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CORVETTE TODAY #145 - E-Ray News and Corvette News & Headlines, Late January 2023
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With the announcement of the 2024 Corvette E-Ray, your CORVETTE TODAY host Steve Garrett, and Keith Cornett from CorvetteBlogger have a lot to tell you about !!! Plus, we get a possible glimpse into the Corvette future with Manny Katakis from Muscle Cars & Truck with what the C9 Corvette could look like. Besides the E-Ray, here are some of the other stories Steve and Keith will discuss.... 1. Corvette beats the Porsche 911 as Consumer Reports most satisfying car to own. 2. GM delivers over 9,000 Corvettes in the 4th quarter of 2022 3. Corvette Racing debuts the GT3.R on January 27th at the Rolex 24 4. The Mecum Auction at Kissimmee sells the very first Corvette Sting Ray 5. The National Corvette Museum hosts exhibits to celebrate 70 years of Corvette 6. Our Corvette Insider, Manny Katakis, from Muscle Cars & Trucks, gives us possible insight on the C9 Corvette and whether or not it will still have an internal combustion engine. All the Corvette E-Ray news you want and need plus much more on next week's CORVETTE TODAY News & Headlines show! Listen to the podcast, 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 news and headlines with my buddy Keith Cornett from corvettebblogger.com Keith is here every
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other week about twice per month we keep you current and up to date on what's happening with America's Sports Car
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Keith welcome back to the show My Oh My it was a busy week last week wasn't it
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buddy you know what we were talking off air I like to say that it was a Target Rich environment great stuff happening
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of course we have all kinds of stuff we've got pricing we've got production notes we've got e-ray release we've got
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new awards for the Z06 I mean it was really a blogger dream last week in terms of not having to look very hard to
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find the content it was coming to us left and right it's a great time to be a Corvette fan that's for sure definitely
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and we will cover everything for you first as we always do Keith let's get production numbers with Corvette from
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the Bowling Green assembly plant the Corvette assembly plant is really cranking out the Stingrays our Vin count
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on the regular production stingrays will surpass 23 000 this week and we're also at around 2 300 78 anniversary editions
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built for the Stingrays you combine those two numbers and that's 25 000 stingrays that have already been produced from the 2023 model year Z06
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numbers were still lagging just a little bit we're still in this slow kind of release and production rollout but we
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just hit a new high last week with 23 cars built in a single day wow and that was 20 regular z06s and three
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anniversary cars our production count for the ZO6 lags a couple days behind but at our last count we were at over
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600 co6 is produced on top of that another 66 70th Anniversary cars were
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produced we've got new orders that went in for January with new tpw so they're producing those the one things that we
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haven't really seen yet are any really new people coming out with a high Wing car so obviously the big Arrow package
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is there for the z07 are still highly constrained but they are making the base cars we're closing in on 700 or so so
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that's a good number I think that's a great number to be honest with you buddy that sounds really good also we found
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out the GM delivered over 9000 Corvettes in Q4 of 2022 which is a pretty healthy
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number as well yeah you know we've been kind of limited and stuck in that 8 000 range and we
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really need to get up to the high nines or eight ten thousand over the three months and a quarter to get to that 40
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000 Mark is where they really want to see the c8s going forward of course I think the maximum production if you were
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to really scale maximum production over the course of the 12 months I think we're looking at like 44 000 Corvettes
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that could be produced so if we can get up into that 38 that 40 000 range that's really saying something that would be
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great news for Chevrolet that that many Corvettes being produced for fourth quarter we did see
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9130 new Corvettes produced that was a 10 increase over the same time in 2021
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which only saw the 82-93 Corvettes produced so like I said you can extend those and how do you do that by supply
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chain issues not coming and hitting you and making you go away for a week or so and that's what's happened previously is
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it seems like every quarter we've always had that one week where we've had to shut down because of production and then that just blows the counts away it's
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doing well you know for the calendar year we saw January December of 2022 a total of 34 500 Corvettes were delivered
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and these are U.S members so these don't include the exports that was an increase of four and a half percent over 2021. so
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we're growing we're producing more cars and if we can just get the supply chain humps from really impacting us hard for
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like a week or more and a quarter we're going to reach that 40 000 car mark it could actually happen that'd be fantastic also bragging rights of the
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top 10 Corvette dealers in the United States we saw that mcmulkin sold more Corvettes last year than anybody else
