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CORVETTE TODAY #97 - Corvette News & Headlines, Mid February 2022
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May 8, 2025
CORVETTE TODAY #97- Corvette News & Headlines, Mid February 2022 Even though it’s Winter, there’s still a ton of Corvette news to be had. Your “A Team” of CORVETTE TODAY host, Steve Garrett and Keith Cornett from CorvetteBlogger.com team up once again to deliver the most important Corvette news from the last 2 weeks! Here are a few of the topics covered in this podcast and YouTube video: 1. The Corvette C8 Z06 Dealer Tour is underway 2. Corvette sales dominate the competition in 2021 3. Chevy’s January 2022 average transaction price up 17% 4. Corvette Racing does tire testing at Sebring 5. Callaway Cars creates a road legal track C8 for customers 6. The new Level 2 Carbon Fiber Trim Package requires a 3LZ interior trim on your Z06. 7. The C8 E-Ray's DCT transmission possibly revealed in patent by Tremec 8. The secret to the C8 Z06’s torque comes from a 200 year old German physicist
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america's sports car keith welcome back to the show we're in the dead of winter last week we got eight inches of snow
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here in kansas city make me jealous and tell me what it is there in florida well you know in florida and we're probably
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going to be looking around 78 and sunny today we're in central florida in tampa it's just a great time to be down here
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in the southern states during the winter time because it's a great time to drive you know i have a black car so the summer time when it's 100 degrees it's
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just sometimes it's a no go so this is really a time when i can try to get out and do some driving a little bit i haven't been doing some driving but i
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really need to get out there perfect time to take advantage of it well let's do our podcast you can get on the road buddy there we go i'll take that as we
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always do to start our news and headlines section let's talk about corvette production at the bowling green assembly plant yeah we've been watching
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the numbers and they've been real steady over the last couple weeks we had a snowstorm a couple weeks back that
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impacted production on a friday but other than that we've seen just very normal average numbers coming through
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and in fact we should probably be looking around the 17 000 bin by the end of this week or maybe the first of next
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week looks like things are going well now there was a rumor of a quality control hold i think it was very limited
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in scope we were tracking a couple of the forum members who were saying that you know their car was built 15 20 23
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days ago and it was still at the plant hadn't been shipped yet we did reach out to the plant we never did get a response
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back so it kind of made me think that it was either something minor just uh something like the non-story anyways it
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looks like whatever was holding those cars back has been lifted because those people replied back saying their cars
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are shipping now i would say corbett production looks very good right now it could change at any moment with the supply chain issues let's just keep our
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fingers crossed and keep moving forward seeing if our workers there at the corvette assembly plant can just keep cranking out these cars all the way
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through may and the expected start of the 2023 model year steady as she goes buddy steady as she goes also the z06
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tour is underway already and i was looking forward to seeing that here in kansas city as well yeah this is
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probably the question i've been getting the most the last week or so is do you know the fullness of the tour do you
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know what any dealer tours out in texas or california or some of these other western states where we don't see a lot
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of dates yet the problem is that chevrolet wants the dealers to promote the z06 dealer tour to their own
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customers and then they're the ones responsible for bringing those people in what's happened is we've been told that
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there's like 140 dealer dates reserved but our list of what we've been able to
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glean from just talking to people people submitting dates is only about 20 23 or so so we're really trying to actively
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reach out to people say if you look at our list and you know of any dealer tours in your area please let us know
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hopefully you can confirm it for us as well that's very helpful we're keeping a list they started off at seoka last
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weekend on friday then it's going to move down the east coast all kinds of dates are kind of seem to be jumping
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around they're going to be in florida in late february and then in early march as well check it out if you're interested
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in attending these are fun events a great way to see the new car there's a chevy product specialist with the tour
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that gives the spiel about the car talks all about it and then there's a really cool displays as well and i'm hoping
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that one of the displays that we see shows off some of those new paint samples we're expecting the two new
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colors for the 70th anniversary of course we haven't seen those yet other than on video so maybe those little
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paint mock-ups will contain the new white pearl and then that carbon flash black so looking forward to seeing that
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but yeah check out the list if you hear of any tour dates near you please let us know absolutely i'm looking forward to
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seeing that as well we did the c8 and that was fantastic we had three or four thousand people for one sunday afternoon
