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CORVETTE TODAY #155 -Corvette News & Headlines, Early April 2023
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May 9, 2025
Spring has sprung, flowers are starting to peek through, and the flow of Corvette information continues to permeate our world. Keith Cornett from CorvetteBlogger makes his every-other-week return to CORVETTE TODAY along with your host, Steve Garrett, to provide you with the latest insight on what's happening in the world of Corvette. Here are a few of the topics Steve and Keith will cover this week: 1. A judge grants class action lawsuit status to GM's 8-speed transmission lawsuit. 2. You can now download the 2023 Corvette brochure. 3. The Engine Appearance Package, Z06 Engine Cover and X-Brace are now available for purchase. 4. Barrett Jackson will sell VIN #001 E-Ray later this month in Palm Beach. 5. Chevrolet adds gloss black wheels to the E-Ray Visualizer. 6. The C8 Corvette runs almost 192 mph on the shuttle runway. CORVETTE TODAY keeps you "in the know" on everything Corvette every other week! Don't miss this update available right now! And be sure to forward this email along to your Corvette friends!
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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 to keep us current and up to date on what's happening with America's Sports Car Keith welcome back to the
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show I always look forward to April April means Springtime and we can get our Corvettes back out on the road yeah
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so much fun stuff happening too in April of course we got the bash coming up later this month we're gonna find out hopefully more e-raid news we're going
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to find out when the model year for 2024 will hopefully start any new options or
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upgrades or colors coming to the car we'll see hopefully in real time as well so yeah there's so much good stuff
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happening in April we're ready to get to it absolutely right and as a matter of fact next week we have a NCM bash
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preview coming up on Corvette today Keith let's start out the new section like we always do with a production
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update from the Bowling Green assembly plant so we're talking here we were closed a week ago it's always happens we
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go through this closure it's unexpected we lay off for a week but meanwhile things are still happening behind the scenes and then we we usually come back
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and have a pretty good couple weeks after that as they've had a chance to bank some of those supplies and parts and stuff when we came back from
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disclosure production takes off we are probably right around 28 500 stingrays
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is probably a little bit more once this podcast starts on Monday but 28 500 Stingrays for the 2023 model year and
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that's just the regular producing race we also have 3100 70th anniversaries so 31 600 stingrays were showing so far for
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2023 model year and we've still got several months to go so we're really excited about the production numbers for
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Stingray and actually we had a very good week for Z06 production as well with some new records set for the daily
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numbers last Wednesday we saw 46 Corvette Z06 is built in a single day
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wow that just blows my mind that's a great number it was 38 regular models and eight 70th anniversary editions we
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could do those kinds of numbers to stay that would make a lot of buyers happy yeah we'll see how it goes and I think
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sometimes there are able to do that number and then it'll fall back down into the High Teens maybe low 20s again
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but we're keeping an eye on it the Wednesday production was the last number we had before recording this so we'll
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see how it closes out the week zero six production again you get all excited about it and then you get bad news and
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then everybody's all glum and doom and gloom but then you get good news again so you get excited and of course we have
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some real good news with these Z06 allocations yeah tell me about what allocation everybody got last Thursday
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so it was supposed to come in the week prior to that let's step back in fact February was the last scheduled Z06
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motorcycle that was planned Chevy told us about it three months in advance they told us about it back in November that
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there was going to be one in February well February came and went there was no Z06 allocations and then we had the
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cycle one for stingray in March that went well for Stingray and then for Z06 again zero allocations but there were
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some inklings that oh well maybe it's gonna actually come the following week so it's a little bit out of cycle for what was planned but yet Thursday
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morning we called our dealers and they were all real happy because they did get numbers it was the small dealers and
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large dealers that we spoke with that did get numbers so that's real good there the one thing that we didn't see
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was we did not see any z07s that were granted to dealers so it still looks
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like they're having some issues trying to reach those but having that order cycle there coming for Z06 is the other
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thing too is this is most likely the final customer allocations for Z06 for the 2023 model year Chevy had said all
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customer orders for Z06 must be in by 11 59 pm on April 4th which is Tuesday and
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if there are any allocations left over in April they would be given out as dealer stock orders only so by doing a
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dealer stock order Chevy's not worried about any model year changeovers or rollovers with those orders and of
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course if you roll over customer order generally you're offering price protection as well so by doing the
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dealer stock order that kind of eliminates that and then there are some dealers out there that said if we get additional dealer stock orders in April
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we're just going to build them to our customer specs and we specifically heard that from cioca and we hope that some
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others follow long if that's the case and there is some allocations in April but otherwise it looks like these are the final customer allocations for 2023
