There aren’t that many examples of E63 wagons out there under $60K. I see 5 nationwide on AutoTrader. None have under 78K miles. I was ready to hammer the ND button, but again, in this market...it’s actually a NP based off what else is out there. 

Every dealer in town is asking $15k over MSRP for any newer car with 4 wheels. I doubt that C8 scalping is....

I daily a C5 Z06 and the envy i have for the C8 is immense.

“Given the prices on BaT”. Ok, then sell it on BaT and leave us out of it.

I think at $3,900 it would find a buyer pretty quick given it’s condition. It’s not a particularly interesting car unless you are a Mazda fanboy or have an emotional attachment to the car, but it is in fantastic shape. I think that if you found the right buyer for it, it could pull $6-7k. $40k is lunacy. 

I feel like this is the kind of thing where you just need to find the one person who wants this car but I’m concerned that person is also the one selling it.

No. The RS5 competes with the M4 as it is based on the A4, which is notoriously a 3 Series/C Class competitor. 

I think it’s the case where the limits go way up, but it’ll still cut in if it senses you spinning or frantically sawing the wheel. I wasn’t doing qualifying pace on my lead-follow laps, but I never noticed the digital hand reaching in. I’m asking Nissan for some clarification on how stability control works, stay…

I am 100% ready for blue suede interiors please.

This does a good job of showing the wheelspin with either transmission. I thought it made the car fun in a teenage sort of way, but you can definitely tell that there’s more potential in it with a proper set of tires. 

Yeah... I had a good 4" of rearward seat travel left, but I think you’d run into a headroom problem. When I drove the track portion with a helmet on, I had to adjust the seat down to keep from grazing the headliner. But it might be worth test-fitting it! I don’t think there’s any chance in hell you’d fit in a Supra,…

Sorta. There are only 2 trims and no individual options. You either get the base model with 18" wheels, cloth seats, smaller touchscreen, etc. etc., or you get the Performance model, with all the luxury/tech doodads plus 19s, bigger brakes, and LSD. One assumes Nissan did this to get a model in under $40,000 while…

I was thinking, “and unlike the Supra, it doesn’t look like a shit sandwich”.

Tamura likens the all-wheel drive, dual-clutch GT-R to a mechanical suit, a robotic exoskeleton that gives you superhuman powers. When you’re driving a GT-R, “you are the commander,” Tamura says.

I really need someone to drill down how much of modern car’s performance is just tires. Like at some point getting a good Burgerring time for a “stock” car is just about having an option on the books that has incredibly wide P Zeros and suspension tuned to handle those. Right?

See also: the Silica revolution and how a…

Supra’s still faster at the quarter mile, same with the Mustang Mach 1 (which is also in the same price range), though apparently, it’s down to the less grippy Bridgestone rubber the Z has instead of the Michelin’s on the Supra and Mach 1.

Bob, if I’m the marketing manager @ Nissan charged with this launch, the title of this short article of yours gets framed and put in my wall. For the bean counters, marketing team, and even to the Z design/engineering teams (though I suspect to a lesser extent), it’s the punchline which epitomizes the exact desired…

This is great to hear. You know, it’s funny. For the last decade, I wrote off the Z line as boring, cheap, common, and outdated. But when I heard the 370 was finally getting put out to pasture, I came to realize that by virtue of being old and unchanged, the Z line had become something special and increasingly rare: a …

I love that Tamura made it a point to make it affordable (relative to its class) and fun. This reads as if they focused on the hard to define ‘fun for the daily driver’ metric, than track times or raw acceleration.

I agree but mostly because the new Supra’s are ugly as sin