My Nissan 370z Review Was A Disaster... But Here It Is Anyway! (JDM Legends Tour Pt. 7) 

What the title should have been. My Shirt Is A Disaster... But Here It Is Anyway

judging from the exterior, this is Sport trim. which does HAVE a VLSD... maybe you tried doing donuts on snow with traction control on.

Ahh, sunny Eastbourne! Come back and try that car out in the summer - it’s a cracking road over the South Downs! Keep it up

Feel for you. Similar to getting home and finding corrupted memory cards. Def prefer this to almost any hot hatch. Much more interesting

Good wheels really transform these cars. The runout 350S had a lovely set of Rays and then they released the replacement model with these.. They ruin the lines of the car imo

I had an 08 350Z (with the later engine) It was a good car and fun to drive, but it fell short of being a great car as it was too heavy to really handle well yet without being fast enough to make up for it. The suspension was also pretty unforgiving.

This review is far from disaster imho, and hope you can review it again in the next time, like 'revision' review, just like you do in GT-R :D Btw, if your brother-in-law can afford 20k-ish, Porsche 996 should be in his list :D

Recent Nismo prices have crashed unfortunately. Can get a MK2 nismo for high 20ks now despite being relatively new. The MK2 is a much nicer interior IMO, although I am biased. Not the fastest car, but this is much more fun compared to a Golf.

"... it's zero outside" - that means it's 32F/freezing for any Americans still stuck in the 18th century. I wouldn't call the review a disaster by any stretch. I'm pretty certain I've watched people who get paid not inconsiderable salaries review sportscars in bad weather. An Aston Martin in torresntial rain comes to mind. It does tend to help if you have regular access to Southern California though. Or Spain. Britain is for Land Rovers. Another thing! When I was starting out, your "first sportscar" didn't have 330BHP! It was more likely to have 90.

I had a 350 nismo with 5 ziggen pipes , induction kit etc 319 bhp not bad on fuel for a 3.5 v6 , crap boot space , got rid about 3 yrs ago , can’t really say anything bad about it , cheers Shane uk 🇬🇧

Had a 54 plate 350z...amazing as standard (fully loaded with rays/ nismo exhaust). Loved it. Sold it for a black edition 370z. Awful. Such a disappointment- wouldn’t slide, woolly handling, slow throttle response. Agree on the LSD comments- the one in the 350 as standard is far better.

Fun video that makes me reminiscent of the 370Z owned in Syracuse, NY. Syracuse’s winters, with the lake effect snow off Lake Ontario, frequently earned the city the coveted Golden Snowball award. It was there the 370Z was my daily driver. And like all cars should in Syracuse, mine had a set of snows for winter driving. And this is where the overarching, fully in control traction control system really shined. It basically ensured the car didn’t spin under responsible driving in the snow, but kept it fun none the less. However, this system was also its downfall. In non-extreme weather, it was still fully in control and seemed to steal any sense of feeling from the steering or chassis from the driver. The car fell numb. Comparing that to my current M240i, which really communicates what the car is doing beneath the driver, the 370Z can hardly be considered a sporty car.

Shame about the road conditions but I enjoyed your vid nevertheless 🖒

Sure if you can drive Caterham in snow then 370 is pure luxury 😂👍

When you come next year to Texas I have a 350z Nismo almost stock. I have some roads I love to show you..

Hey stop slagging yourself, that was pretty insightful! And it’s always helpful to really understand a car by putting it in the conditions it was not designed for. For example, the Golf R in that weather, is happier than on a dry pretty day, and for that reason they’re more coveted here in the land of ice and snow. It’s your shirts that you should be slagging I thought? Btw, the GT comparison might also be against the Porschuh 928? Though it’s much older. We in America the North, have GT questions and the Z series here are also nowhere on the sales charts I believe.

Unlucky you were in East Sussex on the only day we had snow, live very close to where you were driving, they are nice roads when not snowy!

Enjoyed the review Jay - keep up the good work, mate.

Lol I remember driving my SI toying behind a 370z who was struggling in the snow. I was trolling everybody until I hit this damn near vertical incline. Lol smh

The Nissan petrol engines were adopted by the sister company Infiniti - which did come to the UK but still struggle to sell many. Same power plant was used in the FX and QX SUV models and some saloons too. Most of the Z interior is also common in the various Infiniti. You should hunt down a posh Nissan (Infiniti), maybe your the man to break the stigma and get them known to the UK market.

That shirt......

Cletus, this is a great review, one of the best you've ever done. Shame about the shirt.Why don't you get someone to buy you a full length mirror for your birthday? Give my kindest regards to "buzzcut" Clovis, wherever he may be.😎😎😎 By the way, why are you driving in your underpants? And, why are you dumping the 370Z into the Channel??

Nice shirt. Do they make a men’s version?

Engine: Not aviable in another model: But for a time in Infinitis in Europe.

All the 370z GT models have a viscous lsd, the operation of this diff is very temperature dependant and be quite unpredictable, I'm assuming since it was so cold and the oil thick it would have been very slow to lock up. Not a bad review, I'd go along with most of it having owned a 08 350z, a '12 370z gt and a '62 plate supercharged 370z (With an aftermarket Quaife diff) . Cant believe there are only 2000 370z in the UK though

Nice review. Now for my review of your shirt. IT CRAP!

Too bad you guys don't get the Skylines. I've had a Z and currently have a G37 sedan (the Skyline V36)... G37 is a better use of the platform. Z is just a little too heavy and anodyne for a sports car but it works really well as a sedan/GT.

Review it in the dry next time lol and 350 luke warm review? It got a great reception when it came out...it was the 370 that didn't have the same appeal. Some items being the shorter rear, the crap stock sound, steering not as good as the 350, engine didn't have the same pizaz...as the HR 350' despite being related, there was just some...excitement missing. Fixed later on though in later models to an extent.

Is that VVEL that makes it so different and special!

I’ve not had one yet I probably would 😊 it’s like a muscular ugly dog 🐶 and we all love muscular ugly dogs 🤷🏽‍♂️ apart from my wife she made me get her ugly dog from our local zoo 🙊 it’s not as good as a muscular dog though it’s a shitzu.

370Z GT Edition, Oxford..

What is it like compared to the evora? I know it’s a heavy muscle car type drive whereas the evora is a light nimble fly. Correct assumption? Is the evora noticeably faster?

DONT KNOW WHY BUT ROAD TESTERS THESE DAYS DONT SEEM BOTHERED ABOUT MPG WHY ?????????

Nice car love my 270

Don't know about the review but that shirt sure is a disaster.

I sold a 370z to a customer for around 20k a couple years ago he had a Z4 3.0 coupe to p/x about 8ks worth which was much faster and better driving in both our opinion.

Yeah, you gotta drive the Nismo. It's a lot different. Mostly in how it rides, power difference is pretty nominal.

TBH you never rag the cars you review, so not much lost...

for the same money you can buy a cayman s, i just cannot see why you would choose one over a cayman s

Lsd.. of course it does

i had the nismo 370z in storm white in 2015 and I can see how you would say its a sports car because looks and how you sit low in seats" but how many people wont to thrash a car to feel like your going fast" really wonts more torq and I found there was a good size gap betwean the power coming on after pushing pedal down" also the fuel it takes is Bad" and that's a guy who has had c63amg/rs focus/bmw m4 and audi rs5 so yes id take the golf r any day over this

The backend is just awful though very 3rd gen Micra.

Cut to the chase - the car is a shitbox.