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Please visit our YouTube channel to learn more about mid may 2024 news and what are the Corvette news and headlines? What are the Corvette news and headlines is covered in this video, along with the following subjects: - A C8 Z06 runs 2 hot laps at the Nurburgring - GM issues a Service Bulletin for 2024 C8 Z06's delivered with the wrong front splitter - The E-Ray will be the official pace car for the Indianapolis 500 Mid may 2024 news is an interesting topic; you can learn more by listening to our video. Discover more of our video content on what are the Corvette news and headlines. You'll find additional insights on this topic and relevant social media links. ****************** CORVETTE TODAY #213 - CORVETTE NEWS & HEADLINES, MID MAY 2024 Well, it's difficult to follow up a huge show like this week's CORVETTE TODAY with Tadge, Harlan and Josh. But it's time for our CORVETTE TODAY News & Headlines show with Keith Cornett from CorvetteBlogger next week. Here are a few of the stories that your CORVETTE TODAY host, Steve Garrett and Keith Cornett cover:
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cornette from Corvette blogger is back he's here every other week with me together we bring you all the latest
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updates on what's happening with America Sports Car Keith welcome back to the show we got a lot of cover today you
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know there's been so much news and again we talk about how you know as we started our blog as you started the podcast you
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know thinking is there enough news out there to talk about and again we're just validated once again to get all the
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stuff coming out all at once so yeah it's going to be a fun podcast absolutely buddy well let's start off like we usually do with a production
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update from the Bowling Green assembly plant sure thing Steve so a total of 28,400
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68 units have been completed so far for the 2024 model year our recent Vin counts show that that breaks down to
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21868 Stingrays 6,274 z6s and a whopping 326 e-rays one
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of the stories we had last week was that the assembly plant had completed 99 z6s in a day and that was according to the
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unofficial production tracker that we followed by Roger Keel but actually in the comments he was saying that that
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could actually be due to some Under reporting the day before there might have been some storms in Bowling Green on that to Tuesday before but even if
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that's the case that means the plant worker still assembled 119 Z6 is over two days wow which is a great stat I
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mean we talked about how the eay how slow it's being ramping up and we had the same exact thing with Z6 it's funny
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just people forget about it not only because the ramp up was so but there was also a lot of constraints at the time so people I think were kind of thinking oh
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well the Z6 wasn't making fast enough because the constraints and I say no it was because they had this deliberate
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rampa program just as we're seeing with the eay they keep telling us that the eays are coming it's going to happen we
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really just have to kind of believe that because our constraint reports we don't see anything that's really outstanding there they are building the delivering
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cars we've got some new information allocations as well we just say for people that have the eay you know hang
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in there it is coming it's going to ramp up definitely going back to ZO6 Chevrolet built 6,413 z6s during that
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record setting production year last year in 2023 and the 2024 Z6 will probably surpass that number this week when you
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add those two model year produ numbers together we're at 12,687 Corvette Z6 is produced so far
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for the C8 generation I wrote that that's quite a few for those that have one but still not enough for those still
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waiting for this car a fantastic number it just shows when they can really produce and work and get stuff done
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there's going to be a number of cars out on the streets and people can buy them so again if you're on the list for a Z06
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they're building almost 300 per week your time is coming buddy all these people that are on the ZO6 list that are
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waiting for a car they're all doctors did you know that they have a lot of patients a lot of patients that's right
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that's a good one good dad joke there also let's talk about that allocation that came out Thursday of last week more
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Corvette allocations were s out on Thursday this Thursday is when dealers can tag and release those for production
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again what's really interesting is that we had a couple dealers did tell us that they received eray allocations in addition to Stingrays and z6s for the
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past I want to say going back to September we've had no serious eray numbers put out there and I don't even
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know how serious these were sounds like ones and twos to me you spread that over dealerships across the country that
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could add up to something we never had these reports of eays included as part of the regular allocation except for
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when they originally allocated back last year it's just a couple more cycles that we have I think before we do start to
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see those production numbers for the eay go up yeah definitely and also kudos to Mr Rick kti it looks like Rick found out
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when the 202 24s are going to end and when the 202s begin for us didn't he exactly yeah so dealers get these
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information packs we call them dealer decks from Chevrolet and they cover all the models I'll tell you about when the Silverado what they're doing or what
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they're doing on any of the Blazer EV any Chevrolet product that they want to communicate to they'll include in this dealer deck we've been really without
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any information on the Corvette again going back six or seven months or so so it's kind of been annoying that there
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hasn't been any information but they finally sent down this big update to dealers on Thursday last week which has
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all the big changes coming for 2024 and 2025 the first things we learned were the dates the last ordering date for a
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2024 Corvette is going to be May 28th and then the last day of 2024 production is scheduled for Friday July 12th so it
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looks like they're going to end it on the Friday and then start up the 202s on that Monday July 15th got it finally we
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have some dates there we are wondering when all this was going to happen there is some conflicting info about when the first orders will go in they put out
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that there's going to be two order Cycles in June the first one will be the last one for 2024's and then the second
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order cycle will be the first one for 202s expect sometime in mid to late June
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is when those orders will go in the dealer deck they also had some of those numbers would go in on July 9th but that
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seems really late for starting up on the 15th and again coni said that it looks like there's some conflicting
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information there orders will go in in late June and that's when the first 2025 allocations will all be set up for
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production sounds good pretty interesting there yeah but wait Steve we're not done yet but wait there's more
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this is a crazy update I said still don't understand why didn't we get this information at The Bash because we know
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that they had it but there's going to be a major change to the exterior colors for 2025 what's happening is that
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Chevrolet plans to cancel a bunch of these colors and reduce the choices from 14 colors this year to 10 colors in 2025
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we already knew three new colors were coming in 2025 at The Bash we had hysteria purple the competition yellow
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and the Sebring orange those are all new but here's what's going away we're going to lose amplify orange accelerate yellow
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of course we're getting new orange and yellow so that makes sense but here's where it really gets crazy silver flare
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Hypersonic gray carbon flash metallic ceramic Matrix gray and of course cacti
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are all going to go away after this model year wow so big changes there the last time we had 10 colors to choose
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from was 2019 one of the reasons why they spent $500 million on the paint shop was so that they could expand the
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colors up to 12 and that's how many we had when the C8 started was 12 colors my working theory on the color reduction
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could be that maybe Chevy's going to offer a couple exclusive colors for the ZR1 when it comes out or maybe they'll
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just wait for 2026 and do two new colors again seems really strange that they're reducing it of course the dealers like
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it because they're all ordering dealer stock right now so it's less choices and makes it easier for them to focus on the
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three or four colors that really sell to retail customers as they come in the door but for people that really like
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some of these colors again the cacti you read about it some people don't like it at all but others were really Ling onto
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that color and really enjoying it the Hypersonic gray was the surprising colors for me yeah we have similar
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colors in the palette as well so it makes sense to kind of pair these down they were just getting a fresh restart
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we'll see what comes in the future but that's a big change you know people don't like to lose stuff they like to get stuff yeah that's for sure well
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we'll see how it goes and how it all pans out there's obviously a method to the madness for sure right also Corvette
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has raised prices if you're like me you love carbon fiber they've raised the price on carbon fiber accessories but
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they've restricted some of the carbon fiber options to 3lt and and 3lz haven't they yeah so we've pretty much gotten
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through the issue of constraints on the really popular carbon fiber pieces but these kinds of changes show that we're
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not out of woods yet so about a week and a half ago Chevy made changes to the order guide and now that the invisible
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carbon fiber mirror caps can only be ordered on the three LT and 3lz trim groups they also did the same for the
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z06's visible carbon fiber lt6 engine cover as well as the visible carbon fiber that engine cross brakes I know
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you got one of those oh yeah so now those three things if you're going to order them on your car your car has to be a 3lt or a 3lz trim the other thing
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they did was they raised prices on several carbon fiber accessories these aren't really popular accessories they
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include the visible carbon fiber ground effects for Stingray those are now $789 which they increase by ,00 huh also
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the painted carbon fiber ground effects are $73.95 and then the carbon fiber Grill
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inserts for the stingray are 2695 we don't see a lot of those and then of course the big one on the ticket here
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the visible carbon fiber High is now priced at $839 wow these are quite a premium over
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the prices that you can get on the aftermarket so call my buddy Steve here he'll set you straight on where to go
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but yeah these are some pricey increases for Visible carbon fiber accessories that we really don't see on a lot of
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cars anyway so it really does look like the aftermarket is the way to go if you want some of that stuff and a lot of the aftermarket companies they Pride
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themselves on being able to match that same weave and style of GM's carbon fiber right so in many cases you don't
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even know that it's not OEM yeah definitely also Keith this was kind of interesting GM issued a service bulletin
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for 2024 z6s because some of them had the wrong front splitter what's going on
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with that yeah you know our friend Justin at the horsepower obsess YouTube channel broke this story about this new service bulletin for ZO6 buyers the
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bulletin is titled incorrect front Splitter from Factory on ZO6 and it was dated April 16th and apparently what
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happens is so they assemble these kits so if I know that you're doing a delivery of a corv Z6 that has these
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carbon fiber pieces on them there's going to be a warehouse that assembles these kits they send it to your dealer so it's there for PDI they put on the
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car right but what's happening is they've mismatched some of these pieces these carbon fiber pieces are coming
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with the carbon Flash painted front splitter oh when you see the carbon fiber ground effects the down planes are
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carbon fiber but then next to them are carbon flash you realize wow something's really off here what's crazy is that
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they're going to get you the right part the problem is that the Z06 front splitter is actually a three-piece
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design yeah and the dealer told the owner of this particular Z06 that yeah he can get the two side pieces right
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away but it's the center portion is back ordered oh no it's going to take a few weeks there again it's a little mismatch
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it doesn't affect the quality of the car while you're driving it just you know it's not right yet yeah so if that happened to you then you will get the
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correct piece just hang on there and I would have the dealer put on the incorrect piece so that you can at least drive it until you get it otherwise you
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know it could be a few weeks and you don't want your car just sitting at the dealership waiting for a front splitter exactly you don't want you don't want to
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drive around with a gaptooth front splitter at look on your Z06 that's right exactly and our final story Keith
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on the news segment this is really cool the r-ray was named the official pace car of the Indianapolis 500 yeah the
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indianational motor speedway made this announcement last week that the Corvette would be pacing the race for the 21st time in its history I think it's like
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the 35th time overall for all Chevrolets and this is actually the eth consecutive
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year that a Corvette has paced the race of course we have an Arctic White Corvette e-r dressed in its Livery with
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the Indie 500 door panels it's got an eray sticker on the front hood this is the first hybrid to serve as a pace car
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and of course the Ray has the 495 horsepower v8 engine in the rear so have no problems serving its Pace card duties
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we don't have the announcement of who the official driver will be yet but we do know that the Indie 500 takes place on Sunday May 26th and I will be
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watching I will be watching as well buddy that's really great all right Keith time for our first break buddy
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in the world of Corvette in segment two we always talk about Corvette racing and Corvette rumors first Keith in the
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racing segment dxdt racing unveiled their new gt3r and Tommy Miller is going
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to drive that with Alex Udell yeah this is pretty interesting so dxdt races in the s Ro GT America series many people
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don't actually know about it you know it's not imsa it's not the W but it takes place here in the United States okay generally I think it involves GT3
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and GT4 cars and of course dxdt is racing that gt3r Z6 now they've had one
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and then they just added a second one and of course as you said Tommy Milner and Alex Udall will be in the lineup
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what we're seeing here is Tommy is obviously still racing for Corvette racing and Pratt Miller Motorsports but this is part of that strategy that we
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heard Laura from GM in talking about when they wanted to extend their professional drivers out to other programs of course nobody knows more
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about the ZO6 g2r driving wise than Tommy Milner who served as its performance and development driver for
