GT Academy Winner Lucas Ordoñez Continues Series Success In Nissan 350Z

GT Academy Winner Lucas Ordoñez Continues Series Success In Nissan 350Z

After taking home top honours in the Nissan, Sony and Polyphony Digital GT Academy program, Lucas Ordoñez decided he could make something of a career in racing.

It turns out he might have been right, with last weekend’s efforts proving that Ordoñez’s win in the GT Academy experiment was anything but a fluke.

Ordoñez, along with experienced [...]

GT Academy Winner Intends To Continue Motorsport Career

GT Academy Winner Intends To Continue Motorsport Career

The winner of Polyphony Digital’s GT Academy experiment - a competition that put players of the popular Gran Turismo racing game into the cockpit of an actual race car - has announced that he intends to continue with a career in motorsport.

Lucas Ordonez beat thousands of other contenders to win a spot in a Nissan [...]

AEM 350Z Wins US Formula Drift Championship

AEM 350Z Wins US Formula Drift Championship

The upcoming 370Z has been generating a fair amount of interest, as you’d expect of the next iteration of one of Nissan’s halo cars. While I did say in that article that the 350Z is a bit long in the tooth, that’s not to say its ready for retirement.

Tanner Foust has proved that the old [...]

Car Shopping in the USA, Part II: What Makes a Future Classic?

Car Shopping in the USA, Part II: What Makes a Future Classic?

Last week I was overjoyed to hear that my 63-year-old mother was finally in the market for a new car. My secret master plan was to pick out a future classic for her so that when she was ready to sell it, I’d have a golden opportunity to buy the mintest little-old-lady car on Earth.

Next gen 2008 Nissan 350Z to share GT-R V6

Next gen 2008 Nissan 350Z to share GT-R V6

According to GoAuto the next gen Z (or ‘Zee’ as the Americans like to call it) is going to feature naturally aspirated GT-R power. GoAuto’s Nissan sources have confirmed that the 350Z replacement will be codenamed Z34 and will feature the VQ37VHR 3.7-litre DOHC 24-valve V6 expected to be the basis of the 2008 GT-R [...]

Toyota FT-HS basis for next Supra

Toyota FT-HS basis for next Supra

We won’t dwell on this for too long but we do need to break-up all of the ‘small-car’ news of the recent day or so. We all know that there is no better way to do that than ponder some good old-fashioned unsubstantiated rumours from the dark recesses of the internet.

According to he (or she) [...]

Nissan 350Z – Zeds not dead

Nissan 350Z – Zeds not dead

The venerable 350Z has been updated for 2007. While still looking much the same as before the big news is the move to the VQ35HR V6 engine. For the observant amongst us that is the same base engine that is expected to feature in the Skyline GTR less the turbos and 120kW or so.

The new [...]

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