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yet Mike Furman reminded us that this is the first time since the mid 60s that
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the world's largest Corvette dealer wasn't located in New Jersey of course we had Ciocca and Kerbeck they've held
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the title for the last 27 years but before then it was Malcolm Connor Chevrolet which had it since the mid 60s it's really saying something that
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mcmulkin has come in has built their Corvette sales from barely nothing to
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the PowerHouse that it is today and now they're officially the top Corvette seller in the world World feeding Ciocca
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by 45 cars anytime you get a dealer working out hard for their customers there's going to be good things that happen for the last year we've heard of
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people been getting their cars a little bit faster but mulkin we learned that they were actually doing some dealer swap so another dealer ends up with an
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allocation and they would swap them something else for that car so they would get that Corvette allocation so that's how they were able to grow and in
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fact in the top 10 then I'll run through the top 10 numbers real quick they were mcmulkin Ciocca Mike Furman and Criswell
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Chevrolet's third Omni Dadeland Les Stanford Chevrolet Stingray Chevrolet
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bombed them in West Kendall you know the interesting thing is that these bonding dealerships they're five miles away and
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two of them landed under top ten wow the deadline in the West Kendall number eight was Rick Hendrick in Duluth
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Georgia number nine was Coughlin Chevrolet and our friend Rick Conti at number nine there and then 10 was George
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Matick in Michigan the list hasn't really changed so much from last year there was a couple of guys that kind of
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Switched positions but what we found was that only three dealers in that top 10
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grew year to year so it was Mike Furman grew as well as bombed in Dadeland and mcmulkin the other top 10 dealers
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actually lost sales over that year so that just tells you that even though we focus a lot on the top 10 even the top 50 most Corvette sales happen outside
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those numbers so it's always good to talk to your local dealer find out what they've got a lot of these guys had these C8 lists that went on and on but
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for the most part they've worked through them so we talked to a few dealers this year they said yeah we used to have a huge list but now we can order a car and
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you'll probably get it in four to six months or so nice things are moving a little bit quicker in that regard so
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yeah top 10 lists for Corvette dealers we are still hoping to get the full top 100 list that I'd like to share every
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year as well we will do that too well congratulations to mcmulkin and everybody in the top 10. Mike furman's
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got to be approaching his 6 000th Corvette sale here coming up pretty soon we'll check in with Mike and get him
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back on the show also our big big debut last week was the e-ray for Corvette and
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it was really cool Keith because it was on the 70th anniversary of the debut of the C1 Corvette at the Waldorf Astoria
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in New York City yeah you know they made a big deal out of it obviously the e-ray is Chevrolet's first electrified version
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of the Corvette with the front drive motor and Battery system providing power to those front wheels and it's the first Corvette with all-wheel drive so we kind
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of made a bullet list here's what enthusiasts should really know about it the car has a single motor capable of
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160 horsepower and 125 foot pounds of torque that powers those front wheels and there's a battery pack it's a 1.9
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kilowatt battery pack which is located between the seats in that Center tunnel we've always known it was going to be
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there and it kind of cleared it out in the last year to make that space there are some cutaways there's a cutaway chassis that actually shows the battery
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pack in that Center tunnel like we knew this car is not a plug-in these batteries are recharged by normal
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driving coasting and braking and when you combine that front motor drive to the le2 V8 you're looking at a combined
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horsepower 655 just under the z07 it's amazing in fact how close the stats are
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with the Z06 Chevy's claiming a 2.5 seconds 0-6 60 in a 10.5 seconds quarter
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mile and 130 miles an hour and that's quicker than the Z06 as well so this is actually Chevy's quickest production
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Corvette ever built some other things that have come up we've got the stealth mode which gives you up to 45 miles an
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hour on electric power and a range of like three or four miles it's not a huge raise but they call it getting out of the neighborhood mode you know you can
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do it quietly without waking the neighbors the big news I think for a lot of people is that the front lost no space up front with the additional motor
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the very bottom corners have changed just a little bit for the most part I think 98 of that space is still there so
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that's all good the big concern about the car was the weight and we're seeing that a coupe has a dry weight of
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3744 pounds and the convertibles dry weight is 3856. so when you do add the
