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CORVETTE TODAY #197 - Corvette News & Headlines, Mid January 2024
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May 8, 2025
CORVETTE TODAY #197 - Corvette News & Headlines, Mid January 2024 I don't know about you, but I thought that during the winter, things would slow down in regards to Corvette news. I was really wrong! Next week's News & Headlines show is packed with a ton of Corvette information. Keith Cornett from CorvetteBlogger is back and joins your CORVETTE TODAY host, Steve Garrett to keep you up-to-date on what's going on in the world of Corvette. Here are a few of the stories Steve and Keith cover: We have a final count on 2023 Corvettes built! BGA plant tours close February 5th E-Ray production started last week A new era of Corvette Racing starts in Daytona soon Ron Fellows to be inducted into the Sebring Hall Of Fame We have a new E-Ray video on Corvette Academy CORVETTE TODAY's News & Headlines show every other week is your best resource to keep you current on what's going on in the world of Corvette! 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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news and headlines with my buddy Keith cornette from Corvette blogger.com Keith is here every other week we keep you
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current and up toate on what's happening with America Sports Car Keith welcome back to the show I hope you're keep it
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nice and warm buddy yeah you know we've had some of these cold fronts going through and we're talking about temperatures in the 30s here in Florida
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which is a little bit colder than just jacket and shorts weathers we're accustomed to so might have to pull out some gloves you know what I'm saying
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we're talking to above here in Kansas City so I kill for that 30s I hear you well let's get into it buddy let's start
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off as we always do with a production update from the Bowling Green assembly plant all right thanks Steve yeah we'll start first With The Stingrays that's
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really what Chevy and the workers at Bowling Green are really showing some big numbers that 202 24 model year started in mid-september and as of last
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week we were seeing 10,250 Corvette Stingrays have already been produced for the model year wow
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they're really cranking them out in January because something unknown appears to be holding back the z6s so
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more and more stingrays are being made in their place we've only seen 87 Corvette z6s completed since the new
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year and it's crazy to us that they've been able to do that over a number of shifts we talked about a couple weeks
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back we saw like they built 60 cars over two shifts but it's really dropped off and we days and days without any being
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produced here at the beginning of the year so we're really wondering what's going on it's just really hard to put our fingers on and no one's really
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talking during the first nine days of 2024 only three z6s were made so something is definitely happening there
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yeah the last number we have for total Z06 production for 2024 is 2,827 so like I said they were banging
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them out up into December and then something happened they slowed way down and it's just over the last couple days we're seeing like counts of 18 and 19
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again hopefully that's all returning and we'll get back up there but some other really good news is that the e-rays are
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continuing their slow production ramp up we saw the first three e-rays for customers built in mid December and then
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it kind of went dark of course they were off for a week with the break there for the holidays and then we had the week of
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January 8th sort of circled on our calendar because that's when many were s their tpws were set for that's when we
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figured okay it's after the the holidays and stuff and that's when we'll really start to see stuff get going I mentioned in an article that the ramp up the
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Corvette team had said that they're going to be very deliberate and we're actually seeing some of these quantities are almost mirroring what we saw during
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that first month of ZO6 production back in September of 2022 they started off really slow two or three a day six a day
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and then it just goes up from there The Unofficial count we have as of last Wednesday was 20 eays completed but we
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think that number is actually over 30 as we record this episode we expect this trend to continue as the ramp up goes
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eventually we'll see in the teens and then hopefully in the 20s and 30s it's happening it's just going to take a little time it always does and that's
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okay also we saw that in the fourth quarter GM produced almost 9,000 Corvettes though didn't they yeah they
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released their latest quarterly stats early January that covers the fourth quarter of 2023 and it shows a total of
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8,915 new Corvettes were delivered during the final three months of the year this is a number they always
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compare it to the time period before so we are a little bit less off we are 2.4% less than the 9,130 Corvettes delivered
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in the fourth quarter of 2022 huh and then for the calendar year because the fourth quarter numbers complete the
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12month sales chart for us us dealers delivered 34353 new Corvettes and again that was
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just 05% off the 2022 total of 34510 really put them out there any time
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we get up to 9,000 cars or so in a quarter that's going to be a pretty good year for us if we can do over the 9,000
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get into the 10,000 that's even better yeah our next quarterly sales report will be released in early April and of
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course we'll have those numbers here for you on Corvette today that sounds great and buddy we finally found out finally
