Several years ago, Nissan’s chief product specialist for the GT-R and Z, Hiroshi Tamura, bought an R32 Skyline GT-R souped up to about 1,000 horsepower. He made it his own by detuning it to 600 because sending more than 150 horsepower to each driven wheel simply overwhelmed the tire technology of the time and made the car completely unruly. As he did with his R32, Tamura aimed to make the 2023 Nissan Z more of a willing dance partner. This overarching philosophy drove many decisions that now promise to draw distinctions between the significantly revised Z34 and its archrival, the J29 Toyota GR Supra.
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