Should You Buy a 2025 Nissan Z? Thorough Review By A Mechanic

Hello and welcome to the CarGuru Reviews channel and welcome to the 2025 Nissan Z. In today's video, we're going to do a proper technical review under the hood, take a look underneath it, inside and out, some things we like, some things we do not like, right after this. Let's start our technical review with the engine. This is the VR30DDTT 3.0L V6 twin-turbo engine. Let's start with this mechanical construction. Pretty interesting engine. So, at the very top, you have plastic valve covers. Pretty standard in the automotive industry. Underneath that, you have a one-piece cylinder head with buckets. Manual valve adjustment. That's actually the best way to do it for performance engines, by the way. No lifters or rollers and things flying out or whatever. This is a solid design for performance. This engine is a timing chain engine, of course. It has three timing chains. So, two of those timing chains, one for each bank from cams to crank. One of the timing chains is a little one that goes to the oil pump down and it does have a little spring-loaded guide that puts tension on it. The main two chains, they do have an internal hydraulic tensioner. This engine, of course, dual overhead cams, so it has four cams. You do have variable valve timing on intake and exhaust. On the intake, it's electronic. It just has a little motor, spins the inside of the gear. If that motor spins faster than the cam, it's going to turn that gear and advance the timing. If it spins slower than the cam, it's going to turn the gear internally and retard the timing. If they spin at the same speed, it's based on timing. The exhaust, on the other hand, is oil control. It does have a little kind of mini cover thing that has an oil control valve right there. I can live with that. Although, the other style, where it just bolts straight onto the gear, would be nicer. Here's the thing with this engine, though. So, it has a front timing cover, but it has also these mini timing covers on the side that contain the motor and that little oil control valve for the exhaust one. Pretty interesting setup, because if you, I'm hoping, and I tried to dig a little bit in the repair manual here, I'm hoping, if you need to replace the gears, you don't have to remove the whole front cover. Doubt it, but looking promising, let's put it this way. Maybe we'll find a way or something. The block is an aluminum block. It does have the main caps integrated into the upper oil pan. This is an upper oil pan, lower oil pan. This engine is twin turbocharged, so there's two small turbos. They don't boost very high. I think the highest we've seen on the gauge is 10 psi, 10-11, give or take. They are oil and coolant cooled, and, of course, the oil part. This is, manufacturers love to do this. There is a pipe that comes out of the turbo, then another pipe that is attached to the block for the drain back. For the oil, when it circulates, it goes back. There's a little section in between these two pipes that has a rubber hose. Every time that rubber hose sits right underneath the exhaust, super hot area of the engine, it will turn like a biscuit. In the future, start coming apart, and start leaking oil. Why could that be a straight metal pipe? I have no idea. They always do this. All of them do this. This turbo has an electronic wastegate. Good and bad. Good, it's pretty fast, works very accurate. Bad, it is an electronic part and a very hot part of the engine. Failure is possible. Vacuum control, very simple, isn't much to it. This doesn't have an air-to-air intercooler. This has a liquid-to-air intercooler. And not one, two. That's what makes this engine extremely busy. We'll talk about that part. So, because of that, you have two cooling systems in this car. You have the regular engine cooling system, as a radiator, as a mechanical water pump. It is actually driven by the belt, which is nice. And that engine cooling system does have a coolant management valve, which sends coolant where it needs to go, blocks it where it doesn't need to go, for faster warm-ups, kind of efficiency and efficient cooling, because this is a performance car. The second cooling system is for the intercoolers. Also has a separate radiator, has an electric water pump circulated. That's pretty much how liquid-to-air intercooler cars are. Pretty similar setup. You have two tanks, two separate circuits. One note, though, on the Nismo model, which is like the high, high performance model of this, they do have two engine radiators, two sub-radiators for the intercoolers, just for extra cooling, because that is a very serious model. This engine has direct injection only. So, you have six direct injectors. You do have a high-pressure fuel pump, the whole nine yards. Doesn't have port injectors. I wish it did, but that's how they did this. Having said that, there's two interesting things about this engine. This has a pretty sophisticated PCV system. Not the typical ancient thing with a little valve and a couple hoses. It's actually pretty sophisticated for this engine, which is nice. Second thing is, this engine has an oil cooler, but it's not liquid-to-liquid. It's actually an external oil cooler. Good, but I feel like the liquid-to-liquid is a little bit more efficient, but, hey, it's pretty cool to have one extra radiator in the front for cooling. Having said that, let's talk about the