It's Z against Supra in a battle for supremacy among new sports cars with old names.
Intriguingly, Toyota does not build the Supra; BMW, its partner in the project, does. The new Supra is in fact the hardtop version of theZ4. So aside from body panels, there isn't much Toyota about the car save for tuning. As for the new Z—Nissan dropped the numeric part of the car's name—it is a greatest-hits collection of Nissan and Infiniti parts. The FM chassis, for example, .
You would never know by looking, but the Supra is actually 0.1 inch longer than the Z, and it's 0.4 inch wider, too. The Z, however, is 0.9 inch taller, which makes it look like the larger car. The Nissan is heavier, 3,597 pounds compared to the Toyota's 3,395, a fairly significant difference. More significant is that 57 percent of the Z's weight rests on its front wheels, whereas only 52 percent of the Supra's weight is up front. Both vehicles have 3.
In contrast, the Supra's brake feel is quite good: You can easily stay out of the ABS and still find maximum braking. The Supra also bested the Z in terms of roadholding, pulling 1.04 g on the skidpad compared to only 0.92 g. All of the above adds up to a big gap between the two cars in our figure-eight test: 25.0 seconds for the Nissan and 23.8 for the Toyota. A delta exceeding 1.0 second indicates these cars live in different performance classes.
My feelings about both cars pretty much mirrored what our test team discovered at the track, but Brady felt a bit different."This Nissan platform's stability impresses me—decent grip and enough control through midcorner pavement imperfections to keep me pushing with no fear of punishment," he said."The body moves around a bit but never feels out of sorts.
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