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CORVETTE TODAY #115 - Corvette News & Headlines, Late June 2022
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May 8, 2025
CORVETTE TODAY #115 - Corvette News & Headlines We've got the latest News & Headlines in the world of Corvette for you every other week! Keith Cornett from CorvetteBlogger is back to give you the inside scoop on what's happening. Here are a few of the topics covered on next week's podcast.... 1. C8 Z06 benchmarked Porsche, Audi, Ferrari and McLaren 2. Chevrolet raises prices on 2023 C8 Stingray 3. Chevrolet adds DCT transmission filter life to maintenance tab on 2023 Corvettes 4. Chevy offers "Dark Stealth" crossed flags for 2023 Corvettes 5. WEC drops GTE Pro class for 2023 and introduces GTE Premium for 2024 6. Chevrolet is offering Dark Stealth Crossed Flags for the 2023 Corvettes 7. Is Corvette is scheduled for an interior refresh in 2024? 8. Chevrolet to offer 1 of 1 Mint Green Z06 in first NFT Auction 9. GM releases 2 more videos about the C8 Z06 10. This Friday, July 1st, is "Drive Your Corvette To Work" Day! Don't miss a single episode of CORVETTE TODAY on podcast and YouTube. Each week's episode launches on Monday at 12 midnight Eastern Time.
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[Music] welcome to corvette today the podcast
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it's time to get the latest corvette news and headlines with my buddy keith cornett from corvetteblogger.com as you
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know keith is a regular here at corvette today he's here twice per month every other week we keep you up to date on
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what's happening with america's sports car keith welcome back to the show we're officially into summer how's everything
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going in tampa well steve it's great to be here it's summer in tampa so it's pretty damn hot
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we've had some heat advisories and they tell me it's going to be hot all summer long well it's kind of like george carlin did with the hippy dippy weather
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man he said the forecast for tonight dark turning to widely scattered light in the morning it's the same way with
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tampa it's going to be hot all summer isn't it it'll be hot all summer long but it's a good fun hot because you can
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get out and do some stuff all kinds of things going on here and of course summertime is when we're supposed to be getting some important news about the
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next great american sports car so hopefully we'll have some news here in the next three months well let's start
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off with corvette production at the bowling green assembly plant as we always do buddy well i just have to say
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it is what it is and that's what we're dealing with right now we have some days are good some days are bad we see
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numbers as high as 193 produced in one day last tuesday they did 191 cars over
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the two shifts wow but then you see we had that shutdown on june 17th leading
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up to that that wednesday we only did 99 cars and then we heard on the thursday only 118 were done and then friday was
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nothing and then we didn't even know if they were going to open up on monday but of course we reached out to our rep
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there and they told us yep they're open for business on monday and i think they did like 160 cars and then you come back
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and you do a number like 193 two days after a closure so it's just real strange right now it's not just one part
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like previous shutdowns and supply chain issues we've heard oh it's this part or it's related to a transmission or it
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could be related to aluminum frame and some of the castings this we're told was it's just multiple parts and they're
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trying to get stuff in there's a lot of balancing that's being done in determining what can be built bless those people in bowling green and all
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the people that have to do the scheduling and stuff because it's a mess right now yeah but yet they're still persevering in fact we're going to cross
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over this week we should hit about 4 500 cars and on our way maybe closer to 4 700 cars by the end of the week so for
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2023 models they are cooking fire that stuff's coming out 4 500 of them are on the streets already which is a good
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amount that's pretty amazing for sure buddy you had mentioned they closed on the 17th and then i know that they
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opened back on the 20th what more specifically was that because of we just heard that it was multiple parts and
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that was really the first time that some of our sources have really said that there are some other choice words we're
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not going to share but it's a very big challenge for them right now and i can imagine going in and
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having those meetings of what can be done and what can't be done and what you're waiting for and i know even sometimes they're like well we may not
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have the parts in this morning but maybe they'll come in this afternoon there's just all kinds of stuff like that going
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on and the prices are going up we're going to talk about that next but just on the cost of raw materials aluminums
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through the roof we've got a ton of composites on this car all the wiring and copper and all that stuff all that
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stuff goes up when we have these kinds of economic tribulations as we're in right now it's a tough situation but
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again they're building cars they're trying to build cars every day and if you've got a tpw coming up they want to
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build your car hopefully things will even out they'll be able to do a whole bunch of production and then stuff bunches up and then they even it out
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again they're doing god's work i swear steve absolutely right and if kai spani isn't careful keith he's going to look
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like me because he's going to be pulling his hair out let's not hope it goes that far exactly
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hey you talked more about the pricing going up for the 2023 stingrays how much is it going up here's the key we look at
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the 2023 there was actually a price announcement back in march they said on march we're going to raise the price of
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the 2023 stingray by 1050. so then what we just got a week ago was
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another across-the-board increase of 2 300 so that affects your 1lt your 2lt
