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date on what's happening with America's Sports Car Keith welcome back to the show this is a big one buddy this show
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marks the start of year number four for Corvette today and a big happy birthday to Corvette today out there The Bell the
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people that come and listen to you and E every couple weeks here it's an exciting thing Steve and what you've really built
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here is something special you've had the creme de la crop of the Corbett team members The Who's Who of the Corvette
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family has been on to talk to you and keep up the great work we love being here we consider it an honor I tell you we go out to shows and people they don't
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come up and say about the blog they say about the podcast so that tells me a lot that I think I need to work harder
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buddy first of all thank you very much second it's my pleasure it's an honor to have you on the show and celebrate the
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four years at Corvette today we even have a new logo you can see the new logo on the YouTube video so make sure you
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check it out yeah you changed quite a bit of a couple years we do have a new URL as well here at corvetttoday.com as
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well as Corvette todaypodcast.com you got the new logo correct Paul you're even driving a 70th Anniversary Corvette
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so I'd say things are pretty good in Steve bill things are looking up that's for sure buddy well let's start our show like we
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always do and get a production update at the Bowling Green assembly plant yeah so as we record this we're coming off of a
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four day holiday for the assembly plant they were closed on Good Friday and Easter Monday as part of their UAW
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contract so we've been seeing some really good things on the Z06 side leading up to that break but as usual we
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end up disappointed by the numbers so we're going to start with Z06 first usually we start with the stingray we'll start with Z06 first prior to the Easter
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break we had some record-setting numbers Z06 we saw 63 built on April 5th which
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was a new production record by far and then they came back the next day on built 68 for another record so we're all
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expecting really great things hopefully with the plant reopened on the 11th we'd see some numbers there they only Built
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31 when that plan opened on the 11th on Tuesday but then on the following Wednesday we are back to zero again what
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causes these extreme swings in this car's production is still a huge mystery to us how you can go from 30 to 60 to 68
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back down down to 30 into zero again there's got to be something significant there that's really happening but the
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good news is that when production falls off on the Z06 they are able to make up that slack Again With The Stingrays and
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fill in all those holes let me give you the numbers and let you know where we are on both these cars as of last week
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the numbers for the Z06 were 1425 regular models and 219 70th
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anniversaries that's a total of 1644 cars a lot of speculation will we get to
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2 000 will we get to 2500 really hard to tell because the way these number swings go the good news again with Stingray
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production that day that there were zero Z06 was built you know the Stingrays they step up they build 181 cars during
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that day right we're going to actually hit 30 000 stingrays as a VIN count this
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week that's really good I think we're really looking at the best production year for Corvette yet our numbers for
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stingrays currently are 29 628 those are the regular ones with 31 90 70th
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Anniversary models so we have a total right now A 32818 we just continue to see that grow we've got some news about
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the year extended a little bit so we'll see a lot more stingrays before this model year closes definitely and we also
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had some good news about the first quarter GM delivered over 7 900 Corvettes in January February and March
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yeah this was a little bit of a mixed month we'd seen some better months out there in fact this was actually the worst quarter for Corvette since first
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quarter of 2021. it's just disappointing because it shows what multiple closures do and both the weather and part
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shortages come together to affect our production quantities but that total of 7904 I mean that's not a horrible number
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it was down 10.3 percent from the year previously when we saw 8 800 and that's
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where we really want to be in that 8 000 to 10 000 range but we just had the multiple closures in first quarter due
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to park supplies we had horrible weather coming out of Texas ice storms I think that impacted production sent workers
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home a couple days during the months in first quarter so yeah you know we just really need a lot of things to align
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perfectly and then we can really get to some great numbers but it just shows how fragile things still are yeah absolutely
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right and Chevrolet extended the Corvette model year of 2023 to September
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1st and then the 2024s will begin on September 5th which is good news as well yeah you know this is interesting we'd
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always been thinking that the model changeover would happen around July 4th that's when it's been previously for
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Corvette but guess what it's also previously happened around the Labor Day time frame as well it's real interesting we say they're extending it but our
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friend Mike Furman will say well how do you know it's an extension if you never knew the date that it was ending in the first place right good point I got to