transmission options here, which are two. You do have a nine-speed automatic transmission, or, like this particular one, a six-speed manual transmission. I've only driven one automatic. It was okay. A little bit on the lazy side. Mind you, it is that 9G Mercedes-Jetco-Nissan deal. So, unknown who ended up making it, but it's basically a Mercedes-Benz transmission. Good transmission, a little bit on the lazy side, but, you know, for what this car's intended purpose is, I think it's okay. But the manual. Manual is just a beautiful thing. So, here's what I love about this manual transmission. Six-speed. Does have, for first, second, and third, triple cone synchros. For fourth gear, you have a double synchro. So, it's super smooth. It just feels great, this transmission. Maybe not for high-performance driving, or track driving. It's a little bit on the softer side of things, but on a daily driving, it's just beautiful. It just feels right. And the best part about this transmission is, it's not some strange transmission that has a weird clutch, and things are all over the place. This has a very normal clutch. Throttle bearing pushes on the pressure plate, just like your everyday economy car that makes three horsepower. Very basic. I love it. I mean, we're going to look at it a little bit. Transmission has a lot of access. Things are open. That part, they really got right. We need to do a clutch on this. It's very easy. Very easy. I love that. There's nothing out of the world about it. Having said all that, let's talk about a few observations under the hood. The biggest problem with this car, which is going to be a problem, that I promise you, access. Just look at the engine bay. It is extremely busy. The access is very limited. This engine is a big V6. Turbos, intercoolers on top. You can't even see the spark plugs where they go. Very busy. You know what this reminds me of? If you remember the early 90s 300ZX, beautiful car. It failed because of how busy the engine bay is, and how many problems they had, and how expensive they were to repair. Because every little thing takes a fortune to fix, because so many stuff. Well, here we are again. Again, same problem. That's going to be a problem, folks. And the second thing is, the quality of things are pretty high. There's one thing I'm super proud of them for. If you look right in the front of the engine, where that multi-wave valve, or the cooler distribution valve is, it's made of aluminum. Very proud of them for that. Super proud of them for that. But you can do it. Nissan can do it. Manufacturers. Y'all can also do it. Because this is just beautiful. Now, once we look past that, there are a few plastic-y stuff in the cooling system. But I see more hose, and clamp, and steel pipe, and or aluminum housing, than I see plastic-y plastic stuff. Quality is actually pretty impressive here. I like it. You do have this kind of strut bar, if you would. I like that it's slightly adjustable. It's pretty cool. Good thing is, things are high quality. Bad thing is, it's very busy down here. I mean, yeah, there's absolutely no room to do anything. Let alone, any modifications and repairs will get expensive pretty quick. I feel like that's a problem coming back from 300ZX. Let's take a look underneath the Nissan Z. Now, the front is full covered up. This is plastic. I really like the quality of this plastic. I just gotta say that. And then you have subframe right here, which kind of, I feel like this is a removable piece, which makes life a little bit better. So, the subframe is here, and then here, and this thing ties them up. You see what's here? The rack and pinion is here. Except, if you come around and look, I wonder, if you remove this, are you able to get that rack out? Because this giant motor is kind of going to be in the way. So, I think this is one of those times where the engineers will kind of make you think the job is very easy, until you turn this, and this motor doesn't clear. I hope it clears, because this is, this makes it really nice. Remove this, pull the rack, makes it very simple. Let's look at the front suspension here, and the brakes. So, you do have an aluminum knuckle. You do have a pretty large lower control arm that is also aluminum, does have the ball joint built into it. If you look all the way up, you do have another control arm that's also aluminum, with a built-in ball joint. You do have a four-piston caliper that is made by Akebono, not Brembo. Pretty interesting. Actually, the brakes are nice. Could be nicer, but we'll talk about that a little bit later. Aluminum sway bars. Assuming in a car like this, they're trying to save as much weight as possible, but that's how they went with it. There's something I want to show you. This is, we talked about this a little bit, but this is the stuff that, if you look all the way up here, it's going to be potentially hard to see. Do you see that hose? That hose is the oil return for the turbo. Why is it a hose? This is what's going to get brittle, start leaking, and make a giant mess. I don't know why manufacturers do that, but yeah. Transmission, on the other hand, it is pretty small, actually. Very small. I mean, think about it. There's a bell housing, which Nissan decided the bell housing of the transmission was going to be one piece. Bell housing is not removable, but then if you look here, the transmission actually ends here. This is just a tail piece, and