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In 1991, JUN attended the Bonneville Speed trials at the Bonneville Salt Flats (see also Bonneville Speedway) with a Z32 Nissan 300ZX that was extensively modified. [1] JUN was able to record a speed of 422 km/h (262 mph), [2] which was a world record for a “road”-going car.
The 1995 GTS 300ZX car would debut with the V8 Nissan VH engine at Daytona [40] and would place first in the GTS-1 class at the 12 Hours of Sebring and Moosehead Grand Prix in Halifax. [ 41 ] The JUN-BLITZ Bonneville Z32 holds the E/BMS class land speed record of 260.87 mph (419.84 km/h) set at the 1995 Bonneville Speed Trial.
While the model names were based on the engine capacity for the US markets, with the 240Z having a 2.4-liter L24 engine and the 260Z having a 2.6-liter L26 engine and so on to the 300ZX 3.0-litre V6, due to Japanese taxation laws relating to engine capacity, some second and third generation (S130 and Z31) Fairlady Z cars were produced for the ...
2.1 Engine displacement. 2.1.1 Largest. ... Best-selling single model – Volkswagen Beetle (21,529,464 units sold between 1938 and 2003) Best single-year sales ...
A turbocharged model, using the L28ET engine rated at 180 bhp (134 kW; 182 PS) at 5,600 rpm and 203 ft•lbs (275n•m) of torque at 2,800 rpm, was introduced to the US export market in 1981. At the same time the Japanese domestic market received L20ET (2 L turbo) in both manual and automatic transmissions.
Nissan 300 is a badge applied to different Nissan models available with a 3.0 L V6 engine: Nissan 300C , a luxury car produced from 1984 to 1987 Nissan 300ZX , a sports car of the Z-car series produced from 1983 to 2000
After the Nissan 300ZX was withdrawn from the U.S. market in 1996, Nissan initially tried to keep the Z name alive by re-creating the 240Z the following year. The car was conceived by Nissan's North American design team in their free time, and the concept was introduced in a four state Road Show in July 1998 to various car media, dealers, and employees.
The VG series engine was put into thousands of Nissan vehicles, debuting in Japan in the 1983 Nissan Gloria/Nissan Cedric, and in the US and other markets in the 1984 Nissan 300ZX. When the Nissan VQ engine was introduced in 1994, the VG engine was slowly phased out in Nissan cars, and after 2002 it was only available in the Nissan Frontier and ...