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give it to us that's true we don't know if this extension or if it was always the plan there's some interesting theories out there you know by quote
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extending it you're getting more of the 70th anniversary special editions out there especially on the Z06 side which
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again we only had like 200 and some built so far so that might be one reason but the other reason that I saw on a
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rick Conti video was think about this there's a lot of stuff happening in 2024 where getting some new Emergency
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Equipment on the car automatic braking stop start these kinds of things why not start banking those parts and trying to
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get those supplies in ahead of time for the car and that way you can get to work on the 2024's uninterrupted I mean
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that's another theory out there as well it's really hard to say what it is we don't know we're not privy to their
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internal conversations there but I actually kind of do like the Labor Day because you are thinking you know it's fall time Football starting kids are
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back in school weather's starting to turn a little bit gives us some additional time frames here to continue to push those 2023 models and the 70th
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Anniversary cars definitely this will be a big year indeed for the ca Corvette for sure buddy yeah we also have some
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additional news with that announcement this was sent to dealers as part of what we call their dealer deck some of the additional dates for this model year
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switchover is that they say that the 2024 vehicle order guides will be out on July 10th oh and then the visualizers
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for the 2024 models of course we already have the e-ray but for the stingray and the Z06 those should go live by July
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18th or so we don't really have any dates yet on when the start of ordering for the 2024 model year will occur
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however you can always kind of back date it so if you figure that you're looking at September 5th as our start time we're
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probably going to have ordering open up geez I'd say in Late July somewhere in July yep with the order guide coming out
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on the 10th it wouldn't surprise me if one to two weeks later we would see ordering happening there put that into
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your calendar especially for you e-rate people they're talking e-ray deliveries at the end of the year some people are
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saying you might not even see an e-ray delivery happen until January we think the idea that they moved the e-ray up we
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thought originally it was a 2025 model is because they can build these cars something's slowing down the Z06 but
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they feel they can build these cars that's why they were pushed to 2024 and that's why we're going to see them this year I'd say it's good news you know
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we're just getting a lot of dates here hopefully we'll have more at The Bash in a couple weeks too some of the firming up of this 2024 info yeah definitely and
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speaking of the e-ray Keith Corvette Academy put out a new era video yeah this was kind of a surprise as well as
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we go all this time with no news and then Chevy Just Nails it all in one day that's what they kind of did here with
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all that 2023 and 2024 information oh and by the way we dropped the first e-ray video on the Corvette Academy this
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is simply called meet e-ray and it's a very short video I think it was only one minute and 41 seconds or so it featured
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a lead vehicle development engineer named Michael Kutcher and Chevrolet's marketing director Brad France who will
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give their take on the first electrified all-wheel drive Corvette definitely worth watching for those people again looking at the e-ray if we want more we
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want a lot more absolutely right so keep bringing them out we want to know more of the background of the car how it
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works how it all ties together show some more of that stuff absolutely as a matter of fact Keith we're going to be
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addressing that on Corvette today with some of the members of the Corvette team I don't want to let the cat out of the
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bag yet but listen and watch next month I'm gonna have a huge huge show coming up for you right after the bash well
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okay we'll be staying tuned for that that's for sure absolutely our final story on the news section A 70th
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Anniversary C8 Z06 set a sales record at the Mecum Auction in Glendale Arizona
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didn't it yeah this is a big number you know we've seen some cars on bring a trailer and some other places they
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really haven't been selling all that well I know that there's currently five cars have been up for sale I'm bringing a trailer only one of them is sold we're
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expecting one to sell over this weekend so we'll see what happens there but at the auction houses it's been a different
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story there was a torch red one LZ Coupe that sold at become Kissimmee at the beginning of the year for 275. this was
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a white pearl 70th Anniversary Z06 it had 11 delivery miles on it the window sticker was still attached it was really
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nice front lift carbon flash nay cells on the roof black exhaust tips and MSRP they said was 140. so when it hit the
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auction block it hammered for 275 and with the commissions on it it was over
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305 thousand dollars so that's it 164 thousand dollars over MSRP you see why
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these guys are trying to get get a hundred they can't get it on Bring a trailer apparently but yet at the