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over at our dealership at hendrick chevrolet so i'm really looking forward to this z06 as well yeah i think the
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dealer turnout is going to be really good on these again most people haven't seen the c06 in person so it's a great
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time to do so and especially at your own local dealership it's a monster it's a beast i can [Laughter]
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i can't wait also corvette sales dominated the competition last year which is good to see yeah we see that in
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the competition with our competitors such as porsche and mercedes amg and the audi r8 mercedes sl classes nissan gtrs
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corvettes dominate we've gained a whole lot of market share the last time this time we're up 63 i think for the year
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it's pretty crazy that we've just been able to crank up these cars and the more cars that we make the greater that share is going to grow porsche definitely has
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customers and loyal customers and they're always going to be in that one area but i just don't think they compete with the volume of the c8 corvettes and
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what chevrolet can put out the other thing too is this is kind of off this percent but did you see the ship burning
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in the atlantic that contained a ship load of porsches and audis and some other cars from the vw group i sure did
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can you imagine corvette people just seeing that knowing their cars on there i mean we would have people in therapy
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for years i would think if that would happen so we often talk about that with production and cars and you know what
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can chevrolet do stuff right or all that you know everybody has issues everybody has unforeseen problems the best thing
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you can do is just try to take advantage of whatever opportunities you can and things are looking good for the corvette so i would say especially now as we're
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getting into the z06 time period there's just so much excitement for the car and that's just going to bleed down to the
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models of the stingray continues to grow as well so i think things are really positioned well for corvette over its competitors over the next year as well
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for everything going on in the world keith we are very lucky and very blessed that the corvette is built here in the
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united states and it's not being shipped over in a big big boat that's on fire
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that's on fire that's right and also for this year corvette was the sixth fastest selling car yeah so this
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comes again from the ic cars reports that they've been doing you know we followed this last year they did 11
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surveys they never did a final survey for december so in the 11 surveys you know six times last year corvette was
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the number one selling vehicle in the usa this year starting off in january we're back at number six what we're
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seeing actually though is you know before those cars would be like average time to sell the number one car would be like seven or ten days we're seeing the
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number one car which is ikea telluride at suv actually taking 12.8 average days to sell by the corvette's at 17. so five
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days difference but you know it's winter time things are taking a little bit longer to deliver these cars maybe
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customers are taking just a day or two extra to pick them up dealers might be taking a little bit longer it just bodes
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well that the corvette still is just rocking the sales charts absolutely right and the other thing too steve is
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these ic cars reports also track the average transaction price yes back in
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january last year the corvette's average transaction price was
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6 and by the end of the year it grew to 96 685 well for january it jumped
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another two thousand dollars to 98 597 so i think you're seeing a combination
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of two different things there of course we're seeing really just a ton of convertibles coming through the system
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and there's a whole lot of 3lt orders that drives prices but then also dealers are continuing to mark up new car sales
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that's probably the biggest reason for that jump in atp and speaking of transaction price keith even with
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corvette chevy's 2022 january average transaction price was also up 17
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yeah this report comes from kelly blue book it again discusses average transaction pricing for chevrolet
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vehicles in general we were up 17 for january 22 over january 2021's prices in
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2022 the average chevrolet price was 47 882 again that was 7 000 higher than
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what we saw a year ago but it actually has dropped nearly three percent month a month from december to january this year
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so that's kind of good news again it could be the winter time and some other things going on there but i would say automotive manufacturers in general one
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of the benefits of the lower stock is the ability to sell cars at msrp or greater and to get those prices and i
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think that's why we're seeing the average transaction rates go up so high absolutely right well buddy let's take our first break when we come back we're
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[Music] hey thanks for tuning in to corvette today the podcast that talks about everything corvette brought to you by