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how many Corvettes were produced in 2023 you're going to die well you know the number was
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53,723 to beat the record so the official
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number 1979 that was the Corvette production record it stands at 53,8 7 the 2023 model year is now second
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all time with 53,723 margin of 22 Corvettes just to tie the record 23 to beat it and in fact
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I think I told you this 23 cars is roughly just about two hours of production time at the Corvette assembly
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plant right so very close to being beaten you had had that snow day that one time or that one part had come in
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and they've been able to build a few more cars yep I think they would have had the record I think they were actually going for the record based on
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the dates of how things were happening there towards the end of the model year that it was probably a little bit of a gut punch to Har because I know he
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really tracks this kind of stuff yeah I some more numbers here so when it comes to the four models Stingray CP leads the
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way 24,8 34 units that represents 46.2%
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of all production okay that was followed by the Stingray convertible at 22538 units that's
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41.9% of production and then we have the Z6 convertible which actually out sold the Z6 Coupe wow can't tell you the last
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time I saw that happen probably never in my time blogging here it was 3,34
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convertibles okay versus 3,19 coups wow pretty cool there a total of
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47,3 72 stingrays were produced versus the 6,413
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z6s lastly some news for you the 70th Anniversary models those could be ordered four different ways Coupe
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convertible Z6 Stingray and there was a total of 5,601 70th anniversaries
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produced for the model year that represents about 10.4% of total production nice and then finally
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Everyone likes to know about interior and exterior color combos Chevrolet and NCM offers this great spreadsheet that
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breaks out those various combinations you can get that on Corvette blogger you probably also get it over at the Corvette museum overall the top three
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colors once again torch red 7,895 arctic white
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7,216 and then black which was 6,43 the least produced color was
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caffeine just 536 and I believe the top color for the Z06 was black while the
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top color for the stingray was torch red you can break these all out the Cor Museum does have a service people ask me
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how rare my car is I don't know call the museum but the Corvette museum has a
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service where you can send in your vanin and they run it through a third party that does an analysis and then you get back that nice letter that basically
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tells you your car is a oneon-one because you ordered that one thing with that other one thing that no one else did that's generally how you get a
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oneon-one car so finally got stats for 2023 could live in those for a little while there's some really cool stories
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out there so check it out yeah I'm disappointed I can't believe we didn't beat 79 oh my gosh but we do have some
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good news the ordering cycle for January starts on Thursday this week yeah more corvest order so we're in the start of
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January's order cycle dealers received their allocation numbers last Thursday and then this Thursday dealers will get
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the constraints and then they can start adding orders to GM's workbench ordering system so the dealers that we spoke to
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we always do a little call out kind of our own little survey says that Stingray numbers were actually relatively strong
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for this year while the ZO6 quantities were smaller than what we saw in De members allocations and then for eay it
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looks like the model was skipped over as no dealer that we spoke with received any eay allocations and we didn't see
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anybody saying they got an eray allocation online either okay here's the thing though a couple of these dealers that are talking regarding allocations
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are stating that hey I got in these allocations and we have some open orders now Rick py on his video says he's got
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several available this month and then if you go to MCM and Chevrolet website they've got around 20 25 cars these are
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incoming dealer stock orders that people can claim so if you see in there it'll show you like it's convertible Stingray
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it's black with a red interior that's what you want and go claim that it's a car that's incoming so your time to wait
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went from months and months and months to maybe six to eight weeks or so right if you really want a stingray and want
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to be driving it this spring that sounds like a great way to go again both those dealers will give you those cars at MSRP
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we've heard from other dealers saying that looks like they're going to be ordering some dealer stock orders out there as well looks like the tide is
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turned for Stingray allocations and for production might just be a few months where you can walk into a Chevrolet
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dealer they might have a couple Stingrays for sale that you can just walk in and buy off the floor wouldn't that be something it only took us five
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years but at least we're getting there right exactly you know of course I'm talking to one of the dealers and he's like yeah that of course opens up all