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and again we're waiting to see when the model year starts it ends for 2023 starts from 2024 a lot of things up in
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the air right now so we're just rolling with the changes let's see what happens just like the REO Speedwagon song roll
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with Changers also Keith GM Mexico posted a 375 percent increase in
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Corvette sales wow yeah we're huge in Mexico which translates to 19 cars Steve
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oh wow I bet in there specifically that way because people really kind of get bent out of shape when talking about
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Corvette exports right they think that all these should go to American customers first but in the grand scheme
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you're talking 19 cars to One Market which is the equivalent of about two maybe two and a half hours of production
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for the Corvette assembly plant to build those cars these numbers don't really hurt the American buyers all that much
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and in fact it puts The Prestige of the Corvette into these other markets it's good news for Mexico they're selling the
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Corvette Z06 down there now and in fact if you recall they're selling only the z07 version of it they can sell a few of
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these cars make a little bit more money down there but yet here in the United States Market we do see Z06 is moving
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although Vizio 7s are still highly constrained but they're probably highly constrained there as well yeah we just like to bring these kinds of point
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counterpoints when we can 375 sales growth in Mexico I know a lot of automakers would love to have that but
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when you're talking 19 cars you're not overwhelming the workers and Bowling Green to build those right it's reality
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and perspective right exactly yeah there you go also Keith a judge has granted a
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class action status to a GM 8-speed transmission lawsuit give us the back story on this yeah there's a couple of
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these lawsuits that are still kind of hanging around from the C7 era most notably the defective wheels for Grand
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Sport Z06 and then this one on the eight speed automatic transmission the owners call it the Chevy Shake because what
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they experienced anything from hesitations to shake and shutters and clunks and hard shifts from this
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automatic transmission so the judge what they did was they granted class action status there's 39 plaintiffs in 26
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states that have all reported this problem and it's not just Corvettes that are affected there's actually over 800
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000 of these eight-speed Transmissions were sold during 2015 to 2019 and they went into Silverados Camaros Escalades
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the GMC Sierra and a whole bunch of other GM vehicles that had the al90 or the al-45 HP Transmissions where this
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goes we don't know we'll be watching it obviously and we'll see how it ends up unfortunately use class action suits are
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needed because you know a lot of times manufacturers will walk away from a problem say oh well we dealt with it on our next upgrade well no they had 800
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000 of these out there and people have real problems and they can't get stuff fixed they're back in the shop over and
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over and over it's a mess and we're hoping that the legal system is able to clean it up yeah keep us updated on that
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that's for sure yeah well also we now can download the 2023 Corvette brochure I would love to have one of my hands but
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downloading it is the next best thing right it is I mean for anybody it really doesn't have a 2023 I mean the PDF's
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fine it gives you all the information all the pictures the colors the wheel options some of the different performance options that you can add on
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the cars for people like you that actually have a 2023 you're going to want the printed version check with your
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dealer some dealers will get like a case of them they might only have 20 or 30 of them available so they'll give them only to customers that buy a car if you can't
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find one at your local dealer generally the National Corvette Museum always gets them in and in fact they're pretty cheap when you do get them through the NCM
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there yeah that's what I would do is I would look for those and then if you can get them at the bash hopefully they'll be at the bash you can get them and then
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you can walk around and get them signed by some of the staff that's there you know the GM Engineers Harlan and Taj and those guys that always makes a unique
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collectible and again when you own the car or yourself you know you have a 70th Anniversary car it's great to have that
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brochure to go along with it absolutely right I love having those brochures and getting the signatures from all the guys
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on the team is a great idea thanks for that yep also we have a few new additions to the Corvettes and the z06s
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first of all the engine appearance package and the car carbon fiber engine cover is now available for Stingray and
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Z06 yeah this is really great news and it's been a long time coming for the first couple years of C8 production
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customers could order that 995 dollar zz3 engine appearance package and it
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included those two carbon fiber panels on each side of the engine and then an LED lighting kit inside so that when you
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opened up the hats you know you'd have a light shining down on it right back in January 2022 that vendor that provided
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those closeout panels got out of the business saying they were no longer the composite business anymore so it took
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over a year to get the supply back going again and that's exactly what it is it first showed up in the order guide for
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2023 two weeks ago and then it's already now back on the build and price configurators for both Stingray and Z06
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it's the same price for both cars 9.95 and it's the same RPO code which is the zz3 that's really great news there and
