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CORVETTE TODAY #141 - Corvette News & Headlines, Late December 2022
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May 8, 2025
For this week between Christmas and New Years, your CORVETTE TODAY host, Steve Garrett and Keith Cornett from CorvetteBlogger collaborate for the final News & Headlines show of 2022! Even during the holiday season, there is so much going on in the world of Corvette...here are just a few of the topics that Steve and Keith will cover this week: 1. GM will offer the E-Ray in left-hand drive and right-hand drive configurations 2. GM will also export a right-hand drive E-Ray 3. Is GM moving the Performance Build Center from Bowling Green to Michigan? 4. Could Forward Collision Alert becoming to Corvette in 2024? 5. Will the C8 Stingray see a bump up in power? 6. The C8 Corvette wins Car & Driver's 10Best award for 4th year in a row 7. Emelia Hartford builds a straight pipe exhaust for her new Z06 as well as a twin turbo setup We hope you had a terrific Chanukah and Christmas-now, it's on to 2023 and more impactful Corvette News & Headlines on CORVETTE TODAY! VISIT THE WEBSITE, LISTEN TO THE SHOW, WATCH THE YOUTUBE VIDEO, JOIN THE FACEBOOK GROUP, SIGN UP FOR EMAIL NOTIFICATIONS AND SHOP IN THE MERCHANDISE STORE AT: www.CorvetteToday.com
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Corvette enthus from around the world it's time to bring you the latest Corvette news and headlines with my pal
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Keith Cornett from corvettebblogger.com as you know Keith is here twice per month every other week we keep you
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current and up to date on what's happening with America's Sports Car Keith it's the week between Christmas and New Year's happy holidays how was
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your Christmas buddy man it was great we are out actually in El Paso Texas with family you get away from Florida a
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little bit you get a chance to see the rest of the nation it's been an interesting trip to El Paso to say the least but we're family and friends all
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together and it's a good time so hopefully you had the same kind of experience I did but it was a nice quiet
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Christmas and all is good so happy holidays to you and everybody in your family let's start off with we always do
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with Corvette production of the Bowling Green assembly plant all right well of course it's the week of Christmas so the
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plant's going to be closed this week starting Monday the 26th through January 2nd will be closed it opens on January
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3rd again the vehicle counts are running just a little bit behind you can probably blame that on the holidays and some of the reporting that's happening
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but we're pretty certain that when we do start the new year the VIN count for the regular 2023 Corvette Stingrays will be
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just around 21 000 or just over so they are really cranking out the Corvette Stingrays there's an additional 2050
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when you add the 70th Anniversary stingrays have also been produced that's 23 000 cars right there for the 2023
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model year just the Stingrays as for the mighty 2023 Z06 the last count we had was 412 regular cars and 38 70th
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editions that's 450 total z06s or so that have already been built that's an interesting number because when the
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first motorcycle came out we estimated based on the screenshots that were being passed around that there were somewhere around 495 to 500 so if we've already
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built 450 of those cars obviously you can see that we've really run through most of that first order cycle and those
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orders have been built one of the interesting things that we found is we had that second order cycle earlier this
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month I think it closed at the very beginning of the month what we're seeing there is some of these buyers that are
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in part of that second order cycle are already getting tpws for like the second week of January why that's interesting
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is because we also have some buyers from that first order cycle that have the Aero package which is the one that's
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really highly constrained but yet they got an order in for an order with a arrow package those guys are getting
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bumped back we know one guy over on the mid-engine Corvette forum he had his tpw changed from December 5th all the way
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now to February 27th and another guy had his December tpw change to January 30th
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it really appears that the Z06 Aero package is so severely backlogged that those with standard cars ordered just
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two weeks ago are already jumping ahead of those in the first order Cycles from when their orders were placed in August
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when the motorcycles do open up we're expecting the next one for Z06 to open up in February but there's really no
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real change that we can see in these and anybody that's got a Z06 and they're on a bubble maybe you should take the
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standard one because we don't know how many motorcycles will actually be left for the end of the year 406 whether they
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will indeed go to Every standard one or if the constraints will caused them to maybe skip a month again we're really
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paying attention to that but it's been an interesting production but yet they're building cars and that's the most important thing to really keep in
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mind and that was a healthy number it's good to see that they're at least hitting or getting close to those goals so it's a good thing for sure yep also
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GM is going to offer the e-ray in both a left-hand drive and a right-hand Drive configuration so it looks like that
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one's going to be exported isn't it yeah it's not really surprising news like considering the Stingrays and Vizio six
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is on its way to be sold to places like Australia New Zealand and the UK and Japan it's going to happen I think this
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is really a world car it was designed to be a World Car why not sell every model you make around the world we'll be
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talking a little bit later there was a Corvette e-ray right hand drive prototype that was spied outside the
