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on what's going on with america's
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favorite sports car keith happy holidays
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how was your thanksgiving steve it was
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pretty wonderful it was a little bit
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low-key than we're used to we usually do
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a big family reunion up in kentucky but
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just some changes here had to stay back
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home in florida had a nice thanksgiving
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dinner and hold turkey and ham the whole
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shebang i think i'm still feeling it on
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i empathize with you buddy that's for
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sure let's get into corvette news let's
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get an update on corvette production at
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the bowling green assembly plant so you
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know last time we talked the plant was
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just coming off of a reduction where
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they were only running their first shift
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they've been running two shifts since
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the last two weeks the good news is
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we've crossed over 8 000 on the 2022s it
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looks like everything's going well in
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fact one of the days they did 196 cars
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in one day which i think is a record i
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think that's one of the highest days
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we've ever seen production wise so
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things are going good the other thing
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too is we heard that general motors was
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reducing some of the content in their
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suv specifically what they were going to
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do is they were going to actually remove
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the heated seats and the heated steering
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wheel elements from those trucks and the
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rumor was that it might be happening to
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the corvette but the corvette is
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protected on that and i think what's
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going to happen with those trucks is
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like dealers if you buy one of those
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cars and you don't have the heated seats
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or the heated steering wheels you'll be
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able to take that truck back into the
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dealer at some point and hopefully have
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that reinstalled but we're protected
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there looks like things are good we're
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just continuing to roll on to the end of
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the year good day here buddy i'm glad to
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hear that those seats are not coming out
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of the corvette as well but we also had
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a quality control situation at the
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bowling green assembly plant over wheels
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what was going on with that yeah so we
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really don't have the full picture yet
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they always hold this kind of stuff
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close to the chest but what we heard was
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we had customers we had people waiting
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on their corvette and especially those
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rhc deliveries those people that had
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appointments started getting moved back
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it is based on some sort of wheel issue
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we don't know if we just got some bad
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batch of wheels it's an issue that
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affects both the trident wheels as well
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as the open spoke wheel so it's not like
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if you just get this one wheel you know
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it's what's causing the hold up we do
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have a statement from somebody at the
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plant that said that they confirmed that
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there is a small percentage of vehicles
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being held for a wheel related quality
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hold and they actually think that
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they'll be back up and running with
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those cars and shipping them out by the
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end of the month something that came up
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it's not good but yet they caught it
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there at the plant they're replacing
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what looks like to be faulty wheels with
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good wheels and then those will go out
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to the customers a little blip but
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nothing to be too concerned about
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actually it's a good thing because i'd
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rather have them catch it at bowling
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green rather than catch it at the
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dealership and a person already takes
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delivery of their car and then has to
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bring it back for new wheels yeah we had
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an issue back in march that's exactly
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what happened was there was a service
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bulletin issued that said when you bring
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in your car the dealer techs are
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supposed to eyeball the wheels to see if
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there was any pitting or porosity issues
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especially in the barrel of the wheel
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behind the spokes they already did that
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so it looks like there just might be
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another bad batch of wheels okay also
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corvette tied the cadillac escalade for
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first place in the jd power multimedia
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study that was good to see some great
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news like that well these are fun
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studies as well because this one is a jd
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power so it's people that have the cars
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reporting back and how much they like
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their sound system and of course if
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you've got the premium sound system with
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the 14 speakers i'm sure you love that
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it's loud as hell as we all know and
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it's so loud in fact bose wanted to turn
