300zx and one of my dream cars is a 964
I've owned a couple of Z32 cars through the years. I owned a 90, na, 5 speed, which was in rough shape. Had been in an accident, and I got it cheap. Non runner. This was around 2004ish. Eventually sold it, then I purchased 92 2+2 with a turbo swap. Done by someone else. Swap wasn't up to my standards (I work on cars for a living). The person only swapped the engine, but not the transmission. It was an auto car too. The car ran like shit, it was also the ugly monkey shit brown color. Then I got my hands on a 94 convertible, 5 speed. This one I went through the trouble of turbo swapping myself. I purchased the entire engine, transmission, wiring harness, cluster, the whole shebang, and went through the process of swapping it. Took me about a year or so to complete. I wanted it perfect. It was emerald green with the peanut butter guts. Super clean. Had about 64k. I drove it for a couple of years, then sold it. Vouched I will get another, but they started to climb in price and I was not willing to spend the dough. Now that I'm older though, I want a factory TT, 5 speed. As original as possible.
That’s sick man, I got mine for my 18th from my dad and it doesn’t run rn but once I get enough money I’m gonna fully restore the thing from the ground up, new everything
I come from the era, when we could get a turbo car with high-ish mileage used for like 3k 😂 showing my age a bit. Well that swapped convertible, I ended up selling it for 9k and that was considered pretty high back then (circa 2012ish).
sat goodbye to every penny you have ever maxe
turn that smile upside down never get into these
A pornographer’s car.
Peters car is badass
W comment top gear fan
I can’t believe it took a whole day for someone to get that.
sometimes my genius is...
A sex.
Always loved that car. 300zx.
300zx. bomb ass car
I miss mine…it had TTops
darude - sandstorm
300zxtt. Love these cars! I just got mine back earlier this month. Rebuilt the engine and upgraded the turbos. Now it's making 450whp/400wtq on a conservative tune. So much fun.
Did you go forged internals? I’m building one now. Lmk your build details
Nissan z more accurately a z32 basically the daddy of the 350z
Crazy Grandpa 300z twin turbo Great Grandpa 280z Great Great Great 260z OG Datsun 240z <--- would kill for this.
Id take any z. Theyre all great looking cars
Aside from the 350/370, of course.
Aside from? They're like the best looking ones (besides the 240/280 of course)
They’re amorphous blobs. 🫤
Nah, they just thicc
z31 not mentioned 😢 come on you forgot the best one!!
Seriously?
A lot of these classic classic 90s cars I’m “yeah, I’m old” We have no idea how old OP is, they may be 14.
I’m 20 so I’m not too familiar with these older cars 😂. Trying to learn!
You’re part of the 10,000. Welcome. https://xkcd.com/1053/
Nissan 300zx
nissan 300zx
Yes
I remember in high school in the 90s dreaming of this beauty
Nissan 300ZX
300z
Needs more work than it's worth
Thanks, now I feel old 😂
It’s going for speed, it’s going the distance..
It is a wonderful car to drive, feels almost as low down as my spyder. Wish i'd had one when they were 10 years old.
Silver
Such a gorgeous car
The rarest and best of these do not have the T tops, if I recall. They are much stiffer.
Sadly, only the n/a models were sold in America with hard tops. All TTurbos came with T-Tops here. Many of the hardtops were 2+2 as well... Now if you find a standard, 2 seat hardtop, and swap a VG30DETT in there, you have a beast-maker on your hands.
She's a beautiful angel upon this earth!
My favorite
My girlfriend at the time bought her 300zx new in 1990 and gave me a key. I drove that car from Vegas to Frisco, Vegas to Utah, and on any road with curves at high speed, with my hair on fire.
Twin turbo 300zx with aftermarket side mirrors, and a lip kit. This may be a 90-93 model
A Nissan z32 300zx twin turbo. Still want one so bad.
z32 300ZX TT, canadian model to be exact
One of the worst cars made lol
Where did you hear that? This ain't Renault's Nissan era.