they had to make a little contraption mechanism to make it reach, because this transmission is very small. Two things about this. A little bit adds more stuff to it. Not the end of the world, but also usually two things. Either the transmission was too small, that means this transmission was not designed for this car, or it's an afterthought. One of the two, but it works. Not a big deal. Exhaust, up to this point, is... It's okay. From this point onward, though, I mean, beautiful quality. I really like this, like the welds. Flex pipes, don't like them too much, but even those, they look much better. You do have a single mount on the transmission in the back here. Drive shaft is painted, although it looks like I painted it in my backyard. It's just not the highest quality in the world, but we're not going to complain about that. Not a big issue. But here's what I like. If you look around here, look all the way up, look how much room you have on top of the transmission. I love that. If you want to pull this transmission out, I mean, we're going to get a little technical here. Say you're doing a clutch here, it almost looks like you don't even have to lower this transmission to get to the top bolts. Wide open. Love that. And then the secondary cylinder for the clutch is right here. I like that. It's a very nicely accessible area. The bleeder doesn't have a cap. I guess that's how they did that, but not the end of the world. Moving on from that, we actually do not have a center support bearing. Pretty cool. And they managed to do that without the center support bearing. Just one less thing to go south, I suppose. Then we get to the giant behemoth of a differential. I mean, look at this thing. Massive differential. That's what you expect. Love the fins. This is actually cast iron. This rear part appears to be aluminum, but very nice differential. I love it. Love these fins. This is very purpose-made, folks. If you do need extra cooling on a unit like this, don't understand what this is. I feel like this is what's going to get caught and rips the diff. Hope you're not going off-roading in this. Don't. Let's look at the rear suspension here. So, full independent rear suspension. Aluminum knuckle. One control arm is aluminum. Top one is aluminum. It's actually a double wishbone setup, if you look at the top. The rest are steel control arms. You do have the shock separate from the spring. Spring, shock, and two-piston caliper in the back. Also an Akebono unit. Just something different. It seems like every new car has a Brembo Brembo. Then I really like this brace. Look at this brace. Just kind of stiffens the car. Gives it better stability. Nice thing is this has cable. This has like two shoes and a roller head and whatnot because it's mechanical. That's part of the old school part of this car, which we're going to talk about. Exhaust, you have two tips. One thing I would like to note. This here is a charcoal canister. I'm assuming this is some kind of heat sink dissipator thing because we're very close to the exhaust. You could have put a little shield here. It would be nice. It's a little too close to the exhaust, but not the end of the world. What is nice though, look at this. It's fully covered. Fully covered here. Fully covered over here. I love that. And you have a little tie-down hook here. It's bolted to the body. I really like that. I just feel one thing and I have to say it looking underneath this car. We've looked at a lot of Nissans and their quality of things under the car is okay. Sometimes it's not. This feels like it's from a different planet. It almost feels like this is our halo model. Let's put the top quality materials here and I see it because this, the finish on this and just the quality of the steel and everything, it just is impeccable. Truth has to be said. And the quality goes beyond these. Look at the seam sealer here. Love this proper application. Guessing they didn't deem this worthy of seam sealer, which is okay. But then there is the, how should I call it, the copy-paste effect of car manufacturers. This thing. This is a light bar. It lights the floor. I'm going to tell you this is the copy-paste. They have it on other models. They copied it. They pasted it here. All this is supposed to do is when you go jack up the car, you're going to destroy it. Actually, look how close we had to get to actually not crush it. Be careful when you go lift one of these because this is an afterthought. So there is that. Let's take a look at the outside of the Nissan Z. But before we start, I want to say one thing. It's no secret that I'm a huge Supra guy. And the Supra and at some point the Nissan Z, they were kind of rivals. But I got to say one thing. Supra brothers need to forgive me. For the longest time, I've always thought that the Z looked better. I have to get that out of my system. This one is definitely no exception. The thing looks great. It just has a look that is just unique. I love it. It does not follow fashion. It doesn't really care. It has its own thing. Start with the front here. I love these headlights. They're big headlights. All cars are moving to these razor sharp headlights and whatnot. No, this one, we got our own style going on. The front, this is actually the grille. And I like how this overhangs it. This is, again, a specific design. I love that it's not over the top. I know some will say it is. It is not. Radar cruise