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CORVETTE TODAY #191 - Corvette News & Headlines, Mid December 2023
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CORVETTE TODAY #191 - Corvette News & Headlines, Mid December 2024 We hope you're enjoying the holiday season. And we also hope this includes listening or watching CORVETTE TODAY on a weekly basis. Your CORVETTE TODAY host, Steve Garrett, welcomes Keith Cornett from CorvetteBlogger back to the show to bring you the latest news & headlines in the world of Corvette. Here are a few of the topics Steve and Keith cover: The Bowling Green Assembly Plant will close plant tours on February 5th E-Ray production has now been moved to January/February 2024 The C8 Corvette is on Car & Driver's 10Best List again The E-Ray will compete for Road & Track's 2024 Performance Car Of The Year The National Corvette Museum makes it's 2,500th R8C Corvette delivery If you think that Corvette news slows down during the holiday season, we beg to differ. Plus, we are also approaching a CORVETTE TODAY milestone - episode #200 is fast approaching! Thank you for your loyalty and dedication to CORVETTE TODAY. Listen to the podcast, watch the YouTube video, join the Facebook group, sign up for weekly email notifications, follow the show on Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, X (Twitter) and Threads. Plus shop in the CORVETTE TODAY Merchandise Store at: www.CorvetteToday.com
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happening with America Sports Car Keith welcome back to the show happy holidays buddy yeah glad to be here of course we
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made it through Thanksgiving made it through all the craziness of shopping Black Friday Cyber Monday giving Tuesday
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it's been a whirlwind and I guess the next time will be right before the Christmas Vacation yeah the Corvette news doesn't stop just because the
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holidays that's right our next news and headlines will be Christmas Day and then the week between Christmas and New
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Year's because Christmas starts on a Monday so it's going to be an interesting year this year that's for sure yes it will well buddy let's start
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off as we always do with an update of Corvette production at the Bowling Green assembly plant absolutely well we've
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been checking the VIN sequence counts and actually they've been real strong the last few days 189 190 186 it just
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shows no sign of slowing down so what we've got so far we're checking out the Roger ke's numbers on Facebook Chevy so
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far has built 698 Corvette Stingrays and then we also have an additional
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2,276 z6s and that's for the 2024 model year so so far we've got
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9,184 completed of course that's just last week sometime and then looking at those numbers you know we wanted to see
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the breakdown and it shows that 7 % of production is going to Stingrays and the other 25% right now is going to z6s with
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the two cars in play they're they seem to be banging them out you know we might have some constraint issues some parts coming in that we're still looking for
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but for the most part it looks like they're completing cars we also saw a picture of the back lot of the assembly
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plant and it's a seal white covers which I think is good news that it does tell us those cars are ready to ship because
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they do have the transport covers on them but on the flip side that parking lot is really filled that makes us concerned because we do know that there
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is a shortage of transporters to be able to take these cars to the dealer so that might be slowing down just a little bit
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that lot is full Steve it's going to be interesting to see how they're able to get those all out to the dealers yeah
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absolutely and we did find out that eay production is now moved to the January February time frame yeah you know we
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were supposed to see eay starting in October they just keep getting pushed back so obviously haven't started yet we
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know officially that vin1 purchased by Rick hendrik that hasn't started yet
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there've been no further allocations actually since October for this performance hybrid sports car what we're seeing is those tpws for people that
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have an rhc Museum delivery they keep getting KN backwards you know they were seeing December 4th was what we
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originally saw and then we know two of those people that had December tpws that have now fallen back to the first and
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the second week of February GM has provided zero guidance to its dealers regarding the eay so at this point we
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really have no fixed certain date of when they are going to start I think going' be one of those things where we
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might either get a heads up notice a day or two before or it might just be one of those things where we're checking Roger
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ke's production numbers and all of a sudden we see a couple digits there under the eay columns either way a lot
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of people still waiting to see that eay production start at this point we're just going to kind of sit back and wait until it happens yeah and we had no eay
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allocation obviously for December but obviously we had plenty of stingray and ZO6 allocation yes so the allocations
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came out on Thursday last week they were sent to dealers and then this Thursday dealers can start matching those allocations to their customer orders and
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then submit them into the GM order Bank we called around as we do we did a quick survey and dealers told they got zero
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r-ray allocations but most seem pretty happy with the number of Z06 and the stingray numbers they got this coming
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Thursday we'll also have the latest constraint report which will tell us about what kind of options can be placed
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on these orders going in on Thursday as well we've recently have seen the real slowdown in any carbon fiber arrow for
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the ZO6 the engine appearance packages have been slowed down but hopefully we can kind of get past this it's just one
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of these things we'll have to watch that constraint report and see what it says yeah I think they totally underestimated the want and need of car carbon fiber
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accessories exactly yeah and also I was really sad to see this this might be a temporary thing but the Bowling Green
