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CORVETTE TODAY #87 - Corvette News & Headlines, Mid December 2021
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May 8, 2025
Even though we are knee-deep into the holiday season, there is no shortage of Corvette news to be talked about. Your CORVETTE TODAY host, Steve Garrett, teams up with Keith Cornett from CorvetteBlogger.com to act as Santa for all Corvette enthusiasts! Here are just a few of the topics discussed in this podcast: 1. Chevrolet to begin automated Customer Order updates for Corvette buyers 2. Chevrolet to kick off a Z06 Dealer’s Tour next year 3. Corvette Racing is taking two C8.R’s to Daytona 4. Will we see different colors made available for the twin intake manifolds of the C8 Z06? 5. GM to start Corvette 8 speed dual-clutch production in Q2 of 2022 6. The C8 has a poster inserted in the New Roads magazine from Chevrolet 7. Callaway is partnering with Thompson Speedway to develop a track delivery experience
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[Music] welcome to corvette today the podcast
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corvette 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 every other week to keep you up to date on what's happening with america's
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sports car keith welcome back are you ready for the holidays you know steve i'm working on and still trying to find
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those perfect gifts but having a lot of fun this year just trying to do some little things different i got a couple granddaughters that are getting a couple
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corvette things you know little things like that just trying to extend the excitement of corvettes into the next generations christmas is a perfect time
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to do that so we like to take advantage of it so yeah we're working on it steve how about you i am doing all right buddy i think i've got all my shopping done i
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did everything mail order this year didn't get close to a shopping center so i think i'm ready to go shopping center
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what is that exactly seriously it's been a little while since we've been to a shopping center or even a mall it's good to get
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out we've done a couple of christmas things already family-wise so hopefully you're doing the same absolutely buddy
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well let's get into it let's start off with corvette c8 production there at the bowling green assembly plant things have
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been going well we had that shut down the very beginning of november where it was just the second shift was basically
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shut down since then we've seen production return some days it's strong and some days it's it you know we have
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days where we'll do 184 182 in a day and then the next day we might only do 135
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or 140 or 150. the week averages are falling down a little bit
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870 per day but we're still able to get out these cars there's been some talk about the chip shortage impacting like
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heated seats and heated steering wheels it looks like that's happening for other cars under the general motors brand but
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for corvette it appears that we're protected again i'd say things are well the other thing that was going on with the plant was there was a quality hold
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on wheels and i have dealers now telling me that cars that have been held for a month or longer are now finally ending
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up at the dealership it looks like chevy's working their way through that one as well depending on how production
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was on friday we should cross over 10 000 bins for the 2022 model year so that's always a nice little milestone
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there absolutely that's outstanding and this was interesting to me as well keith because chevrolet is going to send 12
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gtlm c8r edition cars to mexico to sell we could have sold those here in the
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united states as well yeah part of this i think is chevy's wanting especially with these special editions they're
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wanting to get these out into a couple of their export markets to not only bridge the gap for support for corvette
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racing but it's a cool offer usually these are sold out right away united states they did sell out but it looks
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like chevy did reserve a few cars that they're sending over to mexico and i would bet a couple cars ended up in the
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middle east as well mexico has 10 performance centers that's how they sell the corvettes and camaros there through
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these dedicated performance centers gotcha so there's three in mexico city and then the rest are scattered
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throughout the country they'll get the 12 cars down there i think they're being sold for some crazy number which is
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always crazy but yeah 2.9 million pesos which i think ends up a strong price over the american msrp it's kind of sad
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to see these cars go to mexico in terms of we know that customers here would have snapped them up if given the opportunity but we also know that some
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dealers are selling these cars as a stock unit and that is a customer sold order so you might be able to find some
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of these on dealers however they will come with an up charge yeah that sounds about right
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that's about par for the course buddy exactly also chevrolet is going to begin to automate customer order updates for
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corvette buyers i thought that was outstanding yeah this is probably the most important piece of news that we've
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had over the last couple weeks the problem with ordering cars is you place your order and then general motors
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utilizes a event system with numbers so when you hit 2000 you get 3 000 you hit
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3800 something happens there well the problem is that a lot of times customers are left in the dark they're not hearing
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from their dealers that they might have crossed over one of these milestone event numbers you can call the corvette
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concierge but that's again you calling them so what they've done is they're going to come up with a way that when
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your car reaches event 3000 which is accepted for production general motors is going to start emailing you so what
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they'll do is when you're placing your order they'll capture your email address there and then when you hit
