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Why Was a Stop Sale Ordered For 2024 Corvettes? | Corvette ZR1 Announcement CORVETTE TODAY #219
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May 12, 2025
Welcome! In today's video, we delve into the vital aspects of the Corvette ZR1 announcement and explore why was a stop sale ordered for 2024 Corvettes. This video covers why was a stop sale ordered for 2024 Corvettes and discusses the following subjects: - Who is GM's new chief engineer? - Why is GM discounting 7 colors for 2025? - The C8 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 release ******************************** CORVETTE TODAY #219 - Corvette News & Headlines, Late June 2024 As we await the announcement of the ZR1 release, Corvette news is still coming in fast and furiously! Next week, your CORVETTE TODAY host, Steve Garrett, and Keith Cornett from CorvetteBlogger bring you all the Corvette news you can handle. Here are a few of the stories Steve and Keith cover next week: 1. A Stop Sale ordered on select 2024 Corvettes due to a seatbelt retractor issue 2. GM names a new Executive Chief Engineer to replace Tadge Juechter 3. A wrap-up of Corvette Racing at Le Mans 4. GM discounts all 7 colors that are going away for 2025 5. The National Corvette Museum new "Ground To Sky" exhibit opens and tells the story of the sinkhole 6. We finally have a reveal date for the C8 ZR1
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everywhere of course we've seen record highs up in the Northeast as well so hopefully you guys are driving around in your cool Corvettes and keeping cool of
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course we got a lot of great events this summer and you know here's the crazy thing the days are only going to get shorter now so you got to get out there
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and enjoy your Corvettes of course we got some great events we just had Bloomington gold and the GM carile Nationals we still got Carlile for
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Corvettes coming up we've got the Caravan F and the NCM anniversary show coming up so yeah get out there and start driving your cars guys absolutely
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start off as we always do with an update on production from the Bowling Green assembly plant sounds good see well you
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know certainly things are getting interesting you know we're heading into the end of the 2024 model year de are
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taking their final 2024 orders this week and then all those final orders will be scheduled and will run through September
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6th which marks the end of the model year and that's still like 11 weeks away or so so we're going to continue to have
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some really robust production numbers for 2024 speaking of those numbers for the stingray we are at
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2,369 units completed so we've been averaging around 120 130 stingrays a day
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sometimes it'll go up to 150 but that 120 130 appears to be the sweet spot right now the ZO6 is already at
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7,713 units for 2024 and we're probably going to be close to 8,000 completed by the end of this week really again strong
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numbers for Z06 the real mover however though in the last week is the eay which we've seen seven straight days of double
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digit production numbers we are currently at 581 units and then hopefully we'll be in the 600s by this
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week as well so our total numbers add up currently to 33,6 63 Corvettes produced so far for
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the 2024 model year and again with another 10 and a half 11 weeks to go we're we're going to have some great numbers at the end of the model year
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yeah and speaking of production we saw a banner week with eay last week didn't we yeah you know we've been watching the
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eray numbers daily we go to Roger ke's unofficial production tracker on Facebook we saw a sudden Spike of
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activity the week of June 10 what was weird was previously leading up to that date we'd seen a high of 18 cars twice
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and then the weekly total the highest was 35 so bam all of a sudden on June 10th they come out they said 66 eays
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were completed we had another zero on June 11 but then for the rest of the week we had totals of 16 22 and 13 to
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get us to 117 cars produced that week it's great to see the e-rays being produced in those kind of numbers and we
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really need them to be produced in those kinds of numbers we get that number of stingrays coming down we got these stingrays out there they're being
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discounted by $5,000 or more reduce the number of stingrays available increase the number of e-rays and maybe even some
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z6s there's still lot of waiting list for that car but it looks like things are really getting out of this ramp up
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phase and then for this final push through the into the 2024 I'm still predicting a th000 units for eay that
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would be really cool I got really excited about this Keith I saw that the 2025 order guide is available for
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viewing and downloading already I always look forward to that don't you oh it's one of my favorite things ever you just
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go through you find something new there's always something that GM doesn't tell us in there and of course we had a couple surprise options as expected
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nothing really big but again it is something new one of those surprise options is called lpo Vu they engine
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closeout graphics now we know that the engine close outs on the coups are those visible carbon fiber triangles on each
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side of your V8 engine right those are called the Closeouts so we're wondering what a closeout graphic is we have to
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assume that it's some sort of fancier design that would be part of the engine appearance package again these are only
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available for coups so they are meant to be seen we have not seen any pictures yet so there's going to be a surprise
