1994 Nissan 300ZX Z32: Regular Car Reviews

the Nissan 300zx was more hype than Waterworld check out this car this week's friend the z32 isn't a sports car and don't try to pretend that it is the worth of the z32 is more inflated than an engagement ring it's 1994 again and Bret Hart is the WWF Champion his brother Owen is King of the Ring and it's all coming to a head the seal the summer movie season has Forrest Gump speed The Lion King True Lies the mask The Crow Natural Born Killers in America has a president who plays the sax and gets his Jimmy John by women who aren't his wife running for the office 22 years later once upon a time there was a car called the Nissan Fairlady Z maybe because the person naming it was a theater geek who could never get the girl on his end so this was the only fair lady he could get eventually the car would come to be known as the Nissan 300zx and it would occupy the third and fourth generations of the Nissan z-car line in the mid 80s you've got the v6 engines a naturally aspirated VG 30 E and a turbocharged VG 30 et which could get you anywhere from between 160 to 200 horsepower turbocharged models made use of a 3-way electronically adjustable shock absorbers because why the hell not and more for boost you ought to pay more for other things too eventually the Z 31 model became the top seller of all Z cars ever made so what did Nissan do they got rid of it and they immediately replaced it with Z 32 more expensive less familiar more complicated and offered no substantial upgrades beyond retaining the three liter displacement and a twin turbo rated at now 300 horsepower yeah I don't get it either but it's 1990 and everything off for change like we're not going to wait for the 90s to become its own decade we're going to ride the vapor ways of the 80s and turn this franchise around because even though it did need adjustment we're gonna do it in the 8th or go because of the 80s and most people still have questionable taste crying out loud why kill a golden goose ok maybe it wasn't in golden goose but what's wrong with a bronze Barn Swallow and I got your Barn Swallow right here of course this is kind of unfair if they just kept riding the Z 31 until it was no longer profitable they have been called to the carpet for avoiding evolution like a southern middle school but come on this is nice on any reasonable person should have known what they were getting but what is the Z 32 for the inside the the cabin is very s 13 s kin the way it slopes away from you and it's sure and it looks like it handles and it doesn't this is a soft car and also this great v6 engine and in this is the naturally aspirated one but this great v6 engine oh you think double cams it's gonna sing and it doesn't this car this engine has no top end power it's all mid-range you pull out and there's nothing you get this surge of torque between 2,000 and 3,000 maybe 4,000 rpm and the top end it just drops back off again this car is meant for people who want to cruise on the highway people who just want to do third and fourth gear pulls all the time Nissan knew their audience and they knew exactly who they were going for with this car Z 32 is a car for the conscientious objector why because it's not a Corvette c4 that's who Nissan was going after compare the two cars a naturally aspirated Z 32 made 222 horsepower in 198 pound-feet of torque comparatively a Corvette c4 base made approximately 375 horsepower and 370 pound-feet of torque so okay get the Corvette it's clearly faster and then you look at weight Z 32 is approximately 3,300 pounds and a Corvette c4 is 3000 240 pounds alright so the c4 is lighter with a lot of horsepower and even more torque ok it's now time for price the Nissan 300zx naturally aspirated in 1993 was approximately thirty thousand eight hundred and twenty-five dollars now adjusted for inflation that makes this a fifty-one thousand dollar car there abouts in 2016 a Corvette c4 the MSRP was approximately thirty three thousand six hundred dollars and in 2016 money that's about a fifty six thousand dollar car so naturally aspirated z32 the only place it beats it in his price okay it's a little bit cheaper but not much so who wants to pay to have your torque cut almost in half and not even have more horsepower we haven't gotten to build quality oh yes the interior that is where the z32 shines it's so much better than a c4 GM was just your America parts been to the max but Nissan knew the aesthetics of driving they knew that if you're buying an upscale thing you should feel exclusive and that's why everything inside this car feels like it's for you it's not the lower-end s13 no no you have HVAC things on pod I pushed on every part of the - nothing moved all the lines are perfect and I dare say that as e30 - if an NSX first gen is 10 oz e32 is like eight point five to nine I was not expecting the interior this car to be so intuitive and so comfortable yes I wanted to touch everything it fed into me it was so fun I bought the 1994 Nissan 300zx it's one of the children life fancy oh yes the covet c4 it was fancy but my tastes have matured oh my nipple oh don't record that keep that in keep that in the interior the interior to low rent and impoverished for the likes of me so I've gone for Japanese quality this time master than its smelly American car on principle cool that's interesting we all know the best things coming by boat choose wine art why would I buy my car the same place a farmer buys this truck frankly I think the Corvette brand is a little bit old and tired I mean if you get a new wife you don't get it in the same house when mother was raised into you when I get a new wife I'm not gonna get one with the same last name as the one I found before oh so home say I like my cars like I like my women young and I just say is the toast of the town it's so fancy that they think my Porsche parts might fit oh I have a paper towel roll filled with Micro Machines it goes inside the buttocks oh oh oh heavens it's stuck I feel like driving a Z is my way of bringing Japan to America because I've shipped so many things from America to Japan like jobs here's the nineties of time of the haves and have-nots and I am half as you knew on speaking of haves have recently killed a nice Sun tea jar I poured it over my genitals and remove the air oh my ball sack becomes the size and texture of a delectable and decorative content oh this is not a Corvette seaboard this doesn't cost 56,000 box-like ugly dudes it's nicer inside so fancy in 90s hey dude let's drive when you give an engine the beans it shouldn't shout in protest so brutish with the v8 I like it when it gives a long murmur almost determined to take the punishment like a cabin boy have you grown tired of this voice too bad ha ha ha when I was circumcised the doctor was drunk and my full skin looks like a 7-eleven sir pee straw spoon wave eh that's not how you do a circumcision hi can you hand me the moil what what are we not doing the different points now my name is rabbi meshuganah uh I can get away with that because I'm Jewish