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garrett with me every other week is keith cornett from corvetteblogger.com we keep you current and up to date on
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america's sports car in this next section we're going to talk about corvette racing and corvette rumors
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first in the racing section keith corvette racing did some tire testing at sebring yeah you know this is kind of
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the off time right now for the team between the rolex 24 at sebring we are
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exactly four weeks out for sebring so we've got that coming up but yeah corvette racing was at sebring and they
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conducted a tire test according to some social media posts that we saw there was a report that came out from racer.com
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had some really good info they're talking about how corvette racing is chasing the changes from gtlm to gtd and
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that the rolex 24 was really the first validation of those first changes they made and now they're just really trying
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to see what else they can do they say that really with everything else that the car has been modified the biggest
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change is the michelin tires because we're running on basically a customer tire everybody's running the same tire
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in the class previously our michelins were custom designed for our cars and
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while that doesn't seem like a big change to go you're going from a custom tire to a customer tire the falloff is
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that great and actually it is they talk about how they're having to rebalance the car and some of the other things they're doing to see any kind of
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performance gains that they can try to pick up with the tires but it's been a tough go with that tire i think the
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drivers have even said it's the biggest change on the cars hopefully we can get that knocked out here in the next race
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or two it's going to be interesting then after sebring we get into some of the regular tracks some of the shorter tracks and some of the shorter races
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lots of things coming up it's good to see our team really trying to nail some of this stuff down and get competitive
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in this class and again it's great to be in great to be racing against all these competitors but we want to do well and
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that's the goal is to win that class hopefully we'll be able to be at the top of that podium once again it'll be
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interesting to see how much difference those tires make i bet it makes a huge difference that'll be cool also our
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friends at callaway cars have created a road legal c8 track car for customers
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this is really cool yeah this was kind of a surprise so this is callaway competition which is the german
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subsidiary of callaway cars they're the ones responsible for racing over the adac gt master series they've got that
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c7 gt3r car that they custom built themselves so what they've actually said
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is that they're going to take a step back from racing and they're going to build a series of c8 road legal track
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ready cars for customers everybody's kind of pulled thin resources wise and so that's why they are taking a step
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back they didn't want to do both of these at the same time they wanted to make sure they could give it their all the other interesting news is that
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instead of then using one of their own c8 road legal cars as the conversion for
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the gt3 race car for them it looks like they might actually be trying to get one of the first c8r gt3s from general
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motors they want to be one of the customer teams racing that new gt3 car from chevrolet and corvette that should
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be interesting i have not seen any of the mock-ups of this new car yet and they're working through a dealership
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over in germany as well to put it all together we're anxious to see it we'll be following up on that as soon as we see more also in the rumors section
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keith if you want to order a level 2 carbon fiber trim package for your new z06 it sounds like you have to order a
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3lz trim package on the car itself is that correct yeah we found that out so if you're playing around in the z06
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visualizer it is throwing alerts that tell you when you are trying to add an option for something in a package that
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you don't have access to so it sounds like if they had selected the 2lz and then they tried to add that level to
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carbon fiber package it would say nope sorry you have to add the 3lc we'll know for sure on march 21st with the order
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guide and that'll also tell us for certain whether or not that level 2 package is also coming to the stingray
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we've heard kind of yes maybe no but i think it is the order guide will tell us on march 21st for sure that sounds good
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also the c8 e-ray dual clutch transmission was possibly revealed
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because tremec was patenting it right yeah this is for the e-ray we believe this is pretty exciting technology you
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know we've always said that it'll be the stingray powertrain we've got the tried and tested lt2 the 6.2 liter v8 engine
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in the back and that engineers will just be putting on the ultimate drive motor on the front axle you throw some ultim
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batteries in that c8 center tunnel and you're ready to go you've got a regenerative braking and maybe even one
