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CORVETTE TODAY #183 - Corvette News & Headlines, Mid October 2023
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Just when you think all is quiet in the world of Corvette, we have a ton of things to keep you current and up-to-date about. Keith Cornett from CorvetteBlogger is back and joins your CORVETTE TODAY host, Steve Garrett, to bring you the latest scoop and juicy tidbits about America's Sports Car! Here are some of the topics Steve and Keith talk about next week... 1. The C8 Corvette ZR1 prototypes are spotted with minimal camouflage in Germany 2. Chevrolet raises C8 Corvette pricing effective this month 3. GM delivers over 8,400 Corvettes in the 3rd quarter of this year 4. The 2024 C8 Corvette VIN #001 is delivered at the National Corvette Museum 5. Former GM Exec Bob Lutz, joins the board at Carbon Revolution This News & Headlines show truly delivers! You'll know everything there is to know about Corvette with this upcoming CORVETTE TODAY News & Headlines show! Listen to the podcast, watch the YouTube video, join the Facebook group, sign up for weekly email notifications, follow the show on LinkedIn, Instagram, X (Twitter) and Threads, plus shop in the Merchandise Store at: www.CorvetteToday.com
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is here every other week we keep you K and up toate on what's happening with America Sports Car Keith welcome back to
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the show buddy you know just when you think think things are going to die down we have got a packed show of great
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information for everybody and it's crazy you know it's not just news from One Source it's the world of Corvette
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sometimes it just sort of Coes and drops multiple stories out of the sky at one time and and that's what's really
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happened with the last two weeks we've got some great stories from various aspects of the Corvette Hobby and really looking forward to getting to it you and
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me both buddy well let's start off like we always do with an update about production at the Bowling Green assembly
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plant we discussed the last time we were here you know the 2024 sting race started production on September 18th but
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the z6s didn't officially start until the week of October 3rd and the latest report we have shows that they've
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already 2700 new stingrays produced and there's another 391 Corvette ZO6 is also
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completed they're building like 50 to 60 z6s per day right now wow even though we hear about supply chain issues and stuff
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if you got a car with no constraints they want to build it and they've been building like I said around 55 or so
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each day you know we're at the halfway point for October and already there's more than 3,000 Corvettes that have
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already been produced for the 2024 model year kind of picking up right where we left off there in terms of production wise we don't have any eays being done
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yet you know they were supposed to start the week of October 23rd what's really interesting is that when those first orders went in last time we talked into
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that GM order Bank the earliest tpws the targeted production weeks which again targeted not you know set in stone right
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but we're seeing December 4th as the earliest so far Shane at the Corvette museum when asked about it was told that
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you know it might just be a placeholder they might actually start earlier but it does show that there are some certain
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things being pushed back could be strike it could be supply chain but it's just a matter of you know they want to do the
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launch right they're going to start it slow we're going to see lower numbers that's really what we're seeing so far production wise there was another order
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cycle that started just last week you know what was interesting there is some of the dealers we talked to only got z6s
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but we did talk to a couple dealers that got all three cars they got multiple z6s they got multiple Stingrays and maybe one or two e-rays so looks like they're
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kind of filling out that production for that first start of the eay and then we'll kind of go from there so far you
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know seems pretty good on the production front so we're going to keep watching and see what happens that sounds good and related to that GM delivered 8,400
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Corvettes in the third quarter of this year too yeah you know that's a great number it was 5.9% better than the same
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time a year ago which saw 7,900 Corvettes delivered during third quarter 2022 for the calendar year-to date sales
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Chevrolet has delivered 25,400 Corvettes January 1st through September 30th that
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was a smaller increase just 0.2% we're talking only 58 Corvettes difference
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between 2022 and 2023 these are really Some solid numbers for the quarter unfortunately there's that role of those
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hundreds of 2023 Corvette z6s that are still stuck at the plant they're still waiting to have parts retrofitted we
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have a feeling that a lot of that was carbon fiber and we understand that they are moving those cars out but it's not
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really at a great Pace we're hearing you know it could be 10 it could be 15 maybe 20 cars a day getting pulled out that
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lot with parts and getting them moving on to the next status level we have a feeling that the total third quarter deliveries could have been closer to
