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CORVETTE TODAY #79 - Corvette News & Headlines, Mid October 2021
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May 8, 2025
With the reveal of the new mid-engine C8 Z06 next week, this CORVETTE TODAY News & Headlines episode is a “must listen-to” podcast! Your CORVETTE TODAY host, Steve Garrett, teams up again with Keith Cornett from CorvetteBlogger.com to bring you the hottest headlines in the world of Corvette…including the latest on the C8 Z06 reveal on October 26th! Here are a few of the topics covered in this podcast: 1. The C8 Z06 will make public debut at the Petersen Automotive Museum on October 26 2. GM makes a change to 2022 Corvette ordered with Z51 and the high wing 3. C8 Corvette ranked 2nd on the list of the fastest selling cars in September 2021 4. C8 E-Rays are testing in Colorado and outside the Nurburgring in Germany 5. A 95 year old WWII veteran is moved to the head of the line to get his 2022 Corvette 6. Mazzanti to build a Corvette-powered Italian supercar with 761 horsepower 7. A truckload of C8’s goes up in flames 8. Watch a video of BGA building right-hand drive C8 Corvettes You’ll know everything we know when you listen to this CORVETTE TODAY podcast!
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news and headlines with my buddy keith cornett from corvetteblogger.com as you know keith is a regular guest on
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corvette today he's here twice per month about every other week we keep you up to date on what's going on with america's
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favorite sports car keith good to have you back as we heat up next week is going to be the reveal of the c806 and
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we got lots of news coming yeah this is going to be exciting time for corvette enthusiasts and i know we're very excited as well so sit down strap in and
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get ready to hang on because we're going that's perfectly said buddy that is perfectly said all right first of all as
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we always do in corvette news in section 1 we talk about corvette production at the bowling green assembly plant how's
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the update looking on that you know i got to tell you these guys are cranking out some cars right now and they have
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been i think we are around 20 weeks now without interruption so last week we saw the plant operating nearly at full
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production they've been doing like 920 cars which works out to about 184 per
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day which is what their full production schedule looks like we've crossed over 4 600 cars for the
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2022 model year this week actually we'll cross over 5 000 so yeah they're just really cranking out these cars so far
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they've been able to withstand the issues of the global supply chain we have to think that there's more pressure
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now on the supply chain not just chips but all the other stuff that we might be getting from overseas for this car when
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we see all the container ships stacked up off the coast of california i know that kai and his team are probably
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working hard on that as long as they can keep cranking these cars out they can be keeping people happy absolutely right
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and i know that corvette delivered over 10 000 cars in the third quarter and that kind of dominated sales for the
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quarter didn't it it was pretty amazing this is one of the highest three month totals we've seen in a while and
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probably if i was to go back and look at different three-month production of the c7 right around the launch time of the
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z06 was when that would be equal to so yeah for the first time in a few years we're seeing real production numbers
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grow you know if they do if they have a similar number in fourth quarter that'll mean that for the calendar year they
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produced around 34 or 35 000 cars that's a huge jump in production and again a
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good job to those guys in bowling green for getting that done the other thing too steve that we had is the market
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share for the corvette is just out of control right now we get these quarterly updates and we see how well the car does
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against its competitors in the premium sports car segment right these are cars like the porsche 911 the caymans the
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boxsters you have the mercedes-benz amg gt audi r8 nissan gtr and then nissan
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nsx normally we spank them our cars are cheaper they're easier to get hold of we
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are talking about america's favorite sports car so normally we've been averaging right around 50 percent of that share of that market well in third
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quarter we saw a huge jump we're at 76 percent share of the premium sports car
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sales market in third quarter amazing the closest competitor was the porsche 911 with 12
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the corvette's just on fire right now people are really taking hold of the car and getting it wherever they can that's
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an incredible percentage that's truly truly amazing well buddy let's talk about big elephant
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in the room i guess let's talk about the z06 because it's going to be made public and the public debut will be on october
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26th at the petersen automotive museum in los angeles yeah so here's what we've
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kind of pieced together and this comes from our friends over at the midnight corvette forum as well john's really had
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his nose of the grindstone to sniff this one out the peter sonata museum is out in california we're going to see a
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virtual launch for the z06 by general motors at 12 noon on the 26th so we
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don't know where that location is going to be we don't know if they've taped it already or if they're doing it live we just know that october 26 at 12 noon
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eastern time is the virtual reveal they're going to do the film and then they're going to have a round table we
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assume like taj and other key people will be talking about the z06 so as that's going on over on the west coast
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at the petersen auto museum in los angeles they're actually going to have one of the cars there and it's going to
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be viewable by the public on october 26 starting at 10 a.m pacific time for people that are really excited and won't