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pedal driving which will be pretty exciting so what this dct has specifically that we think is for the
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e-ray is it has what's called a motor generator unit or a motor generator attached to the transmission and the
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idea is that these batteries might be able to power the dual clutch so you have four gears on one side of the bank
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and four gears on the other they think that the motor generator might be able to power one bank of those gears so you
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might actually have electric propulsion through four different gears again this is all speculation we're reading these
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patents and you know these patents are very technical in nature luckily i did stay at a holiday inn express before
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taking it over we found also that the motor generator can also be used for starting the engine
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you can use it for charging the hybrid batteries while driving that's the regen braking but then also if you're standing
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still and your car's not starting you can use the ultim batteries and the motor generator to charge your regular
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car battery so there's a little bit more to this than just using the ultim drive motor on the front axle and going pretty
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exciting technology the whole thing about the e-ray and the self-propulsion through electric batteries that's really
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going to be interesting you know i was looking at the e-ray for the all-wheel drive the fact that it might actually end up doing all this other stuff too
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it's pretty exciting it'll be interesting to see how customers take to a hybrid corvette if that's actually the case boy that sounds like the next level
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in ev cars that could be really really exciting buddy yeah i think so and finally keith give us an update on the
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corvette market we've seen all these dealerships marking up cars and things has the market finally turned yes and no
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i would say i think we're starting to see some breaks we ran a video about a week ago from a youtuber called four
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wheel trader and he does a depreciation analysis that's pretty interesting so what he's able to do is he's able to
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dump all the c8 corvettes for sale like on autotrader be able to extract the statistics from that so he gets the
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coupon convertible and then he gets the pricing on it the miles on it from there he's able to extrapolate out and show us
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this market currently right now we're showing the average price on a ca corvette on the aftermarket on the
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secondary market is running at about a hundred and three thousand dollars what he's seen though is that there is
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actually a slight decline in the amount from private owned sellers these are
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people selling their cars from july 21st through january 2022 they see the
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decline of about 4.2 percent however dealer markups are still the norm and if anything we are still seeing the dealers
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have higher prices on their new or pre-owned c8s as well just looking through auto trader i think we do see
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some examples of this especially maybe some higher mileage 2020 cars i saw a
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car for sale with 17 000 miles on it it was a 3lt z51 and it was under 99 000
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for sale oh normally that car would be 115 had it had lower miles or maybe now
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perhaps people are starting to move on from the 2020s and want the 2021 to the 2022s because there have been updates to
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those cars right so that's definitely a possibility there yeah so it's a mixed market so far and again just the next
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few months will be interesting with the z06 and see how that impacts both the new z06 coming online as well as people
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selling their pre-owned c8 stingrays so they can move into the z06 so there's going to be a lot of movement here in
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the market and we're just going to continue to watch it yep that sounds good buddy let's take our final break and in our final segment we're going to
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you're listening to the corvette today podcast with steve garrett hey thanks once again for listening to
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corvette today the podcast that talks about everything corvette brought to you by mid-america motorworks pursue your
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passion at mamotoworks.com i'm your host steve garrett with me every other week is
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keith cornett from corvetteblogger.com we keep you up to date on what's happening with america's sports car and
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to corvetteblogger.com keith in this final section let's talk about the lighter side of corvette the
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c8 3lt interior sails are setting records yeah this was a pretty
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interesting story coming out of gm authority they're saying that gm sold more examples of the 3lt during calendar
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year 2021 than all corvette sales in 2018 and 2019. so yeah that makes sense
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2018 was only a five month model year run so that's not exactly a full year's
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worth of production obviously although the 2019s did go longer that was a longer model run because of the zr1 it's
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an interesting stat they're also showing more 3lts have been sold since the launch of the c8 than all three lts
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during the last four years of the c7 combined we did tend to see three lts higher at the beginning of a model year