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that car so he'll still be doing duties over in imsa but now he's going to also be racing the second car for dxdt in the
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eso GT America series pretty interesting stuff there and it should be fun to watch all these races are Live on
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YouTube there was actually the first series stop was in Sebring they had the one car there so they run two races a
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week they'll run like a race on a Saturday and a race on a Sunday okay the first race that car only got in 10 laps
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they finished in 11th position but for the second race they finished in 10th place but they were on the lead lap with
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the other cars again just more development taking place we're going to have some the quality drivers now
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hopefully coaching the other drivers about the strengths of the car this pretty interesting series the car looks great the liery looks great on it could
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stuff there nice that's awesome anytime we can get more Corvett racing I say that's a good thing absolutely right and
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we've also got racing coming up at spa and Laguna sea don't we yeah so we recorded this prior to these races CF
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sport was racing their 206 gt3rs at the six-hour race at spa in the World Endurance Championship over in Europe
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races in our next news and headl podcast things are getting a little spicy out there we need some points we need these
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cars to really start showing the reliability that we know that they possess let's hope for some good standings there yeah absolutely let's
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turn to rumors Now Keith we actually got to hear the new ZR1 coming out we heard their engine idle and this is the lt7
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isn't it this was pretty cool so an Engineering Group for Corvette Z1 prototypes were spotted in Knoxville
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yeah still a lot of stuff we don't know about it but you know obviously we're getting closer they talked about the reveal coming up really cool that we got
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to hear these cars just sitting there at idol just shows we're getting closer to the big reveal this summer yeah
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definitely also we saw a ZR1 in Detroit didn't we yeah so this is interesting so now you've got Engineers testing the
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cars out on the streets got another one spied in Detroit it was probably leaving one of its facilities and this was a
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convertible driving by itself we don't know if it was maybe going out to Milford or back or where it was going
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but again it was a convertible model and the Spy photographer actually managed to get photos of the Interior guess what
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Steve it looks just like every other C8 cor that's out there from the interior they had the tape around the badge on
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the bottom of the steering wheel but other than that it was an emis interior looks just like you see on any of the 2024 models that are out there now yeah
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again Chevy has promised us the unthinkable is coming this summer our biggest hope is that hopefully the cars
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course with Taj retiring hopefully he's there to lead us in these proceedings as well Big Stuff happening this summer I
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on that all right Steve I love this story in so many ways Corvette owners especially owners of brand new Corvettes
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they're going to explore the car they're going to test its limits they're going to see what it can do a lot of times we'll see cars go out and do a quarter
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allows it to drive in the battery only electric mode it's not very long range obviously the eay is not designed for
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that but there's going to be owners out there to see how far they can go in stealth mode sure so weeks back we had a
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video by a friend named Barry who owns one of the first eays he wanted to see how far he could drive it in electric only mode and he got 3.6 miles before
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the V8 engine kicked on in the back okay and so I joked at the time that wow Barry just set a world record we
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actually needed a leaderboard to be able to keep track of all this you know just kind of just throwing it out there joking because that's what people do
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they set the world record in the quarter mile for the first supercharged eay you know well you're the only supercharged
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eay so of course it's a world record exactly apparently some other eay owner beat distance he did a 3.8 mile run so
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Barry went back out was driving around rural New Hampshire topped up his battery to 100% set his odometer to
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reset and then he would managed to go 4.1 miles before the engine kicked on Wow again new world record right Steve
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exactly here's what really amazes me though is that we have all these supposed Corvette lovers out there who
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still don't know the first thing about this car oh I know they hear the word eay they close their ears and go la la la la they don't want to know anything
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about it it takes just 10 minutes to know all you need to know about this car the joke is tell me something you don't know by telling me something you don't
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know I mean it's just really prevalent with this car another eay owner tells us that she basically has to justify her
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ownership every time she's at some cars and coffee Gathering whereas her ZO6 just sort of speaks for itself wow still