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it down and the corvette team said no
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you know you leave that as loud as you
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can the other thing too is it's
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interesting you know obviously we have
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the corvette tying the escalade they're
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both very similar they're different
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systems but they're very similar in how
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they're used my point of contention on
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this is just how is the corvette and the
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escalade in the same category we're in
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the mid-size large premium category for
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the study right like i said we tied with
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the escalade on that but people love
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their sound systems it's just another
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validation of the customers saying that
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they love it as well good to hear also
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this is really interesting keith because
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i love the morello red interior but
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chevrolet is replacing that for 2023
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with adrenaline red interior which we
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talked about on the last podcast and
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they're also getting some new stitching
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with the adrenaline red interior yeah so
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what we found out this comes from josh
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holder who is the corvette chief
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engineer not the executive he's been
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engineer that's transductor josh holder
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was at the petite le mans and was doing
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a question and answer session there with
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the z06 he actually said we already knew
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that adrenaline red was coming it's a
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3lt or a 3lz interior trim package so we
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knew it was coming but what we found out
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was it's actually going to replace the
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morello red the morello reds are a
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really rich dark color red as opposed to
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the bright red of the adrenaline right
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so we went back actually looked at some
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stats in 2020 the morello red was only
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installed on 297 cars and in 2021 it was
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only on 355. both of them are like 1.46
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and 1.34 in terms of the penetration so
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not a lot of customers actually chose
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the marilla red and in fact i think some
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people just had trouble pairing it up
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with the right exterior color i think
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it's a good thing the adrenaline red and
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people obviously really like it i think
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it's a fantastic looking color what we
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also found out and again this is all
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validated by one of the official photos
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from general motors when they released
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the z06 is that the door panels have
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upgraded stitching pattern if you've got
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a 3lt coupe you know you've got that
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fancy stitching on the removable rooftop
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and so now we're seeing that also on the
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door panels on this 3lz car we think
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that it's just going to be z06 according
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to josh holder that's what he said it'll
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just be on the upper level trim packages
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most likely okay well i love the morelo
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red i remember mike furman posted a
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picture of someone that bought a zeus
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bronze c8 and that had a full morello
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red interior on it it was stunning it
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was just gorgeous yeah the zeus bronze
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is one of the colors that actually went
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really well with for those people that
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have the zeus bronze merlot red and then
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if they got the bronze wheels and all
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those are really low options might be a
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collector one day absolutely right and
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finally keith i hate reporting on
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negative news but you know what we've
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got to do the good with the bad consumer
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reports says that the c8 is on the top
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10 list of least reliable cars do i need
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to make a call to consumer reports our
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commenters on the site weren't real
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happy with this report it does happen
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these are supposedly based on customers
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reporting back and saying what they
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thought was wrong with the vehicle
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consumer report says that they look at
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like 17 different areas everything from
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squeaky brakes to broken interior trim
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it could be out of warranty repairs
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which we're not really seeing right yet
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with the new c8 i guess the good news is
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that they did rank us a little bit
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higher on the list of that it's top 10
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or not the worst car there's some other
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cars that are on there that goes to the
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mercedes-benz gle some other cars that
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were on there with ford explorer ford
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mustang and the chevy silverado so at
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least we're in good company
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these reliable cars i don't know how to
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spin this in a good way but the only
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thing we know is again it's consumer
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reports so take it with a grain of salt
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that's true i guess this is where we
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insert the phrase we suck less
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well buddy let's take our first break