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there at some point coming towards us and then the other surprise option is called it's an lpo the lpos are dealer
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installed options by the way RPO is our regular production option but these lpos this one's called SLK red strut bracket
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and these are dealer installed options the strut brackets are these little triangles mounted near the firewall in the coupe and they hold those brackets
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that lift up the engine hatch when you're working underneath there right they've always been black but now that
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you could order in Red so if you're getting like a red engine cover in your coup now you can have another a little bit more red in there to match it to
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again a couple more surprise options everything else that was in there that was new we learned at the NCM bash you
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can view and download the 20 25 order guide at Corvette blogger.com and speaking of 202s real quick dealers were
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told last week that the first allocations for 2025 ordering will happen on Thursday July 11th and then
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the first orders for 202s will go in on Thursday July 18th so put that date on
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your calendars it's going to be here before you know it if you're one order of 2025 there's your dates right there that's pretty cool Keith also this was
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interesting because I haven't seen this in a long time especially with GM and Chevrolet there is a stop sale ordered
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on 2024 Corvettes because of a seat belt retractor issue what's going on with that you know this seems to be a problem
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that's kind of reared its head before previous models but nothing in these kinds of numbers there was a substantial
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issue with the 224s and their seat Bel retractors in which they lock up in their stowed position so you can't pull
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them out they make them basically inoperable you can't use them the first news we heard about this was that GM
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issued a stop sale order on any new 224s with these seat Bel retractors this means they can't be delivered until the
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new seat belt retractors are added these are cars at dealerships waiting for delivery now they can't be delivered
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until they get that new part we initially heard that about 600 cars were affected and the good news is that GM
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knows the vins of these bad seat Bel retractor cars so they're able to notify their owners and say hey hold on we got
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to get new ones in we are hearing there's a little bit of an issue at parts so we don't know how long this is going to take yet what really happened
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the other shoe dropped and it turns out that there's more than 13,000 2024 Corvettes that might have already been
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delivered that have these bad seat belt retractors in them those they're not bad yet but they could still go bad so GM
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has issued a recall for them affected owners will be getting a letter in the US mail and I believe you can also check your my Chevy app to see if your car is
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listed there as well those letters are going to go out sometime in July Parts I think are going to be a little bit of an issue there until they ramp that up and
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get those to dealers so they can make those changes gotcha also Keith we have a successor for the retiring Tad's juor
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who will be retiring at the end of July don't we this was good news because we didn't really know what was going into
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of course a lot of us were rooting for Josh and maybe somebody internally but you know what Josh is hands on right now
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and I have a feeling that the executive position the executive chief engineer position is a lot of meetings you know I
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anticipate a lot of meetings at DM for executive leadership there so perhaps it's good that Josh remains Hands-On as
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the chief engineer of the vehicle while we have Tony Roman now as the executive chief engineer now what's interesting is
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it's not just Corvette this is a newly formed Global Corvette and performance cars team and he'll be taking that over
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beginning July 1 so we're not really exactly sure how that new organization will pan out but I'm going to speculate
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a second here Global Corvette and performance car teams maybe we're looking at the first inklings of Corvett
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being its own brand that would be cool it's needed that forever it's been a long time coming it kind of deserves it
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I think at this point especially if they're talking about adding you know SUV or the sedan with a Corvette badge
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on it as well needs to be under one house and it needs to be led by the Corvette team so we'll see if that happens but let's get back to Tony real
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quick because this guy 30 years at GM and he has spent some time working on Corvettes and numerous Cadillacs
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including the V series and Blackwing performance cars Corvette owners will like the fact that Tony owns multiple
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Corvettes he's got a C4 ZR1 a C6 ZR1 a C8 Z6 and a CTSV wagon guy likes his
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performance cars and he likes his sore BS too yeah he's one of us really interesting about him is that he carries
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the highest level of driving certifications at GM he has over 1500 Laps on the nurburg ring and in fact
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when they preparing the story about him coming the successor to Taj he was over in Germany racing in the ADC 24-hour
