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May 9, 2025
In today’s video, we delve into the key aspects of the Corvette ZR1 and explore when will the 2025 Corvette ZR1 start production? This video covers when will the 2025 Corvette ZR1 start production and discusses the following topics: - How many Corvettes were sold in Q1 2025 - GM UK Corvette concept car design - Lingenfelter twin-turbo Corvette development ******************** CORVETTE TODAY #261 - We Begin Year #6 of CORVETTE TODAY with Corvette News & Headlines, Mid April 2025 This CORVETTE TODAY show marks the beginning of year #6 for the show! Your CORVETTE TODAY host, Steve Garrett and Keith Cornett from CorvetteBlogger bring you the latest Corvette news & headlines from the past two weeks! Here are some of the topics that Steve and Keith cover... 1. ZR1 orders move to 3000 status with production scheduled for May 2025
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and uptodate on what's happening with america sports car keith welcome back to the show six years a corvette today
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buddy wow glad to be here and that's amazing stat steve and you know your numbers of the episodes they just keep
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congratulations again i'm i'm just glad to be part of it thank you buddy and thank you for being part of it as well
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couldn't do it without you let's start the show keith like we always do let's get a production update from the bowling
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green assembly plant all right here we go so it's actually been an interesting couple of weeks at the corvette assembly plant they just wrapped up two weeks of
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downtime during the second half of march for what they called project improvements but following that reopening we've been watching the number
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of corvettes produced and it's been very very low now these are reported as publicly finished so it could be that
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there's cars that aren't ready to be publicly finished yet or signed off as finished it could be something going on
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behind the scenes our friend john at the mid-enine corvette forum is actually reporting that the reason for the slowdown could be a lot of new training
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that's going on which we also find interesting as well mhm since the plant reopened at the week of march 31st we've
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seen just 80 new stingrays 58 z06s and 33 e-rays completed there's definitely
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something going on there but it's actually okay with us because the less cars they produce right now are less cars out on dealer lots we'll talk about
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inventories coming up here our total counts right now the vin count stands at 10,763 for stingrays 5,192 z06s and
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1,887 e-rays for a total of 17,842 corvettes produced for the 2025 model
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year that sounds good and to expand on that topic corvette inventory fell by 21% over the twoe shutdown yeah you know
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it's a simple formula with no new corvettes being built for those last two weeks the cars pretty much shipped out
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of the plant so dealers weren't receiving any new inventory and replacement what we were showing about a week before that shutdown was there were
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around 5,700 new corvettes available this is according to the chevrolet live inventory tracker of those 5,700 there
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was a,000 that were 2024s that were still remaining so then after the twoe pause that number has now dropped we
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have 4,532 corvettes available and just 753 of those cars are remaining 2024s
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dealers are definitely moving through their inventories which is great you know obviously they've been discounting them pretty aggressively and then we've
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had that costco incentive i've talked to a bunch of people that said they've been able to take advantage of it that's 2750
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or $3,000 and you can even use that on new corvettes ordered as long as you just take delivery that incentive ends
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before the end of this month so make sure that you take care of that that's really good we also have some good news about zr1s their orders move to 3000
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status and we're looking at production maybe around may aren't we yeah that was the rumor i'm still waiting to see some
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tpws but i feel pretty strongly it's got to happen actually in may is what i'm thinking we talked to multiple dealers
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last week we were actually out at spring mountain when this was all going down found out that dealers did have their orders go back to 3000 status as well as
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some dealers were able to secure some highwing that carbon fiber arrow for their customers we don't really know how
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many of those were available they did it backwards accordingly from what we knew before where before the dealers would
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just get the number and then work off of that this time it appears like they were asked how many they wanted how many they
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could live with and then chevys tried to accommodate them that way it's really kind of a crazy order cycle it lasted
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over a month to get this done just to give you a little bit more backstory on it dealers got this letter from gm
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saying this is how it's going to be done and then it was done completely different from that letter not only is communication bad but a lot of times
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it's incorrect as well we realize that was a special thing that they were trying to do but it just wasn't handled correctly kind of leaves a bad taste in
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people's mouth about trying to order a car and having to jump through all these hoops yeah definitely the weird thing was this is a head scratcher no
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allocation for the second month in a row but we did have a big change in shipping cost though yeah that's right again
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first order cycle was supposed to occur last thursday with allocations coming second month in a row we didn't get any
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allocations in march and now no allocations this time around talking to again to our dealer friends it's almost
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unprecedented for them to go two months without being able to place any new orders the dealers we talked to believe
