If you believe they're making 600 foot pounds from an NA 5.5 liter...

Yeah, it’s not just that it’s fairly slow...it’s just completely joyless. Sounds like crap, has a weird torque curve, no low-end torque, doesn’t rev particularly freely. It’s just not a good sports car motor. Everyone says the new Miata motor is transformative, not because it’s massively more powerful, but because…

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So it will almost do what two production cars have already achieved?

The Samsung LED-backlit DLPs were/are great. My parents still have the 67" one I sold them when I worked at Circuit City. Picture quality is still exceptional.

We live in snowy Maine and drive our Chevy Volt everywhere. People cannot believe we get by without AWD. Not only do we get by, but it’s never even been a minor inconvenience with our X-Ice tires. I drove a Volvo S90 w/ locker in hilly Pittsburgh and drove around plenty of AWD cars with my 195 wide Blizzaks. I also…

That video was atrocious. 

Revised LF = LG*

The revised LF engines are very good. For a large V6, I'm not sure anyone is doing appreciably better.

The ATS was revelatory vs. anything on the market when it came out. It wasn't even close. These days, it's still said to be near top of class, but I haven't driven the latest competition (Notably, the Alfa).

Let’s not forget that the Model 3 battery architecture is already a notable leap over the Model S and almost certainly exceeds anyone else at the moment. I’m not a Tesla fanboy, but I sure as hell don’t trust VAG to get this right on their first try. German electric stuff is only slightly better than British.

The per-cylinder and specific output of the Chiron are on-par with some pretty normal cars. The engine weighs around 950 pounds, so its also comparable on HP/weight metrics to engines like the LT5 when we do some pontifications about the BMEP differences and comparative weight of a TVS 2650 and intercooler vs.…

Yeah, and 300 in a standing mile is on a different plane than this. Conversely, this car probably can run 150k miles in this state of tune. Granted, I bet that FGT engine would last a good amount at 1500 crank too. I'm not a big Ford guy, but their Mod engines last forever.

That’s a 960 or S90, not 850. 

Hence why I called out using the hybrid to dance around the problematic engine map regions. I doubt they’d want to spin a 454 small block much higher than 6600 anyway.

So pretty much every outlet seems to just be in a rumor echo chamber and I’m not sure any new info has been out for months now. With that said, let me offer my vision for how I would play this if I were GM.

Updated my plot with the old guard (and Ford 6.2 as well). The Ram V-10 and 8100 were beasts! 6.8 V-10 also shows why its been such a workhorse. Clearly transmissions have been bigger developments than engines (from a capacity perspective). I’m sure mileage has improved though.

Rumors are that Chevy is working on a new big block. I agree on the 6.8... Fantastic motor. I’m not sure if I trust Ford to perfectly nail a new pushrod mill out of the gate, though. It’s been a while since they designed one and anyone who thinks they’re “simple” or easier to design is almost assuredly not an engineer.

Yeah, I think it would be a bit of market suicide to require anything other than 87 in a work truck. I know everyone is talking about this Ford like it’s some new concept of really focusing on durability, but the Ram 6.4 also runs near stoich (tunes pick up power like it’s a turbo motor!), has a forged crank, is built…