Score: 8.5
I will promptly cream my pants if this winds up being true. I admit, I've never driven a 350Z, but every review I've read says it seems a bit heavy for its target audience, which want quicker responses and a mass that won't get locked into understeer too easily. Taking 300 pounds off the chassis is probably the best move Nissan could make. I really hope the part about the 3.7 litre V6 is wrong (in all likelihood it won't be of course)... engines need to get smaller, and in the 350's case, that wouldn't be too bad of an idea. Why Nissan has never reworked the VQ engine down to a short-stroke 3.0 or 3.1 litres with an 8000+ rpm redline is beyond me. Those engines have always had good low-end torque, so decreasing displacement and reworking the cams to have more of a Civic Si VTEC feel makes sense to me. A hot cam from 5500 to 8000? That would provide plenty of kick (they could likely get the same 320 hp out of it), and wouldn't sacrifice too much everyday drivability, or track-presence, given the right gear ratios.
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