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fluids you do add the drivers you know you're pushing that 4 000 pounds Mark but yet that electric motor is still
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able to launch you in faster than the Z06 so still think that's saying quite a bit and finally the starting MSRP very
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strong lot stronger than a lot of us were hoping for it came in at 104 295
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but that is with the inclusion of the carbon ceramic brakes a magnetic selective ride control and you have the
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all-weather tires on there I think if you were to add up those options if they weren't standard you know you'd probably
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be looking at around 92 93 for the car they wanted to lower the weight and plus we got power they wanted to make sure
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that you had the stopping power with the carpet ceramic so that's how you get to the 104. the e-ray was on display on
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both coasts with celebrations happening at the Peterson and then also at the Waldorf Astoria we believe and we hear
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that it's going to be displayed at the Washington auto show this week so good place to see it if you're there we shared some photos they had a car set up
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inside the Corvette assembly plant and some people from Over the National Corvette Museum came by to take a look
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at it it's just such an interesting car the e-ray this Corvette I mean it's nearly equal power to the Z06 but it's
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really a GT Cruiser whereas the Z06 is a track weapon in fact Tad structure says that the Z06 is a scout for the track
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while the e-ray is for everything else all indications are that e-ray will be coming at the end of 2023 and the first
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deliveries may not happen until January 2024 so still got a little time to go we did see a disclaimer now on the e-race
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site on chevrolet.com that said end of the year of 2023. we're going to be finding out a lot more about this car
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hopefully we'll be able to see it when we go to like the bash and Carlisle on some of the other shows really exciting stuff what a neat car I can't wait to
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see it I can't wait either and it was interesting because Taj did call the Z06 the scalpel but he called the e-ray the
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Swiss army knife so I thought that was a real neat analogy also the C8 Z06 Keith was named Road and
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tracks performance car of the year outstanding it was and there was some
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really stiff competition obviously you have a Porsche Cayman GT4 you've got the Huracan from Lamborghini I quoted this
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from the article it says as difficult choices go this was an easy one says Road and track so they tested the top 10
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vehicles for 2023 on the tracking on the streets they come up with their winner the Z06 was the fastest of all
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contenders at Monticello motor clubs track in Upstate New York it had a lap speed of one minute and 20 seconds wow
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beating out the second place Porsche by two full seconds and it was two and a half seconds faster than the Lamborghini
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congratulations to the Z06 there one of the first of many awards I think we're going to see this car win definitely
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well buddy let's take our first break when we come back we'll talk about Corvette racing and Corvette rumors here
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racing and Corvette rumors first I'm real excited about this Keith I've liked this car from the get-go the gt3r is
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going to be debuted at the Rolex 24 at the end of January that's going to be really exciting yeah you know we still
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got mostly a year left of development Time ahead of us and I think the first customers will probably get their car later this year Corvette racing they
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posted this teaser video through the team Chevy social channels showing that 2024 Corvette Z06 gt3r that we caught
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testing at Sebring International Raceway I think last month or so they showed some of that footage and then their post
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on the social media says taking the wraps off the Corvette Z06 gt3r on January 27th that's this Friday I don't
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know if we're just going to see it parked out in front of the Chevy garages there as they've done with previous cars in the past or if we'll actually see the
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car on the track which I think would be fantastic because then you know everybody get to hear the car's speed but they're making progress on it we're
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going to have a chance to see it later this week that sounds fantastic as a matter of fact Laura klauser was just back on the show right after the
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beginning of the year and she talked about the gt3r so I can't wait to see that coming up next weekend also this is
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not really Corvette news but it's general motor news and it's racing news Andretti Global teams up with General
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Motors and Cadillac they are pursuing a Formula One team which I think is outstanding yeah you know we always
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thought that Corvette Racing's place was rightfully in GT competition but now that we've seen these lmdh cars and
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they're going for the overall wins at Le Mans it sure would be nice to see the cross Flags there and now we got talk of
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a F1 team pretty amazing for Cadillac racing it's not a done deal the crazy thing in F1 is that you need to have all