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nurburging race wow he's got some incredible credentials there for driving and racing and performance cars the
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other thing is Tony is just 53 years old and so we really hope that he finds his home here for the Corvette team for the
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remainder of his career we say welcome home to Corvette Tony yeah absolutely right all right buddy let's take our
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rumors Keith let's talk about what Corvette racing did at Lama absolutely well TF sport completed the 24 hours of
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Lama with their two Z6 gt3r Racers of course they're racing in a World Endurance Championship which has lamons
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as one of its stops there this was a really challenging race due to weather conditions being very bad we actually
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had a 4-Hour safety car period at one point as well the cars weren't competitive at all for challenging a
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Podium finish or even a win but the good news is that both cars actually finished the gring 24-hour race there were a
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couple issues this was only the second 24-hour race for the Z6 GT3 R Car good to see that we are actually getting
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through some of these issues although we did have some issues the z6s didn't have that overall speed the number 82
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Corvette finished the best for us they finished in 11th place after starting 18 the number 81 Corvette encountered a
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power system problem again it seems to be Power Systems in electrical that are the issues with these cars huh they did
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get it rectified they did lose 10 laps Unfortunately they also had to replace the front nose the 82 Corvette had a
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clutch issue and fell back behind three laps but they were able to get one of those laps back really hard race the
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good news is that they persevered work through it both cars finished the next race for TF sport in the FIA World endur
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Championship is the six hours of sa Palo did I say that right in Brazil yes sou
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Pao and that's on Sunday July 14th sounds good also how did Corvette racing do at the Glenn well we'll find out
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because we are actually recording this the day before the actual race we'll have to talk about this next time you
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know we are over halfway of the 2024 racing schedule now in imsa after the Glenn we're going to do the Chevrolet
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Grand Prix at the Canadian Tire Motorsports Park in Canada on July 14th as well so we're going to have another one of those weekends where we have two
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Corvettes racing on multiple continents which is pretty cool that is really neat also it seems like they're kind of
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getting the homologation thing requirement taken care of on these gt3rs which is really good isn't it it is
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because you know there's a little bit of concerns you know as GM racing and katton Miller Motorsports began as customer program the rules are they have
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to have 20 of these cars built within two years to meet their homologation rule the homologation means that you're
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building these cars they're not just special oneoff cars that are racing you know we had a special retainer to be able to do that with our previous cars
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the c8s to raceing GT3 but these are actual GT3 cars they have to be built by the global GT3 specs and the rules are
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you have to have 20 of them out there in two years we know that eight cars have already been built and handed out and GM Racing's Christine bagy told sports car
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365 that as many as a dozen more customer cards could be available for 2025 we might also see some of the
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existing teams pick up another cars are spare we do know that TF sport had a spare car for lemons there of course
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there still a few other series out there that could be targeted for a new Z6 gt3r team so it looks like it's happening you
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know and what would be really cool eventually you get to the point where we could start to see some of these cars being sold just a dedicated track
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machine to some gentleman Racers out there that can just do their own track days and not be part of a team or anything like that it looks like we're
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on track to have those 20 cars by the end of 2025 that's all good news very nice also on Thursday of last week we
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got the official release date of the new C8 ZR1 yeah you know all kinds of news
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again does it ever stop Steve really no no Chevrolet officially announced that the C8 ZR1 will be revealed on July 25th
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2024 GM provided no other details they don't even tell us that the C is going to arrive to customers as a 2025 or 2026
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they specifically said C8 ZR1 no location or time yet no model year net we don't even know if GM is going to
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offer this as an online event or if it only selected media will be invited or it'll do their thing regardless of this
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is in person or online we know there's going to be another huge takeover the internet on July 25th people will be tuning in to find out out more about the
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snacks of the ZR1 really exciting stuff there glad to see we're getting some movement on this pretty exciting to have
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another Corvette model on the horizon buddy I don't know why but I am just so pyed up for this new ZR1 I can't wait
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for this thing this will be really great because it's Unthinkable Steve I'm trying to think what that means I guess