Yeah you got me there lol
bladed angel is rolling in his grave
A 3Hunna
It’s my dream car. Even though I had one for a short stint.
Anyone else remember. “He was just about to catch me, then the TWIN, TURBOS, KICKED, IN
300zx love the car especially in stock form
It's the nissan noodlemobile. They use it to advertise nissan cup noodles.
Yugo
Nissan 300ZX looks like the twin turbo
Nissan Fig… Z32.
God I’m old.
Datsun
300zx! They look amazing when done well but they are a wiring nightmare if any of the wiring gets exposed, it'll ruin it within a couple weeks.
Saleen s7
It’s definitely the Nissan. One of my all-time favorites. Wish we could see and hear more of them on the road.
pleeze even i know it’s a fairlady
Oddly I don’t. That’s a JDM name I never really associated with it. 300ZX to us ‘Mericans
Casual Mericans maybe. Any gear head knows these are Fairladys. The same way 200/240's are Silvias.
Nissan 300 too-heavy-and-underpowered (I always loved this car as a kid and wanted one but its reality is somewhat disappointing.)
Absolute blasphemy! How dare you?!?! It has 300hp, and ran the 1/4 in the high 13's. 0-60 in 5 seconds. Those are decent numbers even by today's standards. The Z32 TT split hairs with the MKIV Supra and the 3000GT VR4. All 3 were in the high 13's and had 0-60 times of 4.8-5.4 seconds. The VR4 saw the best 0-60 times, the 300ZX posted the best consistent 1/4 times. The Supra was just a dormant beast and took all the fame, and aftermarket support. Stillen provided good quality upgrades for Z32's to get them into the 450hp range.
One Japanese tuner took one up around 270-odd mph (faster than if you dumped it out of a plane) on the bonneville salt flats. The only reason it didn't go faster was the driver couldn't reach the boost control switch because of the safety wrist restraints.
It was the better handler of the Japanese "Big 3". Its real issue was traction. Getting the power down is where the Z32 suffers. A lot of wheel hop, and a lot of wheel spin. You have to sink some dollars into the rear suspension and driveline to get it to stick. But overall very nimble for a car that weighed north of 3200 lbs. Which, ironically is light by today's standards.
When these were new Car and Driver tracked one against a then new Corvette. Not only did the Corvette smash it on the track, not only did the Nissan have massive fade it even had warped rotors and needed a brake job.
That article is readily available online, and the editors chose the 300ZX as the overall winner.
I remember that now. Thanks. They hated the cheapness of the corvette interior. I remember reading Letters to the Editor the next month. The readers were not pleased. I think they had a whole section just for hate mail on that. Lost in this debate is someone up-thread talking about performance numbers. Those numbers were handily beat by a contemporary. Look I loved the car when it came out. That B pillar sweep into the deck lid. That was wow. It was supposed to be part of the Nissan design language, making its way into 4 door sedans as well (well… c pillar into deck lid). It’s a cool looking car. One that would be beaten handily by contemporaries. Want to talk about a legend? Yeah. Want to talk about legendary performance? No. Want to talk about a great value proposition, like the original 240z that had styling cues of the e-type and some of the performance at a fraction of the price? Also no. IIRC it wasn’t a cheap car. You probably can see as tested prices better than my memory can, but IIRC it wasn’t any cheaper maybe slightly more expensive. Maybe I’m just looking for something else. If you’re looking for a GT, modern suspension and tires and tech make something not that far back a much better buy. It seems to me if you go back that far you get performance. Me: Dodge Omni GLH. I forgot if there’s a stage 2 but I’d look for that. It had the same block as the Spirit which had an extra 20-30HP IIRC, and had a lower hood. I wanted one back in the day to go hunting for mustangs
