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May 12, 2025
To learn more about what’s new inside the 2026 Chevrolet Corvette and Chevrolet Corvette 2026, please feel free to visit our YouTube channel. This video covers what’s new inside the 2026 Chevrolet Corvette, along with the following topics: - When did Corvette ZR1 production begin - Corvette Racing 2026 at Spa and COTA - 2026 Corvette ZR1 pace car for Indianapolis 500 ********************** CORVETTE TODAY #265 - Corvette News & Headlines, Mid May 2025 Your CORVETTE TODAY host, Steve Garrett is back from the NCM Michelin Bash. And Corvette news is pouring in...it's like drinking water from a fire hose! Keith Cornett from CorvetteBlogger is also back from the Bash. He joins Steve every other week to deliver to you all the latest Corvette news in our community. Here are a few of the stories that Steve and Keith will cover next week… 1. Chevrolet officially reveals the updated 2026 Corvette interior 2. ZR1 production began on Monday, April 29th
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keith is with me every other week and together we keep you current and uptodate on what's happening with America Sports Car keith welcome back to
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the show wow we have got a lot of stuff to cover buddy you know it's the news that never quits and that's one of the
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great things about covering America's sports cars there's always something interesting to talk about this might be an expanded episode i don't know but
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there's so much news to cover of course updates and all the other stuff that comes along with it so I'm really
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excited about this one Steve me too if you're listening or watching buckle in here we go keith let's start out the
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show like we always do let's get a production update from the Bowling Green assembly plant yeah well as you know it's been interesting to watch these
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daily production numbers which we get from Roger Keel in his C8 production tracker which you post those to Facebook
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what we've really been seeing is that Z06 production has been outpacing the Stingray by quite a bit now and in fact
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over the last 3 weeks of production from April 14th May 20th we've actually seen 403 Stingrays produced to 646 Z06s wow
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they're really ramping that number up another issue we've seen in the case of those missing rays we know we've talked
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about Roger Kil's reports not showing any -ays over the last few weeks but it looks like he found them because earlier this week 290 were reported as produced
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on Tuesday these were actually being produced over those missing weeks but they were only reported as completed on
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that Tuesday which is why they all showed up at once there again it's just one of these quirks of watching these public release numbers and how they come
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out what was interesting is that C8 Tracker another website was actually showing that they were building -ays
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during this time image just wasn't showing up so people were getting a little freaked out there but the good news is yeah they are building U-rays
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the current VIN counts are as follows we have 11,371 Stingrays 6,91 Z06s and now
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2,210 E-rays for a total of 19,672 Corvettes for 2025 it's also
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important to remember Steve that we will still have roughly 13 weeks to go before the start of the 2026 model year right
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so still plenty of time to build a lot of Corvettes what we really want to get out of this is between the zero
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allocations for Stingrays over the last three months to now seeing that the Z06 is outproducing the Stingray GM
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definitely has a plan underway to change the face of Corvette production to these higher price widebody models and we're
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seeing it play out in front of us right now yeah definitely and we have some new numbers to add to that Keith because the
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first ZR1 customer orders started on Monday April 28th that's right so they
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started what we call regular production as far as we know we have nine cars that have been completed now I was talking to
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a dealer yesterday he said "Hey I went into the order system i got some interesting data on those nine ZR1s." I
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said "Well let me have it." You know so business exclusive i haven't shared this anywhere yet he tells me that the first
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two ZR1s are going to Mr hendrickk they are black with blue stripes the blue wheels and the tension blue interior
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what's cool is number one is a split window coupe and then number two is the convertible model oh we learned that
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number three is also a black convertible number four is rapid blue and then
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numbers five through nine are all black so of the first nine Corvette ZR1s completed eight of them are black wow
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that was my spec too Keith yeah you know they showed it as a show car and I think it just really helped unlock people's
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brains of wow this is a really cool spec the blue wheels the blue stripe the interior it all comes together really
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well in that package so we think that's probably why people are going for that as production comes online we'll see more and more colors being produced but
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it's interesting that those first people all wanted the black cars yeah that's really cool at least I know my spec is a
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popular spec right right there you go yeah and then here's a head scratcher may allocations was limited only to Z06s
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yeah you know so last Thursday was the start of another order cycle it was almost exclusively Z06s although we did
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hear one dealer in particular did get a bunch of E-rays as well what has been interesting we've talked about this in
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the last two weeks or so i have a dealer calls them stmmies these little stimulus little extra allocations granted outside
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the order cycle okay so the last couple weeks we've seen dealers saying "Hey I got a Z06 allocation or I got two Z06s
