Nissan’s 370Z Nismo Is Making Donuts – Literally [w/Video]

Making donuts with your car requires an extremely simple recipe, but Nissan’s variant is much more complex, and messy.

A donut is a maneuver performed while driving a vehicle, which requires rotating the rear of a car around in tight circles in order to create a circular skid mark pattern of rubber. So, the ingredients needed to make one is (usually) a rear-wheel-drive and lots of power.

But as simple as a donut appears to be, performing such a maneuver actually puts strain on the vehicle’s suspension and drivetrain, which can result in mechanical breakdown. However, the 370Z Nismo used by Nissan in this video, with Formula Drift icon Chris Forsberg at the wheel, wasn’t tortured, but instead used to fling thousands of tiny sprinkles on more than 300 donuts. Now that’s what we call bakery.

To make sure that each of the cakes received ample coating, the producers brought in two pallets of sprinkles weighing in at more than 2,800 pounds (1270 kg). Using all 350 horsepower form its 3.7-litre, V6, the 370Z Nismo made 15 passes achieving a proper layer of sprinkles on the tasty-looking dessert.

The result? 325 donuts sprinkled for the stunt, made in celebration of the National Donut Day, on June 3rd.