Nissan Z NISMO unleashed on Lake Mountain

Lake Mountain is one of Australia’s most-celebrated roads, and a favourite for performance-car testing, owing both to the number and variety of corners along its 20km length.

Climbing from Marysville in Victoria to the top of the Cathedral Range State Park, it’s also a road that could have been tailor-made for the Nissan Z NISMO, with demanding tarmac, challenging corners and plenty of surfaces for the rich exhaust note — enhanced by the NISMO-tuned Active Sound Control — and the roar of the 3.0-litre twin-turbocharged petrol V6 to bounce off. The NISMO is the most powerful model in the Z range, increasing its already generous outputs by 11kW and 45Nm — now 309kW and 520Nm.