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I actually have two stories that I would like to explain to Andrew and David in tech terms.
We've had this as a sort of a recurring segment where we bring in something from totally outside the tech world but in a passion of ours that we try to get you to feel the passion for by using tech analogies for them.
uh i have two i think i've got my analogies i'm gonna try all right all right i'm excited so the first one the first bit of news is the corvette zr1x the c8 zr1x just became the quickest american production car of all time and actually the quickest car ever made with an engine in it it does a 1.7 second zero to 60 and an 8.6 second quarter mile
It's a $220,000 Corvette.
It's obviously a pretty crazy car in the first place, but the outlier in performance that this car represents is totally insane.
This C8 platform has been building for a while, really, really insane stuff, but the numbers, the straight line performance that this car can pull off
is equivalent to, it would be easy to say like only like million dollar cars, but honestly, most million dollar cars are not this fast.
This would be like three to five to $10 million cars are occasionally this fast sometimes.
The only other car that we've tested that's this fast, Andrew, is the Rimac Navara.
The Ram Activera is several million dollars.
It's pure electric, quad motor, 1800 horsepower, all-wheel drive.
This is a Corvette that someone's just going to buy someday.
So I was trying to explain this in tech terms, and the best I can think of, because I think the story is how much of an outlier it is for performance per dollar.
This would be like if the OnePlus 15β
had also by far the best camera the Android world has ever seen and was also $550.