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CORVETTE TODAY #131 - Corvette News & Headlines, Mid October 2022
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May 8, 2025
The automotive industry is still buzzing about the new Corvette C8 Z06! Keith Cornett from CorvetteBlogger is back on the show with your CORVETTE TODAY host, Steve Garrett. We have the latest and greatest news in the world of Corvette - and not just about the new C8 Z06. We cover Corvette news completely! Here are some of the topics covered in next week's show... -- The Bowling Green Assembly Plant built almost 8,000 Corvettes in the 3rd Quarter -- The majority of new C8 Z06 orders are for hardtop convertibles -- Corvette Racing shares it's first look at the 2024 C8 GT3.R -- RACER magazine speculates on the future of Corvette Racing in IMSA and WEC -- Emelia Hartford smokes a Ferrari 458 Italia and a Lamborghini Huracan on an airstrip -- The C8 Z06 makes it's first appearance in the UAE
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what's happening with America's Sports Car Keith welcome back to the show how is everything oh glad to be back here
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working hard crazy stuff going on as usual in the Corvette Nation so we're here to try to make some sense of it if
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we can we will do our very best buddy as we always do let's start off with
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Corvette production at the Bowling Green assembly plant so Steve last week we surpassed 14 000 Stingrays for the 2023
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model year and that's not to mention how many more with the 70th Anniversary obviously we've had their own bin
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unfortunately we also announced that the Corvette assembly plant is closed this week due to perch shortages the supply
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chain that monster is Raising its ugly head again and we got caught so it looks like we're off for the week but the
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plant is expected to reopen on October 24th we understand also that there's going to be some other work going on
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inside the plant maintenance and that kind of stuff but also the perform build Center is going to keep running which is
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important because that's where the lt6s are assembled even though the Corvette assembly plant the assembly line itself
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will be shut down there is still work going on and of course any cars that are completed and ready to ship will also be
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shipping during that time our last shutdown was August 29th about six weeks ago who knows that we can go another six
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to eight weeks without another shutdown I think we would take that Steve I think I'd take that for sure well that was the
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bad news about the shutdown we do have good news Keith Bowling Green built almost 8 000 Corvettes in the third
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quarter yeah it sure did they released the sales results by quarters over the last couple years now so we're able to
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compare them to the previous time period last year you know last year it seemed like things were really coming along and people were getting excited out again
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third quarter of 2021 had 10 166 cars sold versus the 7939 so it was a decline
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almost 22 percent based on what we saw the year before and again it's the shutdowns and the lower production days
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that are just killing us for those but for the calendar year today we are are seeing a total of twenty five thousand
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three hundred eighty new Corvettes being delivered these are North American Sales but this is tracking ahead of where we
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were last year by about 2.6 percent I would be interesting to find out last year calendar year Sales North America
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sales was 33 000. it'd be nice to surpass that definitely you know I saw something Keith that was interesting
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about the new upcoming c806 most of the orders that are coming in are for the hardtop convertibles nobody wants to see
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the engine under the glass I guess yeah these are interesting because they're such preliminary numbers so we can't
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really base the whole production line off of just these 14 cars our friends admitted to Corvette forum were able to
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get a little bit of a breakout of these first 14 customer ordered cars we know that one of them was Rick Hendrick's
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70th Anniversary Coupe we know that there's also a couple convertibles in there some 70th Anniversary we actually
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got the breakdown and you are right of the 14 cars 12 are hard top convertibles two are coops and then five of those 14
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cars were also ordered with custom ends that's actually something that you can't do anymore General Motors is suspended
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any custom bins for the rest of the 2023 model year so these people are lucky to get theirs and then finally of those 14
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cars eight of them were z07s pretty interesting stats there we understand that since we got those first 14 that
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maybe another seven or eight had been built we just don't have specs on those cars yet got it and it's still under a
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quality control hold on the z06s right yeah in fact we just confirmed this late last week these cars that are built we
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know the first one got built We Believe September 21st they're all sitting up there still in fact the dealers don't have the invoices yet so when you talk
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to a dealer when they get that deal or invoice generally that car is ready to ship and go and they do what they need to do with it but yeah they're still
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waiting on that information and then again with the slowdowns and the week off here you've got some other things
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going on whether or not they'll release those cars or continue to hold them we're just still waiting generally what they want to do is they'll hold a
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representative quantity of them so if they find something on a car they can go back and check these other cars say okay
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when did this start was this something that just happened that one day has it been going on since the beginning of
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production so if they generally will hold a represented quantity of cars before they release them and then once they start releasing them they'll be
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more active we did have a screenshot again this is not really applicable because of the week off from Bowling