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your 3lt prices have all gone up by the 2300 for example your starting price now for the 1lt coupe is 65 595. we're a long
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way from that 59 number that was first introduced back in 2019 with mark royce
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on the stage there in tustin you know that's what's happened they priced the car in a way that got people excited
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they've obviously tried to keep the pricing low this is our fourth model year technically we are seeing about a 6
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000 increase from where we started with the very first car but at the same point we've seen this previously we know that
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the prices increased with the c7s from 14 15 and 16 fairly significantly and they even had to do a price increase in
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the middle of the year so this stuff does happen it's not a surprise it's tough in addition to the price change
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across the board other increases included like the front lift is now 25.95 that started at 14.95 i believe
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was the initial price in 2020 and now it's at 25.95 and that's a 60 option so
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people 60 of the time that options on the car we also saw increases on the gt2 bucket seats they're now at 16.95 they
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did a lot of the brake calipers the seat belt colors these are personalization options and a lot of that stuff went up
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by like a hundred dollars so over the course of a model year run they'll recruit quite a bit from that but it is
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kind of scary what's going on out there we of course prior to the 2023 shipping we had a price increase in that shipping
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cost where the mandatory shipping fee went from 1295 to 13.95 right again you
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think of diesel fuel and the cost for shipping and all that and we just heard last week too that gm raised the price
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on the gmc hummers the electric comer by six thousand dollars so it's not just corvette and they're
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not targeting corvette owners people think why are they doing this to us it's everywhere and we're seeing price
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increases on other makes and models as well from other manufacturers it's not just corvettes i think that's why we
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haven't seen z06 pricing right away there's just no stability in the market yet and there's no stability for all the
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costs of your materials that you need and so i think they just were holding off as long as possible but at some
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point they're just gonna have to make the announcement and it is what it is i think you're right keith and speaking of the z06 i know when they were developing
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the car they benchmarked porsche audi ferrari and mclaren yeah so what we
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found was that this comes from a user over on the corvette forum but it looks like they put together for sales people
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a competitive comparison if somebody comes in and says oh i'm just in love with the ferrari just love that car it
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starts at 300 000 it's got that unique ferrari engine this document that gm
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puts together is has a thing that well you can say if the ferrari f8 is an italian supercar designed to focus on
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luxurious details you can say that yeah the ferrari f8 offers an exclusive name
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and powerful engine but the z06 offers comparable performance at a fraction of the cost exactly it's a lot of that
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stuff there's a little chart that shows the z06 has a performance data recorder and the ferrari f8 doesn't we have a
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removable roof panel that's standard the f8 doesn't so there's a lot of that stuff going on with those four cars and
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actually those four cars were the ferrari f8 the mclaren 720s the audi r8
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and the porsche 911 gt3 wow so again very popular what we call exotics or
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supercars and they're positioning the z06 as challenging that hierarchy so
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pretty good stuff there absolutely right now this next thing keith i know people are upset about chevrolet is not going
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to offer that cylinder lock and the rear hatch you know the trunk area on the 2023 corvettes what's up with that again
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this is something that you we wish we'd find out prior to a bash so we could run up to our favorite engineers and say
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what's going on here right so as you know the 2020 21 22 models there was
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actually two hidden key locks on the car there's one under the driver's side boomerang and then there's another one
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that's behind the license plate and so the idea is if your battery goes dead we have electronic door locks if you get
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locked out because the battery's dead there's a key that's hidden in the fob and you pull that out and then you can
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stick it up in the cylinder lock and unlock your door or unlock the engine hatch what's different about our car is
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that we need the power to open up the stuff and the battery is actually located in the front trunk the front if
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there's no power you can use the key to open the door and then there's actually a pull cord underneath the drivers you
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just pull that out and that should pop that front and then you can get to the battery and charge it and hopefully get used to it and then pop open that rear
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hatch what they're saying is that you still have the ability to use the electronic ways to open that rear hatch
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there's the button on the door there's the key fob button and then there's also the touch button on the rear hatch
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itself let's say that that lock seizes or it's just impossible to open your only alternative then is the drill a
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three inch hole and this comes from an official gm document that we shared also on the web it's a technical document
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that shows that you have to drill a three-inch hole and then from there you can hit the mechanisms to release the hatch it sounds kind of crazy and the
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other crazy thing too is they probably can save the cost they built 60 some almost 70 000 c8s that's 70 000 lock