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we'll find out won't we in July also we did see some of the prototypes still out but we saw Taj and
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Harland long for the ride which is pretty cool they got to be almost ready to go yeah we were talking about these
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group of engers doing this run around Ohio and West Virginia and Pennsylvania
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after our last show I think it was over that weekend we found out there's still testing with that Ferrari sf90 stradali
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nice we had the C8 quarter Vette prototypes with the different Wings on so there's like three different Wing configurations for the coupe but we did
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see familiar faces on this ride retiring engineer Tad ductor and Corvette product manager Harlot Charles were along for
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the ride so we were thinking for previous launches the corate engineering team likes to take a big trip this is
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what they call like their final development ride or their final evaluation as we had Taj and Harland
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along for this ride and knowing that the ZR1 reveal is just a little over a month away now we have to think that this might have been the final validation
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drive for the ZR1 now everything's going in the can they've got their production specs ready there might be some further
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updates to it but 95% of it looks like it's probably completed you know we'll have the reveal and then the big news is
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when will that car be available yeah can't wait absolutely can't wait they're probably doing little tweaks like you said Crossing all the te's and dotting
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all the eyes and getting it ready to go but and July it'll be a big big day buddy that's for sure yeah pretty
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always go to Corvette blogger.com in this final segment we always talk about the lighter side of Corvette Keith I was
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surprised GM has already discontinued all seven colors that are going away for next year yeah this was really
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interesting we had all these dates Associated to when the build outs of these seven colors were going to be happening it's like they put out these
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dates and then they just arbitrarily go away the next announcement so they put out these dates we saw like Hypersonic
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gray through August 8th I believe and then GM suddenly announced FY orange and accelerate yellow were going away and
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then for this final 2024 order cycle all five colors are unavailable any of these
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seven colors for people that are trying to order a car right now you can't get it you have to go with the traditional white red black some blues but you can't
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get any other stuff I kind of like the fact that we have this story in the lighter section but for the last month GM has put out these dates they just
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immediately changes no way to run a car company dealers have no idea what their customers are will be allowed to order
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really would like to see some of these communications snap's worked out I know we've talked about communication with dealers and how that filters down to the
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customers it's a really important part of that whole customer relationship dealers aren't happy about not knowing
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what dates are happening and customers are St in the air because they rely on their dealers for that info we understand they're getting rid of colors
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are bringing in new colors just let us know and give us these dates in advance so we have some way to plan for it bring
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on the new colors that's for sure yeah we know more than a couple people that have a couple orders going in this cycle
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and the last cycle that have just had to completely change their orders because that color is going away wow also Keith
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this is really cool the National Corvette Museum has a new exhibit called Ground of sky and it tells the story of
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the sinkhole which is really neat yeah it's the 10th anniversary of the infamous sinkhole this year but this is
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a little different this exhibit ground of sky SLE reimagine serves as a tribute to the growth and vision of the National
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Corvette Museum and a reminder to Corvette enthusiasts worldwide how far the NCM has come since that morning in
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2014 when we found out that the floor had collapsed in the Skydome and swallowed eight Corvettes they'll have
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some of the cars that were rescued from the sinkhole and then there's a really cool timeline that shows everything from
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the sinkhole happening through today of all the record growth and attendance that came afterwards you know that viral
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video just went crazy showing the floor buckling and then dropping right you know it everywhere there was news
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stations in Japan talking about it it was pretty cool thing I maintain that it was one of the best things that ever
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happened to the NCM true the amount of free publicity and advertising and people knowing that there is a Corvette
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Museum just skyrocketed they called it making lemonade out of lemons yes they do have certainly a story to tell so I'm
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anxious to see this new exhibit when we go up there for the anniversary show me too and just a little bit of trivia
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Corvette is the only American car brand that has its own museum that's pretty cool also keep I was really surprised to
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see this Willow Springs International Raceway is up for sale get out your checkbook yeah the family that's owned
