These people from Silicon Valley that think they can “shake up” any industry with enough VC and flashy designs.

My understanding from other sites is they are using a heavy-wall stainless skin that is essentially brake-formed instead of stamped in a die. So the triangulation would be super important. You’d have an “L” instead of a triangle and clearly you’re losing a lot of strength.

There is a theory in engineering that there is a natural path a design solution takes to the best solution. A sort of natural selection. Over the years we learn from our bad designs and our good designs, eventually working our way towards the ideal design.

Yeah.  This.  Those guys using Model X for towing run ridiculous rates-of-usage at high towing weights.  

14,000 lbs towing capacity for 20 miles.

I kind of doubt GM would be able to have an engine make an extra 60-160 HP from a NA small block engine without negatively impacting drive quality or necessitating high octane fuel. That’s huge cam, no low end, high and lumpy idle territory.

Or good data... Mutang dynos are notorious. Jason Cammissa had a technical explanation of why this was a dyno problem and not a juiced C8

“If this Corvette really does have a substantial underrating in power than why does the performance not correlate with the numbers?”

Cuz it isn’t underrated.

“In MT’s tests, the Corvette only beat a Porsche Carrera S to 60mph by .1 seconds. The Porsche only has 443hp and was tested with less sticky tires.

Jason Cammisa did a breakdown on his Instagram and essentially came to the conclusion that power number would be impossible without forced induction.

Let's not forget the 911 is the "pinnacle" of sports car engineering. If the Corvette is coming that close, especially for half the price, that is an engineering marvel. To not give the Corvette credit where it is due only displays ignorance and an obvious brand bias. I have watched Corvette development videos and…

It’s cute when magazines don’t know how to use a dyno ... And other publications use it as click bait.

I think it’s most likely that MT simply got a favorable dyno measurement. Chassis dynos are notorious for being inconsistent and are best used as tools to measure power deltas. Not absolute values.

I read the article on Motor Trend, and it didn’t fill me with confidence for their technique on the dyno. I think they mis-applied the extra 1.459:1 gear if/when they put the gear ratio into the dyno computer (they didn’t even have gear ratios during their initial test, somehow). Anyway, that should have been…

Neither the Carrera S or the GT350 are an SAE certified power figure, they are just a manufacturer claimed number. If anything that just shows Ford and Porsche are more optimistic in their rankings than the SAE certified numbers. Again, I’d be inclined to believe that the SAE certification process gives a lower result…

Or, OR, and bear with me here:

I would argue Jalop has had GM on their shitlist for a long time now (not the other way around).

You mean Best in class recalls and Best in class parts falling off vehicles.

If it’s true, then so be it. But I’ll bet their definition of “full size truck” is juuust narrow enough to make that claim.