25 years later, the Nissan 300ZX Twin Turbo is still dreamworthy - AutoWeek
What's the car of your dreams. Is it something fast, something rare, something seductive. I'll tell you what my dream car is. It's a Nissan 300ZX Twin Turbo, built from 1989 to 1996 (and for two more years in Japan). A car that appeals to those who know what it is. Can a car speak to you, even if you've never driven it. If you've never driven anything. The 300ZX fought Corvettes, Porsches, Supras. It still looks contemporary, but it was very much a car of the 1990s: what resulted when the newfound, misguided enthusiasm for flashy futurism actually gave way to practicality. The frivolity of the '80s and its flashy techno-paradise of lasers and blinking digital displays gave way to a bunch of hungover engineers who looked at each other, slowly took off their Duran Duran hats, and said, "OK, seriously. "The world's most thoroughly modern sports car," we said in October of 1989. "For the ZX Turbo hardly misses a technological trick…and therein lies both the car's greatest strengths and its debatable weaknesses. Autoweek October 9, 1989. When the Nissan 300ZX went away in America, in 1996, it was more than just. Source: autoweek.com