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9,000 had those Corvettes had the parts to finish and it's just one of these things that we're kind of dealing with but you know we'll take you know 8,400
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car sold in a quarter that's that's a good number that really is a good number but we did have a lot of Corvettes sitting in the yard there at the Bowling
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Green assembly plant yeah you know we broke that story back in September we had that drone photo from August 28th
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that showed at least 400 cars parked in that lot right I didn't even know where that lot was I had to go and I pulled up
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Google Maps and I went to the satellite view and the Google map satellite view for the Corvette plant doesn't even show
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the new paint factory it was done probably back in 2017 or 2018 I think wow so I had to pull up a third party
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satellite company and then they showed me where that lot was it was empty at the time that was taken that seems to
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have filled up pretty quickly there we did get a statement back from General Motors I'll read it here they say the industry continues to experienced
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temporary part shortages due to a number of circumstances Bing green has been impacted by this so we have Tak con
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steps to keep production running to meet continued strong demand as a result we are building some Vehicles without
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specific parts and will retrofit those Vehicles as the parts become available before they are shipped to customers we
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are working to resolve these issues as soon as possible you know what they call this they call it build shy which means
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basically they're building the car but they're shy as some parts yeah pretty self-explanatory sure it's frustrating
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for us I know the people at the plan are frustrated we understand that that call to build shy came down from Detroit
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we're wondering if they were records again you know there was a huge push to have the most Corvettes ever produced
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for a model year that may have been some of it of course as you know right now we still don't have the final count for the
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2023 model year so I think we're waiting for these cars to be pushed out of that lot yeah one of those z6s belongs to a
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customer and a Corvette blogger reader named John seekins I used him in the story his Corvette was completed on
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August 9th and was still waiting on parts he says as of October 9th it's still at 3,800 that's two months later
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after the car orally reached 3,800 status wow however MC Mulan has told him that the car has moved towards invoice
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status so perhaps he'll finally see it one of the things that really kind of bothered me about that picture in that lot is the way those cars were parked
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like John's car he said his car was built August 9th they were parked in there knows the tail when they go to
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pull those cars out they're pulling out the cars that were the last ones in not the first ones right it's even
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compounded for those earlier guys that are stuck there waiting again we know GM's working on it I know it's not an
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optimal situation we just hope that they can get these parts and get these cars out of there we think that was one of the reasons why they delayed 2024
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production till October 3rd was to give a couple weeks for the supply chain to get them some Supply to take care of
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that we'll we'll have to see what happens there and we'll keep watching it absolutely also with the new model year
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we have new pricing and GM has raised price of Corvettes by $2,000 and that
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was effective at the beginning of this month yeah you know this is on top of a price increase that was made between the
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2023 and the 2024 model Years anyway oh and not only that but you know it was a surprise increase so they get the memo
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and they say yeah all the prices are effective yesterday so it's not like I could hurry up and get another order in
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or anything like that right speaking of the orders we are told that orders in the system at 1100 may have some price
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protection you know we've seen this before having price protected ORD sometimes meaning you got to fight with your dealer to get it because they
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actually get a rebate back on orders that were price protected but sometimes they don't remember that they don't give
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it on to the customer and so y it ends up being a fight so I can imagine to see some of that coming up in the next few
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months yeah probably so all the models went up $2,000 Chevy also increased the destination fee to$ 1695 that was
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another $100 and that was also an increase from I think it was 13.95 in 2023 so they've already increased the
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destination Fe $300 for the 2024 model year and again I think that's a lot of
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what we're seeing pricing wise you know you got fuel cost inflation and all that other stuff going on so that makes sense
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that they would kind of do that but it hurts you know it's definitely one that stings looking at price this is the 1lt stingray Coupe now cost 69,8 195 with
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that transportation fee okay of course that's 10 grand higher than when they were first announced the 2020s were