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see the car and can't wait to see it it's going to be at the peterson auto museum i believe through the 29th so
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october to the 29th you'll be able to see it there so that's pretty cool we have to assume that after that we'll be
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doing the show tour we know we've got the la auto shows coming up and also uh sema we expect the car to be at both of
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those places absolutely well this is going to be exciting i can't wait for october 26th exactly yeah that's going
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to be a fun day and then that week probably what they'll end up doing is we'll be getting features from different people that have seen the car maybe
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they've had access to it early sometimes they do that with the print magazines they have them out early and let them drive it it's gonna be fun time you know
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we're gonna learn so much about this car there might be a few things that we don't know maybe they can't share some stuff yet they did that during the early
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reveal the stingray i believe they're waiting on some final numbers from sae for power wise but hopefully we'll have
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the most important stuff and then we'll just be able to sit back and watch all these different news features and reviews on it it's gonna be an exciting
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week that's for sure also on the stingray keith general motors has made the change to the 2022 corvette when you
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order the z51 package and the high wing there's kind of a twist to this isn't there a little bit yeah what we've seen
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previously is you know the z51 comes with its own wing spoiler on the back right and it's installed at the factory
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and then if you wanted to order the optional high wing the high wing is shipped to your dealer and so when the
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car comes in and during the pdi the pre-delivery inspection they take off the z51 wing spoiler and then they put
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on the high wing so what we've seen now is for the 2022s if you do order the z51
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and the high wing as part of your initial order gm is going to ship your car to your dealer without the z51 wing
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installed the good news is that there's already the holes pre-drilled and they're covered with the little stickers
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the bad news is that if you're a z51 buyer and you wanted that wing spoiler you're not getting it anymore we learned
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this from rick conti and i think one of the reasons why gm made this change is that when dealers were taking off the
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z51 spoiler sometimes they were seeing some damage to the paint and finish that's underneath it that surrounds the
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supports for it my feeling is that just after too many warranty claims they decided let's just take it off we'll
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ship it pre-drilled and so then the pdi they only have to do the high wing install that way so yeah it's a little
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bit of a twist i think they did it for the right reasons not to screw somebody out of having two wings so to speak but
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i think they were seeing some blemishes and some damage on these finishes as they were taking the wing off so that's
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probably the reason behind that well it makes good logical sense that's for sure also gmsv says the first right-hand
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drive c8 in new zealand is now registered so they've got their cars they're getting them registered and
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they're on the road yeah this is an exciting time especially for anybody that you've met from new zealand or
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australia they're getting factory right-hand drive cars for the first time ever and they're excited about it we
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want people to be able to enjoy the corvette as much as we do here this is definitely a world car chevrolet has
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made sure that it's going to be a world car so not only have we seen this car now in new zealand but we do know that
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european deliveries are taking place as well as deliveries in the uk the right-hand drive cars in the uk this is
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an important time for general motors they're getting their car out in the new markets and in traditionally markets that they haven't sold a lot of numbers
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in these first initial sales i think will be fairly low maybe a thousand per market eventually as they'll grow into
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that but we're not losing like tons and tons of production to these exports the majority of the cars built here in the
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united states will stay in the united states i think even 2021 numbers whereas about 89 or 90 of the cars were here in
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the united states but it's good to see our cars elsewhere the world domination tour continues absolutely right and if
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you look at the big picture that world domination is a good factor and it's a great thing for corvette so i'm glad to
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see that everybody is getting their cars overseas getting them registered and on the road absolutely also the ca corvette
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ranked second in the list of fastest selling cars in september 2021. that was
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good news but i'm interested to see who is number one well this has been a fun feature for us this last year almost
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every month this year we have seen the chevy corvette on the top 20 list of fastest selling new vehicles these are
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studies done by ic cars so we came in second our average time to sale was 8.6
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days that's actually just down i think we're 8.3 days the month before the number one car was the subaru crosstrek
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that needed an average of 7.8 days to sell i haven't looked this up but generally what we've seen is the hot car
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of the month that's just released that comes out you know people that might have pre-orders for just like the corvette when that car does come out
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they go to their customers immediately that have already ordered it so that's probably why we see the big jump there i
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bet the subaru crosstrek won't be number one next month but here's the other thing too about this study is not only