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and when we come back in the second
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segment we're going to talk about
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keith cornett from corvetteblogger.com
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we keep you up to date on what's going
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scoop keith in the second segment let's
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talk about a couple rumors we've got the
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c806 pricing is said to be confirmed by
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two dealerships is that really true okay
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so there's no pricing information out
11:42
there no dealers have the price this
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story is not confirmed this comes from
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our friend justin at horsepower obsessed
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the youtube channel and justin i love
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you but this story is not confirmed and
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he confirmed it because he had two
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different dealers telling him the same
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number that number was eighty seven
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thousand dollars it's a number that i
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think is doable for chevy in terms of
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where they might end up being pricing
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wise but they have not released prices
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in fact i think you talked to harlan a
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little bit about that on the last
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podcast i think we're probably going to
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see those either towards the end of the
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year or maybe the beginning of the year
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what the official msrp will be but yeah
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this story's not confirmed but yet it
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was our top story for the last two weeks
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steve no kidding people are just so
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hungry to know what that pricing is and
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where it's going to be we still don't
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know yet it is unconfirmed well like
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harlan said keith if you're used to
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corvette pricing from the stingray up to
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the z06 it will possibly follow the same
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alignment so 87 000 might be in the
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ballpark like you said we just have no
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confirmation from anybody yet we'll
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probably see that what after the first
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of the year you think that's what i
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think there's not going to be a whole
12:48
lot of news here with the holidays and
12:50
stuff coming out but i think yeah by the
12:52
beginning of the year we'll start to see
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that we saw the dates for the ordering
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was going back to the end of march so we
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should have pricing february at least
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and maybe even a little bit earlier so
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yeah i think it's definitely going to
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come at the end of the year 87 000 again
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very doable i always thought that my
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number of 88 995 was right in that sweet
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spot people are just speculating some
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think that they'll be over 90. i think
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they're really going to try to keep it
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in the 80s the other thing too is that
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the upgrades in this car are just going
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to be killer so people will easily be
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able to spec out a car that what is 130
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yeah i think that's very doable with
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carbon fiber wheels and all the other
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upgrades they have on this thing but
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yeah we're still waiting on pricing is
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not confirmed just hang in there a
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little bit longer also in the rumors
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category keith chevrolet was showing the
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z06 at the la auto show but they showed
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14 colors does that mean we saw the two
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new colors that'll be coming out well
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these kind of things are exciting for us
13:48
because before the z06 is revealed only
13:51
the core team has that information and
13:53
then what happens is okay now the car is
13:55
released now we're starting to put on
13:57
displays and the people that are
13:58
handling these displays they don't know
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all the ins and outs of the car they're
14:02
just they're hired to set up the display
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right we call them frogs i think that's
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what they're called they're these
14:06
representations of the c8s and they're
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painted and so it gives you an idea of
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here's the 12 exterior colors that are
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on the corvette except the problem was
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at la auto show there was 14 colors
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and when you looked at it there was a
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black and a white that were both
14:23
metallic and of course we know that
14:25
arctic white and our black colors are
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non-metallic colors but this was a
14:29
carbon flash black and then like a pearl
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white so very exciting what happened
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though is once the news got out and
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people started talking about it they
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went and pulled those colors from the
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display and in fact there was a corvette
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forum member right there who got
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pictures of it he says that he overheard
14:46
the guys saying that they weren't
14:48
supposed to put those colors out and
14:50
they pulled them so we could have a
14:52
pearl white and a carbon flash metallic
14:54
black as colors for the 2023 and the
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really exciting thing again is 2023 is
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an anniversary year and so
15:04
might we see a pearl white paired with
15:07
that adrenaline red interior to kind of
15:09
create a modern day representation of
15:11
that first corvette that was polo white
15:13
and the sportsman red interior back in
15:15
1953 could be some very exciting news
15:18
regarding some special editions or just
15:20
they wanted to mix things up and go with
15:22
a metallic black it's really exciting
15:24
whenever you see them pull something
15:26
back that kind of is always confirmation
15:28
that wow you're really over the target
15:29
there but they didn't want that stuff
15:31
out so i think we could actually have
15:33
some new colors those are just the
15:34
blacks and the whites what we might also
15:36
see is is that caffeine only going to be
15:38
a one year color might we see a
15:39
different yellow so there might be some
15:41
additional changes as well all they're
15:43
doing is right now talking about those
15:44
