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CORVETTE TODAY #139 - Corvette News & Headlines, Mid December 2022
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May 8, 2025
I know, I know....it's the holiday season. Your Corvette may possibly be hibernating for the season, but there is still lots going on in the world of Corvette! Keith Cornett from Corvette Blogger teams up with your CORVETTE TODAY host, Steve Garrett, to bring you the latest news in the world of Corvette. Here are a few of the topics that will be discussed on this show: 1. The Bowling Green Assembly Plant signs a new labor agreement for temporary employees 2. Corvette is rumored to be it's own brand by 2025 3. StreetSpeed 717 buys TJ Hunt's Z06 4. The Stradman's Z06 leaks fluids on the garage floor of his new house 5. Speed Phenom takes his Z06 to the track for it's first track laps 6. Chevy's NEW ROADS magazine the engineers behind the Z06 moonshot Plus, our CORVETTE TODAY Insider, Manny Katakis, from Muscle Cars & Trucks join Steve and Keith with more Corvette scoop you haven't hear about yet! Happy holidays from your CORVETTE TODAY host, Steve Garrett and Keith Cornett from CorvetteBlogger!
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Corvette enthusiasts from around the world it's time to bring you the latest Corvette news and headlines with my
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buddy Keith Cornett from corvettebblogger.com as you know Keith is here twice per month every other week
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to keep you current and up to date on what's happening with America's Sports Car Keith welcome back to the show happy
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holidays buddy glad to be here Steve of course it is the holiday season and the gifts have come early you could say
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we're going to cover that we got some great stuff in this show today first off Keith let's start off with as we usually
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do Corvette production at the Bowling Green assembly plant sounds good Steve well obviously Corbett production's
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still running we've been very certain that the regular stingrays will be close to or surpass 19 500 units to start this
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week and as far as the 70th Anniversary Stingray numbers our friend Mike Furman gave us an approximate number of about
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1650 cars the anniversary cars have been built a good count you know still production going there's still some
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challenges that we've seen speaking of the 70th Anniversary package Mike had told me that the pearl white color the
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one on your car yes is currently outselling the carbon flash metallic the black car by nearly four to one wow it's
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kind of a cool sales number there if you want something unique it looks like it's the black car will be the unique one for
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the 70th Anniversary as far as production for the Z06 we have surpassed uh 250 standard z06s towards the end of
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last week the plates continue to ramp up in fact they've done like 18 or 20 in one day which again bodes well it's you
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know one an hour or so on the line nice obviously we're still moving forward and growing on that one and we should have
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probably over 300 total z06s have been produced which would include the 70th Anniversary package it's coming the
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rollout's slower than obviously we wanted Supply chains taking a big hit still with Corvette visible carbon
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fibers one of the really tough things that are out there for the car production is rolling last week was one
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of the blackout weeks for tours so there could have been something special that the plant was working on during that time of course we've got the e-ray
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league coming up that we'll talk about that kind of gives us even more attention of what are they doing inside the Bowling Green Assembly Plant
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their plates are full they're working all the way right up to the holidays I believe and they'll have that week off
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between Christmas and New Year's it looks like okay we don't know if they're gonna try to get in any other Saturday dates like they did a couple weeks back
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but really anything's possible at this point yeah and didn't they also have a part shortages since we last talked a
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couple weeks ago yeah and you know sometimes you can kind of see these coming and sometimes they kind of sneak up on you I think that's what happened
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was they had a basically a midweek shutdown so production on Tuesday November 29th was halted for the second
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shift so the first shift showed up they did their job but then you know they ran out of parts so the second shift stopped
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it bled over into Wednesday with both ships being shut down and then on that Thursday just the first shift was shut
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down but then the second shift all came in and continued work on that Thursday and then on Friday and the comms person
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at the plan did confirm to us that it was definitely a parts related shutdown to the supply chain gotcha sometimes you
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see them coming you can prepare and sometimes you got a big deal with what you got when the plant does shut down there's other things that are going on
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they have a moment to do do some maintenance maybe they can switch a few things around you know fix some stuff clean up some stuff so they're always
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working there even when they're not working absolutely right also it was good to see that the Bowling Green assembly plant did sign a labor
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agreement and it kind of avoided a shutdown over there didn't it we started off C8 production with a UAW strike just
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again shows you that not all shutdowns are Parts related or supply chain issues this one kind of snuck up on us in just
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a little background there's essentially two kinds of employees at Bowling Green and all UAW plants I believe there's the