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kinds of worms you get to order your own cars you get a discount for the customers hopefully they want to order
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their own cars at MSRP but they'll take your car off your hands for a little discount that's where that one Facebook
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site comes into play right Corvette's under MSRP that's a great source for finding discounts as well they are out
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there for Stingray you just got to put the phone to work and find those deals yep definitely and also I don't know if
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everybody knew this but the plant tours at Bowling Green assembly plant are closing on February 5th so we've only
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got what two three weeks left to go exactly I think we wrote this story on January 5th saying one month ago kind of
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surprising last year they said that the assembly plant hosted 30,000 visitors wow which is a huge number that's
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actually larger than I thought it would be but they are hauling tours starting February 5th as the assembly plant's going to be making some internal changes
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they call these changes quote manufacturing advancements there is currently no date when these tours will
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reopen but we are told that it's most likely going to be over a year or more that tours will be closed so if you want
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to get in there and see some cars you have until February 5th to do that actually fifth is Monday so February 2nd
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to get in there and see those cars it's our speculation they could be building some captured test fleet cars for the
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upcoming 2025 Corvette ZR1 we also have that rumored 2025 model year interior
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update that could see the end of the Great Wall of buttons that's a sloping panel that hosts Corvette's HVAC
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controls between the driver and the passenger we've done all kinds of rumors got rumors of Grand Sport model some people are saying that the plan is just
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being better optimized for the widebody models whatever they're doing there it's going to take a little while and there's
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obviously some things going on and I like the idea of the refresh for 2025 because if you've been on the tours you
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see them moving these parts around and there goes a Corvette's Dash by you as you're on the tour so there's probably
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things like that they don't want you to see as they all that set up we'll have to wait and see what happens over the course of the next year with the tours
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get in there fast my friends get in there fast also Keith our final story in the news section the 2024 Corvette is
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first on consumer reports top 10 most satisfying cars that's really great cuz
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Consumer Reports didn't like us at all at one point yeah you know up until C8 time it was a LoveHate relationship they
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love to hate us is how I like to say right but we actually have seen a softening of that and a lot of it is
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just because of the change the C8 architecture some of the things that they've done especially the quality of the materials on the interior that was
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always something that Consumer Reports knocked us down but the thing about this story is that this is coming from
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Corvette owners so they do a survey and I'm whopping 93% of 2024 Corvette owners
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say they buy the car again that's number one now on consumer reports top 10 most
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satisfying cars other cars in the top 10 were the Lexus NX plugin hybrid EV at 87% uh BMW X5 at 85% rivan R1 s at 84%
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the Corvette was the only GM product to make this top 10 and it's because of Corvette owners they love their car and
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they would definitely buy another one nice well Keith let's take our first break when we come back Corvette racing
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4231 I'm your host Steve Garrett with me is Keith cornet from Corvette blogger.com every other week we keep you
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current and up toate on what's happening in the world of Corvette in this second segment we always talk about Corvette
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racing and Corvette rumors first Keith we're starting a new era of Corvette racing and it starts at the end of
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January yeah actually it's race week as the 2024 IMA series kicks off its calendar at the roller ston tour of
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Daytona the team just wrapped up three days of practice during the war before the 24 and then they actually held
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qualifying for Daytona's pole position as we recorded this prior to the weekend you got to check out Corvette blogger to
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see where the Z6 gt3r Racers will be starting on the grid one of the very exciting things coming up here is the
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addition of more Corvettes that are running in imsa of course we have the two Corvettes in the GTD amateur class
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now with AWA racing Fielding those cars we received our first press release from Pratt Miller Motorsports for the event
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and the nice thing is that not only they including quotes from the pro drivers as we've always had but it looks like they're going to be discussing the amate
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team as well so for us it looks like almost seamless transition as Corvette racing brings in these other racing
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groups into their PR fold will give us all the lowd Downs as they happen each race so both prior to the race and then
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post race and their reactions there pretty exciting stuff the Rolex 24 Daytona kicks off at 1:40 p.m. eastern
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time this Saturday that start of that race will be broadcasted on NBC so you better be there yeah that sounds like