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assembly plant tours are going to be closing on February 5th would they maybe start putting zr1's on the line you know
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there's a lot of speculation about that and this is probably the biggest news that dropped since our last news and headlines podcast is that Chevy is
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closing the plant tours on February 5th in their statement they say due to manufacturing advancements tours offered
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by the National Corvette Museum of GM's Bowling Green assembly plant will will be suspended beginning Monday February 5th 2024 at this time there is no
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confirmed date for plant tour resumption so that tells us it's it's not a week it's not two weeks it's not the month of
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February it's probably going to be longer than that we like to think that this is a positive move they're closing
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the plant for Outsiders to Shield some of the upgrades that might be happening for our America's favorite sports car we know that the 2025 ZR1 may be one of
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those cars that we're going to see next year so they obviously could be building some CTF versions of that car but I
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think even more likely Steve is you know we've been hearing some of these midcycle changes coming up that have been rumored for the platform and that
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even includes like the removal of the Great Wall of buttons from the Corvette's Interior right so you know if you're inside the plant and you're doing
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a tour and you're going to see those skips going around hauling the parts their various places but also they're
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stored over in their own little areas of the plant so it could be possible as you're just walking by they might not be
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building one but all of a sudden you see an interior that has no Great Wall of button that would be a deal killer right away for the future product
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announcements that they like to do at the bash and other places sure it could be that's what those manufacturing advancements are they don't want Jo Q
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public going through the plant noticing any changes for next year I think this is going to be a bit longer in the end
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it's going to be a good thing although I really hope that we get the tours back up and running by the bash the end of
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April just because that's obviously a huge influx of people that are passionate about the Corvette last year's bash they sold out all the tours
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during that time frame hopefully we can get back in there and see it open up again in April I bet that's what's going
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to happen I think so too also Keith the C8 Cor Corvette was named Car and Driver 10 best list again that's pretty cool
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yeah the street continues for the C8 Corvette as the stingray and the eay were both named to the 10 best cars by
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Car and Driver it's the fifth consecutive year for the C8 Stingray to be named to the list and we are tied for second with Porsche with 25 total times
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to make the list I think the number one car is the Toyota Camry or something like that the Honda Accord you know they
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got like 37 or 38 wins to R 25 so we'll never catch that this is a really big
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deal for General Motors great that the Cor that's on there obviously there's a couple other GM products were also
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selected the ct4v Blackwing and the lt4 powered ct5v black wings we're also
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selected for a third consecutive time Car and Driver they call their 10 best list the snapshot of cars but obviously
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they prefer the performance versions which is why we're doing so well there great to be on that list not part of the world domination tour but definitely
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dominating that list yeah definitely and speaking of awards the 2024 Corvette also won the JD Power ALG residual value
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award what is the ALG residual value award yeah well this award honors vehicles that are projected to hold the
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highest percentage of their manufacture suggested retail pricing after three years so according to JD Power this
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value retention is key variable to the leaste cost of a vehicle and then underscoring the automaker success in
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areas of long-term quality design as well as overall desirability of that car we get the award now but it's a kind of
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an advanced notice of how they think it's going to do here and of course we won that midsize premium sporty category
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is where the Corvette Falls in that JD Power actually evaluates nearly 300 cars from 2024 model year and then through
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their analysis of used car vehicle pricing the Outlook and the brand and product competitiveness they come up
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with that list two other GM vehicles were honored in their categories they were the Chevrolet Tracks and the GMC
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Sierra 3500 heavy duty pickup truck hey we'll take the awards just another one on the Manel shelf and anytime you get a
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JD power award they're no Fly by Night organization that's a big deal that's a big deal for sure buddy let's take our
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toate on what's happening with America sports car in segment two we always cover Corvette racing and Corvette
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rumors Keith it looks like Corvette racing is going to be testing a Daytona reel soon isn't that right yeah actually
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they just completed a test they had their two Corvette Z6 gt3rs that they to International Speedway last week this
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was an IMA sanction test so other teams were all there they run the cars through a techline for evaluation by race
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organizers and then they get some track time as the team start a new chapter for this great new car Doug fan always
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talked about the book they write the book they go to a course they go to a track they do all their testing they figure out the best setups for that
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track and it goes in the book well last year's book is out the window because this is a brand new card different
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characteristics as fan would say they're writing a whole new book for this new car that was the IMA test that just