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salaried workers they say a lot of times to the long-term people that have been there for a while and then there's these
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new temporary workers that are paid on an hourly rate they all work together on the cars and what would happen was we
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found out this late it was like on Friday that they didn't come to an agreement by the 2 30 on that Friday the
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temporary workers would have been let go they would have had to have shut down the second shift move all those regular
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workers to the first shift and then they probably would have had some massive overtime hours from that first shift wow
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so they were able to reach an agreement everybody looks to be real happy with that it's a quarterly agreement too so
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I'm not sure if it's just for the next three months or what are we looking at and how is this going to be extended it looks like the crisis was averted
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immediately there they're still building Corvettes looks like they did the job to maintain the temporary Workforce at the assembly plant that's all we can really
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hope for absolutely that's good to hear also I was glad to see that Corvette added 12 new videos Keith and this is
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for the stingray Academy not the Z06 Academy right yeah and you know we kind of think the Z06 is the new hotness we
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actually haven't had an academy video uploaded to the Z06 Academy playlist since the summer time but we just got 12
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new videos for the stingray and I think some of these were videos that might have been similar but were redone
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because some of the information had changed one of the videos that we highlighted was the vehicle break-in schedule obviously that had changed
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initially from 2020 you know you had to get the transmission filter done right away and then in 2021 they changed it
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and then they also changed like the period where you can get your free oil change and service from 12 months the 36
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months so there are some things there different and you can tell the difference in the cars because sometimes you'll see like a rapid blue car where
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they a lot of times focused on a red car in the earlier videos you can find this by Corvette blogger or obviously going
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to YouTube and the Chevrolet Channel and there's a playlist tab there and you scroll down to the performance cars and
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then you can see the academy playlist there there's probably 35 or 40 videos total now over there and a lot of them
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are very specific you know how to check fluids how to take off the roof and store it in the trunk all kinds of little stuff like that so if you're new
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to Corvette you just want a real quick refresher on something or you're looking to buy a car and you're just so into it
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these Academy videos are pretty good because they're focused on the product itself yeah they were really good I
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watched all 12 of them now that I have a brand new C8 2023 70th Anniversary white
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pearl metallic car I enjoyed watching all those videos and it was a lot of stuff that I already knew but it was
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good to get a refresher on that stuff exactly also the CH Stingray ranked third on Co gods made in America index I
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guess that's good we try harder right Keith that's right you know it is America's favorite sports cars we like
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to say there's actually two of these made in America studies there's the cars.com American-made index and then
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there's the ones from the kogod School of Business which I believe is associated with the University of Washington what Co God does is they use
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these seven points of interest from public data they analyze the economic value from different components of auto
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manufacturing so for example all the top cars in their list are us-based manufacturers using American engines and
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Transmissions with a high percent of U.S and Canadian content some of the cars that may be owned in Japan the Japanese
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cars but are built here they even take the ownership into consideration on that so that's how we get to be third on that
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list the first hook car on the list was the Lincoln Corsair and then the Corsair hybrid took first place and followed by
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the Tesla Model 3 long range version that had 65 content and then the Corvette Stingray was third with 62
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percent North American content it looks like we've actually been as high as number one on that list back into C7 seven days it's a global manufacturing
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Marketplace these days and you're going to have stuff that's made in Mexico you're gonna have stuff that's made in Canada some Electronics from overseas
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and it all builds together but it's still the All-American sports car absolutely right buddy let's take our
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833-840-5334 I'm your host Steve Garrett with me is Keith Cornett from corvettebblogger.com he's here every
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other week to keep us up to date on what's happening with America's Sports Car Keith I can't wait to get into section two we've got some huge huge
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rumors first on Thursday December 8th we had some really cool leaks coming out on the Corvette visualizer I'll just tweak
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it there and let you take the rest yeah this was a huge leak of info that happened last Thursday and basically the