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cylinders that could be saved by not installing it and so even on the 2023s if you take that license plate off
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you'll see the spot where it goes it's just not there anymore we're thinking they just did a cost analysis they found that it was cheaper
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to warranty the one two three or four that have ever failed versus putting 70 000 locks in these cars who knows see
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this stuff's only going to break after warranty anyways right sorry telling that to a corvette owner 15 years down
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the road oh you have to buy a new hatch because we had to drill a three-inch hole into it because we couldn't get to the engine it's just crazy they either
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should have left the lock in there to open it or there should be a pull cord in there to unlatch it from the cockpit
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i agree buddy steve i know let's talk about something positive keith chevrolet did add a dct
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transmission filter life to the maintenance tab on the new corvettes though didn't they yeah it comes to giving owners more information obviously
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the dual clutch transmission plays a major role in the car and of course there was a couple issues early on that
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have all seemed to be resolved now you get your filter changed at 7 500 miles and then you get it changed again at the
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22 500 mark we know that probably a lot of owners are starting to get up to that area with this on the 2023s it's under
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the driver information center and you go to the maintenance tab and it shows you transmission filter life it starts off
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at the 99 and counts down you either change it at the 22.5 or if it's false to less than 10 life you want to get it
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changed right away again it's just another nice way for chevy to let you know that okay you've got a consumable
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here that does need to be changed at some point it allows you just to keep an eye on it that's a good addition and we're proud to see that i think that's a
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good thing too also a good thing is they're offering now the cross flags on the 2023 corvettes in dark stealth color
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that looks really great looks really great i heard about this from one of our readers and he said yeah there's a dark
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one i said you know i've never seen it and then i did see it over on the visualizer of the z06 so when the build
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and price first came up it obviously wasn't there but it had just been added within the last week okay so it's a
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black a monochromatic black cross flags emblem the amazing thing is you know we
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talk about pricing they only price this at 125 compared to that chrome badge if you get
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the optional chrome badge that was at 295 that was one of the prices that they raised up to 3.95 now okay so if you've
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got like either a white and black look or you're doing a whole murdered outlook or you just want to get rid of anything
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that's shiny these black stealth badges are pretty cool and the other thing too is we actually have four badge choices
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now for 2023's we've got the regular cross flags with the black outline and then we have the chrome one and then we
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have a special one with the 70th anniversary on it and now we have this dark stealth nice choices there and i
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was talking to one of the guys that we talked to regularly i said i need to get that part number for that 70th anniversary badge and put that out there
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because i know a lot of people would love to have that i think that was a mistake that chevy didn't roll that out on every single car like they did like
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the 25th anniversary cars which just makes every car a 25th anniversary this will make every car 70th anniversary
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just by having that badge on there they do put the 70th anniversary on the windshield the back windows and then in the plaque inside it's a cool way to
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show it and i wish they would do a little bit more like that i agree four badge choices the dark stealth is only
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125 can be ordered through your chevy parts department i would go for it absolutely right well buddy it's time
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i'm your host steve garrett with me is keith cornett from corvetteblogger.com keith's here every other week to keep
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you up to date on what's happening with america's sports car here in section number two we're going to talk about
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corvette racing and corvette rumors keith let's start with corvette racing first of all it looks like next year the
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wec is going to drop the gte pro class but they're going to give us a gt3 premium class for 2024. a lot of stuff
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moving a lot of moving parts right now i guess you could say this news came out they always do kind of an update on what
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the future is going to hold at le mans we race at le mans through the wec the world endurance championship that's how
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we get there the last few years we've had to actually race in some wec races to qualify this year we've got just the
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one car running there full time because it's essentially the same spec as our gtlm cars that we had here in imsa last
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year a lot of movement essentially what we're seeing is that no gte pro classes next year at le mans what's that mean
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for corvette racing well we don't know yet when you get rid of the pro you have an amateur class so you have the
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different levels of drivers that's required so you couldn't have a antonio garcia tommy milner and nick tandy all
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together in one car you'd actually have to bring those guys and mix in a bronze or a silver driver into that mix you
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find somebody that's racing competitively but not professionally and then you bring them up to speeds we've
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seen some of the hollywood people started out this way is kind of that bronze or silver driver michael fassbester was at le mans this year but
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that's the key is in an amateur class you have to have those other drivers by the way that was a bronze driver that
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wrecked us at le mans too that's what happens if you bring into these people that also have less experience and then