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today." When it wasn't expected they've reduced the number of Stingrays they boosted the number of Z06s being
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produced and now we've got more allocations going out for Z06s okay as we mentioned no Stingrays have been
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allocated in the last 3 months yeah we didn't get the full constraint info yet for this order cycle but dealers have
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been saying that it looks like visible carbon fiber is not available nor can it be ordered on the two colors going away
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rapid blue or Seawolf gray it looks like those two colors are officially gone for 2025 okay yeah and that was a head
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scratcher too because they had Z06 orders but they had to remove all the carbon fiber arrow it's like we can
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never get enough carbon fiber can we no and then when you think you've got it then they take it away from you which is why this news is so infuriating and
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dealers should really be upset about how GM is treating some of their best customers yeah this was in early May gm
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took a bunch of orders that were placed back in February for the Z06 these are orders that were accepted with visible
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carbon fiber arrow and we're at 3000 status they took them they downgraded them to 20,000 status stripped the arrow
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off and then told dealers hey your customer either needs to select carbon flash arrow or no arrow at all one of
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the things that we were really worried about was these customers also wouldn't be able to get their colors if they had ordered rapid blue or Seawolf gray yeah
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but one of our dealers did say that he was able to resubmit an order in rapid blue so at least they could still get their colors this is crazy news and it's
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our belief that when GM went hunting for that additional arrow for the ZR1 they found it by limiting future orders for
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Z06 arrow you can't change my mind about that i think they went and said "We're going to cannibalize the selected Z06
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orders so that those first ZR1's can get arrow." Interesting wow that's a head scratcher that's for sure buddy it is
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and it's again it's just these are some of your best customers General Motors and you're toying with them and it's just not right it ain't fair it ain't
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fair at all also this is real sad Keith i saw Bowling Green assembly had staff reductions after assembly line changes
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were made yeah we've been following this project improvement since the beginning of the year saw the Corvette assembly
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plant in the first half of 2025 already closed for 3 weeks of this four-week plan downtime and that final closure is
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actually coming up on May 19th so the rumor has been that these updates to the assembly line are being made to
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emphasize widebody production and we've seen that we just talked about those stats but what's happening is the line
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is running slower they're building less cars and therefore they need less people that's why we just underwent a round of
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staff reductions our friends over at Midenine Corvette Forum tell us that there was 31 employees that were laid
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off while another 43 senior employees with 25 years or more experience actually took in early retirement buyout
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with their employment ending on June 1st okay so that's the 70some people that are no longer needed to build these cars
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you know during the NCM bash we actually had the opportunity to ask a question to the plant director Ray about these changes inside the plant we know that
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the line rate's going to slow down a little bit more he acknowledged the changes but he didn't really elaborate on what that topic was in terms of how
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fast the rates are going what kind of volume they're doing we are seeing it play out in front of us it's sad that we are losing some of these employees
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although these 43 that are taking the early retirement by us I hope you enjoy that time off because you definitely earned it absolutely right also this was
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kind of good news I guess corvettes live tracker showed inventories fell 28% last
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month so there's not as many Corvettes on the streets and on the lots yeah I think this is good news and it's been
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interesting to see how they were going to tackle this because we've been following these inventory numbers since January and in fact in February there
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was a high number they actually had 6,126 Corvettes on the market as of
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February 1st or so now as of May 1st that number is just 3,244 so they've already cut it in half
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yeah and the biggest reductions we are seeing is obviously coming from the Stingray because they're not allocating them they're not building as many so now
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on May 1st we saw that the number of stingrays on the ground was only 1,645 that is a huge reduction back in
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April that number was 2,763 so they really found a way to reduce the number of available Stingrays
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on the market while emphasizing construction of the wide bodies the other interesting stat we found is that there are just now 451 Corvettes left
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over from the 2024 model year oh so if you're still looking for that cacti or hypersonic gray or ceramic matrix gray
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car the live inventory tracker will tell you where those remaining cars are being sold at there are still a few out there
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and go get your hands on go get them people go get them this was also interesting Keith
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that was kind of disappointing zr1's not going to be offered in right-hand drive so that means that some of these
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countries that really love these cars are not going to get them yeah this goes to my world tour concept of the ZR1 and
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unfortunately it's going to be a limited world tour it looks like it's only going to the Middle East i bet Mexico gets it