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Chevy visualizer turned on and began showing detailed information about the 2024 Corvette e-ran you said e-ray
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there's an e-ray logo on it also in the fine print it said available for summer of 2023 we actually got after we
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published our story we got a call from Detroit and I was a little nervous there but they sent us an exclusive statement
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and it says looks like the holidays came early for a few astute Corvette fans stay tuned for more wow that tells us
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what we saw was legit and this is very exciting stuff we've always kind of assumed that the next version of the C8
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Corvette following the Z06 would be the e-ray it's what we thought would be a wide body mid-engine Corvette powered by
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the lt2 V8 with electric assist Motors on the front axles for all-wheel drive and I think that's really the killer
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feature there is the all-wheel drive right and these first visualizer renderings we see the same Z06 body
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there's always tried to do some visualizer differences I think between models especially like we saw between
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Grand Sport and Z06 and C7 whereas all the Z06 seems to have the carbon flash
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trim you know the side Spears and the vents and stuff like that it looks like the e-ray is all going to be body color
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that's one of the differentiating ways to see if you look at the car oh if it's got the Z06 wide body but it's all in
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body color that may be the e-ray that's what we're thinking it's got a redesigned front fascia a little blue
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e-ray emblem on the lower quarter rear panel and of course the exhaust is Corner mounted like we've seen before
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the Z06 export car when you're running the lt2 V8 495 horsepower that's in the
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stingray you use the same exhaust setup for that you're good now once we got into the visualizer they didn't have all
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these tabs lined up but we could see that there was a Zer or a Zer performance package which may or may not
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include Michelin Pilot Sport 4S summer performance tires as someone else was
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fiddling around with it there's carbon fiber Wheels also available so when they try to add a carbon fiber wheel it told
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them that they had to upgrade to the Zer performance pack okay we are starting to see some of these options tied together
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and of course when you have the Zer performance package you see these huge brake rotors don't know if those are
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going to be the carbon Ceramics the way the e-ray will recharge itself is through regenerative braking on the
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brakes so maybe they have something special there or they're using a different kind of rotor who knows what that's going to be but it definitely
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looks like there's some more we also saw under body scrapes those rubber long thin pieces that help direct air from
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the middle of the front of the car out to the sides right those were actually on the e-ray when we selected the Zer
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performance package as well as we get into picks from the inside of the car I said this on the Mid Engine Corvette
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forum as well as on our site this is probably the most special picture of them all because it shows the regen on
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demand button which is on the center console somehow you press that and you can probably dial in how much
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performance or how much recharging that you'll get out of the batteries in fact one of the settings is supposed to be
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what they call one pedal driving so you're on the gas and if you let off the gas you're immediately on the brake so
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when you're on the brakes you're immediately charging your batteries think of a go-kart you know where you just press to go and then you release
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the brake it's kind of like that it sounds like and people that have driven the one pedal cars say they're a lot of fun we also note that there's another
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button next to the regen button which is an auto start stop button which probably means that that stop start technology is
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coming to the core value I always get this when I rent a car you go to the stoplight and all of a sudden it gets real quiet you're like oh God did
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something happen no no but you let off the brake and then it pops back on it looks like it's there because that's the
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button to turn that feature off which I think will all be pressing as soon as we get in the car exactly you know we want
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to hear our engines that's definitely for sure and then we also found too in the interior there's another button
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that's on the steering wheel under the Z mode and it looks like that's for adaptive cruise control that's where you
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can kind of control how close or behind you follow somebody somebody pulls in front of you you know your car backs off
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because it tries to maintain that selected space in between that's the adapter cruise control button there it
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looks like we were kind of joking we were hoping it was like a push to pass button on the Indy card I don't think
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that's gonna happen no again with this leak Steve not only is it e-ray related but because Chevy he always uses the
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same exterior and interior options available across the model lineup we do get these first look at colors for 2024