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fun I'm glad it's going to be on network television too it'll be easier for us to find at least the first race I know it
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jumps around I think it even ends up on Discovery Channel for a minute oh wow but if you've got peacock you're a
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cheese football game a couple weeks back you had that peacock well all the races are shown on peacock so it is an
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anyway catch it out on NBC at 1:40 p.m. on Saturday sounds good and speaking one
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of the teams TF Sports has shown off their new gt3r livery they're going to be in the we yeah these are cool colors
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of course they're using the traditional black and yellow colors combined they did a fantastic ftic job on these designs it almost reminds us of the
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Corvette c6rs when they race one was in yellow with black accents and one was black with the yellow accents it's not
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that extreme but they did a fantastic job on the we've seen six liveries so far for 2024 and of those six this is
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the best I'd even say that these are better than the Corvette racing Livery wow definitely want to check those out
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WC previously always kicked off or at least the last few years has kicked off at Sebring and that's not going to happen this year they're actually
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kicking off March 2nd in Qatar for the first world dur Championship race there was some talk that maybe TF sport would
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not be Fielding these cars until maybe the second race so I'm going to go back and take a look at that to see if that's the case there was something they're
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racing the Mercedes now I believe the Mercedes AMG okay and I think they might have had one more race for that car
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which would have been the opener at Guitar we'll check that out but man dare I say these are the best deliveries for 2024 you'll definitely see why yeah and
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you can check them out on the Corvette today news and headlines show on the YouTube channel you can see all the deliveries there there you go also our
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buddy run fellows is going to be inducted into the Sebring Hall of Fame that is so good news Ron was on Corvette
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today episode number 104 and that was middle of April of 2022 but it was great
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to see him get this Accolade yeah one of the nicest guys in Motorsports he'll talk to anybody for as long as you want
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to just a fantastic guy another honor in his impressive career he's one of six new inductees into the Sebring Hall of
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Fame they do this voting every two years I went back I tried to pull up his stats for just Sebring it looks like he
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participated 10 races won four of those races in addition he has seven total Podium finishes six pole positions and
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has raced over 3,000 laps at that historic track huge numbers we're talking just one track we're not talking
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a career these newest members of the Hall of Fame will be inducted before the start of the 72nd mobile one 12 hours to
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Sebring that'll happen on Saturday March 16th and then if you're at that race you can also listen to Ron he's going to
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talk at a seminar on Friday March 17th at 9:30 a.m. that's at the gallery of Legends building which is sort of like
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their little Hall of Fame building they also have the old vintage race cars in there as well so you can hear Ron talk
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Friday March 17th at 9:30 definitely take advantage of that if you're at the race that sounds great also Keith in our
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rumors category we touched on this in the first segment of the show but Bowling Green has only Built 89 z6s
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since December 21st what do you think is going on it's really tough to say we haven't really heard of any part
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shortages and the steamray production there's a couple different weather events that's happened over the course of the last few weeks nothing there is
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really saying well we don't see the stingray slowing down so it does seem to be Z6 specific might even be widebody
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specific because we do have the eay starting to ramp up maybe there are some things that they were holding back to make sure that the eays do get that
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smooth ramp up that we've been talking about we rely on these numbers they come from Roger Keel he post these unofficial
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Corvette production estimates on Facebook and some of the people are saying you know well it's Facebook it's unreliable why are you getting your
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stats off of there if you saw his chart you'd see why and the fact is that we've been following for so long a lot of his
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data has matched up with other data we also rely on a website called CA tracker which counts cars by their window
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stickers being produced they lag a little bit behind the immediate day after reports that we get from Roger
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Keel but it still shows that something's going on at the beginning of January where uh slowdown in Z6 production was
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actually really happening it does appear the last few days we've started to see it pick up last Wednesday and Thursday
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which is our last two dates of info we had 18 and 19 units completed on those days hopefully we're going to still see
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that kind of account again we've seen counts in the 60s before we saw them do I think 71 over a course of two shifts
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so we know it's possible there's just something happening there there's some other things going on we talked about the redesign and doing some other things
