What started as a Datsun sports car has turned into an automotive legacy.
America’s love affair with the sports car began with the postwar British cars of the 1950s. America got into the fray with the Chevrolet Corvette and Ford Thunderbird that same decade, and Japan entered the market in 1970 with the Datsun 240Z. Low and sleek, with a long hood and a pushed-back cabin, the Z started to make Americans think Japan could build cool cars. And the Z has been cool ever since. Through seven generations, it has grown in power and performance.
The 240Z hit the U.S. market as a bargain, with the right looks and right performance to back up its sports car mission. A two-seat fastback coupe with design elements from the Ferrari GTO and Jaguar E-Type, the 240Z replaced a line of four-seat roadsters with stodgier looks inspired by 1950s British sports cars. It was called Fairlady Z in Japan, but Datsun dropped the Fairlady name here because it might be seen as stodgy.
hit the market in April of 1989.This car was far more modern and one of the first production cars to be designed with CAD software. It had a cleaner look, a new multi-link rear suspension, and a dual-overhead cam 3.0-liter V-6 with variable-valve timing. The new engine upped the output to 222 hp, cut the 0-60 mph run to about six seconds, and dropped the quarter-mile time to 15.0 seconds.
with white and red or silver and black inspired by the Brock Racing Enterprises 240Z race cars of the 1970s. It looked like that was the end of the road for the Z, but then…The Z got a reprieve in the early 2000s when enthusiasts within the company advocated for it, and the same thing happened for the Z35 Z. Chief Product Specialist Hiroshi Tamura and design chief Alfonso Albaisa
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