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CORVETTE TODAY #217 - Corvette News & Headlines, Early June 2024 It's News & Headlines time this week with your CORVETTE TODAY host, Steve Garrett and Keith Cornett from CorvetteBlogger.com. CORVETTE TODAY remains one of the best ways to stay current and up-to-date on what's happening in the world of Corvette. Here are a few of the topics that Steve and Keith cover on this week's show.... 1. Bowling Green Assembly Plant sets a new record with E-Ray production
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from corvette blogger.com. Keith is here every other week and together we keep you current and uptodate on what's
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happening with America's sports car. Keith, welcome back to the show. How's everything going, buddy? Glad to be
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back, Steve. You know, we're in the throws of summer right now. Not quite the dog days yet, but everybody's pretty excited. We got shows coming up. I know
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you've got a big show last weekend. Just really excited to get out there and do stuff. Yep. Things are pretty exciting right now.
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Summer officially starts on June 20th, but it already feels like summer for sure. Oh, yeah. Especially here in Florida.
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Absolutely. Well, buddy, let's start off as we always do. Let's get a production update on the Bowling Green assembly
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plant. Thanks, Steve. You know, production's getting interesting. We're heading into kind of the last couple months of this
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model year. We'll have a little bit more on that later. One of the things that we did was we did a snapshot of what we saw in May. And during May, we had 4,087
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Corvettes completed during the month. I mean, just again, a huge number. 4,000 cars in one month. Yeah.
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The Stingray saw production of 2,785 units. Chevy also produced 1,187 Z06s
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and a grand total of 115 - last week. We're looking at a total of 24,120
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Stingrays produced plus 7,220 Z06s and 419 E-rays.
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Wow. So, you add up all those numbers together, we're looking at 31,759
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Corvettes for the 2024 model year. The plant will be producing cars into September, I'm thinking that we're going
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to end up seeing probably 40,000 Corvettes or more produced for 2024 when it's all said and done. That's great.
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Huge number. Yeah. You know, we've always looked at kind of like that July to July as the model year, but it does
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seem like it shifted into September. We started in September last year. We've seen September previously and
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historically. So, maybe this is kind of the new normal, you know, going September to September. I'm actually quite all right with that.
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Yeah, we do have a new date for starting 2025 production then, don't we? Exactly. So, a memo was sent out to
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Chevrolet dealers by General Motors last week, and it gave us some additional details on the end of the 24s as well as
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the starting of the 25. So, in the memo, General Motors is stating that the start of regular production for the 2025
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Corvette model year will now happen Monday, September 9th. The first allocations for 2025 model year will
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come out during the July cycle 1 ordering. And we believe that's going to fall on July 11th. The Thursday before
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that, it's the 4th of July weekend. So, we're pretty confident that dealers will get their first allocations July 11th.
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And then we'll probably see ordering open up on July 18th. By the time you've listened to this podcast, the 2025
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Corvette order guide is supposed to have been released. Check out Corvette Blogger for all the new updates and anything that hasn't yet been addressed
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by the team. We go through that with a fine tooth comb and that's actually one of my funnest things to do each year. It's like Christmas. You unwrap it. We
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know a lot of what's all there. You tend to find some things or something interesting comes up. So, we're looking forward to that. As for the 2024s, they
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will most likely end Friday, September 6th. It looks like there's just going to be one more order cycle happening. That's coming this Thursday. dealers
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received their final allocations last week and Chevy even shared a list of projected constraints that include any
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of the seven discontinued colors. We're not sure how that's going to handle some of these colors, you know, hypersonic
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gray. We had some buildout dates that showed like the last time the order that would be the eth or maybe it's the last
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time it would be built is the 8th of August. Like I said, there's some stuff that's up in the air for us. We just don't have the ability to pull back the
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curtain to see what GM's going to do there. But as for the other constraints, Stingray, we still have one LT limited
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to 20%. Z-51s limited to 55% and then the Q9i 20 spoke glass black wheels are
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quote TBD to be determined. Unfortunately, the news for Z06 suddenly turned bad. On the last constraint
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report, we had the carbon fiber arrow was now on constraint and it was zero. There's nothing available. Wow.
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And we're seeing now that Z07 is 0% for the rest of the 2024s.