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auction houses where it's being sold as a new car again probably without warranty they're having a lot of success
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there it's just still something to watch of course we have two auctions that just happened over the weekend we don't have those results yet we have the Palm Beach
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auction for Barrett Jackson and then Mecum is in Houston for a couple days there as well we'll go back and take a
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look at those and see how they did that sounds good buddy let's take our first break when we come back it'll be Corvette racing and Corvette rumors up
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current and up to date every other week on what's happening in the world Decor event in the second section we always
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cover Corvette racing and Corvette rumors Keith we have two big races that just happened last weekend didn't we
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yeah and of course because we did record these prior to the weekend we're going to have Recaps coming up but this is an
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exciting thing and this is one of these benefits of splitting the team into the two series we have the number three c8r
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team in imsa they're over in Southern California for the Long Beach Grand Prix which is one of the best races of the
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year in my opinion you got that 100 minute shootout on the streets of Long Beach it's just always fantastic we are
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winning that race a year ago up until the very end of it it just shows that anything can happen on another continent
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we've got the number 33 Corvette it's in Portugal for the six hours of Puerto mayo and it's the first time we've been
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to Portugal as a team but luckily our three drivers on the number 33 car have all raced there previously so good
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exciting things you know we've started off this season with the bang you know the insta car is being competitive although the finishes haven't been quite
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where we wanted but we've been there at the end and I think that's the most important thing it does show that we are a little bit more competitive this year
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that we had a crazy ending at the end of Daytona Sebring of course we were leading there we were all set up for the
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win we got hit twice in the rear within the last few minutes to knock us out of contention so there's good things have
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happening with the teams here we're looking forward to being able to recap these who are recorded today listeners when we come back for our next headlines
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post and we'll do that in two weeks also will farmer sets a world record in the Z06 it's a 10.16 quarter mile and a 2023
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Z06 wow yeah so he's an Enthusiast he's been racing cars for years I know the
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name I've never met him or anything like that I just know he's always had really fast Corvettes so he recently set two
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records in this new Z06 in the quarter mile and the runs were all verified by Time Slips and multiple videos of the
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runs as well so we definitely recommend watching the video because with the racing tires on the car the Z06 ran 1016
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at 135 miles an hour knowing that people say well that's not stock because you got racing tires on he had the stock
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michelins on the car and that ran 1026 at 134 miles an hour so again blistering
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speeds two World Records I love these world record chases I think they're exciting they're good for the car they're good for the people that follow
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this stuff we always see breakthroughs and some interesting things that happen we saw that with the stingray chasing first the nines and then the eights and
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now we've got the Z06 out there so we just need a few more enthusiasts with these cars that are willing to do some tearing down and putting some Go Fast
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Parts on them to see what they can really do and speaking of Go Fast z06s Keith I know we hit 182 miles an hour on
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the Texas mile and a z06. yeah I know this was a fun one too and you know we don't really have an idea the specs and
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the video was only from the PDR so chances are it was probably just the base card but again the base cars are
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supposed to run a little bit faster because they're a little bit more streamlined than the z07 arrow which is designed for road tracks and a lot of
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downforce but yeah that 670 horsepower Z06 was able to get up to 182 miles an hour in just a mile and truthfully it
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looked like it had a little bit more room to run there Chevrolet had actually told us last August that Carlisle that
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the top speed of the Z06 was 195 miles an hour for the base car 189 for cars equipped with z07 but this is really one
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of the first times we've actually seen an enthusiasm still a high speed run that was a mile I think speed Phenom did
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a half mile race when he picked up his car but there was a huge headwind and some other things going on there to see
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this car do it and that pass was pretty good he actually said in his YouTube video that he made four runs during the
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day and they averaged 174.8 miles an hour up to the 182 top speed run that
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was shared in the videos we'd like to see some more of these and what we'd really like to see is this was just the Texas mile we had here Florida the
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Johnny bomber Proving Grounds which is on the space shuttle Runway at Kennedy Space Center right they run 2.7 miles
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there we had that z51 Stingray that ran a couple weeks ago that we shared that video of you know and it took him a long
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time to get up to that I think he ran 191 there here we had a 182 in the mile
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so it'd be interesting to see what it would do with some additional tractor run there yeah if he had another mile and a half to go he could have come