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do they show the average days to sell but they show the average price and we are seeing the highest price ever for
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the corvette they have the transactional price now at 92 366. i know last month it was 89 000 and
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i believe this is probably due to when they opened up the 2022 ordering they had a higher percentage of convertibles
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and i think 2021 the overall stats was 42 convertibles i think they opened 2022's production with 46
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of convertibles so that'll drive up your msrp on an average as well as the mcgtlm
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special edition cars those are probably also helping to add to that average price general motors has got to be
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really happy with not only how fast the car is selling but people are buying loaded versions of the car too and
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that's just more money in the bank for them good for them absolutely right and also speaking of ranking second corvette
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ranked second and co gods made in america index didn't they yeah there's two of these indexes i know one's called
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the made in america by cars.com and then this is the co good business school they do a made in america index their
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methodologies are a little bit different but for the most part they look at cars that are assembled in the united states
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and then the major components like engines and transmissions where they're assembled as well as where the workforce
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majority is and when they get their other domestic parts we came in second only to the ford mustang so you got
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mustang and corvette two probably the most american cars on the market i think the mustang did like an 88.5 as their
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ranking we are 86 so just two and a half points behind these lists fluctuate as new content comes available for cars i
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think last year we were third but we've certainly been first before as well so good news yeah the corvette is america's
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favorite sports car and the reason why is it's made here by the men and women of the united states and it's mostly
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enjoyed here as well so good for corvette for making that list it's almost expected isn't it absolutely
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we're talking about corvette racing and corvette rumors corvette was at vir virginia international raceway on
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october 9th how did they do there well we had three cars in the field of course there's the number three corvette the
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number four corvette and then the weathertech porsche 911 and it was like a nascar race if you had a chance to see
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it there's a whole lot of bumping and pushing and it made for some exciting moments there in the end it was nick
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tandy and tommy milner came out on top in the number four core this was their third win in a row it's been fun seeing
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these guys get out there and mix it up and now they're getting some trophies and being at the top of the podium very
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good race there's a replay of this and if you haven't seen it it's definitely worth its watch the 76 portion is just
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determined to get through in some certain places and we see some door banging and some spinning out and at one
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point i believe tandy actually just drives him off the track you see this race car with the back end bouncing off
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the ground it's pretty amazing it was a good race and congratulations again to the number four corvette for that the
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next race is coming up petite le mans november 13th it's the final race of the season it's terms of the standings
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antonio garcia and jordan taylor and the number three car they only need to start that race to get their second straight
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title and another manufacturer's championship for chevrolet so good news indeed there wow that's amazing and the
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season's winding down in 2021 yeah it's interesting before kova the last couple years we've seen this season go into
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november before used to wrap up around mid-october around this time actually right so we do get a little extra month
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of racing there it does make the season a little bit shorter for teams as they go from a turnaround time of
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mid-november to january for the rolex we only get a month and a half off and then it starts all over again there you go
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let's get to corvette rumors keith we saw the e-ray testing not only in colorado but we saw it outside the
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nurburgring in germany are the two related at all we don't think so i mean obviously they're related there's
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corvette engineering teams that are driving these cars whether the same people were at the same place it's hard to say but we do know that in early
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october i did a blog post on october 5th actually that had some sightings in colorado one of the interesting things
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was they're definitely e-rays we see the wide-body car with the quarter-mounted exhaust they're testing here and one of
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the interesting things is a girl catches them on video and she literally says is it just me or is this thing not making
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any noise oh that's the big thing around the e-ray is are we going to see some
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sort of silent propulsion at lower speeds or not or is it just for launching and for other performance
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aspects of the car that stuff we don't know yet but they are testing in colorado it usually means high altitude
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testing out there near breckenridge and silverthorne i believe is what it's called so they got some good sightings
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out there and then a week later sure enough they showed up at the nurburgring again they weren't in the nurburgring
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they didn't drive the track they were only captured driving the public streets around the track okay along with that
