The Start Of Year #5 Plus News & Headlines | Corvette Today #209

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America Sports Car Keith welcome back to the show baby this is the big one this is the start of year number five for
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Corvette today you know Steve it's an amazing Milestone you know happy aniversary five years wow I mean who
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would have th it first of all not that you wouldn't have been successful at this but when you've got five years of a
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body of work now that you can point to over 200 and some shows there's just a feeling of accomplishment I'm just happy
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to be part of it you've really taken this bull by the horns and run with it it's just been a fun run and I'm real pleased to be here every two weeks buddy
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it's always great to have you here and we're celebrating almost 5 years of our news and headlines show that will come
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up in September of this year so here's to another five years buddy you know what I mean exactly yeah we'll have to
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throw a party or something absolutely right well let's start off like we always do Keith with an update of
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Corvette production from the Bowling Green assembly plant yeah Steve so if you're ready to purchase a new Corvette Stingray you've really waited for the
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right time we're doing a little bit of estimating here since we're recording a little bit earlier than normal but by this week we should be close to 19,500
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stingrays wow that's incredible number just for 2024 that's the number for 2024 they're flying off the shelves and
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landing on dealership floors they got a big old four sale sign on them now because a lot of dealers are ordering cars now for dealer stock where before
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it was always just they were serving their customer list now you've got a real selection if you're just for the moment want to just go down or you just
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want to go down and check one out generally your dealer should probably have a couple now you could probably even do a test drive Keith you know all
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things are possible these days at some point dealers are going to be like yo man Chevy I already got some stingrays
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you know give me some of the other right I think the Stinger is definitely the volume leader it's a fantastic car
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we saw some of the comparisons we did a UD drags comparison where it was only two seconds off the ZO6 fantastic car
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that starts at $60 some th000 as for the ZO6 we've crossed the magic 5,000 unit
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Milestone and in fact by the end of last week we should be close to 5250 we've actually seen a few dealer ads now
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they're advertising 224 Corvette Z6 at MSRP which again I didn't expect that to
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happen so quickly but hopefully that Trend will continue yes finally the ramp up of all ramp UPS continues with the
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eay our last production number from Roger Keel was 238 we're probably going to be about 240 245 maybe close to 250
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by this week when it starts they've been doing like four days a week seems like they build four they take a day off it's
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real random and in fact last Monday they built 10 which I'm like great that's a good number of 10 in a day and then of
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course the next day they built zero so like okay that averages out to five per day you do it that way it's not so great
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they say that it's under control they say everything's working away allocations came out again on Thursday
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last week guess what no e-rays were allocated again wow so if you think about it they did that initial eay
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allocation back I think it was in September or early October last year we think that there was maybe 450 to 500
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cars allocated and they're only halfway through it so that's why we're not actually seeing any more allocations up to this point the big question is we're
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already in the middle of April again who would have thought that but are we going to actually start to see the buildout
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information when's the model year changeover going to happen you know we always traditionally say around July 4th
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around the July 4th weekend which is when it used to be you know was almost like clockwork around then but since 2017 when they started redoing the plant
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and doing some other things that start stop date has been all over the place last year they started stingrays in
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mid-september again it's just all over the place but we are kind of thinking that maybe we'll get some regular production news like that it's been an
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amazing run so just to give you the total and again we're estimating a little bit but start of this week we're looking about 25,000 cars for the 2024
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model year that have been produced already half off to the people up at Bowling Green and Detroit they're cranking them out we still got that
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shell shock from covid and all the part supply issues and stuff like that but the allocations previously have shown
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the constraints for the Z6 are wide open no issues whatsoever let's just hope that run continues yes and to add to
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that equation GM delivered 8,500 plus Corvettes in the first quarter of this
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year exactly yeah that report came out on April 2nd covers first quarter again that was 8576 Corvettes that's
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88.5% higher than last year at the same time last year they did 7,094 Corvettes
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in the first quarter it's always an issue with weather and some other things that go on in first quarter that will impact Supply and workers can't get in