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happened the roar before the 24 actually is coming up January 19th to the 21st and then the running of the Rolex 24
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Daytona kicks off the following Saturday on January 27th as we are heading into the holidays here there's still a lot of
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testing going on there a lot of preparations and then beginning of the year it all switches into high gear yeah
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and that's just a few weeks away so that's going to be pretty darn interesting yeah we're going to keep our eyes on that for sure and I was looking
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to see if AWA was down there I didn't see anything on their social media channels but I bet they were also testing there and of course we're
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waiting to see the cars delivered in WC for TF sport the British team that's going to be campaigning over there a lot
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of moving parts right now we're going to be keeping an eye on yeah definitely in the rumors category we think we've got a
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little bit more clarity about those Corvettes up in Michigan right yeah you know it's six weeks Steve six weeks
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we've been harping about these 2024 Corvette Stingrays that were sent to Michigan for these unknown repairs or updates finally we got a little bit of
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word from General Motors as to what the problem is you know we've been going back and forth some were saying oh no it's the transmission some are saying
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it's got to be structural you know it's got to be structur Al what we're finding out is a couple of the owners that have
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cars up there they've been in touch with GM's executive resolution board before we they were asking you know what's
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wrong with my car and they wouldn't be told they just said oh it's just you're waiting on some parts or things like that well two owners in the last week
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were talking to members of this executive resolution board and they are finally told that the issue is with the
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Dual clutch Transmissions those Transmissions were revised for the 2024 model year and they're specific to Stingray which is why we're always
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seeing stingrays being sent to Michigan apparently these Corvettes are being cycled through a Pensky service center
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up there and we're hearing that the Transmissions are being rebuilt to fix whatever problem there was the good news
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is that dealers and the NCM have reported that they've received completed cars back from Michigan oh they're
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moving them through the reason why they were sent to Michigan in the first place was space constraints they just don't have that kind of room at the Museum not
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only for the storage of those cars but to cycle them in and out and do those repairs whatever they may be they were
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set up there to Michigan where they were told it was all hands on deck but hopefully with cars returning now and
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getting back to their customers hopefully we can get this resolved and finally put behind us also motor Tren
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thinks that we still might get a Corvette SUV and an EV concept and that will be revealed later next year yeah
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this was interesting last week GM CEO Mary Barra sat down with the Detroit Automotive press for an annual fireside
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chat and was asked specifically about future Corvette stuff and did the whole you know we don't talk about future
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product thing sure Motor Trend however was more than happy to talk about future product what they did was they used her
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name to start the rumors basically said she didn't say anything it's just coming from them and their sources but
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according to them we're going to see an ice powered Corvette SUV revealed in 2024 as well as a full EV Corvette
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concept revealed Motor Trend says that the concept EV will be instantly recognizable as a C8 with nods to
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previous generations we found that a little bit interesting because last month there was a Chevrolet dealers meeting in Las Vegas that's where that
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one video that eay racing that Ferrari came from and supposedly dealers got to look at the new ZR1 as as well as we
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heard it described as some futuristic concept which we believe that could be that EV Corvette that motor Tren is
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talking about but you know as we started thinking about it could also be an upcoming Eevee Camaro which would make a
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whole lot of sense because that car officially ends production I believe this month there's been a lot of talk about the next generation of the Camaro
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will be as a full EV sports car that could be what that might be all we know is it's a futuristic car although Motor
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Trend does say it is instantly recognizable as a C8 but in terms of those two cars we also have the ZR1 most
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likely revealed sometime 2024 I would say within the first 6 months and certainly maybe within the first three
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months but we could also then have a grandport there's been a lot of chatter about that although a lot of that chatter is coming from the chattering
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class like us and YouTubers and other people and not really coming from inside the house as we like to say right
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whatever the case 2024 is really shaping up to be a busy year for the Corvette team yes absolutely and also carbon
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America that would be really cool yeah they're based out of Australia but they're eyeing a plan in North America
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to serve the manufacturing here because according to them America is where all this is happening we think of the carbon
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fiber Wheels is one way to do that the rumors suggest that the carbon Revolution plant will end up in Mexico
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they say that these plants are highly automated but we're also still looking at a few years away before it becomes a
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reality very interesting that they you want to be closer to Manufacturing in the United States of course not only the
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big three from America but then also you've got a lot of foreign investments Japanese companies and European
