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To play devil’s advocate, I can buy a Corvette today that is nothing like the one from ten years ago too.

In fact, lots of things are like this.

Almost everyone knows that the model year is part of the, idk, "minimal tuple" for identifying vehicles, though, and you can count on it always appearing in e.g. advertisements.

In CPU land, the architecture codename or process node might be part of such a "minimal tuple" but these are frequently omitted by OEMs and retailers in their advertising materials.

2009 C6 Corvette ZR1: 0-60 in 3.3 seconds 2019 C7 Corvette ZR1: 0-60 in 3.2 seconds

I have always hated 0-60 because it depends greatly on transmission shift points, driver ability, rear end ratio, and most of all traction, which OEM street tires have little of.

Let’s go to a full quarter mile, which show a bigger difference, but again not a huge one.

2009: 11.2 seconds/130.5 mph

2019: 10.6-seconds/134 mph

This would be a better comparison of Ford Mustang GT’s of the same year. Massive improvement.

It's a crappy metric. What about:

Time to stop from 60 mph?

Effective turning radius at 60 mph?

Interior noise in decibels at 60 mph?

Maximum shock absorption at 60 mph?

Nürburgring times.

Or 0-100-0.

>> Nürburgring times.

7:06 vs 7:24 for the old car. Although in 'segmented' times it had went something like 6:54

The point is that people think the numeral in the brand is something like a version number in which larger numerals are better. I.e., an i7 is always better than an i5 when in fact a new i5 might exceed the performance of a dated i7 for some particular metric.

Or frankly one new i5 might be powerful than a new i7 if one's a desktop or H series and the other is a Gx or U series.

Corvettes like all cars are identified by their model year. Hence there is no confusion that a 2021 Corvette is "better" than a 2011 Corvette.

Are the '21 models better than an '11? I don't think anyone would say they'd rather have a '21 than a '69.

I do love collecting my old classics, but every time I'm the one driving my wife's Civic, I think, huh, everything about modern cars is better in every single way.

Including pervasive tracking of driving habits and who you associate with, sold to the highest bidder. :-(

Depends on if I have a garage and a team to keep it running good, if I'm taking it for a nice drive or just showing it off in a museum.... The long, swooping '69 is iconic, but there are lots of things to prefer about a modern model.

In terms of speed, definitely - the '69 Corvette's zero-to-60 mph time was about 7 seconds, the '11 Corvette took about 4 seconds, and the '21 Corvette takes under three seconds. Sustained performance, maximum speed, etc. has also improved.

They would if they were looking for top speed.

This is valid since Intel's naming scheme is influenced by BMW.

I can't wait for Intel to release an i7 variant as the i8 Gran Coupé.

How much does the top speed differ?

https://media.gm.com/media/us/en/gm/news.detail.html/content...

About 10 years ago. 7:19.63 (ZR1 / i9)

https://www.automobilemag.com/news/2020-chevrolet-corvette-s...

About a year ago 7:29.90 (base model / i3)

Better measure than top speed anyway

More important than top speed, 0-60 went from 4.2 to 2.9 seconds in that time. So the analogy stands

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