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000 you'll get an email that says your car is getting ready to go it just follows you all the way down to when the
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car is being shipped to the dealer you don't get a notification when the car arrives at the dealer general motor
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still wants the dealership to be the final point of contact for their customers but again this should be a
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great way to keep people notified and updated on the status of their order as their cars are being built i thought
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that was outstanding i'm looking forward to seeing that also chevrolet is going to kick off the z06 dealers tour next
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year we did that with the c8 stingray at our hendrick chevrolet dealership and i know that they've signed up to do the
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z06 tour as well this is pretty exciting yeah this was huge back when it first started and again it gave people the
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opportunity to go out to the local dealers see the new mid engine sports car for the first time dealers were
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actually allowing people to sit in the cars and see you know if they fit and how they feel about it so it was a really good way to introduce the
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miniature corvette to customers now we have the z06 that's going to be out there i know a lot of dealers might be
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taking a pass on at this time their lists are full there's really no reason to do the cost and bring out the whole
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tour like you said your dealership's doing there we heard that seoka in atlantic city is going to be offering a
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z06 day these are supposedly going to start sometime in early february we don't have the full dates yet again
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general motors will plan something for the dealer but they leave it for the dealer to announce it so if you're wondering if this z06 tour is coming to
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your local dealership you might want to give them a call it might express interest they might want to bring it in but maybe they've already done it in
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which case you can look forward to seeing the z06 in your hometown i'm looking forward to seeing it as well
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even though we were at the reveal in los angeles at the peterson automotive museum it'll be a great opportunity for
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everybody to look touch see and maybe even sit in the car so it'll be a lot of fun exactly yeah it's a good thing and
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especially for maybe smaller dealers that don't get the kind of attention bringing an event like this is a way to
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really please all a lot of corvette enthusiasts they get to see the car you make it an event maybe you sell some
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cars out of it absolutely right and finally in our new section keith general motors issued a technical warning that
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radar detectors can damage the c8 side mirror glass that was really kind of
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strange what's going on with that it is and if you see the picture of a damaged side mirror you'll think what the heck
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is going on with that it actually looks like it's been infected with something so what happens is there is actually a
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power outlet behind a little panel on the rear view mirror on the interior of the car since the stingray has come out
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the 2020 stingray has been out people have been hot wiring their radar detectors into the connections there in
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that mirror there's a right way to do it in that mirror and then there's a wrong way to do it that mirror and if you get it wrong what's happening is the voltage
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is causing this mirror to display all these wavy lines and that's from the defrost system that's in the car and
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behind the mirrors to help you know melt any snow or ice that's on the mirrors but that higher voltage actually burns
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through the glass and so now you've got all these trails it looks like an ant farm actually if you if you see the mirror so general motors put out a tech
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link which is basically a notification to the people that work on the cars the service personnel they say that if a
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customer comes in complaining about that you look for the jumper that's in the rearview mirror and that little power
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outlet if a customer comes in with this issue they have to pay for it because it is something that was caused by an
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aftermarket install so chevy's going to say that you're on your own on that so if you've got a really crazy looking
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mirror that's what's happening well i think a wish list item would be to make a connection for a hot wire for these
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radar detectors moving forward i think everybody would enjoy that and we would get more use out of it and we wouldn't
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mess up our cars in the process yeah just one more thing here before we close out this section just got the news also
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on friday morning that al unser jr had passed away former indycar racer yes al
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under junior was the winner of the 1978 indy 500 and of course that was the
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first year that corvette paced the indy 500 he actually was able to take home that pace car from that win he is a
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four-time winner of the indy 500 another legend passing away and of course someone that had a corvette connection
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so we just wanted to put that out there absolutely keith he is a race legend he will be sorely missed yep absolutely
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we keep you up to date on what's happening with america's sports car in section number two we talk about
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corvette racing and corvette rumors in the racing section keith corvette racing is taking two c8rs to daytona that was
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good to see yeah you know it's funny we're talking about this it'd be like haven't they always taken two cars to the rolex 24 right yes they have but of
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course this year is going to be different because they are splitting off the season so one car will be racing in the imsa series here in north america
