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CORVETTE TODAY #109 - Corvette News & Headlines, Mid-May 2022
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Join your CORVETTE TODAY host, Steve Garrett and Keith Cornett from CorvetteBlogger.com and they discuss what’s happening with America’s Sports Car. Here are a few of the topics discussed in this week’s show….
1. Hard Top Convertibles now account for 48% of Corvette orders
2. Here are the most popular Corvette colors of 2022
3. 70th anniversary models delayed because of wheel constraints
4. Export versions of the C8 Z06 with corner mounted exhaust will be exported
5. The 2023 Stingray/Z06 Owner’s Manual available for download
6. The 2023 C8 Z06 is the official Pace Car for the Indianapolis 500
7. Corvette Racing’s drivers take a C8 Stingray on the track at Spring Mountain
8. Corvette Hall Of Fame inductees announced
9. Corvette is the AutoCar 2022 Dream Car of the Year
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you current and up to date on what's happening with america's sports car keith welcome back how you doing buddy
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doing very good steve how's it going everything is going great we've got a lot of news to cover today so let's get
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right into it let's talk about corvette production there at the bowling green assembly plant sounds good steve yeah
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well we've had a shutdown a couple weeks back but since then the production numbers look very good today monday
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being the 16th we are looking at the startup of the 2023 model year for the corvette stingrays so that's pretty
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exciting we'll see some new things coming down the line there don't quite have the correct count on what the total
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corvette production numbers are for the 2022's yet we did see a couple different numbers out of the bash so we're waiting
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on the final confirmation which hopefully will come out this week that sounds good and it was so cool to see
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that hardtop convertibles are almost half of the corvette orders now yeah we've got some great numbers coming out
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of the ncm bash with the corvette production team talking with us it's an amazing number they now account for 48
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percent of orders 48 52 for the coupe and it's the highest it's been since 1968 is the number of convertibles that
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we've had in a model year a pretty amazing number convertible orders are more likely to be loaded we see 52 of
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convertible orders with the three lt trim package versus 45 percent of coupe buyers going with the 2lt trim package
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just some amazing number there for the convertible and i did you know again people they like the great looks the one
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touch 16 seconds later you got the open sky above you and there's no loss of any storage space or any other
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considerations or trade-offs so yeah the convertible orders are doing very well a couple other stats we got from the ncm
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bash npp exhaust the performance exhaust is probably one of the highest optional
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optional options can you say that steve optional options it's one of the optional options chosen 87 on cars
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people know that they get that five extra horsepower boost that they don't have the z51 if you do order z51 it's
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included speaking of z51 the z51 plus mag ride the fe4 suspension accounts for
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48 of all corvette orders and then a couple of rarities corvettes with the
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efy body color trim only six percent of orders and corvettes with the chrome badges i thought this was kind of
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surprising only five percent of cars so everybody's going with the black badges black wheels you've got the black trim
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that's how people are out fitting their cars everybody's getting away from chrome it sounds like keith i know i
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guess i am showing my age huh you and me both buddy that's for sure what were the most popular colors for
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2022 we always think red black and white and we were close they ended up being
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torch red white and hypersonic gray were the top three colors and in fact the
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hypersonic gray just edged out redness i think by like 23 cars so you can thank
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the c8r edition for boosting hypersonic gray to that level on the flip side
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silver flare and caffeine were at the bottom caffeine only had 385 cars produced and as a comparison zeus bronze
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in 2021 had 509 so a few more it looks like the zeus bronze people did like
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that color just a little bit better but the caffeines are fairly rare out there it'd be interesting to see what they do
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in their second year of production my guess is they'll do even less than the 385 but that's just my guess probably
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interior wise jet black nearly a third with 29 of corvette colors followed by
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adrenaline red at 26 natural at 11 and the sky cool gray at 10
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now that i've got your attention see you i'm going to quiz you on something and i'm going to ask you what you think is
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the most chosen color combo for the 2022 model year i would say it would probably
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be torch red with the tan interior you would be incorrect the most chosen color combo on 2022
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corvettes is arctic white with the adrenaline red interior so very traditional white with red interior
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there was 1817 corvettes with that combo i think the next combination was the torch red
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with the adrenaline red interior followed by torch red with the black interior those were like 1600 corvettes
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each so yeah people like the new colors surprising to see the hypersonic gray up there so high but red mist people just