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Green but a guy was getting his car built on October 20th and had rhc delivery scheduled at the museum for
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just two weeks later if that could be the Cadence I know a lot of people would be excited about that definitely get excited about that and we did have more
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good news buddy The Edge red calipers and the lt2 engine covers are available again what's going on with that well we
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told you back in July a Chevrolet's paint vendor they're playing in East St Louis Illinois exploded and caught fire
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damaging the facility injuring two workers this is the plant that makes the high temp Edge red paint it's a
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copyrighted or trademark formula so it's just not something that we could do at another plant that really caused issues
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especially because Edge red is used on the 17th bursary package it's on the brake calipers and then the stingray
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gets the lt2 edge red cover on it those all went away for a couple order Cycles
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there but looks like now they're back and that they can be right back again on the 70th anniversaries as well as people
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can order them stand alone we also got some constraint issue from last week because it was an order cycle we've
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talked a little bit about those gloss black wheels the 20 spoke wheels they are 100 constrained meaning that there's
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no wheels available anywhere also on 100 constraint is the carbon flash metallic High wings and this kind of was a little
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surprise the chrome wheel locks all of a sudden showed up on the 100 constraint list as well there's some things out
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there you know a lot of those things that we talked about they can be ordered afterwards especially the high Wing we're dealing with this kind of stuff
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and it looks like this is just par for the course with these supply chain issues boy it's a never-ending battle buddy that's for darn sure and finally
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Keith GM had issued a tech link article and this was in response to the C8 headlights coming on during the day
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what's going on with that yeah because people know noticing when your headlights are on you get the little green illumination light on your dash
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right and so people are seeing these coming on and some people said they were coming on and go off and come back on again go off and come back on again and
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it just turns out it's a programming error in the body control module that reads the sensor and decides okay is
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there enough lighting for your full headlamps or do you need just to run the daytime running lights this is an issue
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that's not only affecting Corvette but also the 2022 Tahoe Suburban Yukon and Escalades wow for the Corvette it's the
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2022 Corvette and the 2023 Corvette but it's not all of them obviously it's just here and there it seems like they do
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have a software fix this is an over-the-air fix for the 2022 cars but we're still waiting for something on the
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2023 Corvette so they just say if it's starting to get dim outside just make sure that that illumination light is set
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on your dash and if you've got your headlights set to Auto you'll maybe just turn them back over to on so you know
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for sure that they are illuminated that's a good idea well buddy let's take our first break and when we come back
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racing and Corvette rumors Keith it was really cool to see I love this car Corvette racing showed the first look of
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the 2024 C8 gt3r yeah you know this is an exciting time for people that want to
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race these Factory based race cars and that's exactly what this is going to be the gt3r is based on the Z06 production
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car just like the c8r they'll both use same engine the 5.5 liter double
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overhead cam lt6 it's kind of racing spec version of it this is going to debut sometime in 2024. we do know that
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they are going to be targeting us teams Laura clauser just gave some statements on this to affect us-based teams will be
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the priority but they're also looking at some Europe and Asian teams as well we do know that they need to build 20 of
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these cars to fully homologate I think the plan had been to do like 10 the first year and 10 the second year but
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she says interest is high and it's pretty exciting now if you've seen the car it looks like the Z06 and the c8r
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it's got this great wing on the back but like the race car you just lift up the hatch to get access to the engine that
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whole rear comes off and so Engineers or mechanics can have full access to the engine this car was driven up at Milford
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Proving Grounds by Antonio Garcia but we also understand that some of the other drivers have been in it they do like it
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so we're going through a transition here for ZT racing we've been racing in imsa this year on a waiver looks like we're
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going to do that again next year we definitely have plans to go racing with this GT3 car whether or not we'll be
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able to do a factory team or we'll be an amateur style setup that's all still waiting to be seen but good to see the
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first car out there hopefully we'll be able to see it before like the Rolex or some next races next year where we can
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actually see some previews of it I love that car it's a great looking car and this next story Keith falls under the
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racing category and the rumors category I don't know if we've ever had that in the two and a half years we've done the
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news and headline shows but racer magazine is speculating on changes for Corvette racing both in imsa and the wec
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what are they talking about yeah again a lot of speculation we're still waiting to hear you know again we read these