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the plant because of the snow or ice or something like that so 8,500 Corvettes in a quarter that's a pretty solid
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delivery number and of course these are only for Us sales only that's not the number that they produced that's the number that they sold yes that's true
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also Corvette dominated in the first quarter of 2024 in the sports car sales category which is real encouraging too
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again 8576 Corvettes were delivered January February March and that's more than all the Toyota Supras Nissan Z's
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Mazda mx-5s Subarus Toyota gr 86s and the BMW Z4s added up together wow what
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really makes this more impressive is that our average transaction price in fourth quarter for the Corvette was over
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$106,000 yes so it's not like we're selling $60,000 stingrays beating these other cars we're selling z6s e-rays and
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stingrays with an average transaction price of 106,000 despite what we hear about sales slowing the fact is that
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many customers are still taking delivery it's very impressive we have a chart on the website that shows about 20 or so
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models that the Corvette was up against and even we had some Mustang numbers some Challenger numbers there sadly Porsche USA hadn't reported their
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deliveries yet for first quarter when we published this article but you know what we all know that Corvette's kick Porsche's bud anyway so I'm not really
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worried about what that number is there you go I like that also buddy we got constraints for April didn't we already
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yeah so this was again the order cycle that started last week the constraints are the same old same you can't get the
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q9i gloss black wheels and the 5zu painted High wings for the stingray and
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of course the c-51 versus the base model stingrays are still being controlled by Chevy so they tell dealers exactly how
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many they can order of each if those dealers do get Stingray allocations again the really great news for ZO6 was
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free of constraints if a buyer wanted zo7 with a visible carbon fiber Arrow have added is available fantastic yeah
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again no orders for eay so no constraints we're shared for the first Corvette hybrid we're just kind of watching that ramp up and hopefully
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we'll see some decent movement there yeah definitely also GM issued a service bulletin for the Z06 this was for the
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automatic shift to park function I'm not exactly sure what that is to be honesty I have no idea what the real issue is
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here the service bulletin says that quote under certain rare and unique conditions the automatic shift to park
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function on your new car may fit I'm assuming it's shifter related and it's just failing to go into park I'm
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not real sure about that but if you see some any parking or shifting issues you know take it to the dealer let your service tech know that there is a
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service bulletin out there and hopefully they can diagnose it there's no numbers to this they didn't really say what
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these rare and unique circumstances are just one of these kind of things that they put out obviously they saw
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something and they wanted to put it out that any deal or service techs were working on something they would have a reference for it if it is a problem it's
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just a software flash that's great that's good to know especially if it's just a software update that's simple and
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easy also Keith I think GM is watching me because they now came out with carbon fiber door Sills for the C8 Corvette
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they've been uh checking out my car I think I think so you know Steve Garrett call your office right that's right yes
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I was building some eray in a visualizer a couple weekends ago because that's what I do and I first saw these beautiful
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visible carbon fiber door cills offered under the interior tab on the build and price configurator they got the same GM
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style carbon fiber with the Corvette silhouette and they look really nice they say Corvette on them the build and
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price configurator shows that they are available for $1,995 per set but if you to look them
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up on the Corvette accessories page they're actually listed there for $21.95 I've got the part number for
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anybody that wants to shop around the official GM part number for these is 851
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04768 we have this on the website if you go up to any of the pages on chevrolet.com for the Corvette click on
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the Corvette accessories button there you can search sear in there as well great that sounds good well buddy let's
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number five of Corvette today in the second segment we always do Corvette racing and Corvette rumors Keith give me
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a Corvette racing update real quick yeah so last time we were talking about Corvette racing I actually mistakenly said that they'd be back in action at
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Long Beach this weekend of course Long Beach is this weekend but only the GTP and then the GTB amateur cars are only
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going to be there so we're going to be rooting for the AWA racing number 1306 gt3r at Long Beach now Corvette Racing's
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next impsa event is at montere at Laguna sea May 10th through the 12th and then again pratton Miller Corvettes will also
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be racing at the Detroit Grand Prix on May 31st through June 1st so with these smaller Street courses such as Long
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Beach and Detroit they've actually split up the field so they have two of the classes racing Long Beach and then two