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closer to 200 miles an hour it'd be cool I think it's definitely doable when Chevy sets the times for their top speed
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they're very conservative they say you have to run them both ways both directions right and then you average
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that time in fact when we talked to Josh holder last year at Carlisle about it he said they hadn't actually even done that
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part yet so that would be a good follow-up question that they've actually done an official top speed run where they average both ways and put them
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together to see what we get yeah this card I think tangent said it's not a numbers car but it puts up some great
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numbers doesn't it absolutely right buddy in the rumors section Car and Driver came up with a couple biggies
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first of all they said that the 2025 Corvette SUV is not going to be an EV
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what's the back story on that yeah this is interesting and again this shows how everybody's got their own little here's
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the ground and this is what they're hearing and we'd actually like to see this we'd like to see a internal combustion powered SUV before a full EV
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because the full EV is just going to turn some people off while an ice engine that's performance oriented that might
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raise a few more eyebrows among the Corvette faithful who again aren't really supportive of this whole idea at
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all but having said that car driver says that there's some good stuff come they're actually looking at this
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performance SUV but it might be offered in multiple sizes much like the Porsche does with the McCann and the Cayenne so
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the McCann competitor will feature a 300 plus turbo V4 base engine but then it
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could also step up into an optional twin turbo V6 that would create somewhere around 400 horsepower maybe a little bit
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more but the larger Cayenne Challenger that one will start off with that twin turbo V6 and could actually move all the
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way up to a Cadillac Escalade supercharged 682 horsepower v8 you know the lt4 that powered last Generations
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c706 you put on the curb and ceramic brakes you put on the super wide tires and you could have a highly oriented
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Performance Machine there very quickly again we're talking 2025 that's not very long in terms of development time we'll
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have to see what happens there the other thing was I went looked at Chevrolet they have nine vehicles in the SUV
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segment already wow and it's seven ice powered cars and then the two hybrids the bolts there's a lot of choices there
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already how they managed with adding another one in there remains to be seen yeah definitely the other rumor the
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current driver came up with was the speculation about the ZR1 and the Zora editions yeah this is all good again I
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don't think we had any groundbreaking news here they like to say that these next two Corvette models are hiding in
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plain sight because we have the Z06 and the e-ray currently out and those are going to be the starting points used for
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the ZR1 and the Zora models to start off with the ZR1 again they're saying 2025 with twin turbos providing that
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additional Firepower on the 670 horsepower Z06 we've heard estimates of somewhere between 800 and 850 horsepower
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for that car and it's going to Target the likes of the McLaren 750s or the Porsche 911 Turbo S and performance they
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think that the ZR1 will regain the title of the quickest Corvette from the e-ray when it does come out in which case
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we'll see similar times in that 0 to 60 you know 2.4 2.5 seconds or so right on
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the other side we don't know if this is going to come in 2026 2027 they didn't really give us a time frame on the Aura
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but that's going to retake the King of the Hill title from the ZR1 as that new Top Dog Corvette and then that'll be the
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mashup of the ZR1 with the twin turbo powering the rear wheels and then you'll have the e-ray inspired front electrical
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drive units resulting somewhere around 1100 horsepower thousand horsepower 1100 horsepower combined the downside is that
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car and driver says it could weigh in around 4 200 pounds but with a turbo electric powertrain they call it the Top
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Fuel dragster of the Corvette lineup with the car estimated around 0-60 and 1.9 seconds wow it would be a nine
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second car and a quarter mile out of the factory you're going to pay 200 000 for it but it is going to be a monster of a
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car so huge news there but let me throw this in there Steve because seeing this exercise always gets us thinking there's
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a gap in pricing between the base Stingrays and then the Z06 erase which are both starting similarly in that
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hundred and four hundred five thousand dollar range right there were some rumors of the Grand Sport coming back they re-up the the trademark on it we
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think that it would be really easy for them to put together a wide body looks of the Z06 with the reliability of the
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lt2 powertrain they're going to be doing it anyways in the e-ray now they're just using basically the stock stuff off the
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stingray and that's a great way to get 20 25 000 out of buyers that might be the way that when they talk about doing
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a quote refresh of the stingray it's not really a refresh for the stingray but it's a Grand Sport that comes so
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something to think about there absolutely right that could be really cool man that'd be a big lineup too for
