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What Is The Price Of The 2025 Stingray? | Z06 Market Price CORVETTE TODAY #225
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May 8, 2025
To learn more about what is the price of the 2025 Stingray and Z06 market price, please feel free to visit our YouTube channel. This video covers what is the price of the 2025 Stingray, along with the following subjects: - Will the new ZR1 appear at Corvettes at Carlisle? - Chevrolet honors Tadge Juechter on the new ZR1 - Z06s are selling below MSRP ********************** Things are really happening in the world of Corvette...the ZR1 was revealed last week, two huge shows are coming up - Corvettes at Carlisle and the Anniversary Celebration & Caravan at the National Corvette Museum. CORVETTE TODAY sorts out everything that's going on so you stay informed! Your CORVETTE TODAY host, Steve Garrett welcomes back Keith Cornett from CorvetteBlogger to run down the following stories and may more... 1. 2025 pricing for the Stingray and Z06 is now out 2. Chevrolet honors retired Executive Chief Engineer, Tadge Juechter on the new ZR1 3. It's rumored that the new ZR1 will be at Corvettes at Carlisle AND the NCM Anniversary Celebration 4. Pre-owned Z06's are actually now selling below MSRP at some dealerships 5. JD Power ranks the Chevrolet website as one of the top mass market websites this summer
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todate on what's happening with America sports car keep welcome back to the show we've got a lot to cover including some
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extra ZR1 news and don't forget everybody if you want a complete rundown on everything we've got on the ZR1 Keith
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and I did a Corvette today extra that came out last week it's available on Corvett today.com on podcast and on
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YouTube so make sure you check that out absolutely that was a great show to do with you Steve there's so much there
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with that car of course it's been out now for just a little over a week people are still really excited about it we got a little bit of ZR1 news coming up here
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looking forward to talking about it yep me too buddy let's start off like we always do with an update on production from the Bowling Green assembly plant so
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with last weekending another month's worth of production we'll start looking at those figures first for July 2024 so
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during the month of July we saw around 1,926 new stingrays produced another 860
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z6s and 158 e-rays so our total for the month was 2,944 Cars produced which again not too
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shabby considering that workers had that first week of July offer that annual summer shut down on the 4th of July holiday right as far as the Vin Coats go
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last week the Stingrays were at 28,224 the Z6 was at 8900 and then the
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eay was at 795 oh grand total so far for 2024
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37,9 39 and see we still got five full weeks of 2024 production until the model
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year ends on September 6 some really good numbers regarding eay we've seen I think close to three straight weeks of
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them not missing a day's work production and a lot of those days are double digits all of a sudden they found that
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groove it looks like for the end of July I think the big news here Z6 at 8900 you
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know that means that we've crossed 15,000 Corvettes available between 2023 and 2024 the Z6 why it kind of have it
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in the back ofr our minds it's a limited produced car 15,000 examples is quite a few so that might get into some of the
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price changing we're going to talk about a little bit later as well but I think that's really great news as well again with the eay being at 795 we're
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predicting that we should end up the production year with a little over a thousand I'm thinking but I don't know if we'll get to 10,000 on the Z6 with
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the 8900 in five weeks we're g to kind of be watching those that' be a cool Milestone to do 10,000 z6s in one year
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definitely but those are all great healthy numbers I'm glad to hear all that coming out speaking of things coming out we had the pricing for next
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year and Stingray and ZO6 get a $2,000 price increase Chevy always waits the
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last minute they waited the day before ordering open for the 2025 so anybody that was ordering a 2025 in that initial
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order cycle had no idea what the price increase would be if there would be a price increase but we were thinking that it was going to happen it wasn't across
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the board The Stingrays were spared I guess you could say although the dealers you know the dealers are disappointed they wanted to see a price pump for the
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2025 Sting Ray because they got 2024's on the lot that they need to sell and that price difference would have helped
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that out unfortunately that didn't happen to them we did see some options that were charged more but they're mostly little stuff you know we don't
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see anything really targeting the big options like front lift mag ride or any the performance packages just to run
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through the starting prices for the 2025 the stingray Coupe it has the same MSRP of
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69,99 while the convertible is at 7699 the eay coupe now jumps to 108 595
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and the eay convertible is at 11 15,590 and then the Z06 coupe the starting
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price there is $3,795 and then the convertible will start at
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12795 you know Steve I'm old enough to remember when the ZR1 came in at $120,000 and everybody kind of lost
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their mind yeah and now it's just like no problem reaching those and of course you add some options to this car it's
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150 160 170s it's going to be amazing to see as we get any kind of ZR1 pricing
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we're not going to have that probably for at least another few months and maybe three four months maybe even before the first of the year we'll get
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it but we're going to be seeing I think a pretty big number there yeah more I think about it I was told pricing won't
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be until after 2025 maybe January or February so we'll see what it happens but it's going to be easy to get up to a
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$200,000 Market from that ZR1 once you start adding interior carbon fiber arrow