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middle for Proving Ground right yeah that was really interesting to see also it looked like Chevy did a Z06 break-in
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webinar back on December 15th what was the back story on that one this was a really about a five minute interview
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with some people you know GM small block Engineers Jordan Lee and Dustin gar partner we're on Chevy's my way which is
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kind of like a live stream they use it for different things like you can take a tour of a car with a Chevy representative long distance over the
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internet but they also do these seminars too and those so this one was really about the Z06 engine break-in and it
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wasn't into any news that anything's bad it's just here's what they want for the first 500 Miles the torque is limited
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they really want you to take it easy during that first 500 miles so driving at varying speeds and RPMs don't use the
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cruise control when you pick up your car and you're driving home just stay on the throttle and move it around a little bit change the gears it really helps get
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these moving Parts all acclimated and settled in and then at 1500 miles they
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say that's really where it's broken into the track but what we're really seeing too is that they don't want to see any
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Redline revving launch controls save all that until 1500 miles as opposed to the 500 miles I know many people are really
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excited to hit that 500 Miles they're saying Okay We're Off to the Races but they really want you if you're really going to push the limits of the car that
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early on go ahead and wait to the 1500 miles yeah that's where Off to the Races is just a figure of speech isn't it well
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Jordan says there's a saying drive it like you stole it yep and he said that's a terrible idea you know
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at the very beginning of its life cycle this is a high performance machine obviously these engines are made for
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high revving but yet they need to be brought up into it just take it easy during those first 1500 miles do some
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pleasure cruising get that part out of the way and then you can go to the track you can do your burnouts impress your
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friends the cars of coffee you know whatever just let it all kind of burn in naturally there you go also we saw an
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RPO code of efy which is the body color trim on the wishbone now available for
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the Z06 that was good I bet a lot of people will order that there goes my theory though on spotting the exterior
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differences between the Z06 and the e-ray okay because when that e-ray visualizer leaked obviously the eBay was
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all in the body color trim yes and the z06s have only been sold in the carbon
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flash trim so we thought hey this is how they're going to do it but they just put out an update to the 2023 Corvette order
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guide and it shows as of December 19th they are going to make the efy body color exterior accents available for the
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Zeo six so if you really don't like that trim on the side you know you can go body color it kind of all Blends in the
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distribution updates did say that there's some caveats to that disclaimers obviously you can't order efy on a black
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car because it's black and you can order them on the 70th anniversary editions as
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well as the white or the black cars there I think we're still probably a week or two away probably after the holidays obviously until we actually see
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that available in the build and price configurator we had checked when the story came out we didn't see it there
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yet and then if the price Remains the Same as on the stingray efy should cost you around 995 dollars to add to your
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order there you go also our final story in the new section Keith it was great to see that the C8 Corvette was named as
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car and drivers 10 best for the fourth year in a row yeah this is really big news and not only that but they included
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both the stingray and the Z06 as the Corvette news and they do that with a couple other cars there's a couple
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portions that are added Toyotas are added that are basically the same cars behind different marks and it's the 24th
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time that a Corvette has been on the 10 best list This is Going Back 40 years now I think that they've been doing this
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list we've officially passed the BMW 3 Series for second place on the all-time list and we were only behind the Honda
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Accord wow we know Porsche is right there with us as well of course they had two cars that were added so really good
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news I'll tell you a fun story about this so this news broke actually the article came out from car and driver on
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the 19th we actually had the news the week before thanks to a social media posting by Harlan Charles I guess they
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had their annual Christmas party and the award for the 10 best was being passed around and the picture was taken and so
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the news got out I had reached out to them and said hey you wanted to see if we could post the photo they were told
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that no car and driver is actually embargoing it so if you could please not share that photo that would be great so
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I'm like wow this is the first time that a manufacturer is being embargoed by a magazine because usually it's the other
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the pants that Taj is wearing because I think he's handling his Dave Hill impersonation a little bit you know Dave
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Hill he's been known to wear some wacky slacks down again tagges were very festive for the holidays you could say