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really love that red mist as well it's a great color buddy you were talking about the c8r i noticed that we had a
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breakdown in the imsa gtlm championship edition c8 corvettes didn't we yeah
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these were the first special editions of the c8 generation and it was pretty exciting we had a thousand cars produced
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but it took until the end of the production to really get the breakdown there's four configurations available
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there's the number three car in the accelerate yellow and again you can choose cooper convertible or the number
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four car in hypersonic gray we had 346 total yellow corvettes produced 171
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coupes 175 convertibles and that only makes up 34 so two out of three buyers
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of the emsa gtlm c8r editions chose the hypersonic gray we had 300 coupes 365
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convertibles for 665 total pretty cool there we do have a couple numbers we're
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still waiting on we'd like to see what the export counts are we know that a certain amount of cars did go to canada
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and we had heard late in production that they were sending up to 12 down to mexico once we get the final final 2022
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stats we will hopefully see those numbers explained a little bit more there that sounds good also i was
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surprised to see we already have wheel constraints on the 70th anniversary models coming out yeah you know this is
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one of these hiccups one of the things that chevy was touting was that when stingray production starts in may that
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we will see the 70th anniversaries because these are a special edition they're not limited so anybody can order
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one they're not like the c8rs where only a thousand were produced they want to make as many as possible we'll probably
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see quite a bit of them but unfortunately it doesn't look like they're going to start in may because of those q9a wheels those with the red
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stripe on them are on a short constraint so hopefully we'll see them pick up in early june that sounds good buddy let's
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rumors first off in racing keith it was a tough outing for the number 64 car at spa yeah this was a race to watch
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five dollars and get the motor trend app motor trend covers it from green flag to checkered flag that's how i ended up
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watching the race at spa was through the motor trend app here's the thing steve with the split schedule and corvette
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get twice as many races to watch that's really been dawning on me here as i was watching that six-hour race at spa
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thinking this is a racetrack that we've only seen one time before which corvette racing ran last year so it's really been
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fun i think i really hope corvette racing fans they're following the number 64 car with tommy and nick candy over
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there as well yeah it was a tough race racing at spas that the weather can turn at any moment and unfortunately it did
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it ended up being a really bad racing day with rain in fact they had three stoppages with red flags there was less
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than three hours of green flag racing in that six hour race so it was kind of a mess yeah but we did end up fourth we
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actually just missed the podium the car's looking good over there i think there was five or six in our class the
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gtb pro or actually it's the gtlm pro class that we're racing in there that was good you know the week before we
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also had jumping back into imsa we had the race at laguna seca that was also a six hour race and surprisingly we ended
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up fourth there as well just off the podium of course we had a balanced performance update that really slowed us
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down but we did have some strategy and that strategy was working there until later in the race where some traffic and
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some other things kind of went against us but it just shows you you know even with some balanced performance updates and some things working against us that
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anything can turn and go right in racing it's a good thing now both teams are going to be back together again for the
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24 hours of le mans that happens june 11th and 12th i think that's right around the time when we're going to be
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talking again we're doing news and headlines so we might have to do a special le mans issue there that would be cool and it's less than a month away
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that's amazing yeah always le mans is so fun they finally got it back in june where it belongs it's been two years
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they've been moving around because of covid last year they had some limited fans back this year it looks like they're back to full strength so it's
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gonna be exciting race can't wait for it and speaking of just missing the podium keith i saw that the number three
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corvette just missed out on podium at laguna seca yeah i know we just mentioned that again in laguna seca it's
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just such a fun track you got the corkscrew you've got that long straight that goes up the hill and then all of a
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sudden there's that turn where you're not sure where people are it's a cool track kudos to corvette racing they're
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going to have to dig deep on some of these tracks we are on a wafer i always try to mention that we're happy to be
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racing they are going to try to slow us down somewhat because we are not a full gt3 spec car but we've got 20 22 years
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of racing history behind us we can adapt to just about any situation we take no prisoners once we hit that track that's
