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Originally Posted by 2001ragtop
It's not even that the car is a 2-seater. Each tire probably costs 600.00 and needs to be replaced after 4000 miles.
I do not even want to imagine what happens if one of those tires drops into a big pothole. You can't expect a corvette to survive the kind of impacts that a full-size truck will survive.
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Tires are about $350-400, expect prices to drop slightly as more cars are produced...and they'll last for roughly 15-30k miles depending on how a person drives it.
Tires/wheels on any GM car or truck had to pass the same durability standards as each other. Including potholes...Trucks might be more likely to "survive" thanks to longer suspension travel...but the wheels are just as strong as a Corvette's would have to be to pass internal standards.
I don't mean to pick on you here, the other points you raised were good ones. But I want to point out that it's these misperceptions, or over-exaggerations...that leads to articles like the one in the OP being written.
Similar ones were written in 2008 about how the new 5th-gen would fail, no question. Gas prices, economy, and public interest would see the car killed again in three years or less.....they couldn't have been more wrong.
I think the guy who wrote this article is barking up that same tree.