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off for the season so there's not much news we have a lot of rumors though for you first Keith GM may move the
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performance build center from Bowling Green back up to Michigan I was sad to see that might possibly happen yeah but
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I think in the end it might be a good thing and I'll tell you why is because the performance build Center was originally Up in Wixom Michigan then
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what they did was they built out a portion within the Corvette factory and now now it's hosted there they're
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obviously building the lt6 for the Z06 and getting ready for the lt7 for the
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ZR1 that might possibly be coming but they're also building an lt4 for the ZL1 the Camaro for the Cadillac ct5v black
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wing and the Cadillac Escalade so the rumors are that General Motors might actually take back some of those other
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brands The Cadillacs especially and just might move them back to Michigan so they're closer to their respective
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assembly centers there there's some high-end Motors that are also coming up and of course you have EVS coming on as
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well and how that might affect it so for us I would be okay with losing some of that Cadillac stuff it meant that we're
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more dedicated for serving Corvettes because that's always been one of the questions and they've always said it's no issue we can build as many Motors as
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people buy the Z06 but by moving out some of those other brands and the older Motors that we used to have in the cars
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and to focus on the new stuff is Corvette only I think would make a lot of sense for us so I don't really see
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that as a bad thing of course we've also got the Corvette engine build experience might be happening beginning next year
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sometime so you'll be bringing in people to build their own engine that would impact taking away people maybe from
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building some of the other stuff so again I think it's just a reorientation of getting some of those other brands
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and those Motors that we're building here in Bowling Green closer to their factories and then we just focus on our
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stuff I don't really see a bad thing happening if they leave part of it now if they took it all up to Michigan I
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don't really see that as a good thing for Corvette just because it separates it and then the people that want to do the engine build process and then maybe
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see it installed their car that's two trips hundreds of miles away right hopefully the Corvette stuff will stay
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in Bowling Green and it's dedicated towards Corvette we'll keep an eye on that for sure also there's a rumor about
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a Ford Collision alert coming for 2024 cars yes again on the 2024 Corvette
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e-ray visualizer leak that we saw there was a new button underneath the Z mode button we were joking I think last time
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when we were talking about we were hoping that would be like a push to pass like on the Indy cars right it stores up
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all that energy and the batteries and you push the past we're joking about that of course so it's not a push to pass but the icon on that is also used
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on other cars within Chevrolet and that's what it is it's a Ford Collision alert that utilizes a front-facing
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camera and then alerts you when slower traffic is ahead or if you're traveling faster and it's seeing that you're
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catching up to that slower traffic and what it does is it beeps you know if you get too close to it yeah also you're
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coming up on it it might not be that fast but there's also visual warnings as well so you'll see lights up in your HUD display if you're getting too close this
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is interesting because this is usually a system that's also used in conjunction with the emergency braking systems we
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know that this is probably coming at some point as a mandate or a safety feature and we know that the team has
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been hesitant to use it because of the design changes of course the Corvette's so low one of the reasons why they were
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worried about the adaptive cruise control and the super cruise is because the sensors are too low almost to be
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able to monitor the forward-facing stuff in front of it we actually have Taj and Harlan and Josh you know talking about
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that at the bash a couple years back about super cruise and adaptive cruise control but this emergency braking stuff
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may be coming but so far we haven't heard that yet as something new for 2024 so we're just kind of waiting to see
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what might happen there that sounds good also we touched on this in the first section but we saw a right hand drive
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e-ray at the Milford Proving Grounds and we have a few more details about that don't we yeah so this goes to a car that
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was a wrapped in camo it had the wheel covers on it so you couldn't see but when you look at the car at the front of
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it it looked like the e-ray or the Z06 front fascia because it was wrapped I mean you can really see the details so
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that's why we said right away the e-ray the wheels are covered so maybe it had those starfish style wheels those thin
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or five spoke wheels that we saw in the visualizer right those could have been on the car and then the really
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interesting part about it though is as the car passed the Spy photographer is able to get the rear there wasn't any
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rear spoilers on the car which is was kind of surprising because we only saw that Z06 deck spoiler the base spoiler
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on the visualizer photo so we don't know if this e-ray will be able to come without any kind of spoiler if you get