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in the plant right maybe they've slowed down just a little bit and then we'll take advantage of that once some of
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those improvements and enhancements are done over there one of the rumors of the plant shutdown was because they're going to make enhancements to facilitate more
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widebody production of course we call those the Z's and the e it's rumors we
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don't know why speculation wise but it's just something to keep an eye on again the numbers don't lie we'll be watching those and hopefully our two weeks we'll
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be able to say yeah remember that slowdown appears all to be in our rearview window that'd be nice buddy for sure all right Keith let's take our last
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blogger is with me we keep you current and up toate on what's happening with America sports car in this final segment
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we always talk about the lighter side of Corvette Keith Yahoo finance goes to Bowling Green assembly plan and they
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watch the first eay come off the assembly line why didn't they invite us yeah exactly that's what I've been
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trying to tell you Steve actually this was a pretty good video it kind of came to hit us by surprise we see the guy
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standing there in front of a car and it actually is a black eay he visited the assembly plant the first retail 2024
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Corvette eay coming off the assembly line belongs to Mr hendrik and it appears that Mr Hendrick streak of outfitting his Vin 001 cars remains
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intact as we see the first eay is black with a dipped adrenaline red interior nice the Yahoo finance report this is a
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video so he goes behind the wheel of a car he goes out driving it nice little recap of the eay what to expect we don't
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see a lot of the number one car coming off the line just a brief picture we think that Chevy's going to save that as
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they done for all their launches where they do a special press release show the car and some other details about it
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right for Z6 that came about a month after production started so I don't know if we're going to be seeing that any
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time this month because production actually started back in December or if really it's going to come within the next few weeks fall into February
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because we're in the ramp up phase right now you can see that video on Corvette blogger and also on YouTube Just Search
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for Yahoo finance and it'll come up that sounds good and also the Corvette Academy put out a new eay video as well
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yeah it's been a few months since we've seen an eay academy video This One features several Chevrolet Corvette team
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members discussing the new Performance Hybrid sports car not a whole lot of information there's a pretty cool quote
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in there my favorite quote comes from Chevrolet marketing director Brad Fran he says quote not many times in a career
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do you have the opportunity to take such an iconic car and take it to the next level of performance the eay absolutely
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does that the other thing though is interesting these eay videos don't do much in dispelling the myths of the
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first Performance Hybrid we still find people they see the E and the eay name and think the car is totally electric
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right we ran another video I think last week from Mike at break of speed who wanted to spell some of these myths and
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usually read the comments they crazy you know it's just people I wouldn't be caught dead in an electric Corvette well
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you know if that's how you really feel about stuff and perhaps you need a new hobby you know it's pretty sad but also
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somewhat comical I really can't wait for these cars to be out in public and these people that are so anti eray you get
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their first taste of being pushed in the back of their seat as that front-wheel drive kicks in because that's really what it's all about for me is the
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all-wheel drive system of the eay and what it can do all these years have been covering Corvettes and seeing Oh here
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comes the GTR here comes another all-wheel drive car you know Corvette's got no chance in that situation well now
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it does yeah and I think a lot of what people are missing about the r-ray is the hybrid is built for performance it's
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not built for distance driving so it's to enhance performance of the Corvette and it's the first all-wheel drive
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Corvette we've ever had so if people understand that hopefully they'll get away from oh I would never be caught
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driving an electric Corvette gets built for added performance there was an article that came out we didn't cover it
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it was from a CNN writer who talked about the Corvette eray misses his mark because it's not focused on fuel economy
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with its hybrid setup and that's totally the wrong reason why it's like just went right over his head on the real reason
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why it's for performance and it's only for performance yes absolutely you're not going to see any major gains from
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fuel economy unless you religiously Drive in stealth mode and I'm talking about turning off the car and turning it
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back on going another four miles charge up the battery turn it back off turn it back on yeah you'll get some fuel economy savings that way but it's not
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built for that it's built for pushing you in the back of the seat hooking up those front wheels and then beating whoever is next to you exactly right
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also our next story Keith it was nice to see know we touched in the first segment on the consumer reports award that