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and then one car will be racing over in europe and across the world in the world endurance championship it's the number
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four cars that's going to be racing over in europe and so they're bringing that car back over for the inaugural race
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here for 2022 and again what we've got is we've got tommy milner and nick tandy
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that are doing the full-time driving duties of that car but for daytona they're going to add another wec driver
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his name is marco sorenson he's a danish driver he's been racing over the wec's
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gtd pro category over there in fact i think he has one or two titles in the world endurance championship gte pro
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category so we picked up what looks to be like a solid third driver for daytona and of course this race will take place
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at the very end of the month in january very nice i'm looking forward to that it'll be good to have some racing even
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in the winter time so that's coming up soon also gmsv is taking a right-hand drive ca to bathhurst in australia and
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if you don't know where bathurst is bathurst is actually the spiritual home for australian motor racing so that was
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pretty cool to see them taking that right-hand drive over there yeah they had some big races going on here at the end of november and early december so
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for general motors to be able to set up their displays there now actually show real product i'm sure is very exciting
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for them they've got two c8s over there that they took to the display as well as some of their silverados gmsv just
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turned a year old general motor specialty vehicles in australia they're still feeling some growing pains there
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eventually they're going to have this full cadre of product to be able to show off so yeah it was pretty cool they went to bath first showed off the corvettes
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and silverados and we know it's just the beginning for them over there and oliver gavin also was on top gear in the uk he
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was talking about corvette racing and the c8 that was really cool to see yeah so oliver gavin was on top gear in the
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uk and although we haven't seen the full episode he's there because they've got the right hand drive c8 stingray that
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they're testing on the top gear track so it's pretty cool here's oliver gavin he's kind of given some of his
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background something about the car why he loves the mid-engine car so much and then they'll show the cut screens over
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to a interesting fella named freddy flintoff who's doing the driving of the c8 corvette on their test track they go
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back and forth a little bit between these two i think oliver gavin's video is about four and a half minutes and then there's another two minute video of
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just the car being tested out there it's just part of the corvette strategy of taking over the world here we are now
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with right-hand drive cars in the uk i don't know if i ever thought we'd see that but they're out there now people
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are driving them and they're pretty excited about it it's good to see the cars being tested and hopefully we'll see a lot more buddy i think having a
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world car like this is just fantastic so the more the better is what i say also in the rumors section we see that there
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might be some different colors for that twin intake manifold on the new c806 i
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was really excited to see the maybe offer that opportunity to do some different colors there yeah you know the
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official photos of the lt6 engine shows the twin intake manifolds are in black
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like a flat black with the red on the valve covers it offers a nice little contrast there you remember when we were
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at the peterson they had a cutaway display there and those intake manifold covers were silver and then on another
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siding we had motor trend when they were doing their roll out of the z06 information they were up in detroit
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where they were filming their little bit up there and they were showing an lt6 that had the red manifold cover so it
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looks like they are playing with it they gave us no confirmations when we were at the peterson but they said it is something that they are planning like
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the stingrays lt2 where you can customize the engine cover comes standard in black or you can pay 595 to
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get a red one or a silver one we are definitely hoping that general motors does something similar with the color on
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the intake manifolds there just allow people a little bit more customization to pick the right color they want to
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show off in their coop because that's where you can see it at that's awesome i think that more customization is the way
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to go when you look at ferrari and lamborghini offering that kind of option i think having corvette doing that is
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just fantastic well when you see these engines in the outside we see the cutaways we see the picture of the
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engine with a white background that's a whole lot of black up top there but when you put that carbon fiber halo engine
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appearance thing on top of it you've got your engine appearance rails on the side of it it really sits down low and you
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don't really see all that black and you might not see all that red or silver either but again it's just a nice way to offer some contrast and be a little bit
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different than everyone coming off as black hopefully they'll do this i think it's pretty cool i think so too also gm
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is going to start corvette eight speed dual clutch production in the second quarter of next year sounds like it's
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coming around real soon yeah this was planned there was a workers strike up there in canada so as part of their
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agreements with the plan at st catharines what they were doing was they were going to supplement ca transmission
