2023 Nissan Z Interior and Cargo

The interior colors of the Nissan Z Sport trim are limited to one - Graphite cloth, but at least the steering wheel, shifter knob, and parking-brake lever are leather-trimmed. The Performance gets leather upholstery with seat inserts in faux suede and three color schemes, namely Graphite, Graphite with red accents and stitching, and blue. The Graphite/red option paints the seat bolsters, lower dash, and sides of the center console red too, with some red used on the door panels. The blue is applied to the lower dashboard, center console, the lower door panels, and the seating surfaces. The Proto Spec comes only in Graphite with yellow accents and stitching. Where used, the contrasting stitching extends to the seats, door panels, dashboard, center console, and gearshift gaiter. The top two trims get aluminum-trimmed pedals.

As you can tell by now, the trunk space of the Nissan Z is again identical to that of the erstwhile 370Z at a small 6.9 cubic feet - a lot worse than the trunk volume offered by a Supra, TT, or Mustang. The luggage area is shallow, and it's open to the passenger compartment, so unless you order one of the cargo-management solutions off the options sheet to keep your groceries at bay, they're liable to fly into the cabin when you hit the anchors.

General oddments space follows in the footsteps of the old car once again. There are two cupholders in the center console and a small tray ahead of them. There is a glovebox too, but it's rather cheekily only lockable on the two higher trims, which reeks a bit of cost-cutting. Storage for bigger items is available behind the seats, but it's difficult to get to because the seats don't just flip forward easily to grant access, and you can only really get in there while seated in the car and not from the outside. The same goes for the center-console storage box that sits well back between the seats. There are small door bins as well.

All Z trims are comprehensively decked out with driver assists, and the range gets adaptive cruise control, automatic braking, and pedestrian detection, as well as blind-spot and lane-departure systems as standard. The base car makes do with cloth upholstery, manual seats, and lower-spec infotainment, but at least a 12.3-inch digital gauge cluster, automatic climate control, leather trim on the steering wheel, shifter knob, a parking brake lever, and push-button start are standard. To get access to features such as leather upholstery, heated power seats, more interior colors, active noise-cancellation, and better audio, you'll have to opt for a higher trim, as none of these are available as options at the base level.

The Sport gets the base infotainment system with an eight-inch touchscreen, wired Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, voice recognition (which doesn't work as well as we'd hoped), Bluetooth audio streaming, SiriusXM, USB-A and USB-C ports, and a six-speaker audio system. The Performance and Proto Spec get the same upgraded infotainment setup with a larger nine-inch screen, navigation, extended SiriusXM and NissanConnect services, wireless smartphone mirroring, and an eight-speaker Bose audio system with dual subwoofers that doesn't sound as great as its specs suggest.