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And then the S SOA Black Spider wheels are to be terminated. Now Z07, we've been seeing that about 19% of buyers
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have been ordering the Z07 package. It's not quite as huge as what it was last year when we still had all their first
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people in that always tend to spec heavy their cars, right? But they told us that at the bash that
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oh, we got through most of our issues with carbon fiber and availabilities, but all that seems to be gone right now.
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Wow. Not sure why that is. Hopefully they'll get their ducks in a row so that when they do start the 2025s, you know,
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everything will kind of be back to normal again. That's right. And adding to that, Amplify Orange and Accelerate Yellow are
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already not available anymore. Yeah. And this is what we were talking about how General Motors will kind of put out something and then the very next
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day or the next week it all changes. They put out these dates of Accelerate Yellow and Amplify Orange. I think
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Amplify Orange was supposed to go away at the end of June and here it is gone now. It was gone at the end of May. We
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still have silver flare, cacti, carbon flash, ceramic matrix gray, and hypersonic gray as still quote
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available. But I'm thinking that when ordering does happen on Thursday that we see none of those colors are going to be
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available. It's just going to be the colors that are returning back for 2025 or give me the order ones. Uh there
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might be a few here and there. Maybe some dealers will get counts like you can order this many, you can order that many, but it's not going to be a free
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flow order I think on any of those colors. So again, very fluid situation. Just kind of stick with us and we'll get
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through it together. Steve, absolutely right buddy. Also, going back to production, Keith, we saw the Bowling Green assembly plant had a record day
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for production for -ace. Actually, a record week. Yeah, actually, I'm happy to say that they've actually surpassed that record
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already. So, on May 22nd, the Corvette assembly plant built 16-rays during the two shifts. That's the highest daily
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counts they've done with the E-Rays. They've only done that twice now. That same week, they built 35 - also a weekly
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record for production for the new car. And then last week, during one of the days, they built 18- Rays. So, the new
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record is 18 for the day. Nice. We also learned in the last order cycle in May was specifically for E-rays with
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some dealers getting multiple allocations for the performance hybrid sports car. So, it looks like they're filling in gaps. They're giving dealers
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orders. You know, we now know that the end date is going to be September 6 for 2024. So, this should get them through
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the summer months until we start ordering July, you know, the 2025 models. Pretty interesting stuff there.
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We're keeping an eye on eBay production. I'm still thinking that we'll end up the model year probably around a thousand or
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so cars produced. They've got 600 in house as of April 1st and then whatever they're adding now with these other
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allocation rounds will just add to that number. So I'm thinking at least a good solid thousand and maybe we could see
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additional ramp up even more, but that's what we're sticking with so far. A thousand is a good number. Not bad at all, buddy.
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Yeah. Speaking of -ay, we saw that the -ray is finally arrived in Japan. Yeah. We like to call this the C8
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Corvette world domination tour. Right. Each time we see these cars going to new markets, it just is exciting for us. I'm
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sure it's exciting for people there. So, Chevrolet Japan officials, they revealed the right-hand drive during their
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Corvette fan days last weekend at the Fuji International Speedway. We haven't seen any pricing yet or build info.
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Chevy has previously offered the limited edition launch editions that kind of helped standardize the car for the new
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market and they could just build a batch all the same and then send them over. In 2023, Chevy exported 567 Stingrays and
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only eight Z06s. Now, those numbers should continue to grow as some people now can custom order their Stingrays and
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Z06s. And then we'll have the E-Rays. Again, nice to see five or six hundred cars. That's much more than what they
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were doing back in the day when they only had the lefthand drive configurations. Now that they're driving on the righthand side of the roads in a
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Corvette that was built that way, adoption has been much higher. Oh, I'm sure it has. And also, Keith, through May 31st, we saw the top 10
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dealers. Do we have any change from the previous time? Yeah, a little bit. The first half is all the same. We're halfway through the
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year. McMullen Corvette has nearly a 300 car lead. They have 791 deliveries
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versus Sioka Corvette of Atlantic City. and they have 507 deliveries. So nearly 300 there. The top five is the same.
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Round it up. Mike Ferman in three. Bomb day in Miami is fourth. And then less Stanford in Dearborn, Michigan is fifth.