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what it's all about that's what it's all about for sure i was so excited to see this keith the new 2023 ch06 will be the
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official pace car at the indianapolis 500. i don't want to say i was too surprised i actually thought that it
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would be the 70th anniversary car which this one is but they did decide to go out with the z06 as opposed to the
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stingray pretty exciting news there we'll have the z06 official pace car it's done in the tri-color white
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anniversary colors but it's got a really cool delivery it's got a red stripe going across one side of the body stripe
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package there the other real cool surprise is that instead of the regular black lt6 intake manifold cover that
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sits on top of that engine we have a edge red color and we've seen that before only on an engine stand like
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right during the reveal of the car back in october but we've never seen an edge red intake manifold in the car itself
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that is really cool there and i know people already were saying boy it would be cool if they offered that as a
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package we haven't heard anything yet we doubt they will you know usually they don't come out with anniversary or
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packages after the fact which would be what would happen if they came out with a z06 pace car you know in august or
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september you know the race was three months ago i doubt we'll see that but a really cool delivery great to see the
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edge red package in there the driver of the pace car this year will be former indy car racer and team owner sarah
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fisher she is the fastest woman in indianapolis 500 history and she has nine starts at the
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500 between the years 2000 and 2010 which is also our record for female driver pretty exciting stuff we'll see
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the green flag on sunday may 29th around noon i believe on abc television so yep
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corvette z06 is the official pace car of the greatest spectacle in racing you know what keith i ought to give her a
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call and see if i can ride shotgun with her that day that would be a blast do i generally think they do like three
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different pace cars they'll do the official one and then there's a couple others generally the winner receives one
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of those pace cars pretty exciting race and things just got a little bit more interesting for those indycar drivers
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that now have a shot to actually win a corvette z06 pace car i know that's a great price i love that speaking of the
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z06 keith it looks like the exported versions of the z06 will not have the center mounted exhaust they'll have the
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corner mounted exhaust just like the stingray isn't that correct this is corrected in fact this was a story that
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we broke i've actually been chasing this down for about a month and a half now maybe closer to two months it just did
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not make sense okay so when we first started seeing these you know they were generally covered in the camo still
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right around the time of the reveal back in october we saw some videos of the corvette engineering team driving some
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influencers at milford those had the corner mounted exhaust we were told that those are older but what really got me
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is we started seeing newer cars that still had the corner mount exhaust cars that had the chrome badges we saw a z06
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right hand drive version in a parking lot up in detroit with the outboard so something there wasn't lining up so we
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actually got to talk to some of the gm people down at the bash and they actually said no it's not really a
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secret it's just not really that fun of a story to tell but what we're seeing is that those corner mounted exhausts
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contain these gasoline particulate filters we have these on the stingrays going to europe they're going to
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australia and what they do is they basically just as they said they're a filter for gasoline that helps to filter
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out some of the impurities then they burn them off they're heavily required in europe that's one of the big things is why we won't see the quad center
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mount exhaust exported to probably any other regions except the middle east interesting also it looks like you can't
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get the high wing spoiler on the z06 without ordering carbon ceramic brakes is that true yeah again another
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confirmation from the ncm bash if you're in the visualizer and you're adding a high wing spoiler to a non-z07 corvette
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you're going to get a pop-up box that said you are required to add carbon ceramic brakes and metallic gray brake
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calipers so that was really confusing to quite a lot of people yeah that's what we learned is that when the z07 package
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both of those are included the ceramic brakes and the high wing are included but in the non-package you can still add
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the high wing but the second you do that you got to add the ccbs we think that it just has to do again with maximizing
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braking but also the balance of the cars they've really spent a lot of time in the wind tunnel so if they think that you need the carbon ceramic brakes with
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that high wing that's what you're going to get there you go also keith the 2023 stingray and the z06 owner's manuals are
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available for download that's kind of like putting the cart before the horse isn't it just a little bit
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we were glad to see it the first thing we did once we downloaded it was we did a keyword search of it came up with 44