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we could actually see these on Stingray and Z06 as well here's what's going away and I know this is going to break your
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heart but we are going to lose that white pearl tri-coat metallic yes on the seventh anniversary which is going to be
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a one-year color and also going away a ceramic Matrix gray which has been running since C7 that was on the 2018
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carbon 65 Edition so that one's finally going away Elkhart Lake blue is going
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away and then the low selling caffeine metallic will be phased out as well in this place obviously we're keeping that
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carbon flash Black Metallic which I think is kind of cool we'll have two blacks that people can choose from and
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you know it's not tied to any kind of package this time so they can get it but our newest colors are Riptide blue
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metallic a cacti and Sea Wolf Gray tri-coat the visualizer and looking at
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colors sometimes it's not all that accurate but it looks to us like the riptide blue metallic is very similar to
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Rapid blue however it's a metallic so so it should be sparkly whereas the rapid blue is like a dull or a matte color
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right that's at least our first impressions that it might be a tad darker because of the metallic but it's very similar to the rapid blue in our
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opinion the cacti is kind of a darkish green I don't want to say army green but it's a darker green that color is also
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coming on the 2024 tracks so there's pictures of the track so you can see those on Corvette blogger and they're
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going around the different forms as well so it's a little bit darker than what we're seeing in the visualizer and I
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think it's kind of a cool color I'm wondering how it's going to go because it's not a traditional green these flatter colors like the rapid blue and
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the amplify orange have both done really well so this might be kind of that green color and that similar finish that's
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exciting stuff buddy and finally that third color Sea Wolf Gray tri-coat so this is another new tri-coat Sea Wolf
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Gray it's darker than Hypersonic gray and to us we're wondering with that metallic in the tri-coat it'll kind of
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remind us of cyber Gray from C6 is an early C7 so we're kind of wondering on that one we've had that we picked that
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one as our main photo and that was the one I had on the visualizer I could spin around and look at all that let's see
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what else can I tell you oh the interior I didn't really get to that yet there's so much stuff Steve I'm starting to
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freak out a little bit here in the interior we're going to lose the ceramic color that was with the 70th anniversary
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and it's replaced with a new color called Artemis which is very like a dark
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green as well and that's going to go perfectly with that cacti exterior yes one of the guys on the miniature
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Corvette form got a screenshot it zooms in so you can see the cacti exterior with the Artemis interior it's a nice
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color combination and I think you know we're talking about that Artemis color that could go well with a lot of
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different colors so one of the things I was thinking of was accelerate yellow with that great interior kind of reminds
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me of the 1955 cars with the Harvest green I believe all right yellow with the green interior really cool
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combination actually Zora owned that car for a little bit yellow with the green interior yes so really cool stuff also
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in the interior here the e-ray is going to get the level 2 carbon fiber interior package good and the stealth interior
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trim package as well that's really what we know oh also one more thing was not all the screenshots showed this I know
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Corvette Conte when he grabbed his screenshots he actually showed brake caliper colors on his when he took a
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screenshot of the performance tires and wheels section wow so we saw five different colors there same as the Z06
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the only one that wasn't shown was the black one so probably we'll start off with like the default color would be the
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gray but you know there's The Two Reds there's the orange and the yellow there as well cool stuff lots of chances to
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personalize there's the badges on there we don't know how they're gonna do like the badge on the back yet this car is
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coming and it's going to be available next summer really exciting stuff I feel bad for General Motors they always like
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to do their own thing and you know when it's leaked it kind of takes the wind out of their sails but it really pumps us up because for us it seems like
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sometimes these reveals are really manufactured and here's the raw data that we're interpreting ourselves that's
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a lot of fun to go through this stuff we've talked to so many people over past 24 hours when this leap became known to
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really kind of flesh out some of these details what's the Zer performance package what might that entail you know
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what else is going to be mandatory there just such good stuff again e-ray summer of 2023. that sounds great I can't wait
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buddy I can't wait also with the rumors section Keith we got news that Corvette might be its own brand by 2025. that's