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But the real action on this list is kind of happening at the bottom four dealers. And there's two dealers specifically in Texas that are moving up the list. Since
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our last update at the end of first quarter, Classic Chevrolet and Grapevine has Leaprogged into seventh place,
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followed by Rick Ki and Cogland Chevrolet in Ohio. Stone Brier is ninth. They're also in Texas. And then bombed
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in West Kendall is 10th. They're out of Miami. A little bit of movement down there in that bottom part of the list.
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And I think now that as dealers are actually having to work and sell these Stingrays as opposed to just working off their customer list, right,
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we might still see some changes there. Our friend Rick, he's got a little bit of a platform with his YouTube. He's now focusing on cars that are coming into
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his dealership and has them in stock. I think we're going to see other dealers do that, showing off their MSRP
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discounts and things like that. That'd be cool. All right, buddy. That sounds good. Let's take our first break.
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I'm your host Steve Garrett. With me is my buddy Keith Cornet from corvette blogger.com. Every other week, we keep
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you current and up to date on what's going on in the world of Corvette. In segment number two, we always go into
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Corvette racing and Corvette rumors. Keith, let's start with Corvette racing. And how did they do at Detroit? You
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know, this was supposed to be a really sweet homecoming for the Corvette racing team. They haven't raced in their hometown since 2019, but Lady Luck
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raised her hand again and it didn't quite go as planned. The number three Corvette, which won the poll, ran exactly one lap before having to come
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into the pits with an alternator issue. So frustrating to see that. The number four Corvette was second and they were
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just kicking butt through the first half of the race. They got in a little situation. Mickey Catsburg does take the blame for it. He says that he break a
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little bit early, went a little bit wide and that allowed the Lexus to kind of dive bomb him in one of the corners.
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Unfortunately, when Nick moved back over, they made contact, it spun the number four Corvette basically out of
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contention for the race. Nikki did take the blame for that. Nexus did do a risky move and the damage they sustained kept
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them from winning the race as well. So, not all that good. You know, this course is very tough and it's even tighter than
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Long Beach, which is typically one of the gunfights, the knife fights on the calendar every year. Very hard to pass.
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Only one real long straightaway on the race. There's one corner that was a full 180 turn. A hard race there. Plenty of
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people showed up to watch it. We enjoyed watching social media and seeing all the Corvette clubs and dealerships and the
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fan clubs out there all participating in it. Our next race for IMSA Corvette Racing Team is coming up June 20 through
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the 23rd with the six hours of the Glenn at Watkins Glenn in New York. Cool. And we also need to do a preview of Corvette
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racing at Lama this year. It's coming up too. It's coming up this weekend, Steve. Believe it or not. Wow.
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The next race TF Sport in the World Endurance Championship is the 24 hours lemons. Tell you the truth, Steve, I'm a
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little bit nervous about this one. TF Sport is a mixed team. Some drivers have experienced that. The number 81 Corvette
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has three drivers with some Lemons experience. The number 82 Corvette, they're all rookies. We've also had some
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reliability issues that TS Sport has experienced at the beginning of the wet season. And then the thing is that
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there's 23 cars in the class, which is a huge change from the entry list we've seen previously where there'd be seven
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of us or 10 of us or maybe even 12 of us, right? We're talking 23 cars. The GT3 class is
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unified now in the World Endurance Championship. There's no pro class or amateur class. It's just one class. So,
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it's really going to be an interesting race for sure. Again, anything can happen. TF Sport, I believe, has won Le
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Man several times. I believe their last time they won it was in an Aston Martin. So, they've got the experience. Corvette
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Racing is going to be there as a technical partner with them. They've got the best in the business helping them out. We just need a little bit of luck
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and some really reliable cars to get us over that finish line. Yeah, that's right, Keith. And speaking of reliability, we're making some
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strides though with this GT3R on the reliability side, aren't we? Again, Steve, you know, you write an
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article and then the very next race, you're proved wrong. Again, that's what we saw with the number three Corvette at
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Detroit, you know, with an alternator problem. you think they'd have the alternator problems worked out by now. But in fact, looking back at some of
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these issues with the different cars in the different series, it does appear to be mostly electrical issues that are
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plaguing the car. So, really need to get that knocked down. Now, the exciting thing though is that for a team like
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DXDT Racing that races in the GT America series, they came out of the box right
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away and won their very first two races. They benefited from the other teams going through some growing pains early
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on in the series. they were able to take any changes, get them updated on the car, and then of course you had Tommy
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Milner, who's probably the most experienced driver in the GT3 car, right? Be able to get the win for them there.
