Quote Originally Posted by 280zx 2by2 View Post
I'm not surprised, everyone agrees Datsun/Nissan made a mistakes with the amount of weight they put on the s130 chassis and keeping an engine that was first produced in 1968. The RX7 was a response to the Z, not the other way around.
That was the downfall - weight. If they had kept making the old 260, it would have been more competitive. The 280 was the downfall, and the 280ZX was the nail in the coffin.