The Nissan 370Z Nismo Gumball 3000: Ready for battle

The Gumball 3000 returns like every year to offer a unique showcase for sports lovers. This time,Nissan will not want to miss this event and prepared a 370Z Nismo with a special decoration to captivate more than a million fans-expected-attend event.

This year, the organization has decided to grant the name of Gumball 3000 Rally 2013 , but as you know this is not a competition as such, rather it is a luxury sports parade that will start on May 18 in Copenhagen (Denmark) and end on 25 in Monaco , coinciding with the Formula 1 Grand Prix.

Meanwhile, the race will travel more than 5,000 kilometers through 13 countries in just over a week.

The Nissan 370Z Nismo Gumball 3000 team will be part of French publications L’Ecurie andIntersection Magazine and sport a specific decoration with 56 dorsal highlighted. This number is special for Nissan as the brand ranked 56 garage circuit of Le Mans experimental vehicle-quiet-in the past 24 hours with the DeltaWing.

Patrice Meignam and Jeremy “Jey” Taltaud , two experts in this test, will be responsible for getting behind the wheel of the Nissan 370Z Nismo which mechanically is exactly like the production model.This rapid rear-wheel drive coupe six-speed manual gearbox has a 3.7-liter V6 engine that delivers 344 hp of power compared to the 328 of the ‘Z’ shirt. You may know him better in our test .