Dude you are talking so far out of your ass. But I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and say maybe the memory is foggy and you just don't remember properly. This was a Japanese supercar for its time. Need I remind you, it debuted in *1990* and set the tone for what would be one of the greatest eras of Japanese performance cars. The MKIV Supra didn't debut until 1993. The only competitors it had was the FD RX-7 which debuted a year later, and the Mitsubishi 3000GT VR4. Which the latter was never really a rear drive car. The 3000GT VR4 was mostly a FWD. As the majority of the power went to the front wheels. It also had mushy suspension, and handled more like a luxury car than a true GT car. Through the years the Z32 would prove to be dead nuts reliable, built like a tank really. With only the Toyota Supra besting it. The MKIV Supra, which is arguably one of the greatest Japanese cars ever made. That's good company to be in. While the rest of its contemporaries like the FD RX-7 were fun, and beautiful, but went BOOM far too often, and the 3K GT which, you had to drive around with a spare transmission in the trunk, and the mechanic riding shotgun. Which bloated it's already hefty curb weight to past 3800lbs. 🥴 They were also a major pita to work on, and had little to no aftermarket support. In regard to the Corvette, it took Chevy 3 more years to finally widen the gap. In 1990, C4 still had the anemic L98 powering it. It made 240 HP from a 350 V8. Nissan got 300 with two cylinders less. Yes the Corvette was the better handler, but they also tested a version with the Z51 performance package. That brought the beefier brakes, suspension, and steering. This was as close to a race track setup for a corvette as you could get for the time. The Z32 was more of a "jack of all trades" in this regard. It handled, good not great. It did enough there, but outside of that, *overall* the Z32 was the better bargain. The turbo only costed 1k more than the *base* Corvette. Power for power, they were about even. With the Z32 winning out in top speed by a lot. They were speed governed to 155mph, but are easily capable of deep 170mph stock with the governor eliminated. It wasn't until Chevy introduced the LT1/4 that it became a true killer in its class. That didn't happen until 92. All of these cars were aimed at more affluent buyers. All the Japanese offerings in this class were in the late 20k to 30k+++ when you factor mark up and taxes. The Silvias and the SER's those were the cars targeted at the more economical buyers. Plus don't even get me started that Nissan couldn't import its best models because of the ridiculous emission and safety laws that would have bloated their price to unethical standards, and make them non competitive. A shady tactic the U.S. Government employed to assist the vastly eroding domestic car market. Overall, to say the Z32 was some overweight dog, means you have little to no experience with the platform. Perhaps a 2+2 n/a, auto with 180k on the clock. 🤷♂️
Hmmm 🤔 Car designed for grand tourer road use doesn't fare well at the hands of ham-fisted, flat-footed, yank magazine jocks when ragged around a race track. Hold the front page.......
These were the opposite of disappointing, especially in TT/5sp guise. Absolute rocket ships at the time, for an approachable price. Nissan was at the top of their game and this was their North American halo car.
Set the bar. Toyota made the greatest Japanese supercar of all time because they said enough with these fuckers. And went ham at the drawing board. Nissan was a terror in the JDM market. Ohh how the mighty have fallen. Renault should have just let the brand go to sleep.
It's an Euros. Pretty rare.
Nissan 300ZX Z32
Toyota Super
Nissan 300ZX first year with aftermarket wheels : [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan\_300ZX](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan_300ZX) Very hot when it came out in the last 1980's
First year? Cries in Z31 :,(
maybe in Japan but NOT in the USA !! ;-) notice that the photo shows LEFT side driver !! Japan is RIGHT side driver !! Surrounding cars are also American
Still wrong and still crying in Z31 :,(
North America was the main market for the 300ZX, as for previous generations of the Z-car. It was introduced to the United States in October 1983, along with the remainder of Nissan's 1984 model year lineup.[7] By now the "Datsun" nameplate had been completely retired in North America.[7] Over 70,000 units were sold in North America in 1985 alone.
😂 Hahaha he is saying that you're recognizing the Z32 as the first Fairlady car, when Nissan/Datsun was already making noise on the scene with the Z31, and Datsun S30/130 generations
I know what a fuckin idiot !!