“The Z is quite the underlining topic of my life, it seems,” Buhler said. Mugu Naval air base just north of Malibu. His dad bought a first-gen 240Z before the young Buhler was even born, driving it around Southern California when he was stationed at Pt. Buhler features a lifelong appreciation of Nissan Zs.

My guide would be Nissan’s Jonathan Buhler, who had gone from the merchandise planning department to product communications specialist simply because he loved the damn car such a lot.

My chance to poke around in it came just after sunrise during a studio in downtown L.A., a freethrow faraway from where the Lakers, who had just won another world championship, usually play, and a few exits down the freeway from Dodger Stadium, where the Boys in Blue would normally play during a normal season, and who had also just captured another World Series. “It goes from the first-generation to takewaways from the present generation to the way they connect the rear taillights within the back., this third hit of color (the metal strip where the rain gutter wont to be) that brings the glass from the front all the way right down to the rear, very cool little touches that scream first-gen but also provides it it’s own look.”Ĭheck out Forsberg’s walkaround video below. “This is such an amazing-looking car,” Forsberg said during a handheld video review as he circled the yellow prototype in his shop.

Nissan z prototype