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announced back in 2019 it's just the cost of doing business not only did they raise the model prices but there was
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also the price on certain options went up those was a fulllength racing stripes they increased by $200 they're now
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priced at $1.95 the engine appearance package this is one of the culprits we think that's holding back some of these
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2023 Corvettes they got a substantial raise their pricing went from 9.95 to
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14.95 okay and then Chevy this was kind of surprising to me as well but Chevy increased the prices of their carbon
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fiber wheels for the Z06 and the eay oh the carbon Flash painted Wheels went up $1,000 they're now
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11995 and then the visible carbon fiber wheels are now $3995 they raised those prices for each
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of those sets up $1,000 yeah and then they had that special wheel the visible carbon wheel with a red stripe around it
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right that is now 15,000 $500 for that set of wheels oh pretty substantial
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there another thing that we saw too this was interesting in the build and price configurator for the 2024 Corvette
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Stingray the ground effects in both carbon fiber and visible carbon fiber are now tied to z51 so the only way you
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can get those with your orders with z51 okay that seems like again they're kind of just making sure that the z51 cars
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have the required arrow and if you get a base car or a non Z be one and you want to add a 5vm or front splitter you
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probably end up go aftermarket with that and luckily there's a lot of aftermarket choices out there for the stingray yeah
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we say this is surprise pricing but the reality is it's just like everything today's world's costing more with inflation we got interest rates got the
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cost of fuel I think buyers are still going to ignore these prices because they waited for the car so long it's
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still worth the wait for them yeah and if they have to slap down you know a couple thousand dollars more to get the car I think we're still going to see
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that but what we won't see and what we have seen is that market tightening where the pre-owned Corvettes those
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prices are coming down and they're being sold around their MSRP prices or even a little bit less yeah the market is
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finally caught up in that regard but there is still a huge demand out there for the car absolutely also GM has given
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us a TechLink article and they're talking about the C8 Transmissions that were a little bit of a problem aren't
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they yeah you know this Techni focuses on the dct's canister filter and when it should be replaced GM has changed this a
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couple times so it seems like they finally said look we're going to put this out again this is how it should be done you have a transmission canister
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filter should be replaced at the initial 7500 miles of the maintenance service schedule and then after that initial
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service the canister filter should be changed at 22,500 Miles and then every 22,5 miles afterwards GM says it's only
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recommended to replace the filter at the required maintenance intervals due to the Loading characteristics of the
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filter which means that you don't have to change it earlier than 7,500 miles you know a lot of people are like I'm getting my oil change at 500 should I
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change the canister on the DCT and Chevy saying no because of the way it works it
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really shouldn't be changed earlier than 7500 miles and in fact they say if you do change it 7500 miles it should be
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changed again at 7500 miles just to keep that maintenance schedule in sequence GM
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only covers one filter change in that initial threeyear period I believe keep an eye on that but they're saying 7500
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miles is when you should change the DCT filter there's no real benefits to do it beforehand and it's going to cost you
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more money if you do it anyway got it that's the latest on that of course the other thing too about the transmission is that 42 24 you know the case has been
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revised a little bit the transmission case itself so like z51 customers no longer have to put the extra two liters
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of transmission fluid into the transmission case itself for track dates and stuff like that nice some of the
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other things that were causing some of the issues with the Transmissions they think they've got that fixed as well so we'll keep an eye on that but that
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should be really good news that's good and speaking of good news if you order a 2024 Stingray you get an increase in
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fuel economy too I remember seeing the Stingrays we saw a lot of the cars but we saw the stingrays with the EPA
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testing pipes on them a couple times and it's because they were being recalibrated and retested because they
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have all this new equipment and stuff on it the latest data from fueleconomy.gov shows these new ratings for the 2024
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Corvette Stingray and they are 16 MPG City and 25 MPG Highway with a 19 MPG
