Chevy Just Made Supercars Look Stupid

[00:02] right now with a factory warranty for cheap. That sentence should not be legal, but GM just made it true. The 2027 Corvette Stingray is officially a 200 mile per car. Base model off the lot. $73,000, 6.7 L LS6 V8, 535 horses,

[00:21] no hybrid trickery, just a big engine bolted into the same mid-engine chassis that already embarrassed cars three times its price. All for 70 or grand. And here's the twist, the performance package actually slows it down. All that

[00:35] extra downforce costs a top speed. So, the cheapest trim in the lineup is the fastest one. Chevy proved it with the base 1LT. Nothing special, just raw math. That makes this the cheapest brand new 200 mile per car in America. Not

[00:50] close. The next cheapest option [music] needs six figures just to pick up five more miles per. Meanwhile, this one fits in your garage next to the minivan. You want supercar speed without supercar price or heartbreak, this is it. Like,

[01:03] subscribe so we hit two mil by the end of the year, and let's go. Um there is a very specific type of person who will tell you, completely straight-faced, that real supercar performance costs six figures min. That 200 miles per lives

[01:17] behind a velvet rope guarded by an Italian badge and a five-year waiting Corvette, and after this week, they officially have no leg left to stand on.

[01:29] probably didn't celebrate it, was National Corvette Day. GM picked the perfect moment to drop a number that should honestly be illegal to attach to should honestly be illegal to attach to a starting price of 73 thou. 200 mile

[01:42] per. Base model off the lot with a factory warranty. So, today we're there, why the internet has already nicknamed this thing the Costco supercar, and why that nickname is secretly the nicest thing anyone has

[01:56] ever said about a Corvette. Again, like, subscribe so we hit two mil and let's go. Hey guys, real quick, the giveaway for the Shelby and Supra in the $100,000 has ended and well, the winners are being picked right now. But, we're

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[02:22] click the link down below, go put in your email and I can't wait to show you the show. Okay, let's start with the actual number because it deserves actual number because it deserves [music] a moment of silence. 200 miles

[02:35] an hour. That is six more than the outgoing car managed. And Chevy got that the [music] honest way. No hybrid assist, no force induction trickery, they just built a bigger, angrier engine. The LS6 6.7 liters, 535 horses,

[02:50] 520 foot pounds of twist bolted into the same mid-engine chassis that already had the internet questioning why anyone still buys anything else at the price laugh though after days of research. The Z51, you know, the performance package,

[03:05] the one everybody assumes is the fast version, actually slows the car down. All that extra downforce that helps it stick to the road course also costs it a top speed. So, the fastest Corvette that you can buy is the base one. The

[03:19] cheapest trim in the lineup is the one that [music] gets to wear the 200 badge. Chevy didn't even dress it up. For the record, they grabbed [music] a base 1LT and let it run, brother. That makes this, as of this week, the cheapest

[03:32] brand new 200 mile an hour car that you can drive off [music] a dealer lot in America. Not the cheapest with an asterisk, not the cheapest if you just the actual cheapest ever. The next closest thing wearing a factory badge is

[03:45] closest thing wearing a factory badge is a Cadillac CT5V Blackwing and that one needed six figures and still only gets you five more miles an hour for all the trouble. Now, if you want real perspective, go back to 1953. The very

[03:58] first Corvette rolled off the line on this exact date, and it topped out at this exact date, and it topped out at 105 mph. Chevy just doubled that number and somehow made the car cheaper to own than most people's idea of a nice truck.

[04:11] Now, I got to talk about why people keep calling it the Costco supercar, because once you hear the comparison, you cannot unhear it. Everything a supercar this thing delivers. Just without the badge that lets you flex at a country

[04:25] club. Mid-engine layout, real downforce, a curb weight that fights above its class. It has the [music] shape, roughly, the stance, and now the speed of cars that cost three or four times [music] as much. The only thing it is

[04:38] missing is the name that makes your accountant nervous. And look, I'm not going to sit here and pretend this car does not have its flaws, because that would make it a boring video [music] and we're a boring video, and you did not

[04:50] not going to give you one. I mean, the early dual clutch transmission had real issues, [music] even on the Z06. Mostly the 2020 models, but it kept kind of going. And if you're shopping used, you want to know that going in. But we're

[05:05] single digits, backed by a 5-year 60,000-mile factory powertrain warranty that you can use at basically any Chevy dealer in the country. Compare that to owning something with a prancing horse or a raging bull on the hood, where a

