The oil consumption is a bit of a concern, particularly in light of the engine issues C&D had with their long-term C7 Corvette. Some commenters have speculated that the oil consumption is related to the cylinder deactivation and that simply deactivating the system cures the oil consumption. Hopefully, it's that simple ... but in which case, GM really needs to address this.

 

Yeah, I read the article and I was like................... Holy Sh**. I would never expect a relatively new vehicle to consume that much oil.

The V10 in the SD will use about 0-1/2 a quart between normal duration changes, at 76,000 miles. It depends on how hard it is used. The Explorer Sport uses nothing. Well, at least nothing measurable. It has almost 63K miles on it. As a matter of fact, the only vehicle I ever had that really used oil was my 1991 heavily modified Mustang. Even with that, it was only using 1 quart every 3000 miles, and that was with 105K miles on it.

 

This is something that has been talked to death about engines that shut down their cylinders consuming more oil.

Although their test car is a manual transmission car which has AFM deactivated from the factory it still retains the AFM hardware.

 

118 trap speed destroys the GT and is up there with the GT350. Amazing.

 

I don't understand the cowl comment at all. They either have some damn short drivers or they are purposefully trying to let it get in the way. If that was the case the steering wheel would block your view as well. So strange.

Plus, I love the lower AC vents. They work amazing and bring the screen up higher rather than being flipped around where the screen would be right near the shifter. So instead of looking down at the shifter to change something Im looking at the dash. I also don't get why you would get a chilling shifter hand either. Angled up to hit your chest the air flow doesn't even come close to you hand. Hell, I'll take some ribbon streamers and prove that it doesn't hit my arm/hand while angled towards the body.

As far as it "consuming" oil. There are have been far more than a handful of idiot dealers putting 6.5 qts of oil in the car rather than the required 10. Plus, considering its a manual I wonder if they are using engine braking a bit more than a normal driver and that always burn a bit of oil. Then, living in the higher RPM ranges will also cause you to burn a bit more oil too. Just the nature of the beast.


Not sure why you brought up the 2014 Corvette Tone as that car had a few mechanical issues that led to the engine blowing up. It's been very well documented and the red flags should be considered withdrawn.

 

Not sure why you brought up the 2014 Corvette Tone as that car had a few mechanical issues that led to the engine blowing up. It's been very well documented and the red flags should be considered withdrawn.

Back in the old days, magazine test cars were tweaked within an inch of their lives to provide optimal test numbers and a great review. This is two 'halo' Chevys C&D has done long-term tests on with the kind of engine issues (failure on the C7, high oil consumption on the Camaro) you don't usually hear about in this day and age. Despite otherwise glowing reviews, it's pretty easy for the casual reader to walk away wondering about long-term reliability, especially since they share the same LT1 motor. That may not be fair, but this is exactly the last thing GM needs when providing long-term testers to magazines. Hopefully, their PR and engineering teams will be quick on the draw to provide an explanation -- ideally one that limits the oil consumption to this particular test car.

 

Like I said, the oil consumption makes no sense. You have people with 30-40k miles on their LT1 in the Camaro and using zero oil so if this car is truly ingesting oil then it's a rare one.