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again the engines they just look a little bit lacking without those closeout panels they really provide a nice way to finish it and then in fact I
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had to go back on the Z06 because none of the show cars have a if you go back to the Z06 reveal at the Peterson these
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pieces were actually on the Cutaway car there not only were the closeout panels but that visible carbon fiber we call it
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the horse collar basically sits right on top of the Dual intakes of the Z06 right and it looks really good it's visible
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carbon fiber it's got the beautiful C8 Corvette logo on it so that's available now let me give you the price on that
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that part number is eight four six four three nine eight seven and the MSRP on
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that is 21.95 a little expensive they look great in fact if you get those 500 000 my Chevy points for holding your Z06
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that's a great thing to spend that on and then the other thing that came for both Stingray and Z06 but again this is
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only for the 2023 models are these visible carbon fiber X braces that straddle the engine bay right not only
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look great they're very functional because they add additional rigidity to the car these x-braces cost 28.95 the GM
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part number for those is 8 4 498-3921 you can order those through the
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Chevy accessories page online or through your GM dealer parts counter and I gave you that part number we also have it on
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the blog you can look it up and there's a number of resellers online that would have it as well sometimes at a discount it seems like we're getting additional
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visible carbon fiber parts if we could just apply that to the z07 package the Aero package you know we might really
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have something absolutely right and if it's carbon fiber it sounds good to me buddy I hear you Keith let's take our
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and up to date on what's happening with Corvette in the second segment we always talk Corvette racing and Corvette rumors
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first in the racing category Keith give us a breakdown on Corvette racing at Sebring yeah the race happened before we
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actually had a chance to talk about it now this is our really first chance to do a recap and this is another what if
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race for Corvette racing early on the team was leading Tony Milner then reported broken shock on the car so
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after that nice few hours of leading the race or getting right there contention it really dropped us to the back of the
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pack and so the team had to really fight to get back there with 50 minutes to go we did our final Pit Stop we were the
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first one out so we're first in the cycle we had Antonio Garcia our closer at Sebring ready to go there what had
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happened was essentially we got punted twice off the course we ended up finishing in fifth place overall not
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really what we wanted of course Antonio wasn't real happy with the result afterwards as you can imagine anything
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can happen there so not the greatest result fifth place at Sebring Corvette Racing's next race for imsa will be
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April 15th at Long Beach and then for the wec team their next race is Puerto Mayo in Portugal on April 16th wow so
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that weekend we'll have two different Corvette races to watch on each of those days that's kind of the benefits of splitting the schedule is you get twice
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as many races to watch yeah that would be fun also Jordan Taylor is preparing for his first Nascar Cup race yeah he
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actually had that that was that Coda Circuit of the Americas and off Austin really a fun thing you need a qualified
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forth as a rookie they said it was like the best qualifying since like 2000 1999
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I guess the guy who did that was also a former Corvette racing driver Boris said Jordan started fourth at NASCAR it was a
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real slugfest you know any NASCAR race unless you're a true fan you just tune at the end because who knows what's gonna happen during the race but at the
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end is when it's all important unfortunately we just had all these late yellows that continue to do the restart they'd have to do a lap before they'd
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get the white flag and of course they'd always wreck on that first lap so they'd have to reset everything this happened a couple times and actually with these
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restarts Jordan started moving up until the final restart he was tent again going in that turn one at Coda it's a
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killer and he got knocked around pretty bad and actually ended up finishing 24th overall so fun race to watch fun to see
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Jordan competing there hopefully we'll see some more Road Race ringers from Corvette racing doing that more often
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than NASCAR because it's fun to watch it's a great crossover for us to watch absolutely in the rumors category Keith
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topspeed.com is a exploring the design of a Corvette sedan are we really going to get a Corvette sedan that's the rumor
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Corbett EB sedan coming in 2026 according to Automotive forecasters there's obviously been a lot of talk
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about this happening so they put out this render and you know other than the front face show that they grabbed from probably the Z06 there and the rear tail
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lights from the car this really could be anything it's hard to really say oh wow that looks very corvette-ish on a
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four-door sedan and they tried their best I think it's just a third-party rendering of what it could look like we
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do know that the Corvette engineering team was moved over this is several years ago was moved under the EV I
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always thought that was a good thing you're playing with the latest tech you've got all the money going in the development there so why not try to grab
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some of that for Corvette right we're looking at 2026 a few years away but it kind of goes into our next story about