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but so far the Middle East is actually the only export market that's been specifically mentioned okay we got this
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news about no right-hand drive actually from GM's managing director in Australia Jess Bala who told customers that
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basically they're not building it in right-hand drive which would mean that this car would not be available for export in Australia New Zealand Japan
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and the United Kingdom we did see that a show car was being shipped over to the Middle East and because the Middle East
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has a lot of the same kind of emission standards and other things that the American market does it's really easy to
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get our cars over there so it looks like the Middle East right now is the only one that's been announced for ZR1 okay
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interesting the plus side of that is less exports means more ZR1's for the United States and I know that's a plan
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that most of you can probably get behind absolutely right i didn't think of that but that's really true and probably the
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biggest story Keith the new 2026 interior was debuted it looks amazing
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yeah it looks a lot better and I've actually come along and I get behind the wheel by 2025 and I'm like "Okay it's
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dated now." No I'm telling myself that's not the case i do love my 2025 but the
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2026 updates are pretty cool obviously we've got the new interior we've got a three screen layout we've got a new
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center console design and then all these new graphics and everything that goes with it there's really so much here to
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talk about obviously we did lose the great wall of buttons but you know there's still a partition there it's not
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as drastic of a change as I thought it would be right those buttons for the HVAC were all moved underneath the
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center console screen there and then we got the two cup holders that are illuminated you've got a new toggle
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switch for the driver mode selector a charging pad for your cell phone is within reach now it's not behind you
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that's just part of these changes we also got four new interiors we got a sky cool and medium ash gray with habanero
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accents a Santorini blue which is really like a dark cobalt blue very nice
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looking a very dark atmosphere which is like a dark chocolate color is how they described it and then the ultimate suede
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package which you can get which is basically jet black suede with either the new red blue or competition yellow
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stitching and seat belts to match that nice four new interiors we got photos of all that stuff one of the other big
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changes is a new I'm going to try to say this electrochromatic roof which is basically a sunroof inside the target
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removable roof panel right and with the touch of a button you can actually change the tint level on that glass to
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go from low tint medium tint or high tint which I guess would make it blacked out that's kind of cool i think that's
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new for Corvette we've got a bunch of stuff happening there's some things going on with -ay they moved the charge
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plus button to the steering wheel which is a good place to have it we've also got the blue brake calipers are going to
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be available for -ay and Z06 good and a couple other little minor changes here and there which we have on the website
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we are expected to see 2026 Corvette start production on Monday August 4th and then the first order cycle is
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expected at the end of June still a lot of information we're waiting on we're waiting on model year pricing obviously
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the official order guide and then the new 2026 configurator all that should drop before ordering starts in June
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let's hope we get that soon fingers crossed and we do get a grab handle allah the C7 Corvette yeah like I said
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there's all kinds of little things here on that grab handle there's also another USB charger facing the passenger so I
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know passengers have always been missing out on some of this stuff so then they get their own little charging point there and yeah so good stuff happening
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and again I've come a long way on this interior since seeing the original spy photos i think anybody that orders it will be very happy with it definitely i
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still love my interior as well on my 2023 70th anniversary car this looks good but I'll keep mine with no problems
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and no regrets all right buddy that's a lot of news it was a lot of news i was wondering how we were going to make it
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through that you did a great job thank you all right let's take our first break buddy and when we come back it's Corvette Racing and Corvette Rumors on
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rumors we got a lot of racing stuff to cover keith first we got Corvette racing at Spa Laguna Secika and at Circuit of
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the Americas too yes over the weekend we had the Corvette Z06 GT3rs racing on two different continents which is again the
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great thing about being in these multiple series in IMSA the Corvettes were racing at Laguna Secika which is
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again one of our favorite tracks to watch a race and in the World Endurance Championship TF Sport had their two
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Corvette racers in Belgium for the six hours of Spa so as we are recording this before those races we'll bring you those
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third in ProAm on Sunday at the end of the weekend second race what's really been crazy to watch so far in this
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second season of the Z06 GT3RS is we already have won races in four different championships it's been a really good
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year so far we're really spreading out those wins across the world and just got to keep it going for the rest of the
