02-25-2011 07:59 AM
pFiled under: a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/convertibles/" rel="tag"Convertible/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/coupes/" rel="tag"Coupe/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/hybrids/" rel="tag"Hybrid/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/sports/" rel="tag"Performance/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/nissan/" rel="tag"Nissan/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/rumormill/" rel="tag"Rumormill/a/pa href="http://www.roadandtrack.com/future-cars/2013-nissan-z"img alt="2013 Nissan Z Hybrid Rendering" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2011/02/z-250.jpg" style="border-width:0px;border-style:solid;margin:4px;float:right"/aThe good people of emRoad amp; Track/em have gone through the trouble of rendering the next-generation a href="http://www.autoblog.com/model/370z"Nissan Z/a for everyone's viewing pleasure, and if their take on the vehicle is anything close to the mark, we can expect a much more streamlined appearance from the sports car in the near future. In addition to the more aerodynamic look, emRamp;T/em reports that a href="http://www.autoblog.com/make/nissan"Nissan/a may equip the future Z with a a href="http://www.autoblog.com/tag/hybrid"hybrid/a drivetrain to both increase performance and reduce fuel consumption at the same time. A battery pack would also go a long way toward curbing the vehicle's emissions.br br If the engineers behind the 2013 Z decide to go that route, emRamp;T/em says that we can likely expect to see the same running gear under the hood as currently found in the a href="http://www.autoblog.com/model/m"Infiniti M hybrid/a. That means a 3.5-liter V6 working in concert with an electric motor to produce a combined 360 horsepower and 450 pound-feet of torque. That line of thought is bolstered by rumor of a hybrid-drivetrain Z test mule buzzing around the U.S. at the moment, and in that configuration, the publication says that the Z should be good for close to 30 mpg. We're guessing it won't have any trouble getting out of its own way, either.br br Head over to a href="http://www.roadandtrack.com/future-cars/2013-nissan-z"emRoad amp; Track/em/a for the full skinny.br br [Source: a href="http://www.roadandtrack.com/future-cars/2013-nissan-z"Road amp; Track/a]p style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both"a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2011/02/25/rendered-speculation-2013-nissan-370z-goes-hybrid/"Rendered Speculation: 2013 Nissan 370Z goes hybrid/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.autoblog.com"Autoblog/a on Fri, 25 Feb 2011 08:59:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./ph6 style="clear:both;padding:8px 0 0 0;height:2px;font-size:1px;border:0;margin:0;padding:0"/h6a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2011/02/25/rendered-speculation-2013-nissan-370z-goes-hybrid/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/a*|*a href="http://www.autoblog.com/forward/19858231/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/a*|*a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2011/02/25/rendered-speculation-2013-nissan-370z-goes-hybrid/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a
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