One things true out of 15 million cars sold each year, the Z is probably quicker than all but maybe 150,000. (I am not sure this is the actual number but it is an approximation) works out to being faster than 99% of un-modified cars. I put the vettes, the ferraries, the nsx's the M cars, the special mustangs, lambos, aston martins, some MB's in the faster category. Not too bad.

And the thing is those faster cars are not driven much faster than I will be driving my Z. My friend has a 911 tt ($120K) awesome car, I doubt he ever droped a clutch and got a sub 5 sec 0-60. He just likes the fact that it has a ton of pickup (more than he will ever use).

Now thats not to say that there is a fringe group out there in modded TA's and Stangs, and nitros civics that can trounce the Z. But I'm more concerned with everyday driving and taking off from a stoplight kind of fast, and 5.4 or 5.2 or whatever it may be is pretty good.

 

nice

 

If you can really drive your Z, I dont think there will be too many stock cars on the street to worry about. I just got my copy of C&D in and I was comparing the Z to other sports cars in terms of acceleration and handling. The Z will take on pretty much every other sports car up until the $75,000 range. It handles as well as the M cars, and has a better 0-60 time than a Porsche 911. I hope to see a 5.2/13.7 or so out of the Z in another magazine test, but even with the numbers we know so far its a fast car.

 

rai,

In fact I had the same thought last week after all the complaints about the C&D Road Test results. I scanned through the C&D Road Test Digest, there aren't many stock cars that outperformed the 350Z. For those that are, most cost significantly more than the Z, so they will represent a very small population on the street.

 

I got the aoto week magazine it had the numbers of cars sold in the US for cretain cars, there were only like 1000 M5's sold here. The ferrari's, lambos, aston martins, AMG's all put together are probably less than 5,000 cars total. 911/911 tt probably around 5,000. NSX around 500 cars. The two most common faster cars are the vettes (35,000) and the M3's (not sure but probably around 10,000).

It appears that these cars are all over the place, but thats because every car magazine puts them onthe cover because it sell magazines.

 

Not a flame, but the 2002 911 is 0-60 in 4.9 sec

http://www.car-stats.com/

 

I Know this was discussed yesterday but alot of you were saying that the rx7 would take the Z in the straights. But how is this p ossiple since the rx7 run like 5.3-5.4 and around 14.1 in the qter and usually arrives in at 99mph

 

you forgot the GM F bodies. The Z28 and Trans AM have the same 5.7 litre engine as the Corvette. It may be rated a few ponies less then the Vette's, but it is well known that they still produce 325+ hp and that's conservative.

A Z will be no match for either of these in the straights

 

Good catch Bigone

The F bodies do provide alot of bang for the buck although I think 2002 is the last year GM is making them. I could never live with the high school racer styling, poor build quality and cheesy interiors although who can argue with the 5.7 LS1.