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So, I think we are making strides. It's just so frustrating to see a number three car with an alternator problem on
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the first lap at Detroit was a gut punch. Right. Absolutely. Keith, let's switch over to rumors. We had a new ZR1 teaser
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that came out with some Easter eggs and then we had another one with the sound of the twin turbo engine. Yeah. You know, it's all smoke and
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mirror, Steve. Well, it's mostly mostly smoke. Deb teaser has that silhouette of the car with all the smoke in the
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background. The smoke kind of moves around and reveals the logo, reveals the cross flags. But this one, they gave us
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something different. You know, the very first reveal, they always said unthinkable is coming. And now with this teaser, they changed it to unthinkable
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speed is coming. And then in the background, we got to hear the engine of the ZR1 kind of winding up and and doing
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its thing. So, an interesting teaser. But after a day to digest this, our friend Mike at Brick Speed found an
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Easter egg in the video. You know, if you look at these are in the 10-second mark, you literally see the LT6 rocket
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that's on all the six motors kind of as a reference to it being the Gemini project. You see that rocket in there?
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It's blasting off and then on each side of it, you see what looks to be represented as as two turbos. Pretty
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interesting. Chevy said in the YouTube description that quote, "If you blink, you'll miss it." And it's literally only
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on the screen for just a couple seconds, but it sure looks like that LT6 rocket has two turbos on it. You know, after
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thinking about this, I said sometimes we have a habit to overthink everything in terms of the engineering and what Corvette might be up to, the engineers.
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But if we keep it simple, the rocket is clearly a reference to the LT6. And the unthinkable is that Chevy is
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turbocharging the Corvette's engine for the first time in it 71-year history, right? I think if you look at those two things and keep it simple, that's what
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we're looking at. There's other people saying, "No, no, no. This engine's going to be a supercharged turbo engine, which
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I don't know how you do that. No, I don't either. Are you turbocharging the supercharger? Are you supercharging the turbochargers?
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Exactly. I got another friend saying that. Oh, no. See those twin streams of smoke coming out? That means it's going to
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have meth injection. I'm like, oo, no, that's not going to happen. I don't see that happening either for a
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standard production car. Yeah, but I think again keeping it simple LT6 motor. It's going to have the flat plane
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crank in it and the two twin turbochargers. It's going to make about 850 horsepower, so maybe even a little
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bit more. Some rumors are closer to 9, but I'm going to stick with the 850 right now. I think 850 is probably pretty right and
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pretty reasonable. Also, we still saw ZR1 prototypes filmed out in traffic, didn't we?
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Man, it's so exciting. You get teasers, you get engine noise, and then you see one out in public. So, this was a
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Corvette ZR1 convertible prototype in Metro Detroit. As the car takes off, it speeds away and we even hear some
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exhaust burble in the ride. There's a guy following him. He's got a Demon 170. He's following him along in traffic. He
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does say that some of those burbles might be from the Demon, not from the Corvette, but it's a really good video.
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It's actually one of these videos I say drop whatever you're doing and go find it right now to watch because it really
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does give us multiple vantage points of the car. There's some differences on this compared to what we've seen some of
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the spy shots. Really interesting stuff going on there. We don't know everything that's happening with these cars. Could
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that be a ZR1? Maybe it's something else. Maybe it's a Ram Sport. Yeah, you never know.
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Maybe it's a Zora. We'll get to the Zoras next, but there's just no telling what Chevy's doing underneath those engine compartments and things like
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that. I think this is going to be a standard ZR1 convertible that's running around, but you got to go see the video.
