Nissan Z

Nissan is giving the Z two-seat sports car a number of performance and styling revisions for 2027.

Nissan is bringing the ‘90s back with the Heritage Edition for its 2026 Z sports car.

If you’d like to honor the manual-transmission gods with your next new car purchase, here’s every new car with a manual transmission currently for sale.

After being introduced (in its current nameplate form) for 2023 and the addition of the track-focused NISMO variant for 2024, changes are minimal for the 2025 Nissan Z.

While the Z has not been in continuous production since 1969, Nissan is nonetheless celebrating this anniversary with a limited-production Heritage Edition.

With the Z NISMO, Nissan has transformed the Z into a hard-edged sports car that’s even more suited to track-day duty.

For the 2024 model year, the standard Nissan Z is unchanged, but the Z NISMO joins the lineup.

Massaged by Nissan’s motorsports arm, the 2024 Z NISMO thoroughly reworks the Z with upgrades to the engine, suspension, wheels and tires, brakes and bodywork.

The list of model-year 2023-24 cars with manual transmissions skews mostly to affordable models and those that are more enthusiast-oriented, but there’s still a decent range of choices.

With a potent and agreeable powertrain, sharp handling and an available six-speed manual transmission, the new Z checks all the boxes for a proper sports car.