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production up there z06 transmissions are a little bit different than the stingrays obviously the tremec plant
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produces them now in michigan they're right at the cusp they really can't handle too much more and any less
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doesn't fulfill our needs enough so they came up with a secondary location to do transmissions and of course that's just
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gonna help out the corvette team in the long run of having more production the interesting thing is that they said it was gonna start the production in second
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quarter of 2022 which is right around the time when we're expecting the z06 production start sometime in may i
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believe in fact it was set in may 9th was when we're going to see the z06s start down the assembly line of bowling
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green by starting off the engines a month early you're going to end up with a nice little supply buffer there it
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looks like it's all coming together i think so too buddy also in the final rumor we had two captured test vehicles
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that were spotted on a transport which means they're starting to roll out maybe to the corvette team doesn't it yeah
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we've reached out we've heard that some of the principals on the corvette team do not have their captured test fleet
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cars yet these are the pre-production cars they're painted they're built on the assembly line they're ready to go
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they can be sold after they're used we've only seen them driving around the test cars with the camouflage on it
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there's two new cars that were captured on thursday night last week they might be headed north we don't really have a
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location on them but it shows a jack cooper transport has a bunch of stingrays on it we know their stingrays
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are covered with the white transport cloths but then we had an arctic white z06 and an elkhart lake blue z06 both of
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them were in the z07 packages the arctic white car had the carbon fiber wheels and the elkhart lake blue actually had
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the forged aluminum wheels two different specs there maybe we can get these cars up to detroit and some of the other key
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engineers up there can start driving around we just haven't really had a lot of sightings of painted cars yet so i
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think that definitely the reason why is just because there's the ctfs for the team aren't available yet so they're
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hopefully going to be there soon hopefully we'll be driving them soon and then we'll be able to capture them and share them all with you on
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[Music] hey thank you very much for listening to corvette today the podcast that talks
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about everything corvette i'm your host steve garrett with me every other week is keith cornett from corvetteblogger.com
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keith on the lighter side of corvette there was a c8 poster in the new rhodes magazine from chevrolet luckily i got my
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hands on two of them i have two posters well that's good because they're double
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sided you know there's a picture of three cars on the front of one and then on the back of it's a single standalone z07 it's good to have two posters
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because then you can show off both of them at the same time there you go chevrolet has a publication called new
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roads comes out quarterly they had a nice feature there on corvettes not only did they have this car but they talked
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to a guy that's been driving his c8 stingray as a daily driver for a year he was in there and then they also had this
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cool art thing where they had five artists come up with their vision of this corvette and so they put together a
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nice little montage of these different art projects in there if you want to get the new rhodes magazine you don't
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actually have to be a customer to get it you don't need to buy a new car we've got it on our website if you go to
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corvetteblogger.com search for new roads magazine we do have a link there to the sign up page at chevrolet.com where you
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can then subscribe to it and get the magazine yourself it was a very cool issue as a matter of fact the cover shot
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was one of the artists that had done a rendering of the c8 it was just beautiful it's definitely worth keeping
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check it out and get it at corvetblogger.com also callaway is partnering with thompson speedway to
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develop a track delivery experience this was awesome i was so excited to see this story yeah callaway based out of old
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lime connecticut and then thompson speedway is also out of connecticut as well and i know that callaway has relied
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on thompson speedway over the years to do different features and track days and things like that so now it looks like they're actually just really formalizing
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this promotion together it looks like they're actually going to be offering like a track delivery option where you
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can come out get your car maybe do some laps there maybe have some lunch with the callaway team it's just
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something more than here's your car at a dealership take it and leave kind of thing so right it should be pretty good
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and of course callaway they're a performance car company while their stingray was mostly just an appearance
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package we are expected to see some performance upgrades when they do their callaway z06 so stay tuned for that
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that's going to be some exciting stuff there absolutely right also corvette racing ambassador doug feehan has his c8
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corvette up on bring a trailer and it's for sale actually this car just sold doug had this 2022 2lt stingray it's a
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torch red car non-z51 he didn't want a lot of wings and spoilers and stuff he says he lives in the land of wings and
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spoilers and doesn't need it on his own car just had a very nice looking car here he put it up on bring a trailer and