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the low profile or if you can get something else I think the thing to take away from this is when you see the e-ray
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we're looking at the exhaust tips and the ways that I say that is because we had another sighting it was said to be
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an e-ray and Hypersonic gray had all the body color trim was all Hypersonic gray
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but it was wearing Z06 style wheels I had a Z06 badge on it it was a convertible so you couldn't actually see
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the engine in it to kind of tell you how this sausage works we work with a couple different photographers they send us an
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email they got the link to the photos and then they basically write their own article they write three four five six
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paragraphs about what they saw the differences as a writer I get this in the email they're telling me it's an
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e-ray they're telling me it doesn't sound like a Z06 and it's got all this
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detail on it so we write it up put it out there and then we start hearing back from different people and of course
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right away I was reminded of the exhaust tips on that car right they're different the Z06 export tips which again the
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export they're Corner mounted exhaust because they can't fit the particulate filters for the center mounted exhaust
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so all the Z06 exported will have these quarter mounted exhaust and their tips are different than what we see on the
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lt2 going back I was looking at the lt2 exhaust we get that that's a vendor called Tenneco we'll say it's a one
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piece it's all components bolted together but it's a one-piece unit bolts onto the engine it's got the tips
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already installed the more and more I think about it I've been going and trying to Rally some of my troops that I
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talked to about this stuff when we see these cars out on the streets if it's a wide body but it has the lt2 tips that
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would make sense because you're running the lt2 engine they pull that off the shelf they put it on there why would it
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have different exhaust tips like the Z06 Style exhaust tips right for the lt2 and talking like John over Vision Corvette
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form we're thinking that the pipes that those tips actually bolt into are a little bit larger for Z06 or try to nail
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that down we learned stuff new every day even by the littlest posts these photos that come out from the different spy
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photographers they're telling us it's an e-ray and then we just start to think about in our own experiences and what we
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know about the team and so I went back and I rewrote my post about that Hypersonic gray car saying I'm not so
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sure that this isn't he right now that I'm thinking about those tips this is the fun part we see we learn we want to
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know more we don't have any real official photos yet of the e-ray other than what we saw in the visualizer so a
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lot of what we're thinking or seeing might be skewed because of that and of course we see what we want to see sometimes I'm a big fan of the e-ray
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I've been on Mike furman's list for a while now for that car it's the X-Files I want to believe Steve yeah it's a fun
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process I kind of wanted to give some background on what we see and why we do things the way we do while cars are said
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to be this road track came out the next day with that whole article same pictures from the Spy photographer our
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spy photographer caught this car outside built for Proving Ground and it's an e-ring well I'm not so sure but that's
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the fun part of this process and again we just want to try to be as upfront let people know that we're working our way through it just as they are yes it's
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kind of the fun side of the business as I say yeah at the end of the day that's why it's in this rumor section right Keith exactly there you go this I guess
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I could have just said that yes it's all good buddy it's all good hey are we gonna see a bump up in Horsepower coming
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for the C8 in the future we keep hearing these rumors about some updates coming of course we're in our fourth year now
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with 2023 right so I think we might actually see some updates the reason why we're talking about this story is
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because GM Authority captured a photo of a C8 Stingray but it had testing pipes
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on the exhaust that came out of the car that protruded out about eight inches to maybe almost 12 inches long they
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summarized that they think that you hook up EPA testing equipment to that we've seen sometimes cars that pulled little
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trailers that might be hooked up to the exhaust because they're all doing all this monitoring stuff they're thinking that maybe we might be seeing some
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initial testing that's done of course it could be smog it could be Q fuel economy related just don't know yet but the fact
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is that they're working on something that requires those testing pipes means that something's going on and yeah maybe
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we might see a bump in Horsepower let me ask you this Steve what number would you like to see I think 525 to 550
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horsepower would be nice yeah that's probably a little high but some of the people I've talked to said right away oh
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505 sounds like a really good number 505 510 515 four years outside of when they
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built the lt2 initially there may have been some changes some updates or some things they've learned where they could
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eke out another 10 15 20 horsepower out of that car with some changes so we're just gonna have to sit back and wait I