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that the production that's going to be happening are existing orders that were accepted previously we had one dealer
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that had a z06 with a highwing that was accepted back in october at 3000 status
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he's been sitting there he just got his tpw maybe a week ago oh my gosh they have these cars in the hopper not sure
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why it's taking them so long to build other than maybe it was a delay with that carbon fiber arrow but for
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customers who want to custom order a car the wait continues the other little sliver of news we got last week though
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was that chevy is now raising their delivery freight charges once again for new corvettes these are the mandatory
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fee that is charged for the car to be shipped either to your dealership or to the ncm for rc deliveries it was $16.95
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now they're charging $18.95 we believe that this is due to the new shippers that have come on you know they're using
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a consortium this time as opposed to just one shipping company right so there could be some additional cost there
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we're not sure yet but i think this is the second increase in the last year and a half i think the 2024s got raised they
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were $9.95 then went to $12.95 and then they're 1695 now they're 1895 well if we
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haven't confused everybody with enough numbers yet here's another number yeah here it comes yeah chevrolet delivered
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over 6,700 corvettes in the first quarter of this year yeah that number was actually down 20% over the time
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frame before in 2024 the first quarter sales were 8,576 okay that's a huge number that's a big
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decrease in first quarter we've seen it before where plays a role and things like that the last time we saw sales
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this low in first quarter was 2021 there were 6,600 corvettes delivered but that was because they couldn't make enough of
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them yeah what we're seeing now is obviously there's dealers that have plenty of stock available there's plenty
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of discounting available so it's really set up to be a buyer market so if buyers aren't taking advantage of it kind of
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shows you that there's some other concerns available again it could be weather it could be financing costs financial markets in turmoil but it also
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could be you know we had the leak of the 2026 interior so maybe more people are staying and you know i'm going to wait
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for the 2026 because i like the new interior yeah again it could just be something that's going on we'll have to keep a watch on it of course second
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quarter results will come out in july hopefully by then we'll have all the news about what's 2026 start and end
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that stuff we're watching it this was not a good sales report at all no we'll keep an eye on it though and we'll report back to everybody our final story
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in the news section keith and i'm so so excited about this acting ceo of the national corvette museum bryce berkell
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has been named the ceo we found a ceo named david hill but he resigned and
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bryce is now moved from interimm ceo to full-time ceo of the national corvette
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museum yeah this is great news so what happened was maybe it was a week ago over the weekend we started getting
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reports so david hill was named as the new ceo and president of the ncm and i think he started the second week of
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march maybe the third week of march so he'd been on the job for a little bit he comes from a company called mark which
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is m-k and they are a classic trucks restoration parts company they do like the wood for classic truck beds you know
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think of old chevy trucks they also do ford trucks and all that stuff apparently he closed his business late
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march abruptly just came in and told the employees "it's done we're closing it down." and it came out that there's all
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these customers still out there that had back orders for parts they paid $2,000 $3,000 for and now they're wondering if
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they're ever going to get them those customers actually started getting very vocal we started seeing messages left on
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posts at the ncm's facebook page we started getting some emails ourselves from a couple people so we looked into a
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little bit further and found out that the ncm was aware of these allegations as well it only took a couple days but
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he actually submitted his resignation and the ncm moved very fast and approved bryce as their new president which
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frankly he should have been named a year ago they did this head hunter contract once again to find this guy and it took
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almost a year to do so i can't imagine the money that was spent to hire him and bring him in in his defense they kind of
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went south after he was hired i'm so glad they moved fast to get rid of him bryce is going to do a fantastic job
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bryce has been with the museum for 15 years came up i believe through the delivery program but knows that museum
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100% in and out we have great faith in the work that he's going to do in the future yeah bryce is good people he is a
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friend of the show he is the obvious choice and was my first choice all along congratulations bryce we are so so
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excited to have you as president and ceo of the national corvette museum all right buddy let's take our first break
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the racing department keith it looks like alex sims and jordan love are added as drivers for joe motorsports for the
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gtwc asia schedule tell me more about that yeah so jmr announced earlier last
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in the gt world challenge asia series think about it now we've got the gt america we've got the gt series in
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jordan love is an australian he returns to the team for the number 66 corvette with prince abu baker ibram so love
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very well constructed team here their roll out of this car was pretty awesome they did a couple videos they put out
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drivers they should definitely have a leg up on the competition that's good news that's really good news let's also
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talk about the corvette racing at long beach yeah so we have two corvettes racing over the weekend at the long beach grand prix we're recording this
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fun one to watch hopefully we have some really good headlines to come out of it but regardless that 100minute sprint is
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just one of the best moments in motorsports i think yeah it's a lot of fun to watch i love that but that's kind of like at the top of my list for every
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racing season it's always fun to watch long beach shows it is and you know coming off of 24-hour race at daytona
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12-h hour race at sebring it's very digestible yeah you know you can watch it in an afternoon and not feel worn out
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yeah exactly that's well put buddy well put indeed in the rumors category this was a big one gm's uk advanced studio
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design showcased a new corvette inspired concept car maybe it's the c9 you know i
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was trying to think back of when the last time we saw a concept car i want to say it was that stingray that was used
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in the transformers movies you know sideswipe you're right i couldn't think of anything else there's obviously cars that have come out and show cars but as
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a purely concept car this one is pretty cool people will definitely talk about c9 gm will tell us that this was just a
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design study it will not be produced but the photos man are really awesome there's a video they put out as well
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that showcases some of the advanced design features like active arrow and then using airflow through the car as
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opposed to running over the surfaces it actually runs through channels in the surface right really good stuff there
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now like you said this comes from gm's new uk advanced design studio they've
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well good to see this we were a little skeptical when we first heard of a concept car but boy this one i think has
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engineering they're already working on a twin turbo for the corvette i think yeah so they've done some supercharging and
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then their recent project was taking the lt2 from the stingray and -ay and then growing that out so it's a 7 l 427 cubic
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in in that capacity it makes 700 horsepower now what those engine building geniuses are doing next is now
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they're going to put twin turbos on that they're thinking that the package will deliver between 1100 and 1300 horsepower
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total so maybe zr1 killer maybe too soon to say that but lincolnfelder really knows their stuff so i'll be able to see
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engine for sure it's going to be a monster indeed well buddy let's take our final break when we come back it's the
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presented the 2025 indy500 festival cars with a few corvettes in there yeah
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well that's how we found out usually it's may 1st before we find out what the pace car is or any kind of design now
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before doors show off that familiar indy500 race details with a green graphic and then the iconic indy500 the
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wheel and wings logo is displayed on the back quarter panel behind the wheels nice these are all z-51s each of them
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had a numbered indiana license plate as well the festival cars are actually used by like track personnel and vips along
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with some of the individual race car drivers who get to tour around town with these cars for the month of may also
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included not only just the 12 corvettes but a whole fleet of silverados as well most of those were probably going to be
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used on the track or doing track duties in the month of may and then beyond that so once the race is over these corvettes
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are generally sold to local chevrolet dealers who then sell them as pre-owned but they come with all the providence
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and documentation that shows they were officially used at the twin 25 indy500 event a lot of times collectors will be
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looking for these cars and it's pretty cool because you get all the documentation that shows what number it was or maybe who drove it pretty cool
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there that's really cool i wouldn't mind having one of those uh-huh and we've seen collections of not just indy500s
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but indy500 pace cars and festival cars some people are able to go through the process to recreate their own based on
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the pictures we see a lot of people doing custom stripes and things like that to match their pace cars and the festival cars yeah that's really cool
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too also this is a headscratcher thieves reprogrammed a c8 corvette and drove it
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away how did they reprogram the car yeah you know it used to be to keep the corvette safe you just lock the doors
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but now thieves are using this high-tech weapon that not only unlocks the car but allows them to start up and drive away
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and the way they do it is and most of the time we see this for cars parked outside they're able to use a tool that
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reaches out to the owner's key fob connects it to the car and once they
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have that pairing they can reprogram to another fob and then they use that fob to unlock the car get in and start it up
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and drive away i guess the best way to defeat this are what called faraday bags faraday bag blocks rf signals from
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escaping or connecting to the key fob and they're just 10 or 15 dollars on amazon so it could just be for people
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that have to park their cars outdoors and i'm not thinking like if you don't have a garage but even if you're traveling if you're at a hotel or
