For the 1990 model year, the 300ZX sports car from Nissan received a ground-up redo, with the Z31 generation that had debuted for 1984 being replaced with the all-new Z32 series.
Like its predecessor, the new 300ZX was available as a two-seater or a 2+2, in both normally aspirated and turbocharged form. For the North American market you could get the t-top roof in either base or Twin Turbo form, but the slick roof was only available in non-turbo cars.
Under the hood of the base car was a VG30DE 3.0L V-6, developed from the motor in the earlier car, but now sporting DOHC heads with four valves per cylinder and Nissan's N-VCT variable valve timing. This bumped the output from 165 to 222 SAE net horsepower.
This gave the normally-aspirated base Z-car a zero-to-sixty time of 6.7 seconds and let it dispose of the quarter mile in 15 seconds flat at 93mph, according to a period test from Car and Driver, and it ran all the way up to 143 on the top end. For the first time in half a decade you didn't need to spring for the turbocharged version to hold your head up at the traffic light against V-8 pony cars.
This Cherry Red Pearl car is a 1990 model, going by its lack of a badge and the spot on the fascia where the "NISSAN" sticker used to be. If it were optioned like C/D's test car, it would have cost $30,160, which comes to about $74k in current dollars.
This one was photographed in September of 2021 using a Nikon D2X and a 24-120mm f/3.5-5.6 zoom lens.
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