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Yeah, absolutely right. And speaking of Zora, buddy, I thought this was the biggest rumor in the last two weeks. We
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saw that GM is now benchmarking the Ferrari SF90 Stradali. Now, are they benchmarking that against Zora? You
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know, we talked about GM benchmarking previously cuz one of the most interesting aspects for me at least is to see what Corvette engineers are
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testing their new prototypes in public against. So, when they were testing the Z06es, they had a Stingray with them. As they're testing the ZR1, sometimes
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they'll have a Z06 with them. The benchmark car kind of gives us an idea of what they're looking at in the competition. So, previously we've seen
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GM driving a Porsche 911 GT2 RS. We've seen the Ferrari 458, which makes a
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whole lot of sense with the Z06. And of course, the 488. The joke was they were driving the 488. They didn't like the
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sound of it as much as the 458. So, they switch back to that car. And then we even had the engineers
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driving the Acura NSX when they were doing some testing with the pre-productions. I saw that
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because engineers want to compare apples to apples. We kind of can look at the benchmark cars and say, "Well, if the benchmark car is this, then are they
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looking at that on the Corvette?" Right? That's why the Ferrari SF90 is so interesting. It's a V8 powered plug-in
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hybrid, three electric motors, and it makes nearly,000 horsepower combined. And that's essentially what the Corvette
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Zor is, a twin turbo V8 powered supercar with E-Ray E all-wheel drive setup to combine for a,000 horsepower. The
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Corvette prototypes that are with the Ferrari, they're all covered up at a lunch stop in Ohio. And then we got them
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again with some pictures. They're covered up again in Pittsburgh. They've got that huge ZR1 wing on the back of
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them. They could be ZR1's. Maybe just one of the cars in that group of prototypes is Azora and the others are
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just prototype ZR1's. We just don't know. But again, you can't deny the fact that somebody on the Corvette team's
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driving around in a Ferrari SF90. Yeah, that's pretty cool, too, isn't it? That's a good thought to have. You'd have to wonder, oh, I always want to
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drive the Corvette. Well, I'll take the Ferrari. That's good. And Steve, I have a secret
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theory that most Corvette owners would be Ferrari owners if they could afford it. Right. The SF90 has a stealth mode as well.
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While the stealth mode on the -ay is 4 miles, their stealth mode will take them up to 25 km, I believe. Some pretty
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interesting stuff they're doing there. And I don't know if they have a speed limit either on that. So, that should be interesting as well.
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That's cool. If I could be a Ferrari owner, I'd probably take Lamborghini instead.
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Well, that's one way to go. Yeah, absolutely. Well, buddy, let's take our final break. When we come back, it's the lighter side of Corvette on
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Corvette. First, Keith, you can do a hot lap in a Corvette pace car in the Indy500. That was so cool to see. Yeah,
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you know, we kind of caught this video a day late. It was after the Indianapolis 500 already run. And again, congratulations to Joseph New Garden for
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his win. Did you know that New Garden is a Corvette owner? No, I didn't know that. Yeah, he actually bought an Arctic White
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Stingray. I think he took delivery like in May or June of 2020. So, he's one of the very first Corvette owners. He
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toured the factory in February. So, just before COVID shut down the factory, he did a tour with cameras. That was one of
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the very first videos we saw of the C8s being produced. Again, congratulations Joseph's New Garden, a fellow Corvette owner, for winning the Indie 500. This
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hot lap that we got came from team Chevy, and it shows the Corvette pace car making its way from the pits and
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then it does a full lap around the 2.5 mile oval at Indie. And the other thing, too, is we also got another hot lap in
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an E-Ray pace car. This was at the Detroit Street Circuit. We talked about how tight that course was. Very little
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areas to pass, one really long straightway. I would definitely take a lap in both of those just to see how they're different. They're so different
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from each other. wide open throttle on the banks at Indie, but here at Detroit, you're barely getting out of third gear,
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it looks like. Right. We have the hot laps of the E-Ray at corvette blogger.com. That's really cool. That was a fun thing
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to watch because open lapping at Indie. You're right. It's just wide open throttling. It's just moving. It's
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awesome. Also, Keith, let's talk about Mikum Indianapolis because that's a big show and we have the top 11 Corvette
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sales from Mikum Indie, don't we? Yeah. You know, we've always done the top 11 because what would happen is invariably the last two or three cars in
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the list would always be tied. So we'd always end up going over and sometimes we'd have top 12, but now we just as kind of a internal thing amongst
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ourselves. Steve a lot of times does this for me. Steve Burns, our Detroit bureau guy, he'll come up with these. So the top 11, what is interesting about
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Indianapolis, 335 Corvettes were on the Indie docket. Again, a huge number. I think that's only second to what we see
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in CMI every year. You know, I think there's close to 400 down at CMI this year, right? We did a top 11 and all of
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these were C2s except for one car. Huh. So led by a 1963 fuly split window Z06
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sold for $687,000. The one car that wasn't a C2 was a 2019
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Corvette ZR1. It had the low wig. I believe it was a manual transmission car and it sold for $220,000.