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you get into trouble with other drivers as we saw lemons as well the wc said we'd only do it if we had enough entries
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for next year porsche and ferrari are leaving the class they're going to the hyper car so we're just not sure what's
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going to happen for next year what we're going to see essentially in 2024 is a gt3 premium category and this will be
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basically all the cars are going to go gt3 expect and then it looks like they're going to do a little bit more as
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a premium we don't know if they're going to allow pro drivers or not they initially said no back two years ago
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we just don't know what's going to happen with corvette racing we might see one of our known drivers in there with somebody that's unknown we might see
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where we're racing somewhere like we might be racing in imsa as a factory class but if we try to go to le mans we
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might be as an amateur with a different driver lineup and we might not even be going at all we might just be going over
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there as technical support for the privateer teams that might be racing so when we go to gt3 we have to build 10
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the first year and then 10 the second year 20 cars over two years to be homologated for gt3 that's the rule
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we're going to have our first testing sessions i believe at the end of this year i think laura said sometime around september we might see the first car on
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the track the gt3 corvette on the track we've got a car in the works what that means for the rest of the program what
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that means for corvette racing we just don't know at this point well it'll be interesting to see how that all pans out
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that's for sure speaking of racing though let's get a preview of corvette racing at watkins glen we're recording
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this on friday they're racing over the weekend so we don't have the results here this is a six hour race with
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antonio garcia and jordan taylor in the number three car prior to the race we are solidly in second we are second the
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driver standings second in the team standings and then chevrolet was also running second in the manufacture
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standing so we're in a really good place right now despite the fact that we're running a car with a waiver and not a
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gt3 spec we've had a couple favorable balance of performance races there sebring and especially at long beach
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that kind of helped us out but now we've got big races ahead of us we do a stretch of races here i think we have
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three races in the next 20 days or something like that it's pretty credible we go here from new york i think we go
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up to canada we haven't been up to the old mossport track the canadian tire motorsports park which is partly owned
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by ryan fellows we haven't been there i think since before the pandemic it's been a few years so that's gonna be fun
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to get back to that track that's a really fast track and then i actually don't know where we're going after that i'd have to look at the schedule but the
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wc the number 64 corvette will see action again july 19th at monza in italy
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that's about what we got coming for corvette racing there's going to be a bunch of stuff happening here in imsa over the next few weeks so definitely
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stay tuned absolutely right also we've got some big juicy rumor stuff coming up for you corvette is scheduled for an
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interior refresh in 2024 is that really going to happen you think i'm skeptical
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steve i'm most skeptical on these rumors we first heard a rumor about interior changes from motor trend and they were
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talking about the 2023 car so let me give you an example of how this works i hear a rumor about oh there you go
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there's some changes coming to the 2023 interior and then you know i gotta go back now and the 2023s are here look
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what we got we got a new stealth interior package we got a level two carbon fiber package and we got a brand
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new dipped adrenaline red interior so if i'm somebody spreading rumors and saying yeah we've got some big changes coming
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for 2023 in the interior you might take it as oh we're getting rid of the big wall of buttons right we're going to
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change some stuff in there or is it just going to be these new features so yeah i don't put a lot of stock in the fact
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that they say they're changing getting rid of the great wall of buttons if anything i think the biggest addition they could do would be to basically add
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a grab handle for the passenger like they had on the c7 cars sure but other than that people that you talk to that
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are daily driving these cars they like the great wall of buttons they can all do them by feel they know exactly what button to push they what they want
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fairly intuitive that way so yeah this is just a rumor at this point i don't really see a whole lot of stock in it
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yet i think you're right and i think when they talk about an interior refresh they're referring to that great wall of
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buttons but really what we're getting is like you said we're getting a red dipped interior we're getting a carbon two
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level carbon interior it's not the great wall of buttons like everybody's anticipating or expecting i think we're
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kind of off base when it comes to the quote unquote interior refresh whole thing i think that's kind of a weird
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deal also keith with the z06 coming out it looks like we're going to be shipping those cars possibly with the high wings
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installed if you get the z07 package yeah we started seeing one here one there that oh well maybe they're testing
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them we've got photos with four of them on auto transporter from jack cooper they definitely you can see the high
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wing is on the car and you can actually also see the bulge around the front corners where the dive planes are it