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run and as customers get their cars eventually what will happen is dealers will be ordering more and more stock
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units and they tend to order those less option 2019 was also the highest year of
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1lt corvette sales for the whole c7 generation so again it's just what happens during a mature model year run
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or a mature model run with these cars but people are ordering 3lts of course the convertibles have really surged with
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nearly 49 i think of market share so far for corvettes wow and people order their
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cars loaded those people that are ordering those convertibles tend to order them with the heavily optioned three lts it does make sense that that
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number's so high that's wonderful it's good to hear also the c8 won the jd power 2022 canada alg residual value
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award which i thought was really cool yeah again these are residual values cars that are lasting longer it's a
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survey and we often don't get surveys from canadian customers but obviously it's our number two market outside the
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us so it makes a lot of sense that we'd want to hear from them as well and what they have and of course being up there
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in canada obviously their environmental conditions are different so it's interesting to see how cars hold up longer in those winter conditions when
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they're driven good stuff coming out of canada i'm glad to hear yeah me too also this was a really interesting article it
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says the secret to the c8 z06's torque comes from a 200 year old german
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physicist that's amazing yeah this guy's name was herman von helmholtz he is
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credited for discovering a phenomenon in the 1800s that helps deliver torque today and what it is it's called the
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helmholtz resonance within the intake manifold of the z06 you want to be able
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to keep those pressures higher and the higher the pressures inside that intake manifold the more torque you can get out
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of it superchargers and turbochargers obviously fill that intake with higher pressure but because the z06 is
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naturally aspirated they're using these series of communicator valves within it
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that open and close at certain rpms and that creates this resonance that then increases the torque it's really quite
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fascinating when you hear about it and then you see the picture of the 1800s german physicist there everything old is
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new again i guess other manufacturers have been doing this for years they just really put it together for the z06 it
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sounds like it's amazing that 200 year old technology is in a 2023 car that's
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amazing also i was excited about this being the carbon fiber freak that i am anderson composites is making a full
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body carbon fiber body kit for the c8 wow and the amazing thing is i mean you
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look at the pictures of this car and it is beautiful carbon fiber it's shiny you
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see that weave but what's crazy is you're re-wrapping all these body panels on this car you're taking off the
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existing body panels putting new body panels on you can do that for 19 999
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the best part is when you put this kit on your car you don't have to paint it yes absolutely so gm's carbon fiber
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package if you were to order every carbon fiber piece for the c8 stingray you're going to spend over 23 thousand
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dollars so this kit actually also is a wide body it increases the car overall
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width by three inches so there's a lot going on with this kit again the carbon fiber looks beautiful when you see the
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photos but for twenty thousand dollars just to secure the kit obviously if you can put it on yourself great but if you
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take it to a body shop and they do it for you there's some work there that has to be done this seems like a very affordable and i'd love to see one of
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these cars in person steve any takers i would love to have one keith that's for darn sure just realize though if you do
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get this kit you got to get wider wheels and tires and i know when i was looking at the pictures keith i had to open up a
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new box of kleenex because i was really drooling i hear you there it's a beautiful car it really was also i have
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some strong feelings about this story buddy youtuber stradman james had a z06
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delivered to his driveway go ahead and talk about the story and then i'll tell you how i feel about everything sure
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we've seen chevrolet really embrace some of these influencers on social media especially some of these youtubers you
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have amelia you've got strat man here and the reason why is here's the strad man the video starts with him he's got
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this huge car collection he's got a bugattis he's got lamborghinis just a crazy car collection i see a gtr there
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in the background so he's pulling out his cars because he's got the new z06 that quote be delivered to his driveway
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so what happens was he actually was working with chevrolet pr they dropped the car off allow him to do some
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photographing and video they allowed him to do some revs the video actually contained some of the best revs that