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the other teams approve your entry to come in and apparently that comes down to money A lot of times and if you know
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we bring in another team that's going to dilute the winnings for everybody else and we can't have that and why would you allow a competitor a foothold into your
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sport there's a whole lot of politics going on in F1 this is not a done deal for sure but it sure would be nice to
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see General Motors involved in F1 racing I'd love that that'd be fantastic I got caught up in the Netflix drive to
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survive Series so I'd love to see GM and Cadillac in Formula One also Corvette
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racing is going to round out the wec lineup with the number 33 c8r car that'll be exciting to see yeah so we
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originally had Nikki Casper he's our Factory driver and we added Ben Keating our amateur driver and then there was
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still the third seat that was open so they held a trading session or a testing session right after Bahrain the day
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after the Bahrain race last year and one of the guys they brought in was a Argentinian driver named Nico Varone
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he's going to be joining the car I'm not sure if he's a bronze level or silver but apparently people like him he has
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some really good things to say about the team and so who knows we'll see how he does over in the WC we only have six
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races over there the very first one actually is here in the United States the 1 000 hours of Sebring in March so
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that'll be our first chance to get to know him a little bit more wow a thousand hours that's amazing no no I
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said I'm sorry Steve A Thousand Miles a thousand hours would be a very long race
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that's right that would be a long race for sure good catch there I'm glad we
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clarified that in the river section Keith is Corvette redoing their EPA testing on the 2024 C8 this comes from
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we've had spy photos of both the European and the American spec Corvette Stingrays with these EPA tests being
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exhaust tips they're longer they're silver they stick out are they allowed to clamp on to testing equipment that
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measures emissions the idea was oh they must be giving us more power are we going to see a power bump is it gonna be
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over 500 horsepower but I think really what this is coming down to is there's so much more safety equipment coming on
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the cars in both the European and the American versions because of regulations they basically have to go redo the car
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homologations again which includes emissions testing with the e-ray reveal we learned that all 2024 models are now
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going to have the lane keep assist with Lane departure warnings you know so if you start to drift over that line you
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know it's going to buzz you or maybe the steering wheel will kind of fight you a little bit we've got the forward Collision alert and then the following
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distance indicator these are all new for 2024 and that's on top of the other safety features we already had the side
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blind Zone alerts the rear Clash traffic alerts and rear park assist so it's actually becoming more safer to drive
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these cars with the safety equipment and you've got to test it make sure that it's all there and apparently with some
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of the additional weights added to the cars they have to do the testing over would it be nice if they said well you
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know why we're in there let's just see what we can do and maybe come out at 505 or 510 or 515 horsepower that's still
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possible I'm not so sure that that's going to happen and nor is that the focus of that testing so it looks like
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it's just all has to do with the new safety features sounds good also in the Corvette rumor section Keith and I want
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to bring in our Corvette Insider Mana catechist from muscle cars and trucks Manny it's good to have you back on the
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show I saw earlier this week where you posted that the C9 still might have an internal combustion engine is that right
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that's according to an analysis company called Auto forecast Solutions it's
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juicy right could it really happen and what they basically are saying is after
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about 2028 or so the C8 will sunset and bring in the C9 and it will ride on a Y3
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architecture now Y3 assume that it's an evolution of Y2 which is what the C8 is
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on interestingly the forecast had everything broken down by vehicle architecture so Y3 was separate from
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we'll say like Bev Prime and Bev Prime is GM's higher end Altium battery platform I know that for example the
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Corvette electric sedan will be on Bev Prime I think the SUV as well so the
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fact that AFS is saying that Y3 and the C9 Corvette on Y3 is going to be a
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separate thing very intriguing to me it's really hard to have any concrete
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evidence or planning this far out it's getting close to where stuff would start to get solidified and galvanized or
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we'll say the Next Generation towards like the end of the decade right it's 2023 normally things start to really
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solidify five to six years away it's possible the other thing that would give Credence to this is that GM is also