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interviews with Laura clauser the program manager for Corvette racing and the Chevrolet racing it's still kind of
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up in the air so what we understand and this is what race or Magazine's been speculating is that we'll probably
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continue that one car strategy and one in imsa and then one in the wec the World Endurance Championship for next
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year we'll do a Factory car again but the WC will be a GT amateur team so it
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might be Tommy paired up with an amateur driver a bronze rated driver gotcha we don't know I just found out I guess we
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have a bronze rated driver now who Johnny O'Connell wow wouldn't that be
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great to have Johnny O back doing some stuff with us that'd be awesome so that's what we're looking at a one car
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strategy for MSA and the WC and that might lead to only having one GT car at
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Le Mans as well for next year that would be a huge difference for Corvette racing where we've always gone with two cars
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right of course there's been a couple years where I know there was that accident with Ian magnussen that we could only race the one car but we've
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always had a two-car strategy so it'd be a big difference to throw all our eggs into one basket and go racing with just
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the one car but it sounds like that's what's going to happen as far as Personnel they're hearing that Nick Tandy is likely moving back to drive for
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Porsche in imsa nothing said about a factory team for GT Pro in 2024 so all
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that's still up in the air okay well speaking of Corvette racing Oliver Gavin had a great video out driving z06s from
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C5 all the way through C8 yeah he was at the test with the YouTubers and auto
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journalists for the Z06 at Pitt race a couple weeks back so it looks like they were able to film some of these PR Style
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videos where they go out and have funds he drives the Z06 for the C5 the C6 and
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the C7 and then leading up to the C8 he's able to give his history on of course his first factory race car that
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he drove with Corvette was the c5r so he's been driving these cars just as long as a lot of these Engineers have
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been so that's how it ended up closing was that he was joined with Aaron link Mike Hurley and Brian Wallace who are
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all these Factory engineer ride and handling Engineers they kind of had a little fun with each of the cars on the track and it just shows again how the
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c806 with that 670 horsepower lt6 flat plate and crank engine just has really
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evolved from the looks from the sounds from the performance how far these cars have come in the last 25 years that's
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cool that's very cool and finally Keith the C8 Corvettes in Australia have been recalled for a non-compliant lighting
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issue what the heck is a non-compliant lighting issue well see I thought that okay we saw the GM Tech link I heard
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about this and are these related and actually it's not because the program is a little bit different I guess on these
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switches but due to a software issue they were saying that when the master light switch was set to automatic you'd
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have the headlights the tail lamps the parking lamps the license plate lamps everything would turn on and the daytime
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running lamps would be turned off oh so obviously during the day if it's bright out you just want the dlrs to be on and
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nothing else a little bit of reprogramming issue I think it affects just over 100 cars sometimes you find
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out after the fact that not everything was done exactly to spec it just sounds like the program was a little bit off on
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that well hopefully they can do an over-the-ear update on that as well and have that taken care of most likely if
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not quick trip to the service center shouldn't take too long there you go buddy let's take our final break when we
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testing the c806 talk about those two records that she set yeah well the queen of speed is back at it which kind of
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makes sense because this is what she's known for with her C8 Stingray Phoenix just trying to get this car to go faster
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we had all the YouTubers magazines they all came out with their reviews but with her special relationship that she has
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going on with Chevrolet she actually had access to two press cars and then had the access early so she actually has
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been sitting on some of this content for almost a month now including this where she took the z07 coupe to the racetrack
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seconds now the way the General Motors does their testing they're so conservative so they take 10 different
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get the 10-6 so they say well it's representative over the 10 cars it's not just the one car that they ran a bunch
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of times it's interesting how they did that so that was her time to beat the 10.6 seconds but the other thing too is
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that when GM released that number they never did tell us what any of the Trap times were so it's always interesting to
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find that out she was able to actually beat that record with some work and optimization of the launch control
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settings which you can actually do that now with the Z06 you can set the custom parameters for launch control and she
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was able to run the quarter mile in 10.51 at 130 miles an hour officially
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that's the fastest time going I don't know if I've seen anybody else do an official quarter mile time yet with the
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Z06 so 10.51 as she was also doing that she was running the performance data
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recorder and so they went back and looked at the PDR of her quarter mile time and found that the official zero to
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six time of 2.6 seconds she beat that it was 2.2 seconds was what the PDR told
