The Z Factor

I'm sure that titles been used before...

My good friend Eric passed away 1 year ago (Jan. 19th) and in his memory, I have is old 300z. I was thinking about it the other day and got myself thinking about Z's in general. I remember this article from Car and Driver abut the new 370z.

At first, I kept thinking, if I were trying to be cheap, I would just buy an old 350z. I didn't think anything was wrong with it. The money you would save makes up for the difference in HP. But then...something caught my eye more than the weird looks and the increase in power. [S-Mode]. A little button that I hadn't seen before. Reading more into it, I discovered that the 370z has something called "SynchroRev Match" that basically does Rev Matching for you.

Rev Matching...from what I could determine...is when you're going to shift a manual transition, and make that shift smooth, you're going to do this thing called Rev Match. Let's say you're going from 3rd to 2nd in making a turn (heal-toe style): step on the break, push in the clutch, shift into 2nd, (while still on the break and clutch) pump the gas to bring the revs up, let go of the clutch before the revs drop, let go of the break and you can now gas it through the turn. Sounds like a lot of work to me. That's why I've never tried. With this "SynchroRev Match" (of what I THINK happens): step on the break, push in the clutch, shift to 2nd, let go the clutch and go.

Nissan...you're making it too easy for people to drive fast...and I congratulate you for it.