control, the radar sensors all the way at the bottom. Now, I really like the new Nissan logo. What I like more about it is they have this crease in the middle of it. So the logo is like kind of spread out across it. Looks really nice. Then we look at the hood. I really like this design. They raised it up so much here and then they split it into two lines. But the rest of it is fully flat. I love it. Now, unlike the Supra or the BMW Supra, which has the hood kind of being massive, it's just a normal hood. I really like that. Then we look at the side. The side has an unmistakable modern Z look. Look at the 350Z, 370Z. They all have the same profile. Old school. I love it. Don't change perfection, Nissan. Thank you very much for that. So the cool thing about, even the 350Z has the same thing, and the 370 and this one. You have a line that goes up, almost feels off, and then it dips down. So this part of the roof is higher than the back. Pretty cool design. Not a lot of cars have that. It gives it this very interesting profile, and then it has this line. They really emphasized it in this one. All the modern Z cars have this. It just looks beautiful. I really like it. And equally, because of this design, you have a tiny little window here. Not big, but you can see something out of it. And I love how this one, they're just calling it the Z. Not a 400, not a 300, not whatever. Just the Nissan Z. At this point, you all should know what the Nissan Z is. And I agree with that. Fuel door. Always, these cars will have a strange fuel door. It is a capped fuel door, which is nice. This car does take premium only. Understandably so. It is a turbo performance car. Then we look at the back. And the back, to me, is my favorite part. It looks great. This is a retro look, folks. If you go back to the days of the 300ZX in the early 90s, this is what this takes you back to. And I love it. And I love more is the badging. Nissan Z. That's it. Nothing else. You need to know nothing more about this car. That's how they do it. I love this little spoiler. Actually, it looks very nice. And dual tips at the bottom. You do have a little diffuser thingy at the bottom. It just looks great. One of the best things about this car is the way it looks. Now, let's look at the trunk. Unlike the Supra or the BMW Supra, which doesn't have a button to open the trunk, this one does in the logo. I actually really like that. It's a hatchback. And this has always been the case. Here's the best part about this. The main rival of this is the Toyota Supra, although that's BMW. Talk about that. But this has a much wider opening. So it's a more usable space in that aspect. But it's not as deep. That, I guess, is a trade-off. You do have a giant structural brace right here that goes from shock tower to shock tower. You do have your own cargo net. Z cargo net. It's not a one from the Altima, just so you know that. And then, we look here. This is the part that's a little bit strange. So, this floor mat, super nice, super thick. It has a Z on it. And then, this floor mat, it just had a little bit of extra from the Altima. And then, we come to another third cover. Of course, you don't have a spare tire. Didn't expect it to have one. You do have the Bose subwoofer here, though. You have an inflate kit, a little bit of storage, owner's manual is right here. Again, this is not a car for storage, obviously, but you still have some. And it is usable, not like the super narrow entrance of the Supra. I love it. But what I love more is the quality touches. Listen to this sound. I wish all hatches sounded like that. But the look of this car is just the best part about it. And then, we got to talk about one last little detail, the door handle. See, most new cars are going with, oh, we have these hidden door handles and the crazy weird stuff. Doesn't this do the same? I mean, aerodynamic-wise, this is just going to glide over it. But, this is a mechanical door handle. That is pretty cool. You have a button to lock, unlock both sides. Here's something about this door, though. This section is pretty large because of the design of the car. I'm assuming that's structural because this part is normal, but usually the door doesn't extend this much past. But this is a pretty large structure here, assuming for safety, but it is pretty cool. Last thing I'll show you, although we're getting into interior a little bit. Thank you for doing this, Nissan. The HVAC vents on the door. And the way this works is, if you look right here, it's open, and it actually gets the air from here through the door. That is just brilliant. That's how most sports cars that have no space should do it, because then the dash looks great. I really like the way this looks. It just, when you see one in person, you'll know what I mean, because the thing looks great. Let's take a look at the interior of the Nissan Z, and there's something to be said here. The word that comes to mind when you look at this interior is retro. That's exactly what this is. So, this reminds me a lot, and some will disagree, of the 300ZX interior. Very similar. And then, I love the fact that there are some problems with new cars that are starting to pop up. This doesn't have. HVAC vents are actually reachable to your face, because you don't have a giant tablet that goes from the roof to the floor that takes up all the space of the vents. I mean, they went so far to keep this interior