This episode of Jay Leno’s Garage is brought to you all the way from Japan where Jay is checking out essence of Japanese sports cars, the Nissan-Datsun 240Z, aka the Fairlady. This car is the great grandfather of Nissan 370Z, but it’s better than it in almost every sense! Sure, it’s old and slow by modern standards, but back in its day the Fairlady was a stunner. It looked a bit like the E-Type Jag, but it was affordable and reliable. Sweet car.

Check out Jay’s review of this iconic sports car below. As usual he provides lots of fascinating insights and interesting facts: