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To learn more about what does Bowling Green Assembly Plant produce and the mid June 2024 news, please feel free to visit our YouTube channel. What does Bowling Green Assembly Plant produce is covered in this video, along with the following subjects: - Chevrolet releases another teaser about the upcoming ZR1 - Corvette Racing #3 C8/R on display at The National Corvette Museum - Bowling Green Plant sets new E-Ray production record ********************** It's News & Headlines time this week with your CORVETTE TODAY host, Steve Garrett and Keith Cornett from CorvetteBlogger.com. CORVETTE TODAY remains one of the best ways to stay current and up-to-date on what's happening in the world of Corvette. Here are a few of the topics that Steve and Keith cover on this week's show.... Bowling Green Assembly Plant sets a new record with E-Ray production The E-Ray arrives in Japan Chevrolet releases another teaser about the upcoming ZR1
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toate on what's happening with America Sports Car Keith welcome back to the show how's everything going buddy glad
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to be back Steve you know we're in the throws of Summer right now not quite the dog days yet but everybody's pretty excited we got shows coming up I know
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you've got a big show last weekend just real excited to get out there and do stuff yep things are pretty exciting right now summer officially starts on
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June 20th but it already feels like summer for sure oh yeah especially here in Florida absolutely well buddy let's
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start off as we always do let's get a production update on the Bowling Green assembly plant thanks Steve you know
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production's getting interesting we're heading into kind of the last couple months of this model year we'll have a little bit more on that later one of the
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things that we did was we did a snapshot of what we saw in May and during may we had 4,087 Corvettes completed during the
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month I mean just again a huge number 4,000 cars in one month yeah the stingray saw production of
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2,785 units Chevy also produced 1,187 z6s and a grand total of5 eays as of
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last week we are looking at a total of 24,1 120 stingrays produced plus
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7,220 z6s and 419 e-rays wow so get up all those numbers together we're looking
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at
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31,798 Corvettes or more produced for 2024 when it's all said and done that's great huge number yeah you know we've
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always looked at kind of like that July to July is the model year but it does seem like it shifted into September we
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started in September last last year we've seen September previously and historically so maybe this is kind of
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The New Normal you know going September to September I'm actually quite all right with that yeah we do have a new date for starting 2025 production then
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don't we exactly so a memo was sent out to Chevrolet dealers by General Motors last week and it gave us some additional
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details on the end of the 24s as well as the start of of the 25 so in the memo General Motors is stating that the start
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of regular production for the 2025 Corvette model year will now happen Monday September 9th the first
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allocations for 2025 model year will come out during the July Cycle One ordering and we believe that's going to
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fall on July 11th the Thursday before that the 4th of July weekend so we're pretty confident that dealers will get
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their first allocations July 11th and then we'll probably see ordering open up on July 18th by the time you've listened
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to this podcast the 2025 Corvette order guide is supposed to have been released check out Corvette blogger for all the
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new updates and anything that hasn't yet been addressed by the team we go through that with a fine tooth comb and that's actually one of my funnest things to do
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each year is it's like Christmas you unwrap it we know a lot of what's all there you tend to find some things or
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something interesting comes up so we're looking forward to that as for the 202 24s they will most likely end Friday
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September 6 it looks like there's just going to be one more order cycle happening that's coming this Thursday dealers received their final allocations
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last week and Chevy even shared a list of projected constraints that include any of the seven discontinued colors
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we're not sure how that's going to handle some of these colors you know Hypersonic gray we had some buildout dates that showed like the last time you
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ordered that would be the 8th but maybe it's the last time it would be built is the 8th of August gu like I said there's some stuff that's up in the air for us
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we just don't have the ability to pull back the curtain and see what GM's going to do there but as for the other
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constraints Stingray we still have one LT limited to 20% z51 limited to 55% and
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then the q9i 20 spoke glass black wheels are quote TBD to to be termined unfortunately the news for ZO6 suddenly
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turned bad on the last constraint report we had the carbon fiber Arrow was now on constraint and it was Zero there's
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nothing available wow and we're seeing now that Co 7 is 0% for the rest of the
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2024's and then the SOA black spider wheels are to be ter now z7 we've been
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seeing that about 19% of buyers have been ordering the z07 package it's not
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quite as huge as what it was last year when we still had all their first people in that always tend to Speck heavy their
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cars right but they told us that at the bash that oh we got through most of our issues with carbon fiber and
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availabilities but all that seems to be gone right now wow not sure why that is hopefully they'll get their ducks in a
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row so that when they do start to 202s you know everything will kind of be back to normal again that's right and adding to that amplify orange and accelerate
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yellow are already not available anymore yeah and this is what we're talking about how General Motors will kind of
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put out something and then the very next day or the next week it all changes they put out these dates of accelerate yellow
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and amplify orange I think amplify orange was supposed to go away at the end of June and here it is gone now it
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was gone at the end of May we still have silver flare cacti carbon flash ceramic Matrix gray and Hypersonic gray as still
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quote available but I'm thinking that when ordering does happen on Thursday bet we see none of those colors are
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going to be available it's just going to be the colors that are returning back for 2025 or give you the order ones
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there might be a few and there maybe some dealers will get counts like you can order this many you can order that many but it's not going to be a free
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flow order I think on any of those colors so again very fluid situation just kind of stick with us and we'll get
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through it together Steve absolutely right buddy also going back to production Keith we saw the Bowling Green assembly plant had a record day
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for production for EAS actually a record week yeah actually I'm happy to say that they've actually surpassed that record
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already so on May 22nd the Corvette Assembly Plant built 16 eays during the two shifts that's the highest daily
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counts they've done with the e- they've only done that twice now that same week they built 35 e-rays which was also a
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weekly record for production for the new car and then last week during one of the days they built 18 eay so the new record
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is 18 for the day nice we also learned in the last order cycle of was specifically for eay with some dealers
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getting multiple allocations for the performance hybrid sports car so it looks like they're filling in gaps they're giving dealers orders you know
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we now know that the end date is going to be September 6 for 2024 so this should get them through the summer
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months until we start ordering July you know the 2025 models pretty interesting stuff there we're keeping an eye on eay
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production I'm still thinking that we'll end up the model year probably around a th000 or so cars produced they've got
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600 in house as of April 1st and then whatever they're adding now with these other allocation rounds will just add to
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that number so I'm thinking at least a good solid thousand and maybe we could see additional ramp up even more but
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that's what we're sticking with so far a thousand is a good number not bad at all buddy yeah speaking of eay we saw that
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the eay is finally arrived in Japan yeah we like to call this the the C8 Corvette World Domination tour right each time we
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see these cars go into new markets it just is exciting for us I'm sure it's exciting for people there so Chevrolet
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Japan officials they revealed the right-hand Drive erray during their Corvette fan days last last weekend at
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the Fuji International Speedway we haven't seen any pricing yet or build info Chevy has previously offered the
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limited edition launch editions that kind of helped standardize the car for the new market and they could just build a batch all the same and then send them
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over in 2023 Chevy exported 567 Stingrays and only eight z6s now those
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numbers should continue to grow as some people now can custom order their Stingrays and z6s and then we'll have
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the e- raas again nice to see five or 600 cars that's much more than what they were doing back in the day when they only had the left-hand Drive
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configurations now that they're driving on the right hand side of the roads in a Corvette that was built that way adoption has been much higher oh I'm
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sure it has and also Keith through May 31st we saw the top 10 dealers do we have any change from the previous time
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yeah a little bit the first half is all the same we're halfway through the year mcmulkin Corvette has nearly a 300
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carard lead they have 791 deliveries versus coka Corvette of Atlantic City and they have 507 delivery so nearly 300
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there the top five is the same rounded out Mike Ferman and three bom and D and Miami is fourth and then Les Stanford
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and Dearborn Michigan is fifth but the real action on this list is kind of happening at the bottom Four dealers and there's two dealers specifically in
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Texas that are moving up the list since our last update at the end of first quarter Classic Chevrolet and great mine
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has leap frogged into the Seventh Place followed by Rick KY and cogin Chevrolet in Ohio stonebrier is ninth they're also
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in Texas and then Bond and West Kendall is 10 they're out of Miami a little bit of movement down there in that bottom
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part of the list and I think now that as dealers are actually having to work and sell these stingrays as opposed to just
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working off their customer list right we might still see some changes there our friend Rick he's got a little bit of a platform with his YouTube he's now
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focusing on cars that are coming into his dealership and has them in stock I think we're going to see other dealers do that know showing off their MSRP
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discounts and things like that that'd be cool all right buddy that sounds good let's take our first break when we come
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docomo Steve Garrett with me is my buddy Keith cornette from Corvette blogger.com every other week we keep you current and
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up toate on what's going on in the world of Corvette in segment number two we always go into Corvette racing and
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Corvette rumors Keith let's start with Corvette racing and how do they do at Detroit you know this was supposed to be
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a really sweet homecoming for the Corvette racing team they haven't raced in their Hometown since 2019 but Lady
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Luck raised her hand again and it didn't quite go as plann the number three Corvette which won the poll ran exactly
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one lap before having to come into the pits with an alternator issue so frustrating to see that the number four
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Corvette was second and they were just kicking butt through the first half of the race they got in a little situation
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catsburg does take the blame for it he says that he breaked a little bit early went a little bit wide and that allowed
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the Lexus to kind of die Bob him in one of the corners unfortunately when Nick moved back over they made contact it
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spun the number four Corvette basically out of contention for the race Nikki did take the blame for that Nexus did do a
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risky move and the Damage they sustained kept them from winning the race as well so not all that good you know this
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course is very tough and it's even tighter than Long Beach which is typically one of the gunfights the KN
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fights on the calendar every year very hard to pass only one real long straightway on the race there's one
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corner that was a full 180 turn a hard race there plenty of people showed up to watch it we enjoyed watching social
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media and seeing all the Corvette clubs and dealerships and the fan clubs out there all participating in it our next
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race for MSA Corvette racing team is coming up June 20 to the 23rd with the six hours The Glenn at Watkins Glenn in
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New York cool and we also need to do a preview of Corvette racing at Lama this year it's coming up too it's coming up
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this weekend Steve believe it or not wow the next race TF sport in the World Endurance Championship is the 24 hours
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lons tell you the truth Steve I'm a little bit nervous about this one TF sport is a mixed team some drivers have
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experience the number 81 Corvette has three drivers with some lemon's experience the number 82 Corvette
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they're all rookies we've also had some reliability issues that Tia sport has experienced at the beginning of the W
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season and then the thing is that there's 23 cars in the class which is a huge change from the entry list we've
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seen previously where there'd be seven of us or 10 of us or maybe even 12 of us right we're talking 23 cars the GT3
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class is Unified now in the World Endurance Championship there's no Pro class or amateur class it's just one
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class so it's really going to be an interesting race for sure again Anything Can Happen TF sport I believe is won Lem
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man several times I believe the last time they won it was in an Aston Martin so they've got the experience Corvette
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Racing's going to be there as a technical partner with them they've got the best in the business helping them out we just need a little bit of luck
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and some really reliable cars to get us over that yeah that's right Keith and speaking of reliability we're making some strides
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though with this gt3r on the reliability side aren't we again Steve you know you write an article and then the very next
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race you're proved wrong again that's what we saw with the number three Corvette at Detroit you know with an alternator problem you think they'd have
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the alternator problems worked out by now in fact looking back at some of these issues with the different cars in the different series it does appear to
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be mostly electrical issues that are plaguing the car so really need to get that knocked down now the exciting thing