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i've heard on a youtube video for the z06 corvette i mean it's just amazing and it's fun too because you put a
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factory person in there or a corvette team member in there they're probably gonna be a little bit more gentle than the enthusiast that just wants to hear
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it rip but if it's not your car you want to hear it rip you might let it hear it rip even further pretty impressive on that so here's the reason why if you
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want to know why chevrolet dropped off this car at this gradman it's because as of this morning it's already generated 1
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million views on video right you can't get that advertising for free anywhere else that's why they do it the idea is
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some of these younger people you bring in a younger market you're reaching these younger viewers and it all then
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becomes the feedback loop where they want the car they go out and buy the corvette stingray because they see what
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it can do because their favorite youtubers are having so much fun with it i know that there's some people that don't really care for influencers
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certainly don't make a buying decision off of whatever an influencer says do your own research but it certainly can
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be fun and that's all this is it's just fun it is fun and james is a good guy i mean truly he's a good guy i subscribe
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to his channel i watch him he owns a rapid blue c8 corvette the one thing i had issue with is that the title of the
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video was taking delivery of a new c806 no he didn't take delivery it got
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dropped off to him for three hours they didn't let him drive the car it sat in the driveway and like you said we took
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some pictures we did some revs and then three hours later the car was gone so he didn't take delivery he just got it
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dropped off but you know what they didn't drop one off at my house so more power to him
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you know again people have mixed feelings on these events i just look at the million views and say that's a
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million people that wouldn't have seen that maybe you've never seen the corvette z06 before seeing that who
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knows a million people is a lot of people or a million views or a lot of views that's why they do it they're
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going to continue to do it so just grin and bear it or look away i don't know what to tell you there well and it was nice because it was a torch red z06 and
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it was a gorgeous car very nice looking car yep also keith and just in time for the ncm's michelin bash the national
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corvette museum's new stingray grill is welcoming a new consulting head chef
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it's bobby hammock yeah so he's going to be the consulting head chef of the mcm's
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in-house stingray grill he comes from the country music hall of fame and museum where he served as an executive chef for 10 years actually it sounded
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like he kind of retired there i'm thinking that maybe our new ceo at the museum sharon broner brought him back he
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says he's very excited to be back and he's going to be joining kenny jones at the stingray grill not only managing and
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coming up with new menu items for the grill but also for some of the catering that they do for some of the smaller and
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mid-sized events at the museum itself should be pretty exciting looking forward to it i want that big stingray
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burger at the bash hopefully that'll still be on the menu steve that sounds good and finally everybody keith and i
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have some very very exciting news for you coming up on february 24th keith and
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i are going down to arlington texas to corvette nation tv host michael brown's
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place we are going to be co-hosting a live facebook video on corvetteblogger.com
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michael is selling all of his corvettes and his 125 plus neon signs at mecum in
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glendale arizona in the middle of march and keith and i get to go co-host the event yeah this is gonna be fun so we're
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gonna do a live walk around a streaming event that's actually gonna appear on corvette bloggers facebook page and then
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we'll port it over to the site once it's done but on corvette bloggers facebook page you'll see all 13 cars of the
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hooked on bets collection from michael brown we're gonna get the inside scoop from the man himself we're very excited
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to also see his neon sign collection and that's gonna be done through another streamer i believe on another channel on
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facebook so it should be interesting though if you've seen michael brown's neon collection it's one of the best i've ever seen put together and i'm
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anxious to see it in person so yeah we're going to be there on thursday the 24th i believe our streaming time takes
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off at 6 pm central time so please join us on corvette blogger's facebook page keith thanks so much for being on
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corvette today we will see you in two weeks i'm gonna go call chevy pr and see if i can get a z06 delivered to my
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driveway as well hey if we're doing that i guess i'll be flying into kansas city to do some videos again huh come on down
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buddy i don't know it sounds cold to me it is cold but we'll be glad to have you here take care and i'll see you in two
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