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with me is Keith Cornett from corvettebblogger.com it's our four year anniversary show don't forget if you
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want a deeper dive into any of the stories we cover on this show you can always go to corvettebblogger.com in
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this third and final section we always talk about the lighter side of Corvette Keith Bloomington Gold's 2023 Gold
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collection will salute the z06s yeah this is going to be a nice collection you know so the gold collection at
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Burlington gold it's in the invite-only exhibition they only pick the cream of the crop the best cars they'll focus on
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a Model they'll focus on like the Lada and they'll focus on racing cars so we're going to see a nice collection
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here of the Z06 and not just the 63 Z06 but Z06 is from all generations that it
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was offered so it should be a really nice collection they'll probably pull in anywhere from 20 to 30 cars to show off
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the collection of z06s over the years you see how they evolved and the you know some of the things that they've done differently the 2023 Gold
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collection is held within the bone Student Center on the campus of Illinois State University Bloomington Gold's held
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at June 2nd and 3rd there's going to be a private reception to kick off the gold collection that Thursday night so if you
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want to get tickets for that you can but otherwise you'll be able to see it during Bloomington gold on June 2nd and
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3rd that'll be a lot of fun I'd love to see that display something else I really enjoyed buddy was a z07 going through
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PDI there was a video about that that was really cool yeah this was put together by our friend Morgan Crosby up
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at Finch Chevrolet in London Ontario Morgan's got a great Channel up there cars and Crosby he calls it they have a
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customer that that had a Z06 with the z07 performance action going through the pre-delivery inspection process the PDI
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that's where they check everything they put on new parts that were shipped from the factory or these dealer installed
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Parts they do this whole once around the car before it's actually delivered to the new customer he really showed the
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process and everything that kind of goes in on it you know different this year is that the z07s they're shipped from the
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factory with that big Arrow kit on the back just to make sure that it's done one specific way it's done right the
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dealer still has to come in they put on the splitter they're putting in all kinds of other things on the cars really interesting to see that process one of
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the cool things about this was this car had the new Jake stripes on the rear quarter panels right so we got to see
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those added he actually farmed that out to a different company local to them that specializes in stripes and Graphics
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so they put on the Corvette racing hood graphic and then those side quarter Graphics those are really sharp a neat
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thing to do with this car and watch it go through the PDI and know that if my car ended up at the dealership I'd be like that Danny DeVito commercial where
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he pulls up the chair with the little binoculars right watching everything that's going on that would be me yeah
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pretty exciting stuff congratulations up there to that customer who gets a z07 north of the Border check out Morgan
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Crosby's show it's a fun show he does Great Stuff there and really knows his customers well so good things happening
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with Morgan definitely and Morgan's been on Corva today you can check out that episode at Corvette today.com and Buddy
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this was really cool to see on MotorWeek they featured a 2022 Callaway Corvette a
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B2K 35th Anniversary Edition car on the show I love that yeah you know
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motorweek's been around forever it's a TV show I think it runs like the PBS stations the non-profit television
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stations there this Show's been on forever in fact they probably had the first callaways on that's how long they've been on the air it was nice of
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them to feature this Callaway Corvette it's the 35th Anniversary the B2K edition of course the B2K in the late
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80s was the twin turbos that Callaway started turning out for Chevrolet pretty cool stuff there this car the B2K 35th
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Anniversary an appearance only package they've added some custom upgrade grades with arrow and wheels the Double D
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exhaust inside you've got like the sill plates and floor mats but there's no performance upgrades here so we're
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really just looking at the car as a whole but they do get it out on the track they actually say that they can feel some of the enhancements that
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Callaway makes with even though this is an appearance package then you can definitely feel it on the performance side so the cool thing is that Callaway
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is working on a supercharged version of their lt2 program MotorWeek teased that and so hopefully we'll be seeing that
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one on the program coming up in the next few months that's true very true also this was kind of interesting and I'm not
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sure if this is a good thing or a bad thing Keith Corvette was ranked 12th out of the top 14 and used cars that are
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more expensive than the new cars we've really seen the market cool it used to be we had studies like this all the time
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in fact the last time we actually had a study like this it comes from a car marketing and data company called IC
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cars yes they do all this data crunching with the numbers of car so I think they look something like 8 million cars for