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Willow Springs Raceway facility since 1962 has put the track up for sale there's no word on price but we learned
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that YouTuber Amilia Hartford is one of these that are spearheading and effort to buy it wow the track has a long
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history designated as an official California point of historical interest in 1996 and of course many events are
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held there and it also serves as a great place for movies TVs and commercials you know one of the recent movies that was
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filmed there was Ford versus Ferrari right and there's a great scene at Willow Springs where Kent miles is
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racing a cobra against his Corvette competitors there pretty interesting you know luckily Willow Springs is kind of
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out there in the wilderness unlike other tracks that were out there and then growth from residential is kind of
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surrounding them we've seen that with Laguna sea we've seen that it tracks here in Florida most notably cletus's
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fedom Factory is getting encroached on now and of course what will happen is people start complaining and tracks get
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shut down and they've done nothing but do what they've always done for the last 50 years hopefully a responsible ownership group will buy Willow Springs
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and be able to keep some of that great stuff that's been happening out there for the last 50 some 60 some years keep it going yeah Amelia give me a call let
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me know how things are going also buddy I was really sorry to see this some dealerships are suffering
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from ransomware attacks with their software and it's really causing problems with them getting in contact
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with some of their buyers yeah it was really crazy so Automotive news reported that it was a major Cyber attack that
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affects maybe upwards of 15,000 Automotive dealerships in the country right they all rely on a third party
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called cbk Global and they make this dealer management software that handles everything from customer info accounting
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Finance vehicle inventory service departments use it for parts ordering or parts lookup so this Cyber attack really
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kind of shut them down for a couple days all these dealers had to resort to pen and pencil to do daily functions as they
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were working their way through this we did hear that this was a cyber Ransom event no idea how much they were
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targeting from this company but after two days and the amount of Commerce that's been disrupted it's got to be
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pretty substantial hopefully they've been able to get through this their systems are back up and dealers are running back as normal yeah if you're
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dealing with your dealership on anything whether it's Parts service or even purchasing a new car give them a little
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bit of leeway because they are seering from this ransomware attack and things are pretty darn difficult for them to do
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business right now also Keith let's end it on a cool note we've got a brand new eay thank you gift that looks fantastic
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man this is really cool so you know for the C8 generation GM really stepped up their quality of what we call their thank you gifts to new Corvette buyers
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previous owners of C7 Corvettes I think you got a letter and you got a poster right and now the C8 buyers we get these
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really cool they call them speed shaped models it looks like a representation of your car it's painted in the same color
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as your car it's got your VIN number on it makes a really neat display they came out with one for the ZO6 a little bit
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different than the stingray and now we've got the eay one it's glass it's see-through you can look through it you
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can see the front drive motor you can see the batter battery pack and then you can see the rear V8 engine it still has
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your VIN number on it but when it sits on the base like if you get a red one you can look through the base and see
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red so there's like a red outline that the car sits on so it does still show the representation of the color of your
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car as well just a really neat thank you gift people have started posting their pictures online of them yeah they are
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really cool it makes you wonder what they're going to do for ZR1 next oh yeah each speed shaped model has just gotten better and better as they've introduced
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them really neat event that they do this for ER people getting theirs early but you know there's only 500 something that
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have been built so far I know for Stingray people they tend to run about 6 to n months or even longer behind when
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you bought the car versus when you get your speed shap gift if you bought a new car you will get one just hang in there
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and enjoy it and show it when you get it off yeah and we'll have pictures of it on the YouTube version of this Corvette
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Today Show check it out and make sure you look at them because they are really really cool yes they are well buddy thank you for being back on Corvette
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today we will talk to you and see you in two weeks oh my pleasure seeing this a lot of fun so much Corvette news out
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there it's only going to continue to drop maybe we'll get some advanced notice of some of the Z1 stuff happening the next time we're going to be together
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