two colors so we shall see what happens
15:46
it's pretty exciting that's why we do
15:48
this rumor section on this podcast buddy
15:50
yeah that was great news also the gm
15:52
design center showed some early drawings
15:55
of the c806 it was really cool to see
15:57
how that car evolved into what we saw in
16:00
late october yeah this is always a fun
16:02
instagram account to follow the general
16:04
motors design on instagram every day
16:06
they're just putting out some of their
16:07
modern day stuff some of it's just
16:09
exercises you know and then other stuff
16:11
is like here was some of the real
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drawings that they looked at before they
16:15
went with the design that they did go
16:17
with we have two designs here one of
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them is done by casey swansinger just
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really is a good looking car and i urge
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anybody to go take a look at these
16:26
because what it shows is one of the
16:27
complaints about the mid-engine design
16:29
is all the cars always look alike that's
16:31
what people say right they don't you can
16:33
actually make them look very different
16:34
from each other these design exercises
16:36
actually show some of that i think chad
16:38
we call it bandwidth but some of the
16:40
ways that you can make this mid-engine
16:42
car look different from what we see oh
16:44
so use of the stingray right now the c8
16:46
we see how it's different with the z06
16:48
and it might even be more different with
16:50
e-ray and zr1 and the zora so the good
16:52
news is that there is a lot of little
16:54
things that they can do that makes the
16:55
car look so much different i would
16:57
definitely urge people if they like this
16:58
kind of stuff to go check out these
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photos also keith let's go back to the
17:01
la auto show real quick the z06 was on
17:04
display there what color card did they
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have there on display at the auto show
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there's four show cars we know that from
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the reveals at the la auto show they
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have the amplify orange convertible z07
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that's got the sky cool gray interior
17:19
and of course the full carbon package
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with the wing and the carnards on the
17:22
front and the black carbon fiber wheels
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the visible carbon fiber wheels the
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other car is a coupe it's the silver
17:29
flare and it has the adrenaline red
17:30
interior this is the standard z06 and
17:33
one of the things we like on this car of
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course is the wheels the spider wheels
17:36
but this z06 there's a red standard car
17:39
as well a red convertible that's red
17:41
mist but it's got the body color front
17:43
spoiler this has the carbon fiber front
17:45
spoiler on it very nice well done car
17:48
that's on display and then they also
17:49
have a caffeine metallic stingray that
17:52
people can see as well there the good
17:53
news steve is that it looks like the
17:55
corvette z06s are now on the auto show
17:57
circuit so check your listings to see
17:59
when the auto shows coming to your town
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hopefully you'll be able to go out and
18:02
see these new z06s well i'm looking
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forward to it in march here in kansas
18:05
city that's when the kc auto show is i
18:07
hope they bring one of those or some of
18:09
those z06s here to kansas city finally
18:12
keith the 2023 c806 did do a run at the
18:16
tail of the dragon i would like to sit
18:18
shotgun on that ride yeah this is pretty
18:20
interesting so we caught a picture of a
18:21
camouflaged car with a c8 stingray and
18:25
the guy that posted it on the corvette
18:27
forum said i'm about an hour from the
18:29
tail the dragon which is a road that is
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in north carolina tennessee 318 curves
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over 11 miles it's a pretty fantastic
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road and people love it so a lot of
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times when the corvette team's going
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north to south of the country maybe
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they're moving cars around we'll see
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pictures where they're actually taking
18:45
the car on the dragon when we heard that
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we went up and looked up there's a photo
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archive service so if you drive your car
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and tell the dragon there's professional
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photographers out there every day taking
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pictures of every car that goes on it
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and then you can go buy those photos so
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we went looking up we found the z06
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photos we bought some of those but the
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fun thing is along with the ride so we
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had just one z07 car it was in
19:07
camouflage however it does have the
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corner mounted exhaust so it's got the
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older version of the exhaust system on
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the car but along with the ride was a
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new gmc hummer which was surprising it
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was uh white hummer making the run with
19:20
the corvette so pretty fun little trip
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there nice keith let's take our final
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thanks for listening to corvette today
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the podcast that talks about everything
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with me every other week is keith
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cornett from corvetteblogger.com we keep
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you up to date and current on what's
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going on in the world of corvette keith
22:01
in this final segment we're going to
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talk about the lighter side of corvette
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in the first segment we talked about
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consumer reports making corvette one of
22:08
the top 10 least reliable cars but let's
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flip it here because the c8 corvette won
22:14
car drivers 10 best award and that was
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for the third year in a row take that
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consumer reports that's right so we're
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at the third year of the c8 and it's the
22:24
third consecutive time that we've been
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named to the 10 best list for car and
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driver it's actually the 23rd time that
22:29
the corvette's been on the list and i
22:31
think we go back to like 2016 or 2017
22:34
consecutively where we've had the
22:36
corvette on the 10 best list what they
22:38
actually say here's the corvette
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delivers a supercar experience at a
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sports car 62 195 starting price so it's
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pretty amazing that the starting price
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of the c8 corvette at 62 000 is just
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such a bargain when you think about the
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grand scheme of things car and driver
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they obviously recognize that we made a
22:55
list we're also up there with the kia
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telluride porsche 718 ram 1500 trucks so
23:02
it's all good car and driver they
23:04
definitely take care of corvette every
23:05
year it seems like with the 10 best list
23:06
unlike our friends consumer reports
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exactly buddy that's right and also
23:11
chevy's average transaction price topped
23:14
over 51 000 in october so we're paying
23:17
more for cars aren't we we are this is
23:19
something that's been growing we talked
23:21
about this last month it was 50 000.