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of the classes will race at the Detroit Grand Prix the really cool thing about the Detroit Grand Prix is that they're
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also going to share that weekend with Indie Cars so it's going to be a lot of fun in fact Tommy Milner has been up in
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Detroit drumming up some interest as the GTD Pro cars will be there and you know it's been a little while since corbetts
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have actually raced in Detroit because the GTD Pros were always granted that weekend off because of lemons and
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getting ready you know they have to ship the cars over and all the logistics right now that the fact that we're not going to lemons and the GTD cars are
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here we're able to run on the street course and that's going to be the first time we run on the Detroit Street course as well so that's going to be a lot of
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fun that'll be cool as for the World Endurance Championship TF Sports to Corvette Z06 gt3rs will also be in
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action on April 21st they've got the six hours of amola in Italy this is the second round of the WC and we're really
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hoping these cars working through some of their issues it's first gear car they're going to find some stuff but we're really want to see these cars
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competitive again yeah definitely also Keith this is probably the biggest story in my view of the whole show today last
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Wednesday day Corvette teased the reveal of the C8 ZR1 coming up this summer yeah
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we knew it was coming Steve but we're never sure when they're going to drop this stuff that's probably been the question I've been asked a lot about
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recently is any word on the ZR1 you know when you hear anything like that so Chevrolet made it official they dropped
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a teaser video on all their social media channels saying the Corvette ZR1 is coming this summer The teaser video is
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very short but it showed the new ZR1 logo and there was a silhouette of the car like busting through it I got chills
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the first time I watched it yeah it ends with like a silver cross flags and then in the tagline at the end says the
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unthinkable is coming this summer it's really great to finally have some official info to look forward to I think
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the message really we're looking at the reveal happening this summer I'd say the indications are strong that this will be
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a 20125 model your car we'll probably see a late Year Edition based on what we've seen previously you know with the
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Z6 and the eay promised here and then coming then later on right I probably wouldn't expect ordering to start or
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even production to start until sometime after January of 2025 a lot of stuff's up in the air you know maybe they'll do
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the ordering earlier on and then production starts in January or after January but that's kind of been the timeline we kind of heard the January
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2025 timeline first and then the reveal fits right into that yes it's going to be exciting I was kind of thinking man
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you know it'd be great to have this car launched at the Corvette museum for the anniversary show you got the 30th
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anniversary of the NCM you've also got the Caravans that are coming in so all these people there but you know 5,000
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people that's a lot lot of people around a brand new show car so the logistics of that might not be as perfect as I was
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thinking we'll just have to stay and watch and see what they do but exciting stuff the ZR1 is finally here yeah I
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can't wait buddy I'm looking forward to this one I don't know why so much but I am really looking forward to seeing this ZR1 you know one of the things I did
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Steve was these cars were at the nurburg ring six months ago and it just seems like it was forever right so I went back
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and I watched a couple of the nurur Ring videos that again goosebumps you know you see the blue flame shooting out it
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sounds a little bit different and of course the car is just moving so pretty exciting stuff I'm really excited
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excited indeed also this is kind of a heads scratcher buddy GM has blocked the warranty of an owner of a Z06 but he
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never flipped the car what the heck's going on with that yeah this is a YouTuber named Corbett py and he's
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sitting in front of a black Corvette Z06 and he's got some paperwork in his hand he relates the story of how he went to a
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dealership for his first oil change only be told by the service manager that his warranty was blocked and then further
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research showed that GM blocked the warranty only 24 days after his initial purchase huh he's had the car for almost
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a year now he points to the Z6 behind him kind of states the obvious that he's never sold the car and not only that he
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never transferred to an LLC there's no change in financing still with the exact same lender he had when he first got the
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car really hoping that this is a glitch but it's almost been a week now since we've heard from him we're really hoping we'll get an update soon on it you'd
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think this would be an easy fix right but I guess not these are automated lookups that are done General Motors is
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checking the DMV at very States you know to see when one of their ends comes up
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and if it was transferred or not and can look back and see when it was sold so I believe it would be an automated process
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you could see how it maybe something glitch there but come on again this is one of my problems I have with this Z6