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really good news we've been hearing about this for years I know we've recently talked about this but you know from a sales and marketing perspective I
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think lending the Corvette's Halo name and refutation to the EV stuff coming out of GM really does make a lot of
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sense Porsche Lamborghini have both been successful in expanding their lineups and in fact I think the most popular Lambo these days is the Euros
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performance SUV it is I started thinking about this a little bit I'm thinking we might see a new dealer agreement that
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could lead the dedicated Corvette showrooms Corvette signage on dealer Lots you know and even the volume dealers might do like Standalone
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locations for Corvette only sales so it does make a lot of sense and talking about the future and the EVs and stuff I
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think now is a great time to bring in Manny from muscle cars and trucks who's been covering the EV lineups and he's got some really interesting news about
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the Corvette EV sedan as well as maybe some future ZR1 news yeah hey guys so the latest on the Corvette electric
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vehicles is that they're supposedly going to run on an 800 volt electrical system that'll provide really fast
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charging power up to 350 kilowatts not necessarily gonna tell us here like how much horsepower that's going to provide
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right but it's pretty fun to see like just how Cutting Edge the we'll say like the battery architecture is for these
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vehicles I believe that it'll be a more advanced version of The altion Battery Technology that we currently see in
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things like the Hummer as we talked about before we're looking at 2025 it's been launched with the sedan first
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people think SUV it's going to be a sedan first with the SUV coming later towards the end of the decade as per
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like the Corvette brand I've always thought it was like a great idea you know it's kind of funny that it's taking this long for it to manifest and with
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electric vehicles for that matter the talk of like a dealers I mean that would be really cool to see looking at what
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they did with Hummer and just sort of like putting them in GMC showrooms I think that might be the more immediate
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play and they'll probably evaluate like opening up Corvette showrooms later down the line they're also evaluating a
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Camaro brand and they're also a GM is valuing an Escalade brand for Cadillac kind of in the same style but I don't
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know if those are going to go through yet and maybe with a 350 kilowatt charging system that's really the fast
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charger so you could get 70 or 80 percent of charge within an hour or so is that the case yeah and that 70 80
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number is always because battery can only take in so many electrons at once it actually it's easier for them to
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charge quicker when the batteries look more depleted but as they fill up there's less room for like basically the electrons to like go and charge it's
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totally new science to me it's totally new engineering to me and for pretty much everybody else too it's fun to
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explore the space because it's not just about cam timing and compression ratios and air fuel ratios it's like that stuff
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doesn't really exist in the EV space interesting Manny talk to me more about the ZR one then okay so I wanted to give
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this to you guys first basically what we're hearing going with the e-ray configurator leak is that based on the
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GM investor Day presentation that happened in November GM is actually going to debut to Corvette variants in
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2023 with the first being the e-ray and obviously it seems pretty far along they've already had the configurated leak and all the information seems to be
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accurate later in the year they're going to actually debut 01 which is a lot earlier than I think most people were
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expecting yeah because if you look at Z06 Z06 is barely out the door I actually saw one on a carrier truck
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yesterday all wrapped up it looks so radical with the wings and everything and the same thing could be expected with ZR1 I think like same tires same
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brakes same wide body style but they're adding a pair of turbos to the lt6 engine wlt7 we're looking at around 800
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plus horsepower wow that's really cool well buddy thank you so much for being back on Corvette today happy holidays
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we'll get you back on soon let us know when you've got some more stuff to talk about love to be here guys happy holidays thank you Manny guys let's take
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side of Corvette I love the story Keith Chevy's New Roads Magazine featured the engineers behind the Z06 engine called
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the moonshot that was really great to see yeah it was a great feature it had executive chief engineer tadjuster at GM
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small block Chief Jordan Lee and the performance manager Alex McDonald and they take us through the Z06 from
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conception to reality and then the refinement of the prototypes into you know being able to sell the car they
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talked about from conception they wanted to do this want to do that but once they got the prototypes built and on the
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track they knew right away they had something very special the idea was they weren't sure that they were going to get above the 650 horsepower that the
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previous Z06 had the lt4 and the C7 once they got on the track they were so close