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combined rating we gained that one MPG on the highway went from 24 to 25
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between the two model years so that's good what also we got with this update is the rting for the eay of course it
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uses the same 6.2 L lt2 V8 and that vehicle is rated for 16 MPG City and 24
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MPG Highway with a 19 MPG combin it's basically the same as it was last year we're not sure why that is of course
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it's a larger car it's a heavier car it's got bigger tires on it but then it's also got stop start technology
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doesn't that help out somewhere yeah so it's a little surprising you know we think that the city numbers would
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actually be a little bit better due to the hybrid all-wheel drive system but again with all the other factors PA is
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probably being a little bit conservative and just raing it the way it was again good news and like I said that's a lot of news to come out just in a couple
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it's another big segment first of all let's talk about Corvette racing at petite Lama yeah you know again we're in
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a situation we are recording this prior to the running of petite Lon at rhod Atlanta this is kind of a good or sweet
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moment it's obviously the end of the 25th year for corbette racing a lot of big changes coming up for the season you
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know we're looking at most likely coming in second place in the championship the leading number 14 Lexus only needs to
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start the race to have the points to win outright looks like they pretty much have got this thing wrapped up as long as they start the race they should have
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the championship this is also the last race for the catr you know c8r first started in 2020 in January and the Rolex
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24 obviously it's been a really good car the drivers have enjoyed driving it a little hampered by Bop of course and
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some of the other things that always go on in our series but it's been a really good car and it's One races definitely
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that car is going to be replaced in January with the new Z06 gt3r and of course we had the new GT3 Global
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realignment sort of going on around that as well and of course it's the last race for Jordan Taylor Who's going to return
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to prototype racing with his family's team at Wayne Taylor racing so a lot of things all coming to a head this weekend
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kind of wish we were there Road Atlanta is a great place to watch a race and of course it's a 10-hour race they race into the darkness which is always fun a
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lot of things happening there we'll be back in January with the rooll x24 with the new Z06 gt3r and in fact there'll be
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a lot of them still good news there but always kind of sad to see a teammate leave see a car get retired the funny
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thing is these cars always end up on like a different racing vintage series and the historical Series so we'll see these RS out there that's for sure yeah
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and I'm glad you brought up the gt3r because we're going to talk about that some more in a minute but I'm also glad
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you talked about Jordan Taylor because he really likes the c8r he talked about that too yeah you know he did say it was
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a difficult decision especially with the way they the ratings have gone for the car he was racing prototypes before
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moving to Corvette racing you know there you're going for the overall win our cars are not going to race at lemon
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anymore most likely the cars that he's racing with could get an invite to Lemon so you know there's a lot of those
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reasons of course racing with his family with his brother his dad are also important to him so yeah it's sad to see him go but you know the memes will live
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on yes he talked about that he's going back to NASCAR with exfinity racing isn't he yeah he did that he just raced
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there last week at the Charlotte roel with holl racing in the Xfinity series he started p12 and ended up finishing
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p16 said it was a good race what also happened that weekend was he actually got to do a couple laps in the NASCAR
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garage 56 lemon Racer the crowd went crazy for it he laid down this huge burnout on the roal really cool stuff
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there from Jordan we're going to miss him that's for sure talking about gt3rs there's a team called dxdt racing and
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they're going to run two gt3rs in the GT World Challenge America Series yeah this
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was kind of like the final announcement for 2024 and all the things that the Z06 GT3 is where it's going to be at this is
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going to run in the GT World Challenge America series for both 2024 and 2025 dxt they kind of made their Mark they've
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been racing with Mercedes and they'll actually start the season with two Mercedes AMG GT3 evos before switching
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over to the Corvette sometimes after the season opener in April at somoma they're pretty excited about the car of course
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that's kind of one of the big draws of switching to the new car is not only you get this brand new car but it's the team
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behind it and of course you know 25 years of Corvette racing Pratt Miller Motorsports really solidifying the
