found this timeline in a story about the 40th anniversary 370Z coming out in 2010…<\/p>\n
Z car milestones<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Oct. 22, 1969:<\/strong> The Datsun 240Z (Nissan Fairlady Z in Japan) goes on sale in the United States.<\/p>\n 1974:<\/strong> The inline six-cylinder engine grows to 2.6 liters and the name changes to 260Z. A 2+2 model is added.<\/p>\n 1975:<\/strong> The engine grows to 2.8 liters and the name changes to 280Z.<\/p>\n 1979:<\/strong> Second-generation 280ZX is introduced.<\/p>\n 1981:<\/strong> 280ZX Turbo joins the lineup.<\/p>\n 1984:<\/strong> Nissan launches third-generation 300ZX with 3.0-liter V6.<\/p>\n 1990:<\/strong> Fourth-generation 300ZX arrives, with 222 hp. 300ZX Turbo follows with 300 hp.<\/p>\n 1996:<\/strong> Nissan drops Z car from U.S. market.<\/p>\n 1999:<\/strong> Nissan shows a 240Z concept at the Detroit auto show. But it is rejected for production.<\/p>\n 2001:<\/strong> Nissan shows a reworked Z Concept at the Detroit auto show. Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn says the car will go into production.<\/p>\n 2003:<\/strong> Fifth-generation\u00a0350Z goes on sale with 3.5-liter V6.<\/p>\n 2008:<\/strong> Sixth-generation 370Z unveiled at Los Angeles auto show.<\/p>\n 2009:<\/strong> A convertible version of the 370Z goes on sale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" found this timeline in a story about the 40th anniversary 370Z coming out in 2010… Z car milestones Oct. 22, 1969: The Datsun 240Z (Nissan Fairlady Z in Japan) goes on sale in the United States. 1974: The inline six-cylinder engine grows to 2.6 liters …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,5,6,7,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-240z","category-280z","category-280zx","category-300zx-z31","category-300zx-z32","category-350z"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zstoryz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zstoryz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zstoryz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zstoryz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zstoryz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=157"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.zstoryz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":159,"href":"https:\/\/www.zstoryz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions\/159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zstoryz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zstoryz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zstoryz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}