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Originally posted by AP1ByDesign
I hate the tranny's in the new Z and G35!!
I hate the tranny's in the new Z and G35!!
That's one of my biggest complaints about the car. The tranny is too knotchy. It's hard to speed shift without grinding gears and feels sloppy compared to the S. The fact that you can get 15-20hp from an exhaust mod on the Z stems from it having a larger motor and the fact that Nissan didn't refine the car as much as Honda did the S2000. There's no replacement for displacement (except for forced induction 
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Very very few cars out there have a shifter that comes anywhere close to the S2000's....that is one thing that the S have definitely been blessed with....the shifter: by far one of the best ones.. 
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Bottom line, a guy in a Lamborghini Gallardo can have his ass handed to him by a Hyundai Sonata if the Guy in the Gallardo was a bad enough driver and Mario Andretti was in the K-car. Comparing one car to another is completely irrelevant unless you have two drivers of the same skill level, and are very familiar with the car that they are driving.
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Comparing cars this way is NOT completely irrelevant. Sure only a few top drivers can squeeze every drop of performance out a given car in a given sport. But Joe-somebody-decent-driver can get 9/10th or more of that performance out of multiple cars. Joe-somebody can tell which car is better and so can you.
Some cars have a big performance gap. Put me in an S2000 and whoever you want to in that Hyundai Sonata and, stock-for-stock, I'll kick his @ss at auto-x (not that I'd be that proud of it). It seems the 350Z and S2000 are not that widely separated. But it is still worth discussing how they drive and how they differ.
Regarding traction, note that the stock rear tires on an S2000 last about 8K miles with aggressive driving. The stock rears on a Z06 vette last an average of 15K miles. Which one do you think has a more aggressive compound? So there are traction differences.
Some cars have a big performance gap. Put me in an S2000 and whoever you want to in that Hyundai Sonata and, stock-for-stock, I'll kick his @ss at auto-x (not that I'd be that proud of it). It seems the 350Z and S2000 are not that widely separated. But it is still worth discussing how they drive and how they differ.
Regarding traction, note that the stock rear tires on an S2000 last about 8K miles with aggressive driving. The stock rears on a Z06 vette last an average of 15K miles. Which one do you think has a more aggressive compound? So there are traction differences.