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sold it he got 84.5 for it which actually is a little bit lower than the general market that's out there we
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generally see the 1lt cars selling for about 90 000 the 2lt car selling for nearly 100 000 and 3lt cars selling
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above that i don't want to say that he lost out but he got a good solid number for his car the reason why he is selling
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the car is he's just buying another one another stingray now that he's not going z06 he's not going to an instant gtlm he
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just found that he could sell a two-year-old car for more of the same way he can get a brand new car he just
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decided to go ahead and do that so that's how he sold his car well if i was the one buying that car i'd have him
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sign the car as well but that's pretty cool yep also a new study shows that the c8 service costs are higher than the c7
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service cost which kind of makes sense i don't think this was anything that was out of the ordinary or unsuspected it
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does a little bit and the other thing too is that they're comparing the first year of the mid-engine corvette
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first-year cars are always going to have a couple little things going on but they compared it to the last year of the c7
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stingray which had now been out six or seven years was a very reliable platform so that's how they got those
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discrepancies i think and then people do different things their first year some people despite the fact that they didn't
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need an oil change until the very end of that first year they might have opted to get one in the middle of it they might
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have also opted to take their car in and do the two quarts of transmission fluid for their transmission there's a number
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of little things there that might be the reason why we are seeing higher costs i just really think it equates to a
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first-year car being compared to a last year car i wouldn't put too much into this and they're talking the first year
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car i think is under 900 still so not really excessive in terms of what we've
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seen some other cars cost definitely also there's a youtuber called rich rebuilds and he started a c4ev project
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what are the details about that yeah so these guys if you look at their youtube channel they have millions of
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subscribers they've been around for a while they have a really good audience and they just do these cool builds i
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think for sema here we are talking about a corvette with an ev they took a tesla and dropped a v8 in it and then took it
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to sema so they're not all about evs or anything like that like this project
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people think it's just doing something different they found a c4 corvette actually it's a 40th anniversary 1993
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car they go through the process they show them buying it trying to get it back these guys are kind of funny the
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things that happened to them are they're trying to get this car you know the typical stuff you go buy a car the lady tells you oh sure it can make it home
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and they didn't even get 20 miles down the road before the car broke down on the side of the highway they're dealing with this stuff there's some other
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things here so it looks very funny this video the first one was kind of a setup to the project but i think we're going
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to follow along looks pretty interesting and again the thing with these c4 corvettes is they can be picked up for
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basically a song and so someone's out there that wants to follow along and maybe do a similar project the c4
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corvette might just be a great platform for an eevee conversion so we're going to find out we're following rich
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rebuilds and maybe you'll want to follow along with us that sounds good buddy and our final story i was upset keith
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another guy got to drive a c806 before you and me did that was disturbing
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well actually he didn't get to drive it but he did sit in the car and he did start it up we're talking about a nascar
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infinity driver jesse iwoji and i hope i pronounced that correctly this guy's got
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a really cool resume you know he was a former lieutenant commander in the navy he played on the navy football team he
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gets out of the navy and now he wants to be a race car driver so he's worked his way up the ranks and now he's an xfinity
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driver he's teamed up with emmett smith nfl hall of famer to have a racing team in 2022. he's already a corvette fan i
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looked at his instagram page he's got some corvettes on there he goes and sees the accelerate yellow z07 on display at
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phoenix last month all of a sudden he's just handed the keys and so he starts it up and he just completely loses it we
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just hear awesome and wow over and over and over again pretty exciting stuff for him he started up gave us a few revs
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took a look around the car again just fun exciting you know you see the car you get to start it up you get to hear
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it he says it's in the cards for him so he is going to be a 06 owner at some point just have to see what he ends up
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going with well hopefully you and i are next in line to get in that z06 and take a ride that's for sure
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i think our time is coming steve we gotta just wait a little bit longer i think so we got to be patient buddy we got to be patient well keith thanks for
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being on corvette today it's always great to have you here next time we get together we'll be right between christmas and new year's yeah looking
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forward to that steve looking forward to taking a little time off be with family and friends and actually you can get
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behind the wheel and car and do some driving hopefully everybody enjoyed this episode again you can find all the stories on corvetteblogger.com and we
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