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sale over the course of a month both new and used and from that they dive deep into the data to Crunch it all and come
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up these numbers in the March 2023 study the Corvette was 12th overall on the list of these top 14 cars that are more
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expensive used than they are new with the Corvette price that only 0.4 percent higher than that new car price and it's
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just proof that shows that the pricing of these cars is coming down now I don't know if it's that drastic one year ago
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that number was 20 percent more for a used car than a new car but we have seen
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there's 101 000 stingrays out there now some people had 50 and 60 000 miles on their car so they're not getting 20 000
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over for their car anymore we're definitely seeing the mileage and the age factors now bringing these prices
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down and I think this study is just one more of it and the funny thing is you know it's not just the Corvette it's across the board a year ago the study
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was the top 15 cars but now they could only get 14 in the list a year ago all
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the cars were double digit more expensive used than new and here only one car's double digit the other ones
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are seven percent all the way down to like you said the Corvette was 0.4 four percent again we're just seeing some
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major movement in the used car market it's definitely bringing prices down absolutely right and buddy we had two
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two videos that came out that were really kind of crazy first of all a 62 Corvette fell off a transport and then
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our feel-good story of the show is a family surprised their 80 year old parents with a 67 convertible yeah we'll
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start off with the bad news first we'll end up with the good news if you haven't seen this video of the beige 1962
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Corvette it's heartbreaking it shows it up top it's a semi truck that's an auto carrier they have these elevated lifts
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that pull it up to the second floor there as the trucker was rolling the car back off you see that left rear wheel
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actually looks like it goes over whatever speed bump was supposed to stop it because the car just keeps on going
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the back wheels drop off and it just slams down on its tail before landing hard on all four wheels on the ground
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it's not good at all but here's the crazy story this might be the part that people don't know about and we haven't
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really verified this but I've seen it listed several different places we had a couple commenters come on this was
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actually the second time the driver dropped that car off the lift oh no apparently it was dropped on top of a
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new Porsche tycan as as it was being delivered this was now bringing it back or doing whatever but another guy chimed
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in said a good friend of his own the car the car had been sold on bring a trailer you can go to bring a trailer and see
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pictures of the car there he confirms that it did dropped twice as well not good there at all for the shipper of
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this company and again it just shows buy the insurance anything can happen with these when you have third parties moving
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your cars it's always nice that if you can have a video camera there you know showing the loading and unloading it
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just might be used for any kind of legal situation like I'm sure that the owner of the 62 is going through right now
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yeah on the flip side we've got this great story about mom and dad being surprised with the 67 convertible and
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The Story Goes you know like we've heard a lot of times before in 1965 Jr was
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this youthful young man walks into a Chevy dealership and buys a brand new red on red Corvette Stingray convertible
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off the showroom floor a couple years later he meets his wife Alice they're in love they have a couple kids they have
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three kids and guess what the Corvettes got to go he tells the son in the story named Brent tells a story about the
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Corvette was replaced with a faded blue 1962 four-door Mercury Comet imagine going from the Corvette to a four-door
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Comet not good there at all no and in fact his dad would say for the 50 years or so he would tease the kids about well
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you're the reason why I had to get rid of my Corvette so they were able to return the favor and they did a nice
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they told their parents they head them over to the house and they told their parents we gotta go check out the next
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door neighbor he just got this new Red Corvette and so the parents are sitting in the car and they're kind of checking
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it out and Brent opens up the glove compartment pulls out this note and hands it to his mom and she's like oh this is the specs of the car it's the
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l-79 it's got this it's got that and then she sees the last line where it shows that the owners are Jr and Alice
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and she just starts shrieking and when he sees it he lifts his hands straight up over his head and yells Hallelujah he
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says I didn't even know I died and I've gone to heaven just a really neat story there those
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kinds of things always put a tear or two in your eyes a great way to end the week here great way to end our anniversary
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episode for your four year start here again you can see all these stories at corvettebblogger.com absolutely buddy
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thank you so much for being back on Corvette today happy fourth birthday I love having you on the show here's to
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