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retention program the potential to hurt the normal user the person that's got the car that loves it and now doesn't
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have a warranty because he still owns it a year later and in fact he got his 500,000 GM points oh for holding the car
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for over six months so definitely a glitch in the system there hopefully that'll all get worked out I'm sure it will also this is pretty cool we heard
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rumors of GM Japan driving a right-hand Drive Z06 around town that would be really really cool yeah so last year the
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2023 Corvette z6s went on sale in Japan and you could order any color you wanted as long as it was black right so now
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that the 202 24s are opening up they've actually added torch red and Arctic White to the orders nice in Japan's
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different you know we can go in and we have different order times all the time they have basically like a one-year window I believe and it's only open for
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the month of April Chevrolet Japan is also hosting a Chevrolet performance tour at select Chevrolet dealers in the
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country and prospective buyers can go test drive the Stingray or get a ride in the new ZO6 now I always like to throw
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this out there you know during the 2023 model year Japan imported 575 new C8 Corvettes and only eight of them were
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the ZO6 we know the planet is making a ton of stingrays and I think that GM's world domination tour should really
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focus on unleashing these stingrays onto the world now that we have this extra capacity it seems like yeah I think that
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would help dealers here by absorbing some of that production while also putting more stingrays into these export
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countries and spreading the word of Corvette worldwide I think there's some good potential here and we look at all these stingrays coming out and I think
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yeah we got to push them out to some other countries now and let other people start to enjoy them as well definitely
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cover you can always go to Corvette blogger.com in this final segment we cover the lighter side of Corvette Keith
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this was really really cool there's a video out on YouTube showing an r-ray launching 0o to 60 in 2.1 seconds wow
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yeah talk about hooking up so this is our friend Brian Glover Jr he's got the drive 615 YouTube channel he was invited
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to drive the Corvette eay and the Z06 at the NCM Motorsports Park a couple weeks back now Byron already owns the c76 so
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he knows Corvette but the eay was actually a first drive for him on the track he got to do some lead follow he
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has all this video showing the lead follow he's talking through what he's feeling and stuff but then afterwards he
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gets to do a couple 0 60 mile per hour launches in the car just the funny thing his first attempt he forgot to put it in
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drive he was so excited oops so he puts it in the gear he enables launch control
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and Bam knocks out a 2.1 second 0 to 60 launch and that's just in the parking lot like in where they do the
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autocrossing really Byron also offered up a second video so he basically gets out of the eay off of the track and into
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the Z6 and then does lead follow laps there he kind of is right there talking about the comparisons between the two he
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says while he loves the visceral sound of the 06 and he also felt he had a bit more freedom on the track he says with
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the eay it feels like that it had his back with the all-wheel drive and I think that's probably the biggest thing
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with the eay is that it's not likely to step out or feel squirly I know we saw break the speed test drive eay he said
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the same thing Jesse aoui he owns that eay he says basically that everyday drivers are just going to feel a lot
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more confident in the eray with the all-wheel drive yeah I think that's probably the big storyline right now but
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yeah that 2.1 second Z to 60 is launch is crazy now he did it also in the ZO6
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and his time was 3 seconds because the back wheels wouldn't hook up oh you put that eay on a prep track maybe with some
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decent drag wheels on it and you might break that two second Mark that'd be cool also boost District took an eay and
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put twin turbos on it wow yep they well they're in the process of doing it the tuners have really wasted no time we saw
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lingan Felder show off a supercharged eay right we don't have any info on those power gains yet now boost district
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is doing a twin turbo version and they had their black uray on the dyno for some baseline pulls the little results
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were not as good as we saw when Paragon did their Dyno but he still managed 524 wheel horsepower and 597 foot pounds of
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torque I mean 600 lb of torque is quite a bit yeah that eay that's what it does and then I also caught another video of
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a eay on a Dyno this comes from complete Street performance and they're turbocharging it as well despite the
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fact that there's less than 250 eings on the street some of them are going to be packing some heat yeah definitely wow
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that's pretty cool also something pretty cool I thought this was awesome you can win a lunch date with GM president Mark
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Roy that's cool yeah this was a charity auction at bring a trailer it benefited the Motorsports Museum and Hall of Fame
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of America which is located in Daytona the auction actually just closed the highest bid was