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season and speaking of keeping it going Stellar Motorsports wants a second GT3R this year don't they yeah you know these
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teams have been normally doled they get one year and one second year of their contract but they did such a great job
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in their very first race i think they finished second place and they were running a silver team so they wanted to
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get a bronze team together for the Endurance Cup in June which I think is at Emola in Italy the team wants that
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second car for bronze rated drivers that's pretty cool because it allows them just again to race in two different
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classes there in those series in Europe stellar also put out a comment about how Gra's been working with Corvette Racing
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and all their support i guess they do calls bi-weekly with all the Corvette Z06 owners oh and they said it's very
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helpful because as one series owner might be seeing an issue with one of their parts the other teams can go check
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theirs and it gives them a chance to maybe address something before a failure happens all we know is these cars do
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appear to be a whole lot more reliable for the second season and this might be one of the reasons why that's really
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cool that's a great idea for them to do that in the rumors category Keith we're still seeing reports about the Grand
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Sport do we see a Grand Sport possibly doing some emissions testing well it could have been it was a recent photo we
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came across it showed a C8 widebody with a Z06 Highwing but yet it also had
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corner mounted exhaust and mounted to that exhaust was this contraption for measuring emissions it had these pipes
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coming out of both exhaust pipes and going into this box and so we believe it was measuring emissions particulates
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okay while we could say that this is an export Z06 undergoing emissions testing it could be we are looking at the long
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rumored CA Grand Sport shown as a wide body with the Z06 wing and testing a new mystery motor wow we just don't know
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what was in that engine bay as they were testing this seeing this emissions testing equipment would either mean a
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new engine is being tested and monitored or that there are enough changes to the content of an existing car that required
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a new emissions test and we actually saw that with the 2024 Stingrays after a bunch of new safety equipment was added
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to the car you go take a look at this picture on Corvette Blogger it's also been blasted around social media so let
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us know what you think this is inquiring minds want to know that's for sure also buddy we think we saw Roswell Green
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making a first appearance at Bowling Green assembly plant and it was an too yeah it was our first real photo it
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looks like it was parked out back behind the assembly plant unfortunately a lot of these spy photos are the photo is
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dark it looks like a gray day so the car actually looks more army green than Roswell green however because it's on an
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E-Ray we think it's a show car and hopefully it'll be shown around the country this summer i was thinking maybe at one of the IMSA races or maybe it'll
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make its debut at Bloomington Gold it does look like they are painting this car and we'll have some examples to see
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very soon that's cool i'll be at Bloomington Gold there right outside of St louis in June so that'll be fun i'm
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doing a seminar on Corvette today so that'll be cool i'll be looking out for that car for sure i know you love your
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-ay and I love the high wings are we going to combine that and have an highwing well during the roll out of the
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2026 information the press release didn't mention this at all but the video shows a competition yellow Corvette with
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a full width rear wing spoiler looks a lot like that new standard Z-51 spoiler
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on the Stingrays yeah the interesting thing is the -ray was the only model in the first two years that not having an
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optional wing available well all we did was we got the regular rear spoiler from the Z06 and then we got the little
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extensions that come up on there but that's been it for the wing availabilities on the E-Ray it does look
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like we're getting a new wing pretty cool there although I'm happy with not having one i think the GT Cruiser look
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is very streamlined and I don't feel the need for a wing there but you never know people like them and it does kind of
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look cool with one so why not why not i love the big wings was that the one that we saw with the three posts on there
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yeah that's right that was the other thing thank you for mentioning that Steve this is the first three post or three stansion wing that we've seen from
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GM of course the Z-51 wing has four mounting points while the ZR1 and the Z06 wings just have the two mounting
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points this is a three one in the middle and then one on each end well they're throwing a little bit of a curve for us
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fun side of Corvette vengeance Graphics Keith is offering a C9 concept car that
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I thought was awesome because it looked just like an SR71 Blackbird and that's an aircraft that I absolutely love yeah
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it's pretty cool already that C9 EV concept that was put out by GM's Advanced Design Studio in the UK already
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looks like a spaceship anyways so why not turn it into the SR71 Blackbird spy plane from the Cold War it's a really
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cool look of course any kind of black car is just really sinister looking anyways this is a rendering of a concept
