Nissan confirms stop-sale order for automatic-equipped 2023 Z

Nissan issued a stop-sale and delivery hold order for 2023 Z last month, targeting models equipped with the nine-speed Jatco automatic transmission. As of August 29, any vehicles shipping from its Tochigi Plant in Japan are being held at all stages of delivery due to a potential rollaway issue. Autoblog confirmed the status of the new Z with a Nissan spokesperson Tuesday.

The automatic 2023 Z is equipped with the same transmission that has exhibited a defect that can lead to rollaway incidents in the 2020-2022 Nissan Frontier and Titan pickup trucks. This issue has now prompted two separate recall campaigns. Information provided in the second recall notice (issued this month) indicated that the Z was equipped with transmissions from the same supplier, built with the same components.

"Nissan initiated a quality hold on MY2023 Nissan Z automatic-transmission-equipped vehicles on August 29, 2022 while it investigates this issue. The investigation is ongoing at this time," Nissan spokesperson Jonathan Buhler told Autoblog, confirming that this constitutes "[...] a stop sale for any AT model whether it is on a showroom floor or in any other stage."