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they realized that this car is really going to be punching above its weight they talked about the refinement the last minute change of the exhaust which
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just brings so much more character to the car and then the photography is great with some great portrait photography of all three of these
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Gentlemens the New Roads Magazine's a free magazine you can subscribe to it at chevrolet.com you might have to do a
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Google search we've had it before if you search for New Roads Magazine on Corvette blogger you should be able to find the subscriber link I'll find it
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and put it into the podcast post here great magazine I think it comes out orderly or so yes there's always a good
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Corvette feature to it in there so definitely a nice feature and again congrats to our three guys there absolutely right and also speaking of
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those guys you can listen to Jordan Lee talk about the new C8 Z06 engine in
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Corvette today number 106. that was the week of April 24th he talks about it
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with his assistant chief engineer Dustin Gardner Jordan Lee is the global chief engineer for General Motors for small
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block engines it's a really cool story and a great show to listen to this was really interesting too Keith I can't
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believe this happened Street speed 717 was able to buy TJ Hunt's Z06 and then
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he put Street pipes on it from the exhaust it was a crazy deal well YouTubers are going to YouTube right
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that's interesting so this was an allocation that was initially granted to TJ hunt he's a quality YouTuber who's
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got I think over a million or so followers he had a VIP allocation for the car so that's why he was getting it
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so early he explained in his own video you know that this is a business that he does he only has certain resources to be
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able to put for certain cars and right now he's really focused on this special BMW model he's got so he called Matt
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Beaver at Whitmore Chevrolet and essentially gave up the allocation before purchasing the car think about it
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he could have bought the car and then flipped it made a hundred thousand dollars off of it we saw that someone had offered the scrad man 110 over MSRP
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for his car so he could have made the money but he said no to it that means that for Matt he goes to the next person
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on a ZR1 list and that's Mike from Street speed 717. he got passed over by these other YouTubers who had the VIP
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deals with Chevrolet Mike was able to buy this car at MSRP he got it for 173
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thousand dollars the funny thing is the plaque and the interior still says TJ hunts because TJ had turned down the
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allocation and gave it up before purchase he wasn't penalized with you know never being able to buy another
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Chevrolet or GM product like this again and then Mike still gets the warranty
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because it's his name is the one that went on the MSO and on the registration so he's the first owner of the car these
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YouTubers they get it he ran around got his 500 miles but then he took the car up to Fab speed Motorsports who makes
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custom exhaust for Porsches Ferraris and McLarens and they created a straight pipe system for the Z06 that literally
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blows your ears off yes if you watch the video all the guys in the shop are holding their ears cameras can never
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capture this and the fact sometimes the sounds are so loud that it just becomes so distorted or it just dumps out
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completely it's a loud exhaust and you can just feel it by how they're building their ears and bleeding out of the eyes
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literally that loud and then he drives it you know he does a before and after comparison so you can hear the
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difference between the two I don't know if I could live with a system like that especially on any kind of long drive but just for you know driving it over here
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and giving it some revs I think that would be a lot of fun videos and three speed he's got a ZO6 and he's having fun
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with it absolutely right also the Z06 smoked and I mean smoked a Porsche GT3
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in a straight line race yeah this was a fun little video from Hagerty they actually brought together the c806 the
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Porsche 911 tt3 be in an Audi R8 with a d10 engine I believe all these are
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naturally aspirated and mid-engine cars and they did a three-way drag race that was interesting because it looked like
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the Porsche got initially out in front from the launch but within that first 60
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feet the Z06 was already had and ended up just absolutely decimating the other two cars I think probably at least by a
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car length and a half on the Porsche it's going to be huge to see these cars on the tracks they're very different but similar but yet the Z06 just has that
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massive amount of power over these other cars and it looks like that's really going to help because now with all that weight on the back tires anyways it's
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going to get the grip and go you never see it really spinning out unless either the roads warm or cold or they're not
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warmed up I remember Taj talking about this car was never meant to be like a numbers car a drag car but it certainly