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instances of z06 information another keyword search for z07 just brought us
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four pieces of information inside this owner's manual there's a chart there for the recommended aerodynamic
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configurations for the z06 there's a carbon fiber wheel cool down procedures if you take your carbon fiber wheels to
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the track even more on the underbody strikes and some of the other things that we're learning about on the car so
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pretty interesting it's detailed it's information that's out in advance but in the grand scheme of things it's probably
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not any kind of big leak or anything like that we i don't think we came up with really any huge huge news from it
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it's just interesting like you said that it came out before the car itself i think it for me if i started reading through that i would want a z06 even
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more than i do right now and i really want a z06 very very badly exactly l demand is high we know that for sure oh
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yeah we're going to talk about that in the third segment of our podcast let's take our final break keith and we'll do
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we keep you current and up to date on what's happening with america's sports car in this final segment of the podcast
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we're going to talk about the lighter side of corvette this was really cool keith corvette racing's drivers took a
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stingray on the track there at spring mountain that had to be fun yeah actually they did a little bit more so
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this is after last year's race at long beach the corvette racing drivers it was tommy milner jordan taylor antonio
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garcia nick tandy they were actually given z 51 stingrays there at the track
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and they drove 300 miles across california to nevada to perron nevada where spring mountain is located and
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then from there they took the cars out onto the track it was their first time to really experience the consumer side
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of the c8 stingrays they did this nice little talk afterwards each of them talking about the car you want to know
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what professional drivers think about the cars that you're driving today it's a cool video and again it shows the
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synergy between the racing team and the production team and then of course what fans see as well as what they're seeing
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too good stuff there and i do appreciate the feedback from them yeah absolutely and if you want to see that video make
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sure you go to corvetblogger.com to check it out also the corvette hall of fame inductees were announced at the
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birthday bash as well yeah this is a good news here we've got ed welburn retired vice president of gm global
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design and so they usually have like three different levels they'll have like a gm person a racing person and an
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enthusiast so ed welburn was the gm person for the racing selection this year gary pratt and jim miller of pratt
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millionaire engineering they are the company behind our racing team for the last 23 years or so we've had a couple
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drivers make it into the corvette hall of fame but it's great to see gary and jim make it as well without them our
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corvette racing program would probably be a lot different very well deserved for them and then finally in the enthusiast category again another person
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that's been lacking is elfie marcus duntos the first lady of corvette the wife of zora has been selected in the
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enthusiast category as well great to see both of them back together again of course with that and gary practitioned
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miller as well so good class of 2022 they will be inducted in september just
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as another comment here i want to make they've actually changed the system for how these are done now and it's pretty
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cool again i think you can thank sharon browner the new ceo of the corvette museum for this idea before it was all
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done behind closed doors with a committee receiving the selections and then voting and then choosing what they
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do now is they've got a committee that brings all the people in and puts them together and then they put it out to a
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vote with a hundred different corvette experts choosing the final inductees it brings in more outside influences than
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that we saw the first one here so i think all three selections are fantastic again we'll see them inducted in
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happens absolutely also if you listen to podcast number 106 you'll find jordan
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lee who is the global chief engineer for small block engines for general motors and his assistant chief engineer dustin
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gardner jordan was at the birthday bash and he talked about how vibrations were wreaking havoc on the development of the
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new lt6 engine that was really cool to hear about yeah these behind-the-scenes stories are always fun to hear and you
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only get them at events like the ncm bash when jordan lee is coming down you know that's definitely something you want to take a listen to and watch it's
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kind of a fun story in a way you think about it probably wasn't too fun to them but they're telling the story about back
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in the day ford also had a flat plane 5.2 liter v8 engine and they had a story
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about the vibrations on the engine actually spun off the oil filter the gm engineers thought well that was a pretty
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funny story hahaha that'll never happen to us and then it happened to them jordan says that they had the engine on