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making new engines they're working on new engine Tech technology they'll put these new engines these new powertrains
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in their pickup trucks as well this was confirmed by GM's president in a presentation in 2021 or early 2022. so
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that means we've got new engines a timeline that suggests a new Corvette architecture and it's not on a battery
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vehicle architecture we could see GM getting a little clever here and kind of doing what Ford is doing with the
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Mustang and that by offering the Mach e they are able to offer an internal
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combustion Mustang Coupe muscle car as well so it could mean that with a
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Corvette electric SUV and the Corvette electric sedan the C9 could in theory
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keep its combustion engine ethos that'd be pretty exciting for everyone I'm not sure how electric vehicles and the
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visceral feel of a Corvette can coexist as we know it it could take another generation you know it could be C10 but
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then again you know General Motors lately they've been very hard on all electric future quote unquote with
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certain headwinds such as lithium pricing Cobalt and other Commodities and supply chain issues they might have to
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delay those plans and that could yield to more combustion engine Vehicles medium to long term I'll consider long
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term by end of the decade early next decade by mid next decade who knows yeah and it's interesting because I know that
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GM says they want to go all-electric by 2035 isn't that correct yep that's correct before I think it was like 2030
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and then now it was like oh we're going to have this many electric vehicles by 2025 and then it turns into like oh well
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we think we're going to have electric vehicles that are profitable by 2025 with the goal of going electric by 20 35
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and yada yada so okay 20 35 yeah the thing is too is like that also means like your HD trucks are going to go
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electric and as far as the feasibility of that in the present I don't think that's possible they need a Quantum Leap
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in Battery Technology something that's much lighter much less resource intensive and at the same time
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delivering the range of capability that those customers demand and right now that math doesn't check out yep that's
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for sure well Manny thanks for being back on Corvette today when you've got more Corvette Insider news let us know
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we'll have you back on the show always love to be here thanks you bet Keith and I will take a break and when we come
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section we always talk about the lighter side of Corvette Keith we just had a big big auction in your neck of the woods
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mikum Kissimmee was last week we have some top 10 results and the first Z06 flip as well yeah so they had 4 200
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vehicles consigned to their January kickoff auction which is an amazing number they only had 3 000 last year so
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think about that they added 1200 or so cars wow and that included about 430 Corvettes so there was Corvettes
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everywhere we were over there last Friday for the big day and really had a great time over there they really do it up our Detroit Bureau Steve Burns did
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the analysis on this he said that money was flying around Florida last week faster than classified documents blowing
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out of Joe Biden's garage because prices were high on seemingly everything and in fact 25 percent of the Corvette docket
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sold for over a hundred thousand dollars we got a rundown of all the prices the docket had actually 82 percent sale
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through rate so 82 percent sold the total sales 30 and a half million dollars in Corvette sales alone so 355
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Corvette slip pans and the hottest Corvettes at the auction were the mid-years and actually the C7 zr1s are
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amazing cars and doing well the top Corvette sale was a black Coupe from 1967 it had the l-71 435 horsepower
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engine and it sold for 4.95. second place was that very first Stingray it was the VIN number zero zero three 1963
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Stingray sold for 400 167 000 a little bit lower than its pre-auction estimate
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of between 600 and 800 000 but it did sell Steve always likes to give out the El Cheapo award for the most cost
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efficient Corvette at the auction and that one was actually a 93 40th anniversary convertible which sold at no
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reserve for fifty five hundred dollars as you mentioned one of the most interesting cars that we saw flipped was
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a 2023 Corvette Z06 with the 1lz trim package that car hammered for 250 000
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and its total sales price with commission was 275 000 it was after the
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sale that we learned that this was a flip meaning that the original owner sold it and now there's the warranty
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issue and all that stuff the car was purchased by a late model reseller out of Florida one of the dealers friends
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that we know looked it up and saw that the warranty for the car actually started last December was a low mile car
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I think it only had like 17 miles on it but because this was split within six months the buyer of this car won't