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her again massive grip on these tires the 345s these race spec michelins they
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just grip it's a different kind of launch control with these cars because there's hardly any kind of Tire span
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these cars just hook up immediately and these times show it the other thing she did too was then another video came out
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where she raced the Z06 on an airstrip against her Ferrari 458 and a friend's
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Lamborghini Huracan Evo I know a lot of people are thinking wow it's going to be interesting to watch this hurricane Evo
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versus the Z06 and the Z06 killed it Steve I mean just absolutely was walking away from the Evo and you know the Evo's
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300 000 car it weighs 3 400 pounds it's lighter than the Z06 only has 600
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horsepower compared to 670 but on paper you'd think that the race would be a lot closer but two or three different races
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that she showed the Z06 was walking away each time with it pretty amazing video and I think that's really kind of the
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stuff people want to see we always talk about the YouTubers and some of their Antics can be a little tiring but as far
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as going up against these Exotics seeing what it can do at the racetrack that's exactly the kind of things that I think
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I want to see and I would agree that most people would want to see that as well I agree with you totally and I love
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Lamborghini but it was so cool to see that video and see her just crush the 458 and the Huracan Evo and again you're
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talking about a 332 thousand dollar car for Lamborghini Lord knows what the
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Ferrari is and the Z06 is probably 150 160 thousand dollars so it's a great car
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and 2.2 seconds on 0-60 wow that's amazing it really is yeah it's gonna be
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fun once people start getting their cars and they're able to just go out and do it themselves we did see that with Stingray when it came out in 2020 people
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would go out and post the idea was to beat the 3.0 the 2.9 so we'd see 2.8 then people say I got a 2.6 I remember
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speed Phenom when he got a 2.6 on his 0-60 so it's not really a surprise to
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see the official time for the zero to 60 on the Z06 actually be less than what is advertised just again because Chevy is
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so conservative it's amazing car it is truly an amazing car I can't wait until they come out in bulk and they start
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building them and shipping them out also Keith the 2023 Z06 made its first
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appearance at the United Arab Emirates yeah I just call it the UAE Steve it's a lot easier that way yep there's a show
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over there the automotive show and Chevrolet had a really nice display they had a base model Hypersonic gray and Z06
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with the black Spider Wheels like in this circular display area but then around it they had all generations of
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other Corvettes parked facing outwards so it really made for a dynamic photo it's the first time that the Z06 model
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has been showed in the Middle East and the press release from Chevrolet media actually says the cars will go on sale
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sometime early next year they won't do huge numbers but there'll be a significant number of exports I think
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the Middle East was actually number two in exports for Stingray last year we'll have to go back and look at that we know
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a lot of people would love to have that car and you think about those Wide Open Spaces where you can run them as fast as you want to that would make for some
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pretty exciting runs I'd love to see what the MSRP is going to be in the Middle East that'll be interesting I
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don't know no idea what it's going to be but it shouldn't be too much and again the nice thing about the Middle Eastern
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Market is that it's very closely spec to what we have here in the United States unlike Europe where they have to run the
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particulate filters which means that you get the outboard exhaust systems for the most part these are very similar spec
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cars to the United States ones very true and Keith our final story we had a great video tracing the history of the Z06 and
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its performance it was a great video to watch yeah I like these and you know the idea is that there are so many people
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that are new to Z06 just like the C8 I think the official stats originally for CH Stingray was that two out of three
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were new to Chevrolet which is a number that blows my mind considering how many repeat Corvette customers I know move to
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the C8 but you think about all these people and we see it all the time you know we will look at Mike furman's Sunday posts and the other people that
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announce hey we're getting their car so it is a big deal but yet many people don't realize that the Z06 is one of
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these monikers has been around actually started in 1963. the idea was the Dora
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wanted a factory ready race car that could also be driven on the streets and that's what you got with the Z06 of
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course it came back as a C5 and then it's just been part of us ever since then and so this is just a nice
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illustration to go through what makes the Z06 a special in each generation it's generally centered around the
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motors if you haven't seen this it was done by a guy named 337 speed it was a pretty cool primer so we definitely
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recommend people watching it yeah it's a great video for sure well Keith thanks for being back on Corvette today we will
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see you in two weeks sounds great Steve everybody out there we see you keep waving and keep the faith things are
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going well with Corvette even though we're off and we're having supply chain issues there's not a better American sports car out there than the Corvette
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