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ride they were with a z06 that had the z07 performance package on it as well as a couple other stingrays there's a video
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a spy photographer put together a really nice video of different captures of the cars on the public streets you kind of
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have that old world flavor and a couple points and then you see these american sports cars coming through it's pretty
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neat so definitely would watch if you're interested in the era i would definitely try to catch up on those spy photos and the video from the track and it looks
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like the e-ray has some kind of a unique exhaust outlet doesn't it yeah so these pictures as we were able to zoom in on
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them the stingrays exhaust is basically a square with rounded corners on it right what we see on the e-ray is the
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tops look the same but the bottoms are more rounded so you have the top squared off and then the bottom round part when
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you see them side by side they're completely different than the two so that's one of the real first visual
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design changes we've seen on this car i have to assume too that we'll see some more visual clues just like the grand
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sport and the z06 and the c7 era even though they shared the wide-body design they were differentiated by different
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design cues the z06 had the white tail lights or the clear tail lights they had a different vent on the corner i'm
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assuming we'll see visual differences like that as well between the e-ray and the z06 and speaking of the z06 for the
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c8 are we going to see some exclusive colors you think that was a post put together by alex summers one of our
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writers who is always thinking of the future and would like to see the corvette design team really go exotic
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with their colors some of the hot colors right now are bernardo gray you have some really bright greens and then of
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course there's the traditional corvette yellow why not bring back the same yellow that's on the race car that we can put it on the z06 as well that might
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happen are we going to see any exclusive colors i doubt it 12 colors you'd have the stingray people be upset if they
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couldn't get a color the z06 if you limited certain colors somebody for sure would want the one color that they can't
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get my guess is that because 2023 is also an anniversary year that's the 70th
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anniversary of the corvette that we'll see some sort of exclusive packaging maybe like a special edition or an
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anniversary edition right but i seriously doubt there'll be any exclusive colors we'll see some new
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colors but anything that's exclusive to the z06 i seriously doubt the other thing that we might see too is we might
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see another color for the interior so when they come out with the z06 we have
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some upper level interiors that you can only get by going 3lz so if you go 3lz on your z06 there might be a different
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color there that you can't get anywhere else but the 3lz that might happen and we'll just pay special attention see if
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that does well like my grandmother said keith variety is the spice of life so i hope that happens absolutely yeah buddy
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let's take our final break and when we come back in section number three we're going to talk about the lighter side of corvette on corvette today
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seen at corvetteblogger.com on this final section of corvette today we always talk about the lighter side of
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corvette keith i want to start this section with a feel-good story a 95-year-old world war ii veteran had
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ordered a 2022 corvette and they moved him up to the head of the line just to make sure he could get his car and enjoy
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the car yeah it's a pretty cool story he went 30 days from ordering to taking delivery which in c8 speak that's a
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minor miracle to have that happen i understand that either he or the dealership got some people involved and
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they were able to make that happen for him his name is bobby carson he's actually had seven corvettes prior so he
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knows all about them you think about a 95 year old driving this car if you see this guy you're gonna be like man i hope
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my jeans are as good as his at that age because he is totally with it he's ready to get out there and he says it's not
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gonna be no garage queen either it's really inspirational glad to see able to take care of veterans like this the
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world war ii population of veterans is drastically decreasing each and every day and so while we have these people
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with us let's enjoy them and he's going to enjoy his new corvette absolutely right also there's a company called
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mazanti that is building a corvette powered italian supercar with 761 horsepower now is this the car
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that supercar blondie is getting no i believe that's different i think she had an aries okay these are all these coach
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built cars and so what happens is they'll come up with their own structure design or sometimes they'll use the
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whole chassis of a c7 or c8 and then wrap around their own components around it what we have here is essentially an
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italian mid-engine sports car they're going to be sourcing the engine from general motors as its power plant and
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then from there they've got their own design it's pretty cool they've got a split window suicide doors quite a bit
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going on there but they say it'll do over 200 miles an hour they'll probably build five of them these cars that do
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these one-offs the production on very low so probably be high cost and then just very very low production that
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sounds good also there's a corvette designer that created a mid-century modern home in michigan that was really
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cool to see him kind of branching out a little bit creative people you can't stop those creative flow when it happens