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the Porsche Tycoon yeah I guess they're benchmarking the Porsche tay-can EV for the Corvette sedan right yeah exactly so
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spy photographers capture GM Engineers going in and out of the Proving Grounds with this taikan Turbo S the Titan
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currently holds the lap record for electric cars at the Nurburgring it's got Z06 performance 0-60 in just 2.6
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seconds with a 750 horsepower drivetrain it's smoking fast it was a year ago or
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so I think that there was a take hand or taikan I'd really not up on my TV
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presentation I always want to call it toucan like Toucan Sam but yeah I don't
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think Porsche would like that buddy right YouTube channel and they raced it
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against Amelia's twin turbo Stingray best of three kind of thing it's a very fast car with that instant torque that
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EVS have and again we see what Teslas do with the track with that energy that's just stored and then dumped immediately
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and they can just go so it's just one of these things for people that want more performance and maybe have a family of
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Florida card around an electric EV Corvette might just be the way to go well if you want to take the family and the Corvette I guess the EV or the sedan
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is the way to go for sure our final rumor Keith the Corvette engineering team was cited in Indiana and Kentucky
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what are they doing out there yeah very interesting so a reader sent us some photos and we actually had a couple
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quick videos there was five cars in this group including one that was fully wrapped in camo skill and that car with
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the camo actually had those special testing exhaust pipes coming out the rear which they do like the emissions
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testing on in that group there was the five cars we also saw that one of those cars had the quarter mounted exhaust we
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think that it was a Z06 export model and then the other three test cars all had the z07 package so there's where your
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zo7 wings are all going on to these pre-production 2024s so to me it looks like they were testing the full range of
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Z06 we do believe that these are 2024 production models because they have a different sticker on them but they were
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2023 they actually have that CTF sticker that we all know with it being 2024 their pre-production model so they use
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these Vin stickers instead they were seen in Indiana and Lawrenceburg which is over on the Southeast corner and then
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another reader caught him down in Bowling Green the next day we're not sure what they're doing it looks like
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they're just doing some validation some testing and getting ready for the 2024 model here all right that sounds good well buddy let's take our final break
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segment we always talk about the lighter side of Corvette Keith I was interested to see that the Chevy visualizer for the
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e-ray added the full gloss black wheels as options exactly yeah so one night I
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was just kicking back maybe enjoying the consumption of an adult beverage or two just building a couple of erase in the
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visualizer one of my builds started taking a darker turn I actually prefer brighter Wheels yeah I was building a
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Riptide blue car and I thought well let's put some black wheels on it see what it looks like sure enough here's these full glass wheels that were added
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to the pallet before the only other black wheel was a carbon flash metallic but it had the machine lip around it so
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this is a full gloss black wheel that's now available to add on the visualizer which again was a surprise because that
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gloss wheel was not in the leak that we had a few months back in December when we first learned about all this stuff
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that was going to be on the e-rad one of those wheels that we're still waiting on are the satin black wheels with the blue stripe around it that was on the
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visualizer leak but we're still kind of waiting for that to show up hopefully on the 2024 visualizer for e-ray it's
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always fun to find something new it's just another option for Corvette owners people really seem to like these e-ray wheels I really do like how they look
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they really open up nicely and show a lot of the caliper color in your ceramic carbon brakes on the car as well always
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fun to add a new pair of shoes to a car it's just another option that sounds good I like it I like it also the
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Corvette Stingray ran 109 maybe 1.7 miles per hour down the space shuttle
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Runway wow I need to get my car up to those kind of speeds it's called the Johnny bomber Proving Grounds at the
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Kennedy Space Center and they're actually using the runway where the space shuttle used to land on and so it's three miles overall but with their
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time to speed up and stop they run a course that's about 2.7 miles this was actually a z-51 stingray but it had the
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low profile spoiler it ran 191.7 miles an hour before when Chevy was doing the
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launch of the 2020 Stingray they had a test video that showed 194 miles an hour
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but that was a non-z51 version that was a car that had just a rear deck that was all smooth but the additional Arrow they
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always said the stingray would go less and we always thought it would be around 184 but this one obviously with a low
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profile splatter was able to go over 190 with it that would be a lot of fun just to be able to let your car wind up and
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really give it a chance to see what it could do that'd be fun buddy that's for sure also Barrett-Jackson is going to offer
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e-rate number one an auction coming up later this month in Palm Beach yeah you
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know it really tells us how close the e-ray is to entering production and being you know an additional model for