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$36,000 and that lucky winner will go have lunch with Mark Royce at the GM Global Tech Center in waren Michigan and
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then afterwards he gets to go into the annual GM employee car show which is pretty cool you know they've been doing
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that car show for like 60 years now I think yeah and I've seen pictures of it before and you think about the engineers
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and the people inside Detroit how much they love their classic cars you get to see them theirs I really think this
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would be a really cool lunch I actually suggested that any Corvette owner who wins it great way Lobby for the future
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of Corvette especially as we're living in an ultium world right now with all the EV and hybrid stuff planned we still
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want to see that Corvette we want to hear that V8 good way to lobby for the future of the Corvettes somebody's going
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to have some fun very very cool also the National Corvette Museum speaking of very very cool has opened up a vintage
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shop and you can access it online at Corvett store.com yeah so you know they've got Corvett store.com and now
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they they got a tab up there called vintage store and basically it's secondhand apparel memorabilia other
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items that have been donated by Corvette enthusiasts and there's some pretty interesting stuff there we found like a 40th anniversary jacket huh I don't know
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if it was a members only jacket but uh it was pretty cool you have reference guides books diecast models models that
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you put together check it out there was some good stuff there there was a book there that sold these books sell for like $100 used and they sold it for 30
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bucks I was so mad that I didn't get my hands on it oh but they have guidelines for cleaning out your closet if you want
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to bring some stuff there so check it out there's some good stuff there and I think that this is only going to grow once people learn about it and want to
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get rid of some older stuff you know maybe you had a Corvette back in the day that you no longer have but yet you still have this reference guide or
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materials or even an owner's manual or something we can see all kinds of stuff there yeah that's really cool and also
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we did get our top 10 Corvette dealer sales for q1 in 2024 yeah this is a kind
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of a good way to wrap things up here so first quarter sales the big battle between mcmulkin Corvette and coka
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Corvette is ongoing mcmulkin has opened up a 79 unit lead they've sold 377
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Corvettes to Sia's 200 98 last year McMullan who is the world's largest Corvette dealership sold 1,684 Corvettes
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to ca's 1,179 so about 500 Corvettes was the difference there third on the list is
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our friend Mike Ferman at Chiswell Chevy with 145 Corvettes sold I'll go down the list here so bomin in Dand which is
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Miami Florida 119 Le Stanford Chevrolet Dearborn Michigan 94 Stingray Chevrolet
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Plant City Florida 77 cogin Chevrolet Rick Ponte patasa Ohio 59 bom in West
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Kendall 51 that's in Miami too and then Classic Chevrolet was number nine in Great Vine Texas 51 and then finally
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number 10 is stonebrier Chevrolet in Frisco this is their first time making that top 10 list wow and they sold 47
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Corvettes so as dealers are starting to order dealer stock for inventory as opposed to just working off their list
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anticipating we'll see some additional changes in the top 10 you got to work for it now it's not just calling up the next guy on the list and saying do you
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want this or not most likely people would say yes I want it now you got to go out and find some new customers as
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opposed to just servicing that list this is all good for the consumer this is good for Corvette people that really have been waiting and wanting to get a
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car without paying way over MSRP or even MSRP there's a lot of discounting out there great time to buy a Corvette and
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here's your top 10 list which we have over on Corvette blogger and you can check it out also Keith there's a new YouTube channel that has just come out
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called The ncrs Insider now it's all about the ncrs organization and restoring Corvettes to the ncrs
30:25
standards as part of the channel there there's a contest called the Corvette challenge it consists of Corvette trivia
30:32
puzzles and activities and they all need to be solved to go on to the next step there's a total of 10 challenges along
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the way and the first person to get to the very end wins a $50 gift certificate I'm going to reveal the next clue your
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next task is to go to the March April issue of the ncrs drive line which is one of the Publications that the ncrs
30:53
puts out to determine what page to go to in the drive line solve this F riddle to
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find the page number in the drive line solve the equation that is part of this rhyme in 1967 came the L88 the
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quantities made were not that great take the quantity produced and multiply it by three then subtract out just two and the
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number you'll see once you're on that page in the drive line search for the Corvette Challenge and it'll tell you
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what to do next good luck to everybody and have fun with it Keith thanks so much for being back on Corvette today
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buddy this is the beginning of year number four five you are a huge huge part of that thank you so much for that
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here's to five more years at least absolutely Steve thank you so much glad to be a part of it happy anniversary
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