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something like that right get a faraday bag and keep your fobs in there overnight so that no one can connect to it and then do this reprogramming thing
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we see this more and more and this is where we've been also seeing some dealers being hit it just seems to be a rash lately of corvettes being stolen
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seems like a lot more than normal and this is one of the tools and reasons why people are able to do this reprogramming in just 60 seconds flat gone in 60
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seconds is not just a movie it's real life yikes this is not good faraday bags
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got to get some of those obviously this is good news the national corvette museum was nominated by usa today on
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their 10 best awards yeah this is for best attractions for car lovers and this is something they do annually and not
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only do they nominate these but then people can go out and vote for their favorite establishment you can vote early and often i think you can vote
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several times a day we have the link up on corvette blogger of course you can see it also at the corvette museum or go
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to usa today the digital edition there i think we kept second last year so it'd be good to reclaim the top spot again i
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think this is like the sixth time that we've been nominated for it so we definitely want to do a great showing for our beloved ncm museum absolutely
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right our final story this is kind of monumental as well keith cornet went to spring mountain for the very first class
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and had a blast with mike ferman yeah had a blast of course our friend jeremy wellbourne was there ken berg bill lucan
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some great people so we had the very first class there was five of us and they paired us up with a stingray class
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for all the classroom stuff oh but we had for our cars and then when anything was -ray specific the stingray people
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would go out and do course stuff outside and then we would be in the classroom for our e-ray stuff okay the stuff that we learned was fantastic though of
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course you do all the great exercises like the abs braking and emergency stopping going 40 mph hitting the brakes
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on wet pavement and then having to move over a lane or move over to the left or the right to avoid some sort of contact
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and you know those kind of exercises really set you up for all the track events that you do on the track -
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fantastic one of the things is we ran the 1.5 mile track we ran in the charge plus setting always on it robs a little
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bit of horsepower but on a littleer track like that you get all the benefits of having a charged battery and the way
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the -ray just pulls you out of the corners and gets you going it's amazing and the stability of the car is also
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amazing one of my very favorite events was the wet figure 8 oh yeah you turn
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off everything and then we basically were just skidding around you know doing this figure eight pattern on wet pavement but with the all-wheel drive i
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was channeling cody buckley with having that wheel turned one way the car is going another way but yet it's going the
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way that i want it to because of the all-wheel drive but then they do the fun thing or they do the non- fun thing they
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put it in the weather mode and you can't spin that car out for nothing the stability controls weather mode and they
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said actually they call it the no fun mode they said if you got like a teen driver or something like that just put
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it into weather mode and it'll keep them out of trouble and keeps the car as stable as possible that's cool well then
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one of the other things that we did was obviously the autocross i was very excited about that i actually won my
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class there mike ferman does not participate he might have been faster because he's just been doing this quite a bit but i was able to take down jeremy
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which felt pretty good because jeremy and mike on the track on the big tracks those guys were fast and mike ferman's very fast he said his best time was 120
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around the north track was where we were on wow meanwhile i think jeremy's was 121 my best time i think was like 132 or
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something like that i was pretty slow but having only done it a few times i was just working at my level and not
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those guys that had been a half a dozen times mike i think was there 45 times now wow he's got great experience but
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the autocross is where the really shined as well understanding the assignment you floor it you use the gas to get you out
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of corners as opposed to the brakes just because that all-wheel drive again i think my time was 28.3 something that
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actually beat the record for the stingray time so the -ray obviously was faster than that i don't know what the record for the z06 time was but i'd like
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to find that out as well all in all the -ray is a great car while we were there they just got another shipment i think
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four or five more cars just came in wow so expect to see the -ray classes growing and if you're an ray owner
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you've got to get out there and do spring mountain not only just for the classes but the whole atmosphere the clubhouse they've got all these
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amenities coming online they've got these little mini houses being set up out there they've got a go-kart track
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they've got a lake so much stuff to do out there and when we were out there the temperatures were like only in the 60s it was very mild and just an enjoyable
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week to spend out there at spring mountain so highly recommend it fantastic buddy congratulations that's awesome well keith thanks for being back
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on corvette today year number six here we come buddy absolutely and we see you out on the streets keep waving and
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