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And then on the flip side, you know, the cheapest Corvette that sold at Indie was a red 1976 Corvette.
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Changed hands for $7,700. Wow. Pretty interesting stuff. You can see the full list of results at corvette
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blogger.com. Ton of cars going through. Some interesting stuff. You know, some things not quite going for prices as we
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thought, but those C2s just seem to be gold right now. Yeah, definitely. And this story is near and dear to my heart because carbon
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fiber door sills are now available for 3LT and 3LZ Corvettes. Yeah, you know, we kind of talked about
30:47
this in the first section. We are seeing some carbon fiber issues creep up on us once again. And we're thinking maybe GM
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has kind of been aware of this for a little bit. Last month, they moved some of the popular visible carbon fiber like the mirror caps. Before you can order
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those on any car, now they're restricting them just to 3LT or 3LZ, meaning that you have to order the top trim group to get that visible carbon
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fiber accessories. Right. These visible carbon fiber door sills, they were just restricted to 3LT and 3LZ
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orders, but you can still order them all a cart at the Chevrolet accessories page at Chevrolet.com. They're selling for
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$21.95 through the catalog, but if you order with the car, they're $19.95. Nice. They're pretty strong price. They got
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the Corvette silhouette on them. You know, they're nice looking. I don't know if they're like, "Oh my god, I got to have them." Of course, I don't have that
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addiction like you do, Steve. Unfortunately, they do look nice. And for the people that want them out there, there you go.
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There you go. Indeed. Also, it's cool to see the National Corvette Museum. We've got a couple stories for you. The C8R
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number three car is now on display at the National Corvette Museum. Yeah, they just made this announcement. Of course, we've got some really top
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guys going through the Corvette Museum's Hall of Fame later this year. Yan Magnus and Oliver Gavin being the drivers. And
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then we also have Richard Prince who's serving as like the Corvette enthusiast. He's getting into the Corvette Hall of Fame. Of course, he's been the official
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photographer since the beginning of Corvette racing. We're betting that the C8R will be there through the
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anniversary show so anybody can see it. This is interesting car. This car won 10 times out of 27 starts and had 13 poles
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and it only raced for two years before it kind of went out of style. That's when IMSA switched over to GT3 and so we
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had to modify the car for GT3. So this was a GTLM car. So for two years it was
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an IMSA and then it served as the final GTLM car in the World Endurance Championship where it was driven by Nick
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Tandy and Tommy Milner back in 2022. Interesting life. Glad to have the car on display at the Corvette Museum. has
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finally found a home it deserves. Hopefully, it'll be a long-term placement as well. I'm not sure how long it's going to be there, but great to see
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it. A great addition to the museum. That would be cool to keep it there for a long time. And also, speaking of the
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museum, the museum is now a Kentucky top tourist destination, too. Bowling Green's just seeing the number
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of visitors rise each year. I think they were up 9% last year. They're up over their CO numbers already. The top
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destination in Warren County, which is where Bowling Green is located, is the National Corvette Museum. It is really
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the Corvette capital of the world. Not only do you have the Corvette Museum, but you got the racetrack across the street. You've got the plant now. We're
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not doing tours currently, but there'll be some tours over the anniversary show, but they'll start the tours up again at some point. And then all the other stuff
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you have Beach Bend, you have Holly's there doing their LS Fest every year. All kinds of stuff going on. And then
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some local attractions. Lost River Cave. I've never done that. I'd still want to do that at some point. Pretty cool to
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see that. I love Bowling Green. It's a fun town to go. So, I'm actually to the point now where I can go to Bowling Green and usually get around town
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without having to use my GPS and address finders. Love Bowling Green. Glad to see the success they're having. And again,
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without Bowling Green, there'd be no Corvette Museum there at the plant. Absolutely right. Well, buddy, thanks for being back on Corvette today. I will
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