[05:19] transmission scare means shipping the car to a specialist three states away, car to a specialist three states away, and then finding God. This is the trade you are actually making. A small chance of an annoying repair versus guaranteed

[05:31] heartbreak the moment that anything real goes wrong on an exotic. Then, there is haters this one for free. I mean, the LS6 is not a flat-plane crank screamer that you get out of a Ferrari or Corvette's own Z06. It is a pushrod

[05:48] crossplane V8, the same family tree as every muscle car you grew up loving. It does not love to scream its high note at 9,000 RPM. It rumbles. But, here's the Throw a cam and a good exhaust on this

[06:03] engine and it stops sounding like a Costco version of anything except maybe a Costco hot dog. It sounds like it eats flat plane cranks for breakfast and asks for seconds. People love to bring up the old Dodge Challenger Hellcat whenever

[06:16] this argument starts because that thing hit 200 back in 2015 for about 60,000 bucks. Sounds like it wins this argument until you actually do the math. $60,000

[06:28] until you actually do the math. $60,000 in 2015 is closer to $87,000 today. That means the car that everybody points out to the original budget 200 mile hero already costs more, adjusted to inflation, of course, than this brand

[06:41] new Corvette does sitting on a showroom floor right now. The king is dead. Long live the guy who actually checked his receipts. I also know that some of you are already typing in the comments, so just let's get this out of the way. Yes,

[06:55] the dual clutch is the only option. No, you cannot row your own gears in this thing. I get it. On a lazy Sunday drive, I would probably miss a clutch pedal or two. But, be honest with yourself for 1 second. A modern dual clutch box shifts

[07:08] faster than your left leg ever will. It launches harder and it does not care if you're having an off day with your left foot. I mean, who's left-footed anyway besides my dad? You are not losing a manual transmission here. You are

[07:20] trading a skill you rarely use for lap times that makes grown men who pay triple the money go quiet in the paddock. This is a trade I will make every single time. And now, quick word from today's sponsor. Auto Tempest is

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[07:47] animal. Click the link in the pinned first comment and check it out. Now, I feel like a lot of people also call it a Temu supercar and this is where the Temu comparison actually falls apart because Temu products break the second you look

[08:01] at them wrong. This car well, it does not. Owners have genuinely tracked these things who have put real miles on them at real speed keep saying the same thing. [music] It's built better than the exotics that it gets compared to and

[08:14] it survives track days that leave plenty of six-figure supercars limping home on a flatbed. The badge might say Chevy, but the way this thing is engineered memo that they were only supposed to build an affordable car. And if you want

[08:28] to talk inflation, this is where the Corvette simply embarrasses the entire Corvette simply embarrasses the entire industry. Go back to 1987. The Ferrari F40, my personal favorite Ferrari, hit 201 mph and cost around $400,000.

[08:42] you're staring down at over a million-dollar car with no carpet, no door handles, and barely a radio. The 2009 Corvette ZR1 was the first 'Vette to ever crack the 200 and it needed about $100,000 to do it, which works out

[08:58] to close to 160,000 in today's money. This new Stingray does the same trick for less than half of that in the base trim with air conditioning, a real warranty, and a backseat worth of trunk space for your gym bag. So yes, call it

[09:13] the Costco supercar. Call it the Temu McLaren if that makes you feel better happily let you have the joke because underneath it all, you are still everything the exotic promises at a price your dealer can finance over 60 or

[09:28] 72 or 84 months and that is not an insult. That is the entire point. For most of automotive history, going fast was a members-only club. You needed the right last name, the right zip code, or the right relationship with a dealer

[09:42] principal who barely acknowledged you existed. The Corvette has spent 70 years quietly tearing that membership card in half. It does not care who your father was. It does not care if you pronounce the manufacturer's name correctly. It

[09:55] just asks for 73,000 bucks and hands you 200 miles per. No velvet rope required. Somewhere out there tonight, a kid is standing in a dealership parking lot staring at one of these under the lights doing the exact same math every kid

[10:10] before him has done since 1953 wondering [music] if a car like this could ever actually belong to someone like him. It is not glamorous. It will never earn the respect of people who think a badge is the whole point of speed, but if the

[10:24] goal was always to make the impossible feel normal, nobody on this planet does that better than Chevrolet, and nobody ever will. I'm Brad Danger. This is Ideal. Check out some of these vids over here. Like, subscribe, turn on that

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