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the 2024 rodent track performance car of the year it sounds like we're getting all the motorist magazines in the fold
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aren't we well you know know that's right this hybrid eay is just something to behold I guess but they all want to
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test it they want to make sure is this a car that fits with the both the Corvette lineup but also in the hierarchy of
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where we are with performance cars today and again with that all-wheel drive system you know it really puts the eay
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there at the Forefront of performance last year the Z06 won this award and it would be great again to see the eay
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follow up with the title this year but man there is some seriously stiff competition first up there's the Porsche
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911 career T it's got a manual transmission right away they've got the advantage yeah and then there's some Heavy Hitters like a $500,000 Ferrari
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296 GTB wow you have an off-road capable Lamborghini Huracan stado I hope I said
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that right you did and then I don't know what this is It's a single seat 12200 pound BAC monot track special H I don't
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Spectrum you've got the Mustang Darkhorse uh brand new car there from Ford and then a Nissan Z MMO so the eay
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definitely has its work cut out for it if it's going to snag this award I don't know Steve that's some pretty stiff competition in the fold there yeah I
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like this performance car of the year award but boy you're right there's a lot of stiff competition there yeah and real
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quick while we're talking about Awards whatever the heck happened to the North American Car of the Year award yeah I know the eay was up for that as well
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unfortunately it did not make the cut I don't have the three winners in front of me right now but it was announced at the LA Auto Show last month that it did not
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make the cut okay let's talk about the Z6 it sounds like there was a C8 Z6 that caught fire during a Canyon Run what
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happened with that yeah Z6 Corvette was participating in a Thanksgiving Day Canyon Run with some other exotic
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drivers really looked like a great day you had blue skies you had curvy two-lane roads and of course 670
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horsepower at your disposal and one of the cars that was following this orange Z06 had a dash cam and as they're going
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through and all of a sudden you just see this puff of smoke come out of the exhaust and then within another 15 or 20
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seconds they pulled up to a stop sign and you start see a trail of oil behind the car the guy behind the co6 is
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beeping and he yells at him hey your car's on fire but then he just goes on his merry way leaving the guy standing
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there on the side of the road so we don't really know what happened to him you couldn't see any Flames from the video but you did see some smoke
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hopefully that driver is certainly okay as well as his car yeah definitely yeah your car's on fire bye-bye
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bye people they're crazy oh well also George Foreman is selling his Corvette
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collection what is his Corvette collection consist of it's not just Corvettes he's got like 50 cars
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apparently the Grill Master really likes his automobiles because he's been collecting them for a long time he's got
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the Corvette wise a 1958 Corvette Roadster a seering silver 1963 Corvette
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Split Window and the 6800 mile 1991 Callaway B2K twin turbo convertible wow
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the three great cars they're all for sale on Hagerty they have a new Online Marketplace bidding goes on just under
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two weeks I think 13 days these cars are still affordably priced it looks like I think the Callaway was sitting at$
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30,000 $35,000 if you want one of the big man's Corvettes the boxing great and Grill Master George Foreman check out
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hagerty.com and go to their Marketplace and you'll see some advertising for when George Foreman's cars That'd Be A
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Conversation Piece owning a George Foreman Corvette that's for sure yeah and I'd be like oh all I got a grill
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yeah thank you but I got the grill it's okay our final story Keith and this is kind of like the best for last the
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national Court museum has delivered its 2500th Corvette which is so cool yeah
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the RAC program just reached this big milestone on November 16th with the delivery of the 2500 Corvette for this
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year so they did 2500 this year it was a Hypersonic gray over two-tone blue Z06
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and it belonged to Chuck and Angela Harbor they had no idea when they were walking in the museum that their car was
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the 25th h00 delivery for the model year NCM did a nice video of the car and the presentation definitely something to
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check out there the NCM says that they delivered actually 2525 Corvettes for the model year and
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that was twice the amount of deliveries done in 2021 where they only did 1276 new cars delivered we've been to the
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museum a bunch of times it's a great way to pick up your cars it's priced now at 1,495 you get the plant tour which again
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in February there will be no plant tours you get the NCM tour and think you can go over and do some parade Laps on the
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racetrack as well I continue to think that they're going to be pretty busy going into 2024 it is a cool thing to do
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if you've never had an rhc delivery at the National Corvette Museum every Corvette owner deserves at least one
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that's for sure buddy thanks for being back on Corvette today happy holidays and we will talk to you on Christmas day
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glad to be here you know we're going to be stocking up on some toys for our little kitties out there getting them some sting rays I know we've got a
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Barbie Corvette on order for one of the granddaughters so all kinds of good stuff happening and we will talk to you
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