"Steve is equipped with Electronic Fool Injection" (itsalwayssteve)
11/16/2015 at 13:34 • Filed to: jaguar, z-car, jaguar 380zx
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"Steve is equipped with Electronic Fool Injection" (itsalwayssteve)
11/16/2015 at 13:34 • Filed to: jaguar, z-car, jaguar 380zx | 1
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So, um... I’m just going to leave a succession of four pictures to see if anyone else noticed this
not for canada - australian in disguise
> Steve is equipped with Electronic Fool Injection
11/16/2015 at 13:36 |
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E: I am dumb, thought you were saying the E-Type and the F-Type looked similar, along with the Z-Cars
Sam
> Steve is equipped with Electronic Fool Injection
11/16/2015 at 13:40 |
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They look like dicks.
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Steve is equipped with Electronic Fool Injection
> not for canada - australian in disguise
11/16/2015 at 13:42 |
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The Z took styling cues from the E-type, and the F-type seems to have some styling cues from the current Z (along with its e-type ass.)
asindhidude
> Steve is equipped with Electronic Fool Injection
11/16/2015 at 13:43 |
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Not sure what you’re getting at?
RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
> Steve is equipped with Electronic Fool Injection
11/16/2015 at 13:43 |
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The Z and E similarities, I had noticed. The spawn similarities, not so much.
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Steve is equipped with Electronic Fool Injection
> Sam
11/16/2015 at 13:47 |
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McMike
> Steve is equipped with Electronic Fool Injection
11/16/2015 at 13:47 |
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Also members of the long-nose, two-seater club...
4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30
> Sam
11/16/2015 at 13:52 |
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Well I guess that settles it. I officially like penis.
Highlander-Datsuns are Forever
> Steve is equipped with Electronic Fool Injection
11/16/2015 at 14:29 |
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The E-Type and Z are pretty much my favorite cars ever. The Z was styled after the E-Type, and Ferrari datona with a motor based off of the Mercedes Inline 6 of the day. That’s what the Japaneese engineers were good at, making a regular car styled after these literal works of art. Ferrari Datona for your time.
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Steve is equipped with Electronic Fool Injection
> Highlander-Datsuns are Forever
11/16/2015 at 14:58 |
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I wasn’t aware of the Ferrari connection but I definitely see it in the tail:
And I can definitely see it in the 240Z-G
BoxerFanatic, troublesome iconoclast.
> Steve is equipped with Electronic Fool Injection
11/16/2015 at 15:41 |
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A: Cab aft-ward design of front-engined coupes, because that is the layout geometry.
B: Generational vehicles. F-type is a successor to Jaguar’s XKE, aka ‘E-type’, and the Z34 370Z is a generational successor to S30 240Z.
C: The original S30-chassis Nissan Fairlady Z project, known as Datsun 240Z in the US, was a multi-year development project throughout the 1960s, originally started by Yamaha, intended to be developed for Nissan, as an affordable, Japanese sports car that took significant inspiration from the Jaguar XKE as an inspiration. Many Japanese engineers after WWII went to Europe (and North America) for re-training in automotive engineering, and learned from companies like Jaguar and Mercedes Benz, which both had rear-driven, inline-6-powered 2-seat coupe sports cars in the 1950s and early 60s.
Ultimately, Yamaha pitched the project to Nissan, Nissan decided to keep development in-house, and Yamaha’s project ended up being taken up by Toyota, as the 2000GT, and Nissan used a more affordable, but larger displacement 2.4 liter single overhead cam engine, which later grew to 2.6 and 2.8 liters, rather than a small 2.0L dual-cam engine. Very few 432s and 432Rs had the Skyline’s Prince Motors S20 DOHC 2.0L engine, also used in the classic ‘Hakosuka’ and ‘Kenmeri’ Skyline GT-R models.
One could argue that the S30 Nissan Z, and the 2000GT Toyota are cousins, and both nieces or some distant relative of the Jaguar E-type.
Referring back to point A, can you really name a front engined sports car coupe that doesn’t look geometrically and proportionally similar to those cars? That is the way cars look with a body wrapped around components in that layout, and any concern for aerodynamic streamlining.
BMW Z4 Coupe, Chevrolet Corvette, Mercedes SL, Aston Martin Vantage, Triumph GT6, Toyota A20-series fastback Celica, Various fastback muscle cars, japanese cars, and probably more that I haven’t mentioned... They all look like that in 2-seat or 2+2 configuration, because that is the way they are made.
desertdog5051
> Steve is equipped with Electronic Fool Injection
11/16/2015 at 19:57 |
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Windshield angle.