4 Chassis Balance The 2023 Nissan Z is based on the FM platform (Front Midship) and it gets its name based on the location of the engine.

The new Nissan Z shares its platform with the previous 370Z that was last offered for the 2020 model year, but its exterior styling, interior design and powertrain are all new.

Known for their looks, reliability, performance and affordability, every Z car has been sold in Japan as the Fairlady Z and elsewhere under the names Nissan Fairlady Z (S30), Nissan Fairlady Z (S130), Nissan 300ZX, Nissan 350Z, Nissan 370Z and Nissan Z.

Japan The 2023 Nissan Z is a very solid sports car but according to a report out of Japan, production is operating well below expected levels because of issues at the paint shop in Nissan's Tochigi plant in Japan.

The new Nissan Z is made in Japan as a next-generation sports car.

Nissan has unveiled the Nissan Z Nismo, a hopped-up version of its super-cool coupe that continues to evade the European market.

The original Z was black and white, and the original name was "the zebra." However, Mr. Nissan was told about how cars here were named after tougher animals (cobra, mustang) and he just shortened it to Z.

The Zephyr was the standard traffic patrol car used by Lancashire and other police forces, while the Zodiac was only used for specialist tasks such as traffic duty. Also, the term "Z-car" was used by British newspaper publishing companies to refer to any type of police vehicle.

DCI Barlow (Stratford John) recruited DS John Watt (Frank Windsor) to head up the new motorised unit. Together they recruited PCs Smith (Brian Blessed), Weir (Joseph Brady), Lynch (James Ellis) and Steele (Jeremy Kemp) to the two car unit - call sign Z for Zulu.

"...with the birth of the Z the complexion of the American Sports Car Market changed overnight.".... Yoshihiko Matsuo. By 1965 the responsibility for the Design and Development of Nissan Motors Ltd.'s automotive products rested within its own Engineering Design and Development Department, headed by Mr. Teiichi Hara.

In particular, the Nissan Z is made in the Nissan Motor Tochigi factory, which is located in the Japanese city of Kaminokawa within the prefecture (province) of Tochigi.

Z-Cars or Z Cars (pronounced "zed cars") is a British television police procedural series centred on the work of mobile uniformed police in the fictional town of Newtown, based on Kirkby, near Liverpool. Produced by the BBC, it debuted in January 1962 and ran until September 1978.