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and all that kind of stuff it's going to be an expensive car it will be but again I think with that car coming you'll see
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a lot of the value for these other Corvettes that are still available obviously we want to shrink down the production numbers on the sting race
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some more we got too many out on and I think that'll happen once again eay kind of creeps up doing great with Z06 that's
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doing exactly what we needed to do and of course we always have to think in back of our mind you know there's all these variants running around we got
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exports going to different countries not lot but a little bit that takes away from that Stingray production so I think
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that's all going to be good it's really interesting how the Corvette team has really mapped out this roll out still
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got another three or four years of C8 production so what else are they going to bring I don't know it could be
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interesting I think there's at least one more model maybe too buddy that's for sure yep also I know the dealership
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started ordering 2025 we got our first constraint report what was on that remember the final 2024 constraints we
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saw carbon fiber arrow in the ground effects for Z6 they were at zero yes so we were thinking what was going to
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happen if they started in 2025 well they did get some but again these National numbers were so low they got like 32
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Wings in both visible carbon and carbon Flash and they only got seven sets of ground effects both seven in carbon
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Flash and seven in visible carbon fiber so very limited Nationwide but it was something I guess so again we're not
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sure really what's happening there but it's got to stop for sure yeah the other big news for 2025 startup was the new
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colors and how they were going to be released we found out that Chevy is starting with hysteria purple first oh
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and then we add competition yellow and Sebring orange afterwards the hysteria they only offered 40 Nationwide in this
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first order cycle and they did a little differently before they would give the dealer how many eays they have and then maybe how many hysterias they could
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order this time they were very specific they only had three e-rays in hysteria I think they had 26 stingrays in hysteria
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and then 11 z6s again just 40 total very controlled roll out the same actually goes with the habanero inter we saw just
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12 available for stingrays in this very first M cycle this new stuff will take a minute to get out again we've seen the
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competition yellow and hysteria on the new ZR1 we know that they are building those they've had painted those before
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so I'm betting competition yellow comes on next and then we'll see the Sebring orange probably bring up the rear there I can't wait to see the new colors and I
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I'm really excited about the habanero interior too so I'm looking forward to hopefully seeing that at Corvette at
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Carlile Andor the anniversary celebration at the Museum absolutely also we had some really cool news that
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came out after the ZR1 was debuted Taj juor is going to have a little graphic and they're honoring Taj on the ZR1 give
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us a little bit more detail on that Keith yeah so he just retired at the end of July so just last week was his last
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day 47y year career at General Motors 31 of those spent at corette I think he first started in 1973 and I think he was
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working at a production line somewhere this whole body of work that he's got is just fantastic he started I think in the
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very late C4s but C5 and C6 was where he really started working himself up he was
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named chief engineer with C6 and then of course C7 and C8 were his babies what we're hearing is that on the 2025 ZR1
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when it comes out there's going to be a little graphic a little Tad head like those Zora heads that we have on the windshields right there's G to be a tad
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head on the rear of the split window for the ZR1 and then after the ZR1 debuts I
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think we're going to see those Tad heads replace the zor heads on the windshield as well as on the underside of the car
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oh really cool graphic this guy is the guy that actually made the Mid Engine Corvette where all the other Chief Engineers did their prototypes and
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talked about it but could never really move past that so it's a big deal I'm glad to see him honored in such a way it
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is a big deal I'm glad to see that too I think that's a very very cool deal for Taj we thank him because if it wasn't
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for Taj and Josh holder and all the team we wouldn't have a mid-engine car that's for sure also Keith the 2024 corvest
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have a new service bullettin if you're having problems getting overthe aair updates that can now be fixed yeah they
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think something going on with the body control module so if you're finding that your 2024 Corvette's not doing overthe a
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updates correctly what it says basically is it looks like it pulls it up but it doesn't progress to the next step to actually start the install Okay so if
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you're seeing something's not going through contact your dealer they'll take a look at it if they have to they'll reflash the body control module takes
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under an hour to do it' be covered by warranty if your car is still under warranty so definitely something to take
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a look at because you want your car to be able to do over the air updates sometimes it's the little stuff but
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sometimes it can be major so you definitely want those updates yeah it's good to hear it's less than an hour to it's not an all day thing so you can
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wait for the car while it gets flashed and updated so that's good yeah you don't have to tear it apart either you know it's basically just plugging into
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the port and doing the upload that way so again very non-invasive fantastic and our final story in the news section
