I don't recall if anyone factored into the 0-60 calculations, the infamous X factor.

The skill of the guy moving that gear shift around.

 

An old dude, eh? Say like Paul Newman?

He could drive circles around any of us twenty somethings.

I hope the car has a bit more potential too with a modulated 2500-3000 rpm or so launch... maybe so. I'm much more interested in handling though. I've had big, powerful sports cars before. I'd hoped the 350 Z would be more bare bones (lighter) and setup to tear your retinas out of the backs of your eyes with braking and lateral forces. 5.5 sec 0-60 will be ok with me as long as it handles like it's on rails and stops like it's in sand.

 

I heard from a undisclosed, and unreliable source that the person who got the 5.5 was going at half-throttle, and shifting at 2000 rpms. Yeah, and they were in a wind tunnel, going uphill.

 

I heard from some guy it was downhill in a hurricane!

Oh wait a sec, a guess that was an Isuzu...