2023 Nissan Z Performance

Photography by David S. Wallens

We get another chance to drive the new Nissan Z. Do our initial impressions still hold true?

I can stretch and buy a base model $42,000 plus tax?  I can't do $60,000 plus you mentioned they've sold 1200 YTD?  

How are the Cuban sandwiches?

In reply to Datsun240ZGuy :

I never got the chance to get a sandwich there, and I’m a huge can of Cuban sandwiches!

The place was very closed when I shot this photo. It was just me and a dude with a broken-down 18-wheeler. 

Like, if I panned one more degree to the left when photographing the back on the Z, you would have seen an 18-wheeler with the hood up. 

I have thought the place looked rustic, though, so finally stopped to make some photos. This is just off I-95 here in Ormond. 

I'm curious as well.  Saw a handful last week at SEMA and they made me look.   Are the prices marked up?  I also haven't seen one on the road ever.   

It sure looks they lifted a number of styling queues from the Jaguar F-Type.

In reply to kb58 :

I can see that. 

Still surprised I haven’t seen a Z at an autocross, a cars or coffee or even while in Orlando. 

There were two at the FL2K event at Bradenton Motorsports Park last month.  Both had a few mods, but nothing internal.  They both were off the index time for their class by nearly a second.  I don't know if they did anything on Sunday for eliminations, as I was just there for qualifying on Saturday.  The faster car belonged to one of the owners of a tuner shop in Houston.  I *think* it was called RaceBox.

David S. Wallens said:

In reply to kb58 :

I can see that. 

Still surprised I haven’t seen a Z at an autocross, a cars or coffee or even while in Orlando. 

I haven't seen any in real life either. But I also haven't been to any C&Cs since January. Way too many people get there way too early to make it any fun, in January it was below freezing, we got there 15 minutes before it "officially started" and there was probably already 400-500 cars there.