23:22
that was a big deal that it crossed over
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50 000. i was 51. it's just cars are
23:27
costing more dealers are not having to
23:29
mark down not just the corvette but
23:31
they're not marking down other cars
23:32
because there's new inventory out there
23:34
they're able to charge msrp or higher on
23:37
those cars we're just seeing the cost of
23:39
everything going up anyways chevy's
23:41
obviously able to capitalize on it i
23:43
don't think anybody would a couple years
23:44
back saying you know people would be
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spending an average of 51 000 on a
23:48
chevrolet but we're definitely seeing
23:50
that in these times that's amazing also
23:53
the national corvette museum had donated
23:55
to them a 2016 c7 z06 it seems like
23:59
they're getting quite a few cars in
24:01
lately aren't they they are and what
24:03
this one does for them is it kind of
24:05
completes the collection what they have
24:07
now is for the c7 generation they have
24:10
one of each model so they've got a
24:11
stingray a grand sport a z06 now and a
24:14
zr1 as they did in the ceremony there
24:17
where they brought it in the car they
24:18
talked about how they can now tell the
24:20
story of the c7 with all four models
24:23
there at the museum so pretty cool and
24:25
it's a really nice car it's actually a
24:26
z06 convertible if you remember the c7s
24:29
had those tri-color stripes the red
24:31
white and blue stripes right that went
24:33
up the middle of the car from the cross
24:34
flags over the top of the car and this
24:36
car has that a very nice looking car
24:39
will look great in the collection
24:40
absolutely right also boost district
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offers a 700 horsepower supercharger for
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the c8 i think we talked last week about
24:48
the systems from procharger and
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lingenfelder who both are now
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supercharging cars this one like the
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lincoln felder system uses the eaton tvs
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supercharger this one here has the lt5
25:01
cover on it still from the zr1days
25:03
201901 so it is showing an lt5 cover on
25:07
it what we're also seeing too is that
25:09
with these supercharger systems the
25:10
boost one they're saying about 700
25:12
horsepower here that seems to be about
25:15
the limit that these guys can put on the
25:17
car with the boost probably around six
25:19
psi or so so we're seeing about 650 700
25:21
horsepower from these supercharged
25:23
engines now but it's a nice looking
25:25
system and they're working on a stage
25:27
two and a stage three wow they teamed up
25:29
with the guys from fuel tech who have
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the world's fastest corvette right
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they're integrating some of what they've
25:34
done on the car with the supercharger
25:36
system so pretty interesting it'd be
25:37
interesting to really see what they do
25:39
when they turn up that boost are we
25:40
gonna see 800 if we can see a thousand i
25:42
think you'd have to get into the
25:43
internals of the engine and really
25:45
strengthen up some things there but yeah
25:46
people are doing it now we have another
25:48
choice there from boost district now you
25:50
can decide if you want to turbo charge
25:52
or supercharge your car now that's very
25:54
cool buddy also chevy my way is offering
25:57
a corvette expert seminar on
25:59
winterization this is really cool i wish
26:01
they would do more of these seminars
26:03
yeah we happen to catch this one a lot
26:05
of times these things come up and
26:06
there's no announcement beforehand we
26:08
just catch it afterwards they sit down
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with a member of the corvette team and
26:12
they talk about what you should do
26:13
everything from how to avoid flat
26:15
spotting on your car's tires too should
26:17
you have a full tank of gas very
26:19
interesting seminar i would definitely
26:20
watch it if you're one of those people
26:22
that has to put away a car for three or
26:24
absolutely and finally keith another
26:26
youtuber got a ride in a new c806
26:29
they're passing us both by what's going
26:31
on with that buddy yeah this is again
26:33
from the reveal rollout we only saw one
26:35
other guy or there's been a couple
26:37
people that have actually written in it
26:38
this one like the eddie x video that we
26:40
featured is a guy named pushing pistons
26:43
this only had like 2600 views when we
26:45
first saw it they're riding with aaron
26:47
link and alex mcdonald the two
26:49
development engineers on the car right a
26:51
lot of really good information about the
26:53
suspension of the car how it was
26:55
developed first they went the spring
26:57
rates on the z07 they were going to make
26:59
the standard z06 a little bit more
27:02
closer to the z51 of the c8 stingray but
27:05
once they started really working with
27:07
this stuff they loved it they moved over
27:08
some of the z07 stuff to the standard
27:10
z06 actually are really wanting to find
27:13
out more about the car and not just the
27:15
pretty stuff that a lot of things that
27:16
we just end up talking about but get
27:18
really hear from these development
27:19
engineers you definitely would want to
27:21
look up this video absolutely right well
27:23
buddy thanks again for being on corvette
27:25
today and also don't forget if you want
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scoop keith thanks again for being here
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we'll see you in two weeks okay sounds
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