Z Car Performance Statistics

Z Car Performance Statistics Project

Car Magazine Test Results - 1970-1996

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Z Car Model Performance Statistics Index Index last updated June 10, 2004
Stock and Modified 240Z models (S30-US) Tested by Major Magazines
70 240Z	70 240Z	70 240Z	70 240Z	70 240Z
70 240Z Rally	70 240Z Omega	70 240Z BRE	71 240Z	71 240Z
71 240Z	71 240Z Automatic	71 240Z Automatic	71 240Z	72 240Z 5spd
72 240Z	72 Wolf/Kaminari Z	7X Sharp 240Z	71 L28	71 L28
73 240Z 5Spd	73 240Z
Stock and Modified 260Z (S30-US) models Tested by Major Magazines
74 260Z	74 260Z	74 260Z Automatic 2+2	74 260Z (UK)
Stock and Modified 280Z (S30-US) models Tested by Major Magazines
75 280Z	75 280Z	75 280Z 5spd, 2+2	75 280Z	75 280Z 2+2
77 280Z 2+2	78 280Z 5 spd	78 280Z BAE	78 280Z dm Eng.
Stock and Modified 280ZX models (S130-US)Tested by Major Magazines
79 280ZX	79 280ZX	79 280ZX Automatic	79 280ZX
79 280ZX 2+2	79 280ZX	80 IMSA GTU	81 280ZX Turbo, Automatic
81 280ZX Turbo, AT	81 280ZX Turbo	81 280ZX Turbo	81 280ZX Turbo, Automatic
82 280ZX	82 280ZX Turbo	82 IMSO GTO	80 SCCA T/A
Stock and Modified 280ZX models (Z31)Tested by Major Magazines
84 Non-Turbo	84 Turbo Z	84 Anniv. Turbo	84 300ZX 2+2
84 Turbo Z (auto)	84 Turbo Z (auto)	85 Turbo Z (mod)	86 Non-Turbo
86 Turbo Z	86 Turbo Z	87 Turbo Z	87 Turbo Z
88 Turbo Z	88 Turbo Z
Stock and Modified 300ZX models (Z32) Tested by Major Magazines
90 Non-Turbo	90 300ZXTT	90 300ZXTT	90 300ZXTT	90 300ZXTT Auto
90 300ZXTT	90 300ZXTT	90 300ZXTT	90 GTZ	90 GTZ
90 SR71	90 GTZ	90 Wolf TT	91 300ZXTT	92 300ZXTT
92 300ZXTT	93 300ZXTT	93 300ZXTT	94 300ZXTT	95 2+2
92 300ZXTT	93 300ZXTT	93 300ZXTT	94 300ZXTT	95 2+2
95 HKS Exh	95 Int/Exh	95 Wolf TT

Z Car Model Performance Statistics Index

The table above lists all the Z car models for which I believe I have unique, published magazine performance test statistics. I have not had time yet to determine why there are multiple listings for the same year and model provided me with original project material, such as the multiple references to "70 240Z" in the table, but most likely it was because Mr. Vickrey found more than one performance test article on a particularly popular Z car model of the day and included every one that his research turned up. Table above has no hot links to Performance statistics pages yet (June 9, 2004). Purpose of table is primarly to encourage owners of well preserved, stock Z car models listed to contact me about submitting a quality photograph or two of their cars for possible inclusion in this and another Z car documentation display.

Project History & Introduction

In the late 1990's I was contacted by a personal Z car website owner stating that life's demands would no longer afford him the time to complete an ambitious Z Car related documentaion project to assemble and publish an extensive compilation of performance test statistics gleaned from many years of major car magazine publications by the well known motorsport writer, Donn Vickrey.

From what I understood at the time, the beginnings of a modestly refined web presentation layout and aprox 6 representative photos of stock Z cars had already been assembled and built by this gentleman before he had to bail from the project and remove them from his server, which was suffering from acute lack of hard drive free space back in the days of expensive, relatively small capacity drives of that era.

Apparently, the project owner had first approached Carl Beck, of the IZCC, to offer it to him to complete and publish at zhome.com, but was turned down for reasons unclear to me. My conjecture has been that it was most likely due to the hard work, time and digial photo preparation skills that would have been required to complete it as a useful and and attractive web presentation.

Whatever the case, with Mr. Vickrey's permission and blessing many years ago, I accepted the project and was sent all the material developed to that date. Since then, it has all sat dormant here, beggiing me to finish it until this past week. Supported by the energy coming from numerous other projects I have been recently working on, I have once again dusted the cobb webs off the original material sent to me in the late 90s plus a modest amount of preliminary web page and spread sheet work I developed long ago and have begun to organize an index to all the performance test data that Donn Vickery originally compiled from major magazine reviews of the past.

Sample Photo Layouts

Z31 layout # 1