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legend of Corvettes racing the sports cars so a lot of people want to be part part of that so it's really good to see
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them there you know to recap there's going to be eight Z6 tt3rs competing worldwide next year wow so we have the
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two car effort from dxt we've got four of them in imsa so Pratt Miller is running two cars in GTD Pro while AWA
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racing will have the two cars in the GTD amateur class and then over in Europe in the FIA World Endurance Championship the
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British team TF sport they've got two cars in the GT3 class there as well so
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eight cars worldwide really offers the opportunity to find your favorite team you know you can root for teams now both
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in the Pro and the amateur classes it's going to be pretty exciting I'm actually kind of looking forward to it that's a nice offering that's really cool because
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we got Pro and amateur and worldwide that sounds like we're covering all the bases also Keith with our rumor section
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wow the ZR1 prototype was spotted in Germany wasn't it yeah that's pretty much the biggest news of the week was
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the on track reveal of the Corvette zer1 at the Nur green you know not only do we see the car over there but it shed its
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black heavy camo and it really revealed a number of differences between the Z6 and the r-ray you know we've seen it
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testing State side in the black camo with the Z6 wing and you know you really can't see the stuff that's underneath
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that but once they took that off we see that Engineers are using an air extractor on the front hood for the first time much like on that Z6 GT3 race
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car the rear fenders also have air scoops both on the top and then the side intake spear trim like we see on the Z6
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that spear trim that Wishbone has been replaced with what looks like another air scoop leading towards the back there
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we have to really think that these are turbocharged cars we don't see the vertically mounted Radiator in the front
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corner of the cooling for the all-wheel drive system like we do on the e-rays and then cars that race at the ring they
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hybrids they have a special sticker so that if there's any kind of incident the emergency crews know that this is a
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hybrid power train and then they take the appropriate steps to protect themselves as well as the driver we don't see that sticker of the car
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anywhere so we definitely believe that it's a turbocharged car there's also a new huge wing for the ZR1 if you look at
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that wing being head on it appears to be straight but the photos of the Corvette Z1 for the side show that that curve
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follows the shape of the rear hatch just like the Z6 Wing does it messes with your eyes a little bit because it looks
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like a flat straight board when you're looking at it head on yeah it's kind of crazy there our sources have confirmed
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to us that the Corvette 01 will be coming in 2025 however the rumor is that Chevy has
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sort of been going back and forth there was meetings people came down from Detroit to Bowling Green it was up in
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the air until that meeting they said we're going to try for 2025 it's still quite possible that with a UAW strike
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you got carbon fiber supply chain issues we could see this car push back to 2026 it's not set in stone by any means stay
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tuned we'll bring you the latest news from the ZR1 we think it's going to be over there for at least another week and we're hoping for some really good stuff
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to come out of it we got a spyer tographer over there who's feeding us information as of last week we know there was rain all day Thursday we don't
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think the cars got out at all we're just watching see what happens hopefully we'll have some more on track action happening from the nurur green I can't
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wait buddy this ZR1 looks awesome well let's take our final break Keith when we come back it's the lighter side of
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4231 I'm your host Steve Garrett with me every other week is Keith cornette from corvet blogger.com don't forget if you
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always cover the lighter side of Corvette Keith this was a neat story kind of one of our feel-good stories the
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first 2024 C8 Stingray VIN number one was delivered at the National Corvette
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Museum yeah you know they kicked off production of the raay on September 18th and Vin 001 Corvette was delivered via
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the rhc program at the National Corvette Museum I believe on the very last day of the month on the 30th of September
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interestingly the car was a replacement for its owners they had a 2019 Corvette that was damaged to the storm I guess it
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was a pres significant storm if they lost their car but the car was insured by our friends at the NCM Insurance
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Agency which covered their loss and allowed them to quickly move to the C8 platform we've seen this before a couple
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times where a car has gotten damaged or something all of a sudden that person does get that Vin one I think we saw