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though is that for team like dxdt racing that races in the GT America series they
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came out of the box right away and won their very first two races they benefited from the other teams going through some Growing Pains early on in
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the series they were able to take any changes get them updated on the car then of course you had Tommy Milner who's
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probably the most experienced driver in the GT3 car right be able to get the win for them there so I think we are making
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strides it's just so frustrating to see a number three car with an alternator problem on the first lap at Detroit was
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a gut punch right absolutely Keith let's switch over to rumors we had a new ZR1
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teaser that came out with some Easter eggs and then we had another one with the sound the twin turbo engine yeah you
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know it's all smoke and mirror Steve well it's mostly mostly smoke teaser has that silhouette of the
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car with all the smoke in the background the smoke kind of moves around and reveals the logo reveals the cross Flags
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like this one they gave us something different you know the very first reveal they always said Unthinkable is coming
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and now with this teaser they changed it to Unthinkable speed is coming and then in the background we got to hear the
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engine of the gr1 kind of winding up and and doing it thing so an interesting teaser but after a day to digest this
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our friend Mike at breaket speed found an Easter egg in the video you know if you look at the teaser in the 10-sec
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mark you literally see the lt6 rocket that's on all the6 Motors kind of as a
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reference to it being the Gemini Project right you see that rocket in there it's blasting off and then on each side of it
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you see what looks to be represented as as two turbos pretty interesting Chevy said in the YouTube description that
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quote if you blink you'll miss it and it's literally only on the screen for just a couple seconds but it sure looks
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like that lt6 rocket has two turbos on it you know after thinking about this I said sometimes we have a habit to
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overthink everything in terms of the engineering and what Corvette might be up to the engineers but if we keep it
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simple the rocket is clearly a reference to the lt6 and the unthinkable is that Chevy is turbocharging the Corvette's
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engine for the first time in 71 year history right I think if you look at those two things and keep it simple that's what we're looking at there's
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other people saying no no no this engine's going to be a supercharged turbo engine which I don't know how you do that no I don't either are you
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turbocharging the supercharger or you're supercharging the turbo exactly I got another friend saying that oh no see
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those twin streams of smoke coming out that means it's gonna have meth injection I'm like no that's not going
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to happen I'm sure I don't see that happening either for standard prodction car yeah but I think again keeping it
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simple lt6 motor it's going to have the flat plane crank in it and the two twin turbo charges it's going to make about
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850 horsepower or so maybe even a little bit more some rumors are closer to 9 but I'm going to stick with 850 right now I
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think 850 is probably pretty right and pretty reasonable also we still saw ZR1 prototypes filmed out in traffic didn't
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we man it's so exciting you get teasers you get engine noes and then you see one out in public so this was a Corvette ZR1
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convertible prototype in metro Detroit as the car takes off it speeds away we even hear some exhaust bural in the ride
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there's a guy following him he's got a demon 17 following him along in traffic he does say that some of those burbles
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might be from the demon not from the Corvette but it's a really good video it's actually one of these videos I say
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drop whatever you're doing and go find it right now to watch because it really does give us multiple Vantage points of
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the car there's some differences on this compared to what we've seen some of the Spy shots really interesting stuff going
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on there we don't know everything that's happening with these cars could that be a ZR1 maybe it's something else maybe
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it's a rport yeah you never know maybe it's a zor we'll get to the zor next but there's just no telling what Chevy's
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doing underneath those engine compartments and things like that I think this is going to be a standard cr1 convertible that's running around but
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you got to go see the video yeah absolutely right and speaking of Zora buddy I thought this was the biggest
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rumor in the last two weeks we saw the GM is now benchmarking the Ferrari sf90 stradali now are they benchmarking that
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against Zora you know we talked about GM benchmarking previously because one of the most interesting aspects for me at
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least is to see what Corvette Engineers are testing their new prototypes and against so when they were testing the Z6