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looks like they're going to be able to ship that that is great news when they ship the high wings for the stingrays they actually ship them separately
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hopefully they'll arrive at the dealership before your car and then they have to go through the process of putting that on if you're putting a high
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wing on a non z51 car you have to take the rear fascia off you have to drill into it all kinds of stuff can happen
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what we've also seen too is when you take a z51 spoiler off and you've already got the holes there what happens
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is the z51 wing will actually kind of pull away some of the paint as you're taking it off the car that paint can
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bond to the rear deck there there's been some damages some warranty claims on that glad to see that they're going to
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be shipping this beautiful carbon fiber high wing already attached to the car we've looked at this at the bash they
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have specific mounting points that make it a whole lot easier in fact they don't even have to take the fascia off to install it anymore that helps it speeds
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up the process for delivery for customers the pdi people at dealerships now don't have to handle where's the
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high wing i got to wait for the high wing to come in before i can release the car to the customer all kinds of stuff just fix i'm glad to see that's
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happening and what we'd like to see now is now that they've got these transport covers with the z06 and the high wing we
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just think that they should be doing the high wings now on the stingrays at the factory they can do them the right way
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there's no damage dealers have to worry about warranty after the fact frustrated customers who just want their cars and
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i'll have to wait even longer that would be cool to see but yeah that's a nice thing that we're seeing now coming out of the factory i totally agree buddy and
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the big elephant in the room when the heck are we going to see z06 pricing this is just like every morning right
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every morning we wake up and look for it there's certain days we knew that it wouldn't come we didn't think it would
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come during an order cycle week with the stingray that would just disrupt all kinds of communications with the dealers
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that had to concentrate on getting those stingray orders in we got z06 videos last week instead of pricing there's a
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couple dates here to keep in mind so chevy has always said z06 production will start during the summer summer of
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2022 and they've also said summer availability so summer just started and summer runs through september 21st so if
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you start back dating it the 21st is like on a wednesday too and i don't think they're going to wait till the 22nd or the 21st hopefully to start
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production hopefully start earlier in the month maybe at the end of august but just by thinking about that september
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date and then back dating it you're probably looking at ordering starting sometime around late july maybe mid to
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late july that's the time frame we saw when they opened up the 2023 stingray orders they started taking orders at the
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very end of march for may production the timeline wise i think the ordering process will actually start sometime in
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july which means further back that up we need to get customers z06 pricing as
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well as the order guides and of course the dealers want to know their initial allocations they need to know the start
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of ordering what date is that going to be and then also we all want to know the start of the regular production date
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lots of stuff that's out there one of the dates coming up again we just talked about this this thursday is june 30th
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the traditional birthday of the corvette what a great day to release some future product news on the birthday of the
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corvette right right but it's also a holiday weekend july 4th is on a monday so many people have a three-day weekend
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off will they release pricing during a shorter work week it's possible i'm going to say we're going to see pricing
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within the next two weeks and not longer than three weeks and i know that's still a long ways off but with the fourth of
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july holiday and some of the other stuff coming up it'll be here sooner than we know from your lips to god's ears buddy
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that's all i can say i don't know about that but we'll see what happens that sounds good all right buddy let's take our final break when we
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first of all this is a way cool story chevrolet is going to offer a one-of-one mint green z06 in the first nft auction
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first of all what's an nft auction and second of all i'd love this color well
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nft auctions have kind of become prevalent lately it's like the next version of all the crypto coins and
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collecting and digital collecting online an nft is called a non-fungible token
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meaning that it's a item that has some sort of dollar dollar is that a word steve dollar terry
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sometimes a voluntary amount to it that is backed by blockchain so you know exactly who the owner is or at least the
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owner's name as they list it and then it follows that owner around and then artists can use it an artist paints a
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photo sells it and they only get to pay that one time with the blockchain and some of the other nft auctions that
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we've seen they can continue to get paid on each subsequent sale of their artwork they get a little commission or a bonus
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or something like that so the idea here is that chevrolet has put together their own nft auction they got an artist that
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did a digital photo for them a digital picture of a minty green z06 in kind of
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a cartoonish urban environment it's kind of a cool photo unlike a lot of the nft auctions this one guarantees you a
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physical product as well as the digital product and of course the physical product is a 2023 corvette z06 that's