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Keith this is really cool JD power ranks the Chevrolet website as one of the top
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Mass marketing manufacturer site this summer of 2024 I thought that was awesome yeah you know they did an
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upgrade we caught it it funny I spent so much time on the visualizer so I'm very well aware of sha.com imagine trying to
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buy a car without a website where you can go on and change colors and visualize or build in price you know
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we've actually come a long way the Chevrolet website you know previously had finished like 11th and then 9th in
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previous surveys this time it went straight to number one this is a survey of users of Shoppers that visit these
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sites they scored the chevrolet.com possible 758 out of a th000 the GMC
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website was second was 744 and then the Buick site was 11 so that's the GM sites and how they rank there we've been a big
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fan of chevrolet.com especially the new version as it came out with a bigger configurator they've done a great job
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there they even have a new page now you go into it and you can see the new Chevrolet is for exploring like the Corvette lineup so to speak so one page
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with all the models on there and then you can drill down to the model you want to see they've done a really good job I think so too and yeah that's an
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very cool and also we had Corvette racing at Road America yeah so the race was Sunday we are actually recording
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this prior to the race so we don't have those results yet but we are coming off that stunning one two finish at canadiantire Motorsports Park where we
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started first and ended first like Canadian Tire Motorsports Park Road America is a very fast track very fast
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Corners so if we can have a really strong qualifying showing start up towards the front of the class I think
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we've got a definite possibility there to do back-to-back wins this is going to be tough though you know we got Rexy
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number 77 they're leading the class in the championship points with three or four races to go we still need to really
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do well to get back up in contentions we'll be watching that's for sure definitely in the rumor section Keith we
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hear that the ZR1 is going to be at Corvette to carile and if it's there it's possibly going to be at the
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anniversary celebration at the national Corvette Museum yeah I think the second ones a given the first one has been
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confirmed our friends at car events came out after the 2025 Corvette Z1 was revealed and announced that yes the new
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American Supercar will be at corveta Carlile that's of course August 22nd through the 24th hoping to see both
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models on display inside the GM engineering tent of course the GM Engineers will be available to talk about just about anything other than
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pricing yes we also heard that there's some planed Tech sessions with the ZR1 certified GM technician Paul corner is
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going to be talking both about early ZR1 and then probably z1es to the years before ending with the big 1,64 monster
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that we saw in bail the other night that's going to be a lot of fun there course you get your tickets at Carlile events.com we mentioned this you know
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there's only 36 cars or show that have been built for the ZR1 the pre-production car so I don't know if
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we'll see a huge contingent of the engineers driving these cars in like parking back in that VIP parking lot
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they're just not really available like they were in other years there's only like five show cars or so um so like I
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said I'm hoping that we have at least two of them here Plus the Cutaway so we can see how they did all that wonderful
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technical stuff on that car I can't wait to see it buddy that's for sure also we hear that Chevrolet is actually offering
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cash back rebates on 2024 stingrays but as always there is a catch isn't there
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yeah you know we're five years into the C8 Stingray now we've reached that Tipping Point where dealers are buying
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is targeted towards Camaro owners the 2024 model year for Camaro this is it this is the final one so looks like
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about last month 7.49% financing for 72 months 7.99% financing for 84 months
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pretty much what you get at any Standard Bank the credit unions are a little bit better than that these days but nothing
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really special there the point is the dam is broken we're getting rebates we're getting incentives one of the things that we haven't seen yet GM
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employee pricing for the stingray employees of General Motors get a nice healthy discount there have not seen
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Star Wars and he was a legit star then but this movie was just a typical be
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movie type Along Comes Green Day you know 30 some years later said 40 years later with their own Corvette Summer
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song they said that they spent all their budget in getting Mark Hamill into the video that they had nothing else ready
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to go so if you watch it it's very low budget like the car that they are driving is made out of cardboard o it's
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done in a way that it totally works the theme again is one of the band members in Green Day build a sweet right-hand
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drive car car gets stolen by the other two band mates and so he goes and calls up his Uncle Kenny which is Mark Hill
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and they go steal it back there even a couple stop start sequences with some Matchbox cars and stuff definitely worth
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to watch it's only four minutes long that's cool I'll have to check that out it's Corvette it's Green Day it should
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be good also Keith the --ay has competed in the motor trends performance car of the year and they also did a little bit
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of drag racing didn't they yeah we talked about this last couple weeks when we were on the show The eay was one of