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a dyno and sure enough they go in there it failed and the oil filters on the floor so they thought well maybe
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somebody forgot to tighten it so they tightened it on the next engine actually put some safety wire on it and put a
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camera on it and sure enough as they spun up that engine the oil filter starts to rotate off the car he says it
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was a real bear dealing with vibrations they actually spent over five years really trying to work with this engine
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and get it right and he says the good news is today you'll never know it when you're driving your car because the attenuation of the vibrations at the
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engine mounts is stellar according to jordan lee there just another piece of the story threaded fuel injected
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connectors were being shaken apart because of vibrations so things that you would think of we put these things together they work fine they always work
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fine in the past now they had to take a look at everything because of what the vibrations were doing over five years of
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development to get the engine to where it is today pretty exciting stuff there and again we're just really excited to
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get consumers in this car so we'll have to wait and see what happens hopefully sometime this summer that's right and
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speaking of the lt6 keith we had a poll that said 80 of the respondents would take that lt6 in red if it was offered
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that was pretty cool to see yeah that's the first thought when i saw the lt6 in red on the indy 500 pace car is wow if
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they're doing a red one here and we've seen the silver one as the cutaway so there's three colors there and it's the
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same colors they offer on the stingray manifold covers so let's do a poll we had over 640 votes so that's a pretty
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good sample size 80 said edge red 12 said silver and only 7 said black so i
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guess chevy if you build it they will buy it that's awesome
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absolutely right and finally our last story i think we've hit a new high actually i think it's kind of a new low
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a chevrolet dealership was asking a hundred thousand dollars over msrp for
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the upcoming c806 why it's a pretty crazy number i mean we've heard 50 we've
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actually i think heard 75 a hundred thousand dollars so this is dem chevrolet out of clearwater florida
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so they're in my home market they're across tampa bay from us that's what they said there was a email that's going
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around it was on reddit but i feel bad for some of these sales people because you know it's not the sales people
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waking up one morning and saying you know i think i'm going to charge 100 000 over msrp it's coming from management
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it's coming from the dealer's owners so this guy had the unfortunate task to go back to somebody asking what position am
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i on the list to say you're not on any list and in fact we're charging a hundred thousand dollars over it really
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does give chevrolet dealers a bad name and not just this one all of them yeah it's very unfortunate are they cutting
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off their notes and spite their face i kind of hope though in my blog post i said you take all your car buying
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elsewhere there's 3 000 chevy dealers in this country you know you're going to go to the one that wants your business not
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just the one that wants to take your money i don't think that we've seen the end of it i've heard people saying that some dealers are going to charge double
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you have a hundred thousand dollar car there you can see a hundred thousand dollar msrp i mean it's just it's gonna
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be crazy i don't think there's gonna be any kind of resolution from general motors on how to stop this because they
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are independent businesses they keep telling us their independent businesses it's just really unfortunate as a black eye for all those involved that's
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absolutely right you know once that car is built and it's shipped to the dealership the dealership owns that car
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they can charge any price they want irregardless of what chevrolet says unfortunately so that's what we're stuck
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with yeah and when you have people that are willing to buy it for a hundred thousand dollars over there's really no reason not to sell them for that much
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right especially some of the dealers that don't specialize in cars they look at it as a once-in-a-year gift i guess
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or the money train has come in it's unfortunate again we wish the gm would be able to come up with something but
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they're in a tough spot as well so i don't know what to say absolutely right don't forget if you want to get a deeper
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dive into any of these stories that keith and i talk about on the podcast you can always go to corvetteblogger.com
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and get the full story buddy thanks for being here see you in two weeks as a matter of fact coming up next week todd
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cooper rider from esoteric car care will be back on the podcast todd was like podcast number five but he's coming back
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to talk about paint protection film and ceramic coating on next week's show oh that's always a hot topic i'll have to
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make sure to listen to that one thanks for being here buddy appreciate it steve thanks so much get everybody out there keep waving at blogger we love to have
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you guys with us we're here for you and we just appreciate you so much again all the stories that we talked about today
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