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so it'll probably never ever see the light of day but boy people really embraced it and got behind it according
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to the comments on the website check it out and let us know what you think about that i thought it was awesome i'll drive it around that's for sure also this is
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great news the new ZR1 is now the pace car for the upcoming Indianapolis 500
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yeah we've known this news since last Thanksgiving but the official livery for the Indy500 pace car was just revealed
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on the ZR1 at the end of April obviously it features that arctic white exterior with emerald green and gold graphics and
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a modified racing stripe that really plays well in that ZR1's front hood design where it's got that waterfall
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that goes down into that cooling radiator cool unlike previous pace cars this 164 horsepower Corvette ZR1 should
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have no problem in setting the pace for the 109th running of the greatest spectacle in racing and of course
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Michael Strahan NFL Hall of Famer is going to be your celebrity driver for the race some good stuff happening there
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of course May is racing month up in Indianapolis and in the state of Indiana so excited to see what's coming at us
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here yeah the ZR1 is going to look good on the Indianapolis 500 that's for sure also at the bash Keith the Corvette Hall
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of Fame inductees were announced and we have three brand new inductees yeah this is for these people that are going to be
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inducted during the upcoming 31st anniversary celebration at the NCM on Friday August 29th they are chosen from
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three categories the class of 2025 includes SECA Corvette racer Kim Baker
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who is in the racing category general Motors vice president of design Chuck Jordan is in the GM and Chevrolet
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category and then our really good friends Corvette racing ambassadors Charlie and Jim Robertson are inducted
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into the enthusiast category and speaking of the Corvette Hall of Fame there's actually a new display for the
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Hall of Fame inside the National Corvette Museum it's actually located where that Corvette Caven exhibit had
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been right what they did was they opened up that hallway they've got the portraits on each side now so you no longer have to strain your neck looking
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up in the sky dome those portraits are still up in the sky dome but now they've got this nice hallway it's a hallway for
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the Hall of Fame which I thought was pretty cool and it looks like there's going to be some screens there i'm hoping that they're going to be
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interactive where you could say "Show me the induction video for this person or show me this video for this person." I
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think that'd be a really cool thing there and then the last thing that's going to happen here is they've got that 74 Corvette that was Zora's it had
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always been displayed over on his section where his remains are located it's undergoing preservation work and
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when it's done it's going to be the featured car in the Corvette Hall of Fame area there couldn't think of a better car to put there of course it's
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Zorus he was one of the first inducted to the Hall of Fame really kind of sets the tone for everything there so really
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cool look check it out next time you're in the NCM yeah it really looked good that hallway there with everybody on
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there that looked really really cool also some other news corvette and the Cadillac L are unfortunately going to
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see some price increases in Australia yeah and not by a little bit these prices are going up by $5,000 now this
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is just for the Stingray when it comes to the other Corvettes you know the -ay the Z06 aren't going up a GM Australia
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person says the increases are due to the foreign exchange rates and then other cost increases which is just a nice way
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of saying tariffs yes that's definitely true also Keith our final story Brink of
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Speed had a great video and Mike Brink has been on Corvette today actually pretty recently but it showed some cars
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that we think are maybe the Zora yeah we had the ZR1 and then what looked like some Zora prototypes which looked like
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the ZR1 but had that hybrid cooling radiator on that front corner there a friend of mine's captured these cars
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inside a Colorado garage up in the mountain so they're obviously doing some high altitude testing out there but
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what's really interesting about this group is there's no camo in the cars but it's somewhat of a mixed group of prototypes some are wearing mismatched
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wheels Z06 wheels on the front or Z1 wheels on the back of course you can't put Z06 wheels on the back of a ZR1
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because they're a little bit different there there's a mystery car with a different colored front and rear fascias a center quad exhaust and then a style
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heat exchanger on the car so there's a little bit more going to this group than meets the eye but it's interesting now
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Mike thinks that that one Frankenstein car with the different colored fascias might be a Grand Sport but there's also
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a hybrid heat exchanger on that car i think that kind of rules it out i don't think the Grand Sport is going to be any kind of car that's boosted or
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supercharged or will have a hybrid drivetrain at all so I think that kind of rules that out but really cool again
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to see these cars being out there tested get some good looks at them so make sure you check out that video yeah that's
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awesome well buddy thanks for being back on Corvette today we had so much news today thanks for making it all the way
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