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is they had a stingray with them as they're testing the ZR1 sometimes they'll have a Z6 with them The Benchmark car kind of gives us an idea
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of what they're looking at in the competition so previously we've seen GM driving a Porsche 911 GT2 RS we've seen
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the Ferrari 458 which makes a whole lot of sense with the Z6 and of course the 488 the joke was they were driving the
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488 they didn't like the sound of it as much as the 458 so they switch back to that car yeah and then we even had the
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engineers driving the Acura NSX when they were doing some testing with the pre-production eray I saw that because
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Engineers want to compare apples to apples we kind of can look at the Benchmark cars and say well if the Benchmark car is this then are they
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looking at that on the Corvette right that's why the Ferrari sf90 is so interesting it's a V8 powered plugin
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hybrid three electric motors and it makes nearly a th000 horsepower combined and that's essentially what the Corvette
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zor is a twin turbo V8 powered Supercar with e- ra e all wheeel Drive setup to combine for 1,000 horsepower the
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Corvette prototypes that are with the Ferrari they're all covered up at a lunch stop in Ohio and then we got them
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again with some pictures they're covered up again in Pittsburgh they've got that huge ZR1 wing on the back of them they
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could be zr1's maybe just one of the cars in that group of prototypes is aora and the others are just prototype Z1S we
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just don't know but again you can't deny the fact that somebody on the Corvette team's driving around in a Ferrari sf90
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yeah that's pretty cool too isn't it that's a good job to have you have to wonder oh I always wanted toide the Corvette I'll take the
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Ferrari that's good I have a secret Theory that most Corvette owners would be Ferrari owners if they could afford
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it right the sf90 has a stealth mode as well while the stealth mode on the eay is 4 miles their stealth mode will take
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them up to 25 kilometers I believe some pretty interesting stuff they're doing there and I don't know if they have a speed limit either on that so that
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should be interesting as well that's cool if I could be a Ferrari owner I'd probably take Lamborghini instead well
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that's one way to go yeah absolutely well buddy let's take our final break when we come back it's the lighter side
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docomo Steve Garrett with me is my buddy Keith cornette from Corvette blogger if you want a deeper dive into any of the
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stories that we cover on this show you can always go to Corvette blogger.com in this final segment we always talk about
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the lighter side of Corvette first Keith you can do a hot lap in a Corvette eay pace car in the Indie 500 that was so
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cool to see yeah you know we kind of caught this video a day late it was after the Indianapolis 500 already run
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and again congratulations to Joseph newgard for his win did you know that New Garden is a Corvette owner no I
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didn't know that yeah he actually bought an arctic white Stingray I think he took delivery like in May or June of 20220 so
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he's one of the very first Corvette owners he toured the factory in February so just before Co shut down the factory
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he did a tour with cameras that was one of the very first videos we saw of the c8s being produced again congratulations
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to Joseph newart a fellow Corvette owner for winning the Indie 500 this hot lab that we got came from Team Chevy and it
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shows the Corvette eray pace car making its way from the pits and then it does a full lap around the 2.5 mile oval at
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Indie and the other thing too is we also got another hot lap in an eay pace car this was at the Detroit Street circuit
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we talked about how tight that course was very little areas to pass one really long straightway I would definitely take
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a lap in both of those just to see how they're different they're so different from each other wide open throttle on the banks at Indie but here at Detroit
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you're barely getting out of third gear it looked like right we have the hot laps of the eay at Corvette blogger.com that's really cool that was a fun thing
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to watch because open lapping at Indie you're right it's just wide open throttling it's just moving it's awesome
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also Keith let's talk about meum Indianapolis because that's a Big Show and we have the top 11 Corvette sales
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from M Indie don't we yeah you know we've always done the top 11 because what would happen is invariably the last
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two or three cars in the list would always be tied so we'd always end up going over sometimes we'd have top 12 but now we just as kind of a internal
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thing amongst ourselves Steve a lot of times does this for me Steve Burns our Detroit Bureau guy he'll come up with
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these so the top 11 what is interesting about Indianapolis 335 Corvettes were on the Indie docket again a huge number I