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also painted in this one of one minty green color pretty cool that they're combining a digital and the physical in
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one auction and then the idea is that this person once they have it then they can do whatever they want with the car
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but it's their car to own it's their color to own for the 2023 model year the
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good news is what's that mean for 2024 well we might see this color there and in fact we did a poll on it that showed
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that 77 want to see the color in 2024. 31 of those people actually want to see
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it offered exclusively for the z06 so we have a little bit of that going on but as far as this auction goes again steve
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this was probably a pretty good idea maybe seven eight nine months ago yeah but we've seen a real crash of the
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crypto markets over the last month or so with this auction you have to pay in crypto coin in ethereum which is the eth
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coin a few months ago that was trading at 4 600 per coin as of a week and a
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half ago it fell to 800 and when i checked this auction ended on friday eth was priced at 11.50 i believe
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i went back to super rare which is the website that was hosting the auction the auction did end friday morning i don't
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know if they had any bids on it it showed starting bid of 206 eth so 206
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coins ethium coins at that price you're looking at 250 000 that's that was going
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price wow but i went back and look at some other auctions on super rare and it actually shows people bidding on the
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auction itself like you'd go to ebay and see x amount of bids the last person had bid this much i saw nothing like that on
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the nfc auction for the z06 so i can't even say that anybody bid on this i've
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got an email into our friends over at chevrolet pr on it and hopefully we can get some answers to those questions
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pretty cool idea maybe six or nine months ago if the crypto market was really hot we'd have all kinds of people talking about this the auction only
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showed 18 000 views on it which i thought was a little smaller than what was expected who knows but the good news
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for the regular corvette buyers is we might see a really cool green color for 2024 and beyond it was great i love the
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color it was really unique very lamborghini like you know what i mean very super car very exotic exactly also
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this is kind of weird the early 2023 stingrays are going to be shipped without the monrone label first of all
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tell everybody what the monroney label is and can they get it later well it's just a fancy way of staying the window
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sticker oh maroney is actually the senator that wrote the bill that said that all new cars had to be sold with
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this informational sticker that showed all the pricing on it now we have fuel cost operations we know the content of
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manufacturing versus united states versus the world the stickers really become kind of like your database of
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information for the car and i've said to people before i said yeah there's a few years where the cars have arrived before
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the pricing arrived we just had the pricing increase for the 2023s but i remember a few years back and i was
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talking to dave at kerbec at the time there's seoka today but he got in a shipment of cars the very first cars of
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model year and couldn't release them yet because they didn't have the window stickers with pricing for the owners we've seen in these cases that a
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temporary window sticker was provided and that dealers are actually offering once they did come in they can come back
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in and pick up their real window stickers you do have that piece for documentation of course you can also if you've never got one you can also order
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them through the corvette museum as a backup for your documentation just weird to see a windows sticker that says i'm
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sorry at this time there's no pricing check back later how weird is that oh my gosh on the cool
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side the hardtop convertible the c8 is going to be on display at the milano manza motor show that's really cool yeah
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this actually show just wrapped up about a week ago but it's a really cool show i saw a video actually of this orange
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amplified orange hardtop convertible that looked like in an old european city and sure enough it was milan so it was
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the only general motors car that was there other vehicles bugatti yeah some martins mclarens ferraris lamborghinis
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mercedes-benz bmws i mean it was the who's who of the exotic and sports car world and so this is basically a show
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that was held on the streets of milan and it was a walking show so you had a map that you could walk and see where
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all the cars were located and obviously there were some symbols there some upc symbols that you could take a picture of
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and give you all the information about the car but again it was the only gm car that was invited to this thing and it was just a really cool setting basically
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it's an american supercar in milan pretty cool to see i definitely check out the photos of that on our site and
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when you click we have a listing on pictures of all the photos of the cars that were on display there as well just
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a who's who of world supercars on display in milan very cool now here's the big question keith is corvette going
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to come out with a sedan meaning two extra doors uh no next question
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i love doing that we have a rendering of somebody put together that they basically took the c8 design and
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stretched it lowered the size of the boomerang and then put in two extra doors there aesthetically it looks
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pretty good but do people want a four-door corvette like people wanted a four-door porsche i think that porsche