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can be and I think this Hagerty video showed that it is now buddy it sure is now
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also strad man I was really surprised to see this I follow James pretty regularly
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and his z07 was dumping fluids on his brand new garage floor did we ever
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figure out what those fluids were and what happened we don't know yet we're pretty certain that it was transmission
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fluid he did the two videos we picked up his car in the first video from Whitmore again in Pennsylvania and then was
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driving it home he made it to Chicago I guess the weather took a really bad turn
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because then when he opened up his video he's got a few inches of snow on the ground and I couldn't imagine driving
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those cup two r's and snow especially in mountains or anything like that he says he actually had the car shipped and then
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this morning went down to his garage this is what he found so he shows this huge puddle of transmission fluid underneath the car his whole thing is
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he's got the special garage that's got a car elevator and then another storage area underground and that's where the
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car was for him he was trying to think how can I get the car above and that was really what the whole video was about was I gotta get this car out we really
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don't know what happened to it the thing is that he got to 500 miles before he did do some drag racing it was cold but
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he was driving hard there but then he drove to Chicago everything seemed to be okay but then he had the car shipped
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back and that's where things by Atlanta Rye who knows what happened but you can bet that Chevy's really paying close
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attention to this I mean 4 million subscribers you know you see that fluid leak you're going to want to know what happened to it stay tuned to that we're
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definitely keeping close tabs on that story speaking of YouTubers speed Phenom took his Z06 out for its first track
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laps as well it did outstanding yeah he took his to the auto club Speedway in
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Fontana first time out you know he talks about how he had to get out there and kind of burnish the carbon ceramic
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brakes a little bit but boy once he did about a lap with those he was really off that car just sounds so good it just
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winds up and winds up and from being inside the car and watching him do the corners and the straightaways and a
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couple passing some cars really exciting stuff speed Phenom is a very good driver he's driven a lot of different cars and
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he also has a McLaren that he had there as well for his feedback he's saying it's unbelievable he says those cup two
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r's once they are warm up I mean they just grip and they don't ever let go really a great video finally good to see
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the car on the track and now that he's been on it that one time we're really looking forward to some more competitive
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driving from him and seeing these track days where he's out there and going after some Heavy Hitters on the Exotic side great to see it done yeah
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definitely and our final YouTuber Amelia Hartford finally got her Z06 and it was
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amplify orange pretty color yeah it was he got this through bitmoyer Chevrolet he kind of became the dealer to the
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Stars so to speak with some of these VIP deals the way I understand a VIP deal is you get an allocation Chevrolet grants
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the VIP status to these people and then they're given an allocation that's not really charged against the Dealer's
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regular allocation whitmoiler is a fairly small Chevrolet dealer but that's why they got all these front loaded
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deals was because these are VIPs whoever Street speed wasn't a VIP he was just number one on the list Helio's number 28
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on her car she got a Amplified orange she didn't go with the carbon fiber Wheels she went with the spider aluminum
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wheels but inside is a sky cool gray 3lz interior which is just gorgeous she said
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the plane is really really she's going to do a reverse of her Phoenix so her C8 Stingray named Phoenix was white with
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orange stripes she's got now the orange car so she's going to do some white stripes on it and it's kind of I think reverse it for the z06. she began her
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drive home Chevrolet called her and said now you know don't do anything before you hit that 1500 miles no burnouts no
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Donuts take it easy she problems to be good but there's one point where she does go through an underground tunnel and she downshifts and lets it Roar a
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little bit good for her good drive she's on her way back we've only seen the one video so far we're anxious to see her
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get up to passing those miles and then you know enjoying her car and having fun with it the way it's made to be yep
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that's for sure I'm jealous I don't know about you but I'd love to have one as well well buddy thanks so much for being
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on Corvette today happy holidays we will talk to you the week between Christmas and New Year's yeah sounds really good
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Steve we're very excited so much news going on I know we're still dealing with supply chain issues but we got Z06
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ramping up we gotta look at new models we've got the future that looks very bright for Corvette and Chevrolet it's a
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