Nissan's refreshing the Z again, this time bolting GT-R stoppers and revised suspension geometry onto the Nismo variant. It's the kind of mid-cycle shuffle that signals a platform running out of evolutionary tricks. Whether cosmetic nose work and borrowed performance hardware moves the needle on a car that's already lost momentum is the real question.

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