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actually sold pretty well but the comments on our side are makes it clear that people want a two-door sports car
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and that should be the corvette and if it's anything else as a corvette it shouldn't be that because of the
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heritage i definitely checked that out it's a cool photo but i don't think that the base is ready yet for a ford or
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corvette sedan i think we'd go crossover first by the way before we'd go sedan but it's still cool photo seed
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i don't know buddy i think corvette's always been a two-door sports car let's leave it at that and go on you know the
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eevee or the e-ray sounds great it would be very cool it'd be a nice addition to the lineup not a four-door though please
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yeah i get it there's something about taking the whole family to the track and there was just a video put out where
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somebody was racing the tesla plaid and in the tesla plaid there were six people three in the back and three in the front
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so you might take your whole family to work day right well that's an option i don't know if it's a good corvette option but that is an option
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also buddy this was really cool and you alluded to this earlier in the show gm did release two more videos about the
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c806 you know anytime we get these kind of videos they're definitely welcome i know people did want to see pricing but
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this is done to tide us over it gives us some information here the first video called flat plane fury kind of
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introduces the engineers and some of the people behind again that's the 670 horsepower lt6 engine we heard from josh
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holder the vehicle chief engineer who you just featured last week as well as yoon lee one of the engine design system
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engineers and laura klauser corvette racing the second video was all about the exhaust note a glorious exhaust note
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is what that title was cindy molnar is one of the vehicle performance engineers who really talks about the tuning of it
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and she says the first time she heard it with the production exhaust she said it just gave everybody goosebumps and i can
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imagine that would be the case you're sitting there listening listening and trying to get it right then all of a sudden when you do nail it that hair
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stands up on your arms and stuff that'd be pretty cool to hear check out these videos they're part of the z06 academy
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playlist so if you go to youtube you can search for z06 academy or you can go to chevrolet and then look at the playlist
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there good stuff i think there's five or six videos now in the playlist so go check them out that sounds great and i
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love those videos i watched them two or three times i couldn't get enough of it i'm so excited yeah and you have to turn
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them up some of those the engine screaming the exhaust sounds so good so yeah they're fun videos to watch and
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they're only three four or five minutes so they're pretty easy to watch as well and i'm thinking if the exhaust sounds that good on my mac it's gonna sound
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great in person yeah it would yep absolutely and finally buddy i'm so excited about this you brought this up
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and i think it's a great idea to kind of revive this this friday is drive your corvette to work day again exactly i
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believe this is the 22nd year our friends mike yeager started this at mid-america motorworks the idea was to
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show appreciation for the corvette by taking it to work the idea is that people see more corvettes on the road
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especially the classic corvettes the corvettes that you don't see every day right you park them out in front your employees get to see them all the people
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that you work with get to see your car a really cool idea back in the day when we first started the blog we would do all
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kinds of driving around with our car i'd take it downtown and change out server tapes and do boring stuff like that but
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i could say i drove my car down and did some work stuff with it it's always traditionally the friday closest to june
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30th this thursday june 30th is the traditional birthday the first of the 300 1953 corvettes rolled off a
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temporary assembly line in flint michigan of course friday being the closest day july 1st everybody just get
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out there drive your car to work take some pictures share them on social media show people you know it's drive your
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corvette to work day and that you're proud to be a corvette owner hopefully the weather is great for you just a nice
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way to round out the week and a nice little celebration again summer's here fourth of july weekend all kinds of
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stuff to be happy about get out there and have some fun with your corvettes absolutely and we're going to do something fun on the corvette today
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facebook group page as well so we're going to get a big big group getting some pictures up on the facebook page as
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well that makes it fun people like to see that we had some really cool pictures in the day there's some first responders would have their corvettes
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parked out by the county sheriff helicopters or police cars mid-america motorworks all their cars parked out in
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front there in front of their campus others do it as well and we just urge you it's a fun thing you don't drive
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your classic corvette every day the weather looks good take it to work on friday and then tell people about it it's fun hobby it's a great hobby to be
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part of we're dealing with our 70th anniversary of corvette so it's really exciting it's gonna be fun buddy well
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thanks for being back on corvette today as always keith we will see you again in two weeks two weeks out there everybody
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go to those shows share those photos keep driving your cars america's sports car has never been better we've got a
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great one coming everybody just be patient these details are coming they want to bring them to us we just got to
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