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a lot of misinformation about this car out there but again it looks like it's a lot of fun it's fast we've seen it at
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the track we've seen it go silent now for 4.1 miles it's going to be the pace car of the Indianapolis 500 this year
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once we around snowtime and you're driving your eay in the snow and people have their car covered up for the six
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months because of bad weather that's what it's for exactly some fun stuff with the eay we're having fun with it I
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hope you guys are out to yeah definitely and speaking of track we saw a Z06 running two hot laps at the nurur green
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how did that turn out wow this is fantastic so a European racer named Nisha shudan I hope I said his last name
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right huge following on YouTube he's got like 1.3 million subscribers and he got to drive the Z6 hard at the nurburg ring
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this was a track session that was open to the public it was also his first time behind the wheel of the car he comes out
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of this thing saying GM you've done a fantastic job my God what a car just really amazing two laps too not just one
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lap and not only do we get the lap but we see what's ahead of him with the PDR but then we also get a graph on the
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gauges there as well he gives a lot of reasons why he wasn't really running a timed lap but he goes back and looks at
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the tape and says yeah ran about 7 minutes and 20 seconds despite heavy traffic I mean there were times he had
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to slow down he had multiple cars in front of him he had to work around them and still finished in seven minutes and
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20 seconds so pretty cool there wow this is the one video that if you have not seen yet you really want to go to
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YouTube and look it up go to Corvette blogger look it up because it's fantastic the other fun thing is he does two laps so when he starts his first lap
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I look at his fuel gauge and it's right in the middle between a quarter and a half a tank but when he finishes his
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second hot lap the red lights's on and he needs gas he sounds like a really fun way to
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burn off some fossil fuels definitely definitely and Keith you know we've always called a Corvette America sports
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car now we can call Corvette America's favorite convertible too so this kind of came together interesting so during the
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NCM batch the Corvette team shared a graphic on the top 10 convertible sold in America and the Corvette C8 leads the
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way beating like Miata Ford Mustang Porsche 911 even the Mini Cooper among others what was really interesting was
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another study was showing that America's love of convertibles is actually shrinking mostly due to the fact that most vehicles on the road these days are
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trucks and SUVs there was a study put out by the hustle which shows that registrations of convertibles made up
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only 0.9% in 2014 and they have fallen to 0.6% in 2023 while of course all this
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is happening the C8 Corvette comes out now is just blown away convertible sales of course for Corvette nearly half of
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all stingrays are convertibles and in 2023 there are more Z6 convertible sold
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than Z6 coups again surprising because the Z6 is the big track weapon there there but people love the convertibles
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as Corvette enthusiasts you know obviously we have a lot to be thankful for pushing that button for open air Driving Experience it's just one of the
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reasons to buy a new Corvette now if we can only find a way to bring back the manual transmission exactly save the manual
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that's for sure and our final story Keith this is interesting if you'd like c5s the Corvette racing chassing number
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seven the c5r GT1 race car is up for sale now Steve would it be fantastic
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you're standing outside your home you press your garage door open ER see that door go up very slowly and parked inside
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with an actual Corvette racing c5r race car that would just blow away the neighbors I think and of course imagine
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the startups of that you say your exhaust is loud yeah but actually the number seven chassis c5r made for
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Corvette racing but was never used by the team it was a backup car that was eventually sold to a European team raced
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it overseas a little bit this car has been freshly restored back to its Corvette racing Livery it's got yellow
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exterior it's got the black rear end on it big wing on the top huh really a neat car there's no price on it but we can
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imagine that it's pretty expensive of course you'd have to bring it over from Luxembourg again if you bought it here in the United States hopefully somebody
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will buy this car and show it off because obviously there's not many of these out there and the fact that it was an actual Corvette race car a pretty
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cool addition to any collection bring it home to America absolutely yeah well buddy thanks so much for being back on
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Corvette today have a good two weeks we'll see you back here in a couple well thanks Steve lots of stuff going on stay
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