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what's the difference between sketching out a car and sketching out a house this was a house created by dolan didion i
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believe his last name is we understand that he was a designer on some of the early corvettes for chevrolet he had his
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mid-century home 3 900 square feet in royal oak just went on the real estate
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market there for 1.3 million dollars wow it's pretty cool you can take a look through you can walk through some of the
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photos and see how it was laid out we've had these a couple times where like zoro's house has come up for sale a
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couple times up in grand blanc and we also did a feature once on david mcclellan's house he had a frank lloyd
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wright inspired home that went on the market so yeah it's always fun to kind of dip our toes into real estate every now and again this mid-century classic
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by didion's pretty cool house so if you get a chance to check it out do so and hey it's only 1.3 million steve a couple
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more podcasts and i think you'll be ready for it i can write a check hopefully someday keith
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also on youtube the first european c8 corvette was reviewed by those people across the pond how did that turn out
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you know really good what we're finding is many of these reviewers over there you know it's their first opportunity to
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really see the car they've been watching us drive for three years now they're really kind of getting their own experience for themselves what's
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interesting in this review that we featured by carfection they're talking about how refined the car is how the
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interior's gorgeous as he's driving it he thought it was a little tamer than expected they love the v8 sound of it
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but they're all waiting for the z06 like we are but it was a really good review and so you know if you like that kind of
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stuff you like to hear different people drive the car and get their impressions especially non-americans i'm always
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interested to hear those opinions as well a lot of good reviews coming out but this one from carfection was done in 4k and just some great visuals so i'd
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definitely give that a watch i know it's always interesting to see what the europeans think about the american cars
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it was a great video to watch normally they think it's you know we're brash americans we're loud the cars are hard
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to drive they're sketchy and we don't see that at all with the c8 absolutely right also the last two stories are
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about a couple videos the first one my heart absolutely sunk because a truckload of c8s went up in flames on a
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carrier that was sad yeah boy we saw this on facebook the corvette enthusiast
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community cried out in horror as they watched these cars burn the good news is they put 10 of these cars on a trailer
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it looks like the fire started with the cab of the truck he pulled into a love's truck stop north of nashville i believe
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by the time he pulled in there was definitely a fire but these trailers they actually have two parts to them and
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it looks like the second part which has six cars on it wasn't damaged that's what we're hoping anyways but four cars
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were definitely lost in the fire don't know what caused it we know that gm was looking into it but there are some
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videos there and then there's some aftermath photos that show these burnt cars just a shame we know people
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probably were tracking them they probably knew that oh my car is getting shipped and get that call saying well we had a little issue you're going to have
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to wait a little bit we don't know they're going back to the back of the line or if gm will be able to make some sort of consolations to get them moved
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up quicker and get their cars rebuilt for them just very tragic to see that absolutely also we had a cool video this
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was neat i enjoyed watching this because i'm glad that the c8 is a world car but there is a video from bowling green
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showing the right-hand drive c8 being built that was so much fun to watch we don't really have a lot of video from
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inside the plant i think there's maybe three or four videos that are out there since february of 2020 just because the
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plants shut down they don't let in hardly any guests anymore with all the stuff they're doing now with the z06
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they had to keep that stuff secret as well but yeah we definitely saw a video dedicated to right hand drive assembly
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you think about this kai spandy and he did a presentation at the mcm bash he talked about there's probably like 526
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right hand drive specific parts that are put on this car as it's going for export
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so 56 individual jobs are impacted so you can imagine your muscle memory every day you're going in you're putting this
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on you're putting this on you're putting this on and then here comes the car and now it's the other person on the other side of the car that puts that part on
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because everything's reversed this also leads me to believe wow if you have 526 parts specific to the right-hand drive
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model what's it going to be like with the z06 then you're going to have all these different parts of the z06 and then if you do a right-hand driving 06
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so you can see how the jobs of the assembly plant workers are about to get more complex as we add more models to
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the mix here we'll be watching that but yeah if you like videos seeing the cars installed we definitely want you to
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check this one out absolutely well keith thanks for being on corvette today we'll see you in two weeks and we'll have a
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big overall review of the debut of the c806 well we're really looking forward to it
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