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said my post the fact that these guys were at McDonald's I've been doing this so long that every time we see a prototype car or a testing card
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McDonald's means that they're celebrating somehow so they might have cracked the case and they've got it and they're all set now and they're out
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enjoying their Big Macs that's a great ideology that's pretty cool also Keith our final rumor we saw
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the c8r and the GT3 are testing at Sebring man those cars are awesome yeah
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they're doing a really interesting test Corvette racing was obviously there with the imsa c8r and then they had that GT3
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rz06 there and it's only the second time we've seen it they showed a teaser video back in October of the car up at the
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Milford Proving Ground but now we've got it at Sebring and we had independent people there that were able to film it
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we had a great guy Charlie from the Poconos shout out to him he sent me a bunch of videos he was there all day
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really enjoying the cars there's a hotel there right at the track and that's where he was at he stayed at the hotel
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wow and there's all these cars running around so he also got a video of the NASCAR the garage 56 Hendrick
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Motorsports car that's actually going to be competing at Le Mans as well as like an exhibition car cool to see that but
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that z06r sounds really good they sound identical and they should because they share the same engine yeah but it's
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really interesting to see that car on the track as they're working to dial it in maybe we might see it up at the Rolex
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24 doing some testing stuff again and then of course later on in the year maybe by the end of the year they might
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be starting to deliver customer cars to teams for racing in 2024 which is when we're expected to see it very cool well
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wrote any praise the C8 Corvette and said this is the best car he drove in 2022. I was glad to see that yeah these
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are fun stories for us because it's just validation of everything that we love about the car yeah yeah and this
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writer's name Cameron Rogers Edmonds has a long-term test car and so they go out there and they can get it they can take
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on trips they can drive it back in court to work and stuff he says it's the vehicle that he keeps coming back to time and again he's six foot four he
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says he fits in the car fine wow he says he loves the cabin the rich materials
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everything about the car it rides great even a rough pavement it calls it the
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perfect all-arounder I think that's a great way to describe the stingray these days you can take it out to the track
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have fun with it but it's also a great grocery getter or just a night out on the town really neat review it's good to
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see you know again good validation that we did pick the right car absolutely right also we saw Amelia Hartford she
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got her Z06 and immediately started digging in the car first she straight piped the exhaust then she put twin
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turbos on the car yes it was the first twin turbo Z06 but Amelia the car is
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Great Plain stock yeah yeah I don't think GM is pretty happy with Emilio Hartford and going to work right away on
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the car and she's said she wasn't going to do that she said she wouldn't be play with it as it was as a stock but I think
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being first as a YouTuber obviously brings in the page views and the clicks and gets them paid I was real surprised
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you find the one video I see straight piped okay like Street speed 717 he straight piped his car right it is a
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really impressive sound straight pipes are the trumpets of God I guess you could say it was really loud and you can
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just tell that but then the next day or the day after that I could come back and say well we put the twin turbo on there
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and actually what she did was she took the system off of her Stingray for the most part the bottom part of that fitted
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right up under the Z06 say mounting points a lot of the places what they actually had to change was the charging
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pipes because the lt6 has dual intakes so they had to come up with the system for two of them as opposed to this the
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one so there's a little bit of fabricating but that's how she was able to do it so fast and of course when that car was started wow that turbo wine that
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you hear it was pretty impressive as well I guess the next video that we'll see from her will actually be her
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driving the car I don't think that's a permanent system she said she was looking to maybe build a system for it
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and this allows her to test all this stuff but my guess is that at some point the cars can be returned to stock before
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she does anything really major with it that's just a guess I'm guessing but we'll see yeah it was interesting that's
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for sure it was loud it was very loud it was very loud also a little bit of love
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for the C5 people Hagerty names the C5 Z06 to its 2023 bull market list good
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for them yeah now the bull market list is where Hagerty thinks that older cars are really going to start to appreciate
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or people are going to start stabbing them up again they're able to do all this of course they have hagerty's insurance so they're able to look at
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Insurance data people buy cars they list what they paid for and stuff and so they're able to see that they're actually showing the number one
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Concourse Edition t506 they're up almost 30 percent year-to-date they might be