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the Corvette if they're going to be offering the VIN 001 in April and in fact that's going to be happening April
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15th I think around two o'clock or so is when it's on the schedule okay like all these Vin 001 sales the proceeds are
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donated 100 to charity I think the sale of the first Performance Hybrid Corvette will benefit an organization called
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donors choose whose mission is to help classrooms in need and give them tools and experiences for great education
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anytime you can help the kids right every time you can help the kids it's a good thing April 15th first e-ray will
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be sold we all know who might be looking at it we'll just wait and see what happens we won't drop any names here Kendrick but I think he'll probably be
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there don't you think so I've seen them there previously I've seen them there when he's purchased a couple cars I
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think the last one I saw him there was the Z06 convertible fun stuff there and looking forward to it yeah me too also I
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love this next story Keith I'm Lamborghini fan since my teenage days it was so cool to see the e-ray just smoke
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a Lamborghini Huracan Evo and a Ferrari f8 I had a friend of mine asked why the
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e-ray why do you need all-wheel drive yeah and that's why this is why you want all-wheel drive on a sports car the way
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it jumped out in front of the Ferrari f8 and that hurricane Evo just amazing and
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again it just is why the eo-wheel drive is so important this car is pretty amazing this video is amazing this is a
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Haggerty video so they had all these special effects in it and talking about how the cars all did something different the Ferrari was really making up for its
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slower start and had that race been longer it probably would have eventually caught and passed the e-ray but that Evo
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on the other hand was a mess I mean it struggled to find grip for the first three point two seconds or so 0-60 while
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the e-ray did it in 2.4 in fact the e-ray did it faster than the previous Z06 that they tested on the same track
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which was 2.5 so again I really want to see more of these challenges with the Iran going up against these different
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cars of course Godzilla the Nissan would be fun to see more of these Exotics out there Porsches and stuff too just bring
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it now I'm just ready for the e-ray to dominate absolutely right and our final story Keith this was so much fun because
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if you're a final four fan you did the final four for Corvettes on Corvette blogger yeah this comes from Alex he
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likes to throw these questions out there hey guys what do you think about this so if we assign the story to each of our writers we have four writers it's kind
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of like well what are your final four Corvettes for all these 70 years and it's really tough when you start to little it down because you are going to
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be leaving some of your favorite cars off the list the traditional ones you know the 53 the 63 67 we have the zr1s
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we've got the of course the c806 my list was a little different I went with the 1957 Corvette fuley first time but 283
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was offered 283 cubic inches and 283 horsepower you're getting that one for one horsepower to cubic inches and also
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this is the first year for the four-speed transmission so that's why you chose the 57. I chose the 63 Corvette Z06 the first car to really
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come with a trek spec setup that you you could order from the factory and we build 199 of those GM constantly reaches
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back to the past to present the future and they did that with my next car the 2004 Corvette Z06 I think the C5 z06s
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are highly underrated uh fantastic sports cars really the last great driving car without all the Danny AIDS
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and stuff on them I mean it had some stuff there but of course it was also the first car that had a carbon fiber hood on it just a really great car then
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my final my fourth choice might be a little controversial I did not go c806 my final Choice was the 2019 ZR1 of
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course you know they built 25 2600 of these cars the prices just continue to go up on them as people seek out that
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last front engine design 755 horsepower that big engine sticking
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way up in the hood there so that was my final four picks I know I'll put you on the spot here but you have some cars
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that you would name as your final four yeah I was thinking about this as you were talking and mine is pretty similar to yours I would choose a 53 Corvette
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because that's the true C1 Corvette I really love the 50 354 and 55s then
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naturally the 63 split window any version of the split window would be in my final four also the 78 pace car I'd
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love those 78 pace cars oh yeah good one absolutely and then the C7 2019 ZR1 I'm
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still kicking myself for not getting one of those yeah what a great car and again it's just a quintessential Corvette you
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know yeah that big wing on the back I mean that's what a lot of people remember I think about kids these days seeing that car and hopefully they'll
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grow up and say man someday I'm going to have a Corvette too and that's the kind of card I think the ZR1 really is they
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only Built so many of them we all can't have one but we could dream what they could be in the future this was a fun exercise I definitely enjoy doing these
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we've got three others to read on the side if you want to see what some of our other writers came up with awesome that's great well buddy thanks for being
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on Corvette today we will talk in two weeks and actually our next news and headline show starts year number four
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for Corvette today wow that's probably what number 156 or so episode 156 157.
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