This package is for people who already have money to burn. It's intended for classic car restorations, which is so a money burn hobby. A full classic car restoration can exceed 100k if you're having it done professionally.
Buying motors and batteries from Aliexpress you can probably get under $15K-$10K even ( and that is probably BOM of Chinese car manufacturers for such the engine and batteries), yet having it as a US factory package $27K doesn't look that bad for me.
I didn’t have any context, so I went shopping and it looks like you’re right https://www.gmperformancemotor.com/category/ENG.html
Which is a bit wild to me because I looked into adding a supercharger to my 2010 Camaro last month and it was 7-9k DIY.
This package is for people who already have money to burn. It's intended for classic car restorations, which is so a money burn hobby. A full classic car restoration can exceed 100k if you're having it done professionally.
I’ll be honest 200hp doesn’t exactly blow up my skirt
But the extra torque might sizzle your drizzle
266 lb/ft? Nah. Maybe for a go kart.
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I get this is a pretty nice product that they won't sell in huge volume, but that is really steep, was expecting something <20k
It includes a 66 kWh battery. This might be a strategy for offloading all the Bolt EV batteries they had to refurbish.
yesterday post here about Tesla-fied Mustang - $40K of parts https://electrek.co/2026/05/02/tesla-1966-mustang-ev-convers...
Buying motors and batteries from Aliexpress you can probably get under $15K-$10K even ( and that is probably BOM of Chinese car manufacturers for such the engine and batteries), yet having it as a US factory package $27K doesn't look that bad for me.