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guys some around 49 300 for a number one condition excellent condition number two cars are up 15 at thirty four thousand
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dollars even number three condition cars these are drivers you can find find those for 25 or so the final ones though
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the ones that are really kind of written hard maybe they've had a lot of mods and they're looking a little sad they can be currently had at 14 000 so you see that
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range there people can get into these cars pretty cheap but they don't mind a car with a lot of miles or some mods or
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some other things but these top cars are really starting to move again I just remember a few years back the 2004
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commemorative editions those are the blue cars the Z06 have the graphics on them right those were like 35 000 so the
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fact that they jumped up to nearly 15 000 up all the way up to fifty thousand dollars it says a lot about those and
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where they're going so time to go shopping if you like the C5 Z06 absolutely right and finally going back
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to some YouTube stuff we finally found out what happened to strad man's Z06 so
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we know the story he lives in Utah he was in Chicago at the car had the car shipped back to Utah he opens this video
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saying you're not gonna believe this but if you look at the floor in his garage it was just covered in transmission fluid we had a couple videos figuring
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that out he just put out a new video showing that he had the car back in the garage and and it was something as simple as just replacing the gasket on
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the transmission pan so it was all covered under warranty they were able to ascertain that was the issue pretty quickly that relieves a lot of stress I
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know for people that are buying the Z06 they don't want to hear about problems with the car and of course Chevy doesn't want to hear about problems with the car
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so the fact that a transmission pan gasket replaced covered under warranty is probably the best news all around for
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that story absolutely right also this is a story that I saw firsthand a brand new
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torch red Z06 z07 was spotted at Spring Mountain I was there the week of
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December 15th I saw this with my own two eyes yes we have a secret Santa that was out there send us some photos of this
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wrap torch red car first time we've seen it in the Ron Fellows Livery the performance Driving School stickers on
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it this blog post that we got also went along with Mike Furman had sent us a video that he got from somebody that
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actually showed the car out on the track and a couple places you couldn't see it but you could really hear it really exciting stuff I know that there's
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something else going on with that car I think that Spring Mountain was going to shoot a commercial with it or parts of that video were going to be used in a
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promotional video somewhere I know something's coming up with that so keep an eye on out for that we reached out to
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them said Hey when's the Z06 course is going to start they're saying early second quarter March or April is what
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we're hearing so if you've got a car you want to make sure that you do take advantage of that discount it's really one of the most fun things you can do
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inside the Corvettes absolutely right and if you have a Z06 or you have your VIN call Spring Mountain out and book
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immediately even for second and third quarter do it early because it fills up fast the Z06 courses those are pretty
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serious buyers so they're really going to be taking advantage of it make your plans when it's good for you and then you have some choices our feel good
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story of the week Keith a Z06 purchaser actually met their engine builder that
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was a really cool story yeah this is probably my favorite Story the last couple weeks this was a guy over on the
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midage and Corvette forum his username ss0041 which I'm sure stands for something but he took a museum delivery
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of a redness 2023 Corvette Z06 then number 136 it was a great looking car
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gloss black spider aluminum wheels carbon ceramic brakes visible carbon fiber Splitters and Rockers I mean just
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beautiful so while he's there he actually asked Shane Webb the rhc manager hey is there any chance that I
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could meet the builder of the car Crystal Strickland whose name obviously is on the car Shane reached out and
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Crystal was able to stop by and talk to the new owners and they were really Blown Away they got to meet this so they
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actually have nicknamed their car Crystal they asked her to sign it so not only does she have her engine badge on
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the lt6 but she signed the rear deck inside the engine bay as well with the silver pen really neat stuff these
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engine builders we haven't been in the plant they don't hear from us enough we appreciate what they're doing that's a
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really personal connection to meet the person that built your engine that's in your car now so kudos for shade and Crystal for coming over and meeting the
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owner and the only scary thing is is everybody going to do this because these people might get really busy then you know if they're always coming over and
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having to sign cars and stuff but it just goes to show you that Corvette owners they see these people's rock stars and they're very much appreciated
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congratulations again Crystal there's a car out there named after you and just keep building those engines and you'll
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be making those dreams happy that's awesome that's a cool story indeed well buddy thanks for being back on Corvette
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