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the cars chosen to compete a motor trends performance vehicle of the Year award they always do this initial review
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of it with a couple writers and it was clear right away that the eay was going no further than just being invited to the event basically even in the title it
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said wow I could have had a Z06 or something like that I mean I knew right away it wasn't going anywhere about a
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week afterwards I think it was a BMW M2 actually won the award just last week we got a Motor Trend video where they had a
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couple these contenders running drag races against each other one of those was the e- so it was the Maserati mc20
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versus a Porche 911 GT3 RS and then the second match was a eay versus a McLaren
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750s so up against McLaren of course the E is no match we've seen this before one of the other drag races by Edmonds but
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the eay did beat the other posted Times by Maserati and Porsche and finished fourth overall on the leaderboard ran
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2.6 seconds 0 to 60 and then a 10.6 qu mile at 128 mph ranked fourth on the
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board did better than a lot of the other cars Lamborghinis included no one's excited by the specs of the eay these
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days I said they went with something else all right well hey the eay is still
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sexy but you know maybe maybe the Motor Trend you know they're just not sexy enough well you know you put that eay up
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against the other two cars and it wouldn't exciting to see a race against the Porsche GT3 RS it is what it is it
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was still a fun race it was a fun race also I hope now you got to sit down when you hear this story some dealerships are
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actually selling pre-owned z06's under MSRP oh my gosh yeah I tell you the dam
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is broken then you've got a really interesting selling environment you know we see cars are selling but if you talk
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to other people you talk to some of the pre-owned Corvette dealers out there Things Are a little tough right now this
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actually was a pre-owned Corvette being sold through Corvette World Dallas 2023 Z6 and silver flare with the z7 package
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full factory warranty MSRP on the car was 1446 and they were selling it for just 1443 or 143 something so not too
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much but I just went back to it just to see if the car was still available it is and they've marked it down now to like
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141 nice this is again a pre-owned car but we are starting to see if you go to
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any of the Facebook groups there are a couple out there that deal with z sixes they will report you know hey I saw this
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at the dealership it's a couple Grand off MSRP I think that we're starting to see some discounting that's going to
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start happening to the Z6 again over 15,000 of them out on the streets these days a lot of those early adopters have
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already got their cars so now we're filtered down to the people that were forced to wait good thing they did because they're going to get a sweet
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deal on a smoking hot car it sure sounds like it that's for sure we also have some National Corvette Museum news we
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always like to report on what's going on at the Museum they're going to host a student art competition yeah so they
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currently got an exhibit called luster realism and hyperrealism in contemporary automotive and motorcycle painting and
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this exhibit 55 paintings by 15 modern artists who all specialize in this kind of painting so really cool stuff it
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looks like you're looking at a photograph and not something that was painted on canvas really neat stuff this is a contest that's going to be for high
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school students and three of them will be chosen to have their entri shown at the Museum's American love affair exhibit in October and I think it'll
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also be in like the American Sports Car magazine that the NCM puts out so so if you're a high school student and prettyy
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good with a paintbrush you might want to check out the rules for the contest at the national corette Museum's website
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very cool wow our final story Keith let's talk about the top dealerships through July 31st of this year yeah this
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is always fun a chance to rank and see how people are doing again McMullan Corvette and nasua New Hampshire
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improving on their lead of all Corvette dealers in the nation with 127 deliveries in July that was 44 or 45
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more than sioka which came in second think about that 127 deliveries in July their calendar year to date total now
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was 1,57 deliveries second place in coka they delivered 83 new Corvettes last
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month for 689 for the year and in third place our friend chriswell Chevrolet Mike Ferman delivered 45 new Corvettes
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for a total of 339 so if we go down the pack you know MC Mulan sioka Mike Ferman and Chiswell in fourth we have bomin in
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Miami that's the dland store fifth is Les Stanford Chevrolet six Stingray Chevrolet in Plant City Florida Classic
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Chevrolet actually jumped ahead of COG and Rick KY wow so they're going back and forth they've been doing this the
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last couple months so that's going to be interesting to watch Classic Chevrolet sold 16 cars to K's 10 and so they were
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able to leap for a with 131 versus 126 we're gonna be watching that in Ninth Place bomb in West Kendall again in
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Miami and then new to the list Don Neely Chevrolet knocked out stonebrier they're 10th now with 112 deliveries they're out
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of Claremont Florida just north of Orlando a little bit of a shake up there at the end the top dealers I think are
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already pretty settled for the year I don't see anybody cat up with MCM these days yeah I don't think so buddy well
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Keith thanks for being back on Corvette today we will see you at the Corvette's Carlile show and we'll be back in two
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