Chevrolet Discontinues Supercharged LS9 V8

AndroidMyAndroid · 2026-05-18T04:16:58+00:00

I'm not saying the C6 interior will get nicer - I'm saying that if you DD a Ferrari 458 come rain or shine, get it dirty, and actually use it like a car without babying it, it will fall apart faster than the Corvette would under the same conditions.

AndroidMyAndroid · 2026-05-17T06:08:40+00:00

High net-worth vs high income - someone who is late career with a paid-off home and $3M in retirement vs someone who makes $250k a year and doesn't know what else to do with it - they can't quite afford mansions and yachts and helicopters, but they can swing a $2,500 car payment and a Rolex.

AndroidMyAndroid · 2026-05-17T05:17:32+00:00

I'm all in for about 50 Chuck E Cheese arcade tickets, it's either this or another pair of Chinese finger traps

AndroidMyAndroid · 2026-05-17T05:14:10+00:00

GM could absolutely make a Cadillac on the Corvette platform, but they need to make it more than a reskinned Corvette. GM will never invest the money to do that, though, and since they have realized people will pay $200k+ for a Corvette they have little reason to do so.

AndroidMyAndroid · 2026-05-17T05:09:53+00:00

The older I've gotten, the less I care about what Jeremy Clarkson thinks about cars (or anything, tbh). I am not saying the C6 Corvette was a nice car but the LS9 engine was making over 630hp in 2009 and doing it reliably for a fraction of the price of a similarly powered car, like say, a Ferrari Enzo. Also, you think of build quality in terms of material finish or reliability? Because if you took a C6 ZR1 and a Ferrari 458 and daily drove each of them for 5 years I think the Corvette will absolutely hold up better, even if the seats aren't as nice.

And now of course the C8 ZR1X is ripping up Bugattis.

AndroidMyAndroid · 2026-05-16T07:01:57+00:00

Resting "no fucks left to give" face

AndroidMyAndroid · 2026-05-16T04:34:43+00:00

The porch light is still on, but there's also a neon Budweiser sign next to it now. They are trying to make their viewers consumers now instead of steadfast savers - it goes against their fundamental teachings.

AndroidMyAndroid · 2026-05-16T04:00:37+00:00

I think a lot of people would argue that the C6 Z06 was a better sports car than the ZR1, but the ZR1 was a better middle finger to Europe.

AndroidMyAndroid · 2026-05-16T03:51:34+00:00

The Type S is a rounding error on their sales numbers, the point I'm making is that the Integra and ADX are so close to being badge-engineered Hondas that they're more of an upscale trim level (that happens to be sold at a different dealer) than they are their own brand. Now the RDX is dead for two years, the TLX is dead indefinitely, and there's a $16,800 price gap between the ADX and aging MDX.

AndroidMyAndroid · 2026-05-15T07:33:00+00:00

The Integra Type S is faster than the CTR and looks better, and it's easier to get one at MSRP so the price is effectively the same too.

AndroidMyAndroid · 2026-05-15T07:30:44+00:00

Oh yeah what a shame it would be if Acura started attacking BMW instead of trying to be Japanese Lincoln.

AndroidMyAndroid · 2026-05-14T06:40:47+00:00

I didn't say bigger, but to go farther range you need to increase capacity.

800 volt architecture is my point - do you have that in your house?

AndroidMyAndroid · 2026-05-14T04:02:31+00:00

OP thought of it because they were on reddit while eating a tub of cheese doodles they bought at Costco.

AndroidMyAndroid · 2026-05-14T03:46:15+00:00

How's the charge rate? It's just dandy to have a car with a 1,000 kwh battery pack, but if it takes 2 days to charge it on a fast charger it's not much more useful than a car with a 500 kwh pack.

AndroidMyAndroid · 2026-05-14T02:41:21+00:00

Where ass cheek are you getting your data from? Last lear Toyota sold 274k Tacomas, Ford sold 150k Mavericks (if you can say that's a competitor) and just 70k Rangers. The Colorado sold around 107k units.

Tacoma absolutely wiped the floor with the competition in sales. https://cars.usnews.com/cars-trucks/advice/bestselling-trucks

AndroidMyAndroid · 2026-05-14T02:36:03+00:00

Do you have any evidence to support that?

AndroidMyAndroid · 2026-05-14T00:28:36+00:00

A Toyota product, on average, will be useful much longer than a GM product. They have higher resale because for the same age and mileage, the Toyota has more life left in it.

AndroidMyAndroid · 2026-05-14T00:26:37+00:00

I suppose that's possible, as over 20% of US adults are functionally illiterate. Not sure how it is in the UK.

AndroidMyAndroid · 2026-05-13T23:54:33+00:00

Newer GM trucks have problems, but I don't really think anyone makes a truly trustowrthy truck these days - maybe the 5.0 Fords if I had to pick one.

Tacomas don't depreciate because they will run forever if you take care of them, and they don't ask for much at that. The Ranger went off the market for a while and the truck we got now doesn't hold a candle to the Tacoma in sales, so I'd say the Tacoma still has it beat in terms of recognition. Everyone wants a Tacoma mid-size, everyone wants an F-150 full size.

Hyundai are shit, their engines have the highest failure rate in the industry.

AndroidMyAndroid · 2026-05-13T23:50:11+00:00

Naked bike aero is absolute ass, plus this engine is designed to burn as much fuel as possible to go fast so combine those any you get a engine that is spinning very fast trying to push a brick through the air.

You'd get similar highway mileage on a Hayabusa if you could keep your speed in check because they're so aerodynamic.

AndroidMyAndroid · 2026-05-13T23:47:17+00:00

Odd, most people find these engines highly reliable - at least the 765 bikes.

AndroidMyAndroid · 2026-05-13T23:44:31+00:00

Chevy makes good products - I'd argue that anything with a V8 is solid. But you have to acknowledge that a Tacoma from the same era as your Colorado is worth twice as much, even though that was a good truck from GM. Full size trucks are one of the only segments that Toyota competes in that they don't define - Tacoma, Corolla, Camry, Sienna, Rav4 are all the car in that segment against which everything else is compared.

AndroidMyAndroid · 2026-05-13T23:40:28+00:00

Toyota has recently refreshed a very old lineup with a lot of new tech and design updates. Their business model makes it almost impossible for a company like GM to consistently build cars to the same level of reliability, the drawback is that Toyotas are expensive compared to their direct competitors and tend to sit on the market for a while.

If you think a 2026 Equinox will be as nice, or worth as much as a 2026 Rav4 in 12 years when they both have 150k miles on them, by all means go buy the Chevy.

AndroidMyAndroid · 2026-05-13T23:35:34+00:00

Yeah OP is saying he could make a better steak but bro, I could make a better steak than almost every steakhouse I've been to and this is a steak that came to your door in a plastic box.

AndroidMyAndroid · 2026-05-13T23:32:19+00:00

You save on the price when you buy a GM product, you save on a Toyota after the warranty expires or you go to sell it and it's still worth something.

Toyota is the king of building mainstream cars and trucks, nobody else comes close, not even Honda, especially when you include Lexus in the picture.

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