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Corvette got motor Authority which is a really good website named the C8 ZO6 as
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the best car to buy in 2024 yeah they start off the article it says it may not be perfect but the 2024 Corvette Z06
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doesn't miss by much that's a pretty cool thing to say about the car one of the other things they really like about
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it is a special engine they call the Dual clutch transmission as incredibly responsive and capable of keeping power
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at any scenario and then their final quote they say Ferrari's already moved on past naturally aspirated flat plane
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Craig V8 and into its twin turbo V6 and the hybrid era there will be a faster more powerful Corvettes but it's
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impossible any will be as special as the Corvette Z06 there you go pretty cool quote there of course the best car to
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buy if you can get one we know that the lines are still long for the car so good luck to those people in 2024 because it
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is a special car it is a special car and if you want a really special car we saw a 2020 captured test Fleet Corvette that
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was offered for sale at 10 grand under MSRP yeah we found this on Craigslist
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and the more I kept reading my eyes just kept getting wider and wider it ends up the 119th C8 Corvette Stingray to be
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built they built a run of CTF cars these are the ones that go to Corvette Executives and Engineers they drive them
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but because they're CTF cars they're sailable so those cars that finish their testing and evaluations were offered to
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dealers and solds four years after the 2020s were out we've got one for sale
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this car is actually undergone a rigorous inspection it's a certified pre-owned car and chevrol certified
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pre-owned cars have their own warranties and additional things that they do so really nice to see it have that
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additional protection in place for the car what's interesting is like we said a capture test Fleet car it was one of the
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cars that was used to train dealers and others out at Spring Mountain oh yes it's gently used it only has about 9,000
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miles on it I believe and like I said the car is offered for 10,000 under the original MSRP of 82,000 it's got the z51
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performance package it's got the visible carbon fiber roof carbon flash wheels and microfiber steering wheel the
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selling dealer is Gamblin Motors out of Washington state and they are offering this car for 71,9 196 boy that's nice
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our final story Keith you and I got to go to mikum CMI it's 2 weeks of auctioning almost 5,000 Vehicles right
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after the New Year and we have the top 11 Corvettes sold at mikum CMI yeah
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great to see you there Steve just a great time we had of course we got to hang out with some of the consigners of course Dr Mark Davis Tom Hill who was
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offering the L88 a bunch of other people just great people we did a great tour n did a Corvette day tour with us we
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teamed up with Bloon gold and the great folks from vet views magazine as well now that the auction's over we do have
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the top Corvette s from meum CMI 2024 I'm going to just run down the list real quick number one the bestselling was the
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first and last Corvette L88 they were sold as a group that lot sold for $2,585 th000 Wow but you get two cars
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for that they're both L88 so that's pretty cool there 1963 Corvette Z06 with the big tank 935,000 third on the list
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1963 Harley Earl styling car that blue car that we saw with the cool outboard
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exhaust on it yep that sold for 83 ,000 there was another Corvette Z6 from 1963
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sold for 770,000 number five on the list this kind of surprised me I actually thought it would go a little bit higher
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but it was the 1953 kindig cf1 custom Roadster yeah this is the number five
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car it sold for $777,000 yeah I thought it would have gone higher too that was a pretty car I
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really enjoyed looking at that one and then back to original cars a 1969 Corvett L88 convertible that sold for
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$4.95 we had a 62 Corvette convertible this was the one part of Mark Davis's collection
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$456,000 our guy Steve that put together the analysis of this thinks that this might be the highest non-racing 1962
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Corvette ever sold yeah that was a special car there we have another 63 Split Window Coupe that sold for
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$412,500 that car was actually part of the split window group the split window collection and then we had another from
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The Collection uh 6306 385 two more on the list 1958 Corvette convertible
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363,000 and then finally a 1963 Corvette Split Window Coupe 352,000 fantastic
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sales of course they had over 460 Corvettes there you know what the least selling car was for Corvette what's that
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I believe it was a 91 or a 94 there's two of them and they sold for like
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$4,950 no kidding so you can get a running driving Corvette for under $5,000 I would call that a bargain
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absolutely right well buddy thanks for being back on Corvette today today we'll see you in two weeks and that'll be show
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number 199 wow closing in on the magical 200 Steve can't wait to hear that one in the
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