So a fancy way of saying he’s a dickhead.

I wonder if there any bikers in the Texas prison system who might take a dim view of this...

In case anyone else was wondering...

He cares now I bet.

And who cares? We as a nation need to get this strict “law and order” crap out of our heads—the people who own us and run our lives do not follow the laws at all, so why should we worry about stupid tiny infractions to stupid speed limits that have never once mattered?

I agree completely. The speed may have been a little high, but I don’t think he went crazy. Would definitely be interesting to see what it was there for.

Yeah the guy lost credibility with me when I saw he slowed down for the train tracks. This guy was safe and not doing anything out of the ordinary, most of those ring roads around the housing projects there in Bakersfield are anything from 45-55mph. Take a Tylenol and lie down.

Seriously. I work at a Chevy dealership and we have legitimately no provision or ability to test a car “legally” other than going to the interstate highway adjacent to us and giving it some beans up the onramp. Luckily Kansas has 75mph speed limits so it’s not terribly hard to get “up there” without running too afoul…

at the end of the video, it pulls into a mechanic bay, so i feel pretty safe in assuming it wasn't a porter joyriding. usually porters either take the really-long way around the dealer to the car wash portion, or the really long way out of the car wash to the parking lot

Thought the same thing. The acceleration doesn’t make sense either. This is supposed to be a Corvette with the accelerator on the floor and it’s taking 7 seconds to get to 60mph? That’s more than 50% longer than it should take. Same with the “flooring it to get through a yellow.” He went up to 45 from 30. That’s…

Having worked at a dealership, I hope you’re all okay with this because I guarantee any new car you’ve bought has been treated like this or worse by the lot porters.

If this guy wanted to have fun with the car this isn’t what he’d be doing. And you think a GM tech doesn’t know about the camera and valet mode? This is…

That’s what I’m thinking. There’s NO WAY that car is traveling almost 130km/h. You can see the fence posts passing by. They should almost be a blur at that speed and range.

Looks like overly sensitive owner to me.

What! Somebody got within 1000 RPM of redline of my prized garage queen?

This don’t feel like a joyride to me. Seems like he was doing his job of checking the car. That said if he was in for a light bulb change then yeah it’s a joyride. But if this was for a trans flush or some thig like that I can understand wanting to see how it is functioning when pushed as its a sports car that is…

I don't know if you're in the US, but if you are, then consumer protection laws protect your warranty regardless of who does the work, provided you can prove you used the right oil, fluids, etc.

FYI, a test drive is required both before and after a transmission flush. It’s the technicians responsibility to be certain the trans shifts properly before and after the service. If any delays or issues with shifting before, a trans flush will make it worse.

I have their plate frame on the front of my winter beater chevy in Mass!

Didn't look like he wrung it out, just wound it up a tad

It might be useful to know what the car was in for that required a test drive. Looks like a couple acceleration runs real quick then back to the dealer. Not the most joyful ride ever. It also didn't look as fast as the speedometer showed.