extremely simple, and I love it. Look at the infotainment screen. So, you have technically two infotainment units. You have the one in the higher trims, and then you have the base one. They're exactly the same size. They look exactly the same, except one has wireless Apple CarPlay and Android Auto. One doesn't. It has wired. Very responsive infotainment. Works pretty good. Sometimes can take a second to figure out where things are at, and it feels a little generic, but it works, and that's what we care about. The best part is, this infotainment does absolutely nothing for the car. Gauges show a few settings, and that's it. You're not tied into it, because if you look right underneath it, you have literally the most old-school automatic climate controls that I've ever seen in an M2025 car, and I love it. I mean, why does it need to be more complicated than that? Super simple to operate. It takes up very little space. Doesn't take you more than a second to figure them out. I love it. And then, this center stack right here is so retro. Shifter takes up majority of the space. You have start-stop right next to it. S-mode for the transmission. Talk about that in a moment. Heated seats only, and this is old-school Nissan toggles. Trunk opening. Center console. Mechanical handbrake. We're done. Simple as that. Then, we look all the way on top of the vents to the possibly the most retro part you will ever see in any car in 2025. Three giant gauges pointed towards the driver. Love it. Let's look at them closely, though, because there are some interesting stuff. First one is the boost gauge. The most important accessory or thing to have if you are someone that's into 90s Japanese cars. At the very far right, you have the battery voltage. So, as your alternator dies and the light comes on, you can see exactly how much reserve you have in your battery. A completely useless gauge, by the way. I have to say that, but it's there should you need it. But, the most interesting thing is the middle gauge. Turbo speed in 10,000 rpms. I don't know how they came up with this one, because when we go, you're barely pushing it. It goes to 5. So, are you telling me that the turbos are spooling at 50,000 rpm when we're not even creating boost? I'm assuming they mean total, both turbos, or single, or why do we exactly need to know the speed of the turbos to begin with? That is possibly the only gimmick here, but still cool. Now, I wish instead of that, we would have had the typical thing with Japanese or sports cars. Oil pressure. So, as you are about to approach 7,000 rpm and the oil pressure does one of these deals, at least you are prepared. You have like two seconds to think about where are we going to rebuild this engine as that's about to blow up. All these gauges, folks, do absolutely nothing. That's reality. But, just having them there is the coolest thing on the planet. Middle one is gimmicky, but you know what? Part of this retro theme, I can live with it. Gauge is a giant screen that does absolutely nothing but display what a mechanical gauge would display in a tiny screen, but I guess it blends in. It's not in the way. Love the steering wheel. Very simple to operate. It's just in the right, exact right position where it needs to be. Something about this car, I love the, it does have a cockpit feel, but it's not making your passenger feel like they're excluded into the side. I love that. It's a very eye-pleasing dash to look at. Driving position, a little bit on the lower side. That's the only thing I notice about it, but it's pretty comfortable, and for a car that is this low and this serious, it's actually a pretty comfortable, easy to operate interior. No gimmicks, except the turbo speed gauge. Let's talk about the way this drives, because this car has, it drives one way very good, one way not so good. On a daily driving section is when it does really well. So, comfortable. Bumpy, of course. It's a low car with stiff suspension, but not unbearable. Transmission, in this particular one, we have the manual transmission. Super nice. Super smooth. Operates great. Engine, sometimes clunky, but it's pretty easy on you to drive it on a daily basis. I like that part. Super loud when you drive it. That's to be expected. It's a sports car. They're not gonna stuff it with insulation and make it heavier, but seats are actually comfortable. For a car that's like this, they're pretty comfortable. Where it doesn't do so well is when you drive it spiritedly, because this engine feels, even though this has the upgraded brakes and whatnot, we haven't driven an Ismo extensively, but it just feels like this engine will easily overwhelm the suspension. It just feels like there's too much power for this suspension to handle, and the handling and the vagueness of the steering wheel at times doesn't make it one of the top track cars that we can mention here. That's where, if you're really all about track, track, track, maybe look at the Supra, but if you're about, okay, maybe once in a while we'll take it to the track, but we're gonna daily drive it, this is actually a nice place to be in. I do have one small concern. I just wish the lower trims, since they have the exact same infotainment system, minus the awesome Bose sound system, I wish they still had wireless Apple CarPlay, and I feel like that was intentionally shut off or removed. Not a nice touch, but we can live with that. So, the 