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think that's only second to what we see in CMI every year you know I think there's close to 400 down cimity this year right we knew a top 11 and all of
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these were c2s except for one car huh so led by a 1963 fely split window Z06 sold
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for $687,000 the one car that wasn't a C2 was a 2019 Corvette ZR1 it had the low
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wi I believe it was a manual transmission car and it sold for $220,000 and then on the flip side you
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know the cheapest Corvette that sold at Indie was a red 1976 Corvette changed hands for
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$7,700 Wow pretty interesting stuff you can see the full list of results at Corvette blogger.com ton of cars going
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through some interesting stuff you know some things not quite going for prices as we thought but those c2s just seem to
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be gold right now yeah definitely and this story is near and dear to my heart because carbon fiber Dills are now
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available for three LT and three LZ Corvettes yeah you know we kind of talked about this in the first section
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we are seeing some carbon fiber issues creep up on us once again and we're thinking maybe GM has kind of been aware of this for a little bit last month they
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moved some of the popular visible carbon fiber like the near caps before you could order those on any card now
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they're restricting just the 3lt or 3lz meaning that you have to order the top trim group to get that visible carbon
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fiber accessories right these visible carbon fiber door Sills they were just restricted to 3lt and 3lz orders but you
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can still order a malach cart at the Chevrolet accessories page at chevrolet.com they're selling for $21.95
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through the catalog but if you order with the car they're $1 199.95 nice they're pretty strong price they got the
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Corvette silhouette on them you know they're nice looking I don't know if they're like oh my God I got to have them of course I don't have that
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addiction like you do Steve Unfortunately they do look nice and for the people that want them out there
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there you go there you go indeed also it's cool to see the National Corvette Museum we've got a couple stories for
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you the c8r number three car is now on display at the National Corvette Museum
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yeah they just made this announcement of course we've got some really top guys going through the Corvette Museum's Hall of Fame later this year Yan Magnuson and
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Oliver Gavin being the drivers and then we also have Prince who's serving as like the Corvette Enthusiast he's
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getting into the Corvette Hall of Fame of course he's been the official photographer since the beginning of Corvette racing we're betting that the
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c8r will be there through the anniversary show so anybody can see it this is interesting car this car won 10
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times out of 27 starts and had 13 poles and it only raced for two years before
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it kind of went out of style that's when imsa switched over to GT3 and so we had to modify the car for GT3 so this was a
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gtlm car so for two years it was an imsa and then it served as the final gtlm car
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in the World Endurance Championship where it was driven by Nick Tandy and Tommy Milner back in 20122 interesting
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life glad to have the car on display at the coret Museum it's finally found a home it deserves hopefully it'll be a
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long-term placement as well I'm not sure how long it's going to be there but great to see it a great addition to the museum that would be cool to keep it
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there for a long time and also speaking of the museum the museum is now a Kentucky top tourist destination too
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Golding Green's just seeing the number of visitors rise each year I think I think they were up 9% last year they're up over their Co numbers already the top
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destination in Warren County which is where Bing green is located is the National Corvette Museum it is really
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the Corvette capital of the world you not only do you have the Corvette museum but you got the racetrack across the street you've got the plant now we're
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not doing tours currently but there'll be some tours over the anniversary show but they'll start the tours up again at some point and then all the other stuff
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you have Beach Bend you have H's there doing their lsfest every year all kinds of stuff going on and then some local
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attractions Lost River cave I've never done that I still want to do that at some point pretty cool to see that I
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love Bowling Green it's a fun town to go I'm actually to the point now where I can go to Bowling Green and usually get around town without having to use my GPS
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and address finders love Bowling Green glad to see the success they're having and again without Bing green there'd be
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no Corvette Museum there at the plant absolutely right well buddy thanks for being back on Corvette today I will see
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you in two weeks sounds great Steve we see you out there throw up those hands keep waving wave to all your Corvette friends and family and we will catch you
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