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receive the warranty it's possible this car could even be on a boat headed overseas already we just don't know what's going to happen to it but another
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interesting point is that Mecum catalog description did not mention the warranty status on this car so maybe the buyer
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didn't know that the warranty is now avoided with the car so I mean it brings up all kinds of issues with this you got to hold it for six months kind of thing
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that car I think the MSRP on it was probably 115 is what I saw to sell for
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275 I think we'll probably end up seeing the dams burst open and more people flipping their zo6s now that we've had
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so somebody go first those are amazing numbers buddy and speaking of Corvettes Changing Hands the first C8 Z06 went to
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AutoTrader didn't it yeah so we caught this at the very beginning of the month we talked about that first Z06 motorcycle last year there were 120
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dealer stock orders out of about 500 allocations when you do a dealer stock order the dealer has total control over
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the ordering process and they could sell the car for whatever they want the price to be and so these Corvettes are new
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from the dealer so the buyer does get the full warranty but Market adjustments were steep with the majority that we saw
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on AutoTrader priced at over a hundred thousand dollars there were several new z06s but they were all the base Arrow
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models that's why our headline suggested bringing a banker because there were some steep adms being added to those prices also this is really cool to see
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and I'm looking forward to seeing this when we go to the birthday bash in late April the National Corvette Museum is
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hosting some exhibits to celebrate Corvette's 70th Anniversary yeah one of the big ones they've got coming in is
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called the legendary creations of Carl Casper Carl Casper was a customizer of cars in the 50s and 60s and 70s he did a
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turbo Shark Corvette the popcorn wagon Young American dragster The Paddy Wagon but probably his most famous car is he
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did the 1992 Batmobile for the Batman Returns movie that actually is going to kick off that exhibit March 10th through
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the beginning of next year we'll be able to see that one we'll go to The Bash apparently they're also planning another
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70th anniversary celebration with a new exhibit of the iconic cars from each of the eight generations of Corvette to
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Spotlight those big milestones in Corvette history and then we've got the annual shows already set up so the Michelin bash in April military
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appreciation month in the vets and vets Event in May and then at the end of the year we've got the 29th ncn anniversary
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celebration in August that also culminates in the Corvette Hall of Fame induction ceremony we went to the Hall
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of Fame induction ceremony last year completely revamped it's basically the Oscars now for Corvette they've done a
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great job in really pumping this up so we definitely recommend if you're around the museum anytime in September you
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might want to take in that Corvette Hall of Fame induction ceremony it was a pretty special thing it's a great time I've went to one of them and I loved it
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I'd love to go back also we saw Corvette beating Porsche thank goodness as the most satisfying car to own that is
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outstanding as well now this is a consumer reports report they always haven't been supportive of Corvettes but
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they did do these annual surveys so they asked owners of new 2023 Vehicles about their satisfaction levels and 94 of
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Corvette owners said that they would do it again that number beats that Porsche 911 who only had 90 answer that they
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make the same Choice people love their new Corvettes you not going to get them to change anytime soon with that car it
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seems like yeah absolutely right and our final story is a fun story it's a Corvette trivia game with New Roads
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Magazine yeah so New Roads Magazine obviously is the online version of the printed magazine that Chevrolet puts out
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but they had this really fun Corvette trivia contest and it was 20 questions they asked what's your CQ for I guess
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the Corvette quotient of what you know about Corvette trivia so there's 20 questions some of them are pretty hard I
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actually scored a 19 out of 20. I missed a question on Corvette racing actually if you haven't taken a chance yet do it
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I had our writers do it I know Mitch got a 17 out of 20 on it there's some pictures in the trivia so that might
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help you with your decisions it's fun so I'd recommend you do it if you haven't got a chance we've got that linked on Corvette blogger I'm going to do it this
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week that'll be a lot of fun I'd like Corvette trivia so this will be a good time buddy thank you so much for being
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on Corvette today have a good week and we'll see you in a couple weeks yeah we got all kinds of news happening of
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course we'll have more erase stuff coming out this week we've got the Rolex 24 happening over the weekend and then
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