2025 Nissan Z. Folks, let's summarize this by starting with a little bit of a history lesson. The Nissan Z is one of the oldest names in the Nissan family. I mean, it started as a Datsun way back then, and still going. That's pretty impressive. Here's the thing with the Z, though. When we came into the early 90s, things changed dramatically. The Z became kind of a super sport car from Japan, like the Supra, like the 3000GT. Those are serious cars, but at some point, just like all the other ones, it went through a hiatus, and then we got the 350Z, which was not exactly the same class of car, because it didn't make as much power, was not as serious of a car, but they brought on something truly special, the 350Z. It was an affordable, two-door, rear-wheel-drive sports car that was fun to drive, but maybe it's not going to win every single race, maybe it's not the fastest car in the world, the best handling, but it was super fun. You could buy it, you enjoy it, but you could still drive it every day, because it was affordable. That's the biggest cool thing. In this model, however, I feel like they are trying to go back to the past. Not very well, though. Let's dive into it. The engine is very much an attempt to go back to those days where it was a super powerful engine, and things were over the top. But equally to those times, I mean, just look at this shot of under the hood. Where is the engine exactly? Just like the 300ZX from the early 90s. Very complicated engine bay. That's the number one thing with high-power performance cars. You need a little bit of room for modifications to make things better. Not here. Very limited. And then, this engine makes about 400 horsepower. It just doesn't feel like it. That's the best way to describe it. It just feels a little bit on the not-in-a-hurry side. And then, the rest of the car. The steering wheel is pretty vague at times. And then, the brakes are not super confidence-inspiring. And then, the suspension, the way it handles. This engine will easily overwhelm the suspension, if you're not careful. And that's kind of a problem, because I feel like we put the engine from a different heading into a car that has a different heading. Makes too much power for this suspension to handle. That's the problem with this car. It feels, for lack of a better word, feels soft. Feels held back. That's the feeling with this car. But here's the main rival to this car in 2025. The Toyota Supra. Since the Acura NSX or the Honda NSX decided to turn into a supercar, the Toyota Supra is the only competition for this. Here's the bottom line. Being a little bit on the softer side is not always a bad thing. Because, first, this drives better on a day-to-day than the Supra. It's easier to get in and out of. More comfortable. Doesn't have the bubble roof. It's more just smoother on the road. Better visibility. Better, overall, driving on a day-to-day basis. The Supra is very aggressive. But then you take it to a track, and that aggressive side really comes to life. Then, the price. This car, maxed out, is less than the starting point of the 3.0 Supra. Well, they don't make the 4-cylinder anymore. So, this is cheaper. And a lot cheaper. But, possibly, the biggest thing that this does 100 times better than the Supra. Authenticity. This is a Nissan. Made by Nissan. Even the flaws in this car feel special. Because that's how every single Z car has been. It's always had its flaws. But it just puts a giant smile on your face. And you know that they didn't just go rent a car from somebody else, put their badge on it. That's what the Supra does. Well, of course, the Supra is more exciting because it's a BMW. This isn't. This is a proper Nissan. And it lives to that heritage and lineage 100%. Here's the bottom line. If you are a Z enthusiast, this is going to feel a little bit on the soft side. If you go back to the 90s. If you are new to this car. I mean, it has so much good going for it. It's not ridiculously priced. It has very good performance. It is good to drive every single day. You can drive it and enjoy it. But here's the bad part. The engine bay. Super complicated. I mean, the level of complication is mind-blowing. Just look at this engine bay. That's the problem. That's the same problem the 300ZX had. The only difference is this didn't cost a small fortune like the 300ZX did back in the day. Even the Supra, which is the main rival made by BMW, by the way, that has a B58. B58 is actually a very good engine. It has more space. This is like there's no space at all. So usually performance cars, you buy them, you want to modify them. This one, I hope folks will figure out a way because things are very busy under the hood. That's my only concern with it. Build quality is good. Manual transmission is actually better on a daily, daily driven. The manual Supra feels off. I think this is a car for someone who wants to enjoy a sports car. Very occasionally take it to a track where most of its time it'll be on the road, driven. Actually, it's not a disappointing car in that aspect. It's a lot better than the Supra. Folks, I hope this video was helpful and informative. I hope you learned something new. If you like it, consider giving it a thumbs up. If you're not a subscriber, consider subscribing to the channel. Check out some of my other videos. Until the next video, folks, may the Lord bless you and keep you, and you have yourself a wonderful day.