Channel: RegularCars

Views: 937,118

Rating: 4.4817438 out of 5

Keywords: Nissan Z32, Z32 Review, Nissan 300ZX Review, 300ZX Review, Nissan 300ZX Z32, Nissan 300ZX Retro review, So fancy, Regular Car Reviews

Id: 7bD-b_184mE

Length: 9min 40sec (580 seconds)

Published: Mon Aug 15 2016

Reddit Comments

[u/oh84s]

Shame its not the twin turbo. I went in a TT 300z when I was a kid and It was the fastest thing I could remember back then.

[u/ScarFace88FG]

The horsepower and torque numbers for the C4 are actually from an early C4 ZR1. The base C4 made 205, 245, 300, or 330 horsepower depending on the year, and in the 1996 model year, transmission.

[u/[deleted]]

It's been 20 years since I drove one, but I remember the z32 handling really well. Also, it's a beautiful shape and has aged amazingly well. I would love to have one... OK, time to browse craigslist all over the west coast for a couple hours!

Edit: fuuuck, 40k original miles in white but it's a godamn automatic: http://seattle.craigslist.org/sno/cto/5713859406.html

[u/pet_the_puppy]

Vette numbers are way off

[u/cpweisbrod]

The only C4 Corvette with 375hp was the Zr1. The model you showed b roll of was a pre facelift which had the L98 which was just 250hp with 300 torque.

[u/johnshop]

very bad episode, i love this man, but so many wrong things said and very important things left out as well... come on regular.

[u/eLetoR]

The Z31 was, and still is, pretty ugly. The Z32 was, and still is, pretty good looking. I'm glad they changed it and didn't stay with the reptilian style of the Z31.

[u/Dodge_Viper2015]

"The president plays the sax and gets his jimmy johned by women who aren't his wife and won't be running for president 22 years later. "

I honestly think this is my favorite line from an rcr video

[u/your_covers_blown]

Here's a 1990 comparison review of the corvette and the TT version of the nissan:

http://www.caranddriver.com/comparisons/1991-chevrolet-corvette-z51-fx3-vs-nissan-300zx-archived-comparison-test

Nissan wins based on interior and intangibles. Performance numbers are basically tied. Within a couple years the corvette got the LT1 motor which would have put the performance numbers considerably up. Interior stayed about the same as that 90 car.