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that with the 2021 car where a guy had some engine problems and he got the VIN 001 for stingray as a replacement so
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congratulations to these people they did a great program at the rhc you know those great pictures that show the car
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it's validation to see that first car delivered and now we're off now we have 3,000 cars already built for the 2024
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model year so far yeah that's great we're off and running with 2024 cars that's for sure this is also really cool
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actor John Goodman has a C1 Corvette it's a 60 and it's up for auction isn't it yeah I always thought it'd be kind of
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cool to own a car formerly owned by a celebrity but it have to be a cool celebrity you know it couldn't be just
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anybody but right I mean this is a cool car this is a black 1960 Corvette with silver Coes I mean just a fantastic
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addition to anyone's garage and not only does the car look good but it's a numbers matching fuel injected 283 290
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horsepower fuie wow with a four-speed manual transmission it's a great looking car it's going to be sold at the GAA
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November auction November 2nd through 4th in Greensboro North Carolina where're actually going to have a
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feature coming up on that auction here they got some really cool cars running through there so stay tuned to Corvette blogger on that that sounds good also
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the NCM Motorsports Park and mobile one are teaming up to offer a women's hpde
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coming up on October 21st yeah this is pretty cool they're going to have a team of professional instructors out there
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joining forces with female participants they all get a run on the 3.2 mile NCM
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Motorsports Park in Bowling Green pretty cool here and again it's just the idea to get women more behind the wheel and
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get them doing stuff with Motorsports our friend the women in Motorsports North America Cindy sisan and some other
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people have really ramped up efforts to get women to participate in some of these stuff so good for them glad to
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have them there and of course mobile one anytime you can do anything with them it's pretty cool as well definitely also this is really cool you know Carbon
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Revolution makes the carbon fiber wheels for the r-ray and the Z6 well Bob Lutz a
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former GM executive is now joining their board of directors yeah always cool Bob Lutz I always remember Jalopnik his
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nickname at Jalopnik was maximum B BLS he owns a fighter jet that he used to fly around and he do interviews wearing
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the fighter suit and stuff just the Maverick as far as Mavericks go he's actually joining the board of carbon
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Revolution now this is Australian company they're doing a reverse merger and they're going to end up on the New
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York Stock Exchange they're thinking that merger will be completed this month for people that are interested the
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a reverse merger into that holding company there and then they're going to be on the New York Stock Exchange so if
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you want to support Corvette Z06 and maybe own a little bit of a company that provides carbon fiber wheels and we know
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how expensive those carbon fiber wheels are oh yeah the other thing too carbon fiber wheels just aren't for sports cars
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and high-end cars they're actually looking at creating a lowcost version because of the weight it sheds for use
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on like hybrids and electric cars where the fuel economy is really all important good for Bob I mean they get great
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leadership for carbon Revolution another investment opport opportunity for those interested in investing in their cars
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yeah did somebody say carbon fiber yeah and they have a lot of carbon F oh yeah that's for sure and our final
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story Keith as of last Friday the eay reviews are out and they're in all the
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big magazines yeah everybody's got them we know that Savage geese has got a big one coming out we're looking forward to
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that of course we're recording this right now and when normally I'd be on all these reviews going crazy and Gaga
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and all this stuff so very excited to see all these have a running list I know our friends over at the mid and Corvette
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forum.com have got a running list of reviews so if you got an eay this is going to be a fun weekend for you yeah
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absolutely right well buddy thank you so much for being back on Corvette today it's always the highlight of my month
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when we get to do our news and headline shows thanks steeve well you know and especially when we have so much news to talk about that's what makes it really
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fun and it's news from everywhere it's rumors it's racing we've got pricing information we got production stuff
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happening all aspects of the Corvette Nation should be filled up right now hopefully with all this stuff and then we'll be back in two weeks to do it all
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again sounds good thanks buddy thank you Steve thanks for listening to Corvette today and please be sure to tell your
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