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week and we both keep you up to date on what's happening with America Sports Car Keith welcome back to the show how are
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you buddy good morning Steve doing great been a fun couple weeks we've had some really interesting Corvette news come
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out of course the weather's getting nicer we had actually 80 degrees here down in Tampa last week wow it's just
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looking great for all bunch of fun things happening in March you know we've got Amelia Island we've got Sebring
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bunch of other events I'm sure so yeah let's get to it I'm really excited yeah we've got plenty to talk about today
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first as we always do Keith let's start off with Corvette production at the Bowling Green assembly plant yeah well
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we've been seeing some great production numbers from Corvette assem plant with all three models being built in really decent quantities the eay are still
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ramping up and we saw they built like 30 during the week of February 19th we approximately have about 130 or so built
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as of last week still a ramp up phase people are saying it's not happening fast enough but we saw what happened in Z6 and we just got to be patient there
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the real story is the Stingrays and this is a model that's just being cranked out in quantities day after day after day we
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actually just surpassed 15,000 for the model year and that happened just late last week we show no signs of slowing
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down especially we had just two allocations in February that seem to be heavy on stingray in fact the second
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allocation was all Stingray that seems to be going really well and you know we're at that point where a lot of dealers no longer have lists so you
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could walk into a dealership order a car it's going to go to production control you're going to come back at 3,000 or
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3,300 status really quick and you could be driving a new Corvette within just a couple months now so pretty exciting
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stuff there I think ZO6 production has been a little dicey the later half of February but it actually seems to
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recovered where they're actually building another 40 or 50 per day again yeah let's talk about that because we got news that we've surpassed 4,000 z6s
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built already in 2024 yeah it's amazing number we did an update last week regarding ZO6 I actually referenced the
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last news and headline show because it never fail Steve I'll come on the show I'll make what I think is a really good
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pronouncement or you know some sort of brilliant analysis and then it just all goes to crap the very next day because
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happens two weeks ago I was saying the Z6 is doing fantastic they're building all these cars least they built during
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early February was 49 and all the other times they've been building 50 to 60 cars but then the week of February 19th
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happens and they built just 21 cars during that week so it's like wow what's going on and they built 20 of them on
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the Monday on the Tuesday there was zero on Wednesday there was one and then Thursday Friday and then the following
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Monday all zeros again so I'm starting to freak out a little bit going you know what is going on with Z6 right and then
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suddenly they just started cranking them back up to 40 or 50 units per day okay in that time when they did crank up
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that's when they surpassed 4,000 z6s for the model year that's an amazing number and to give you an idea how far ahead
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we're running from 2023 both these model years 2023 and 2024 the ZO6 has started
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up in October of course 2022 it was a ramp up period into winter and spring of 2023 and then they finally started
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getting going in the summer we are already at 4,000 bins here in February but last year it took till July to hit
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that Mark wow you think about how many more months we have of production for 2024's there could be some significant
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numbers there so if that stat doesn't impress you then understand that we already have 10,000 Corvette Z6 produced
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between the 6,400 that were built in 2023 and now the 4,60 that we have in
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2024 I do see some people crying that their exclusive models being produced in greater numbers but you really can only
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just shrug and say you know is inevitable that this would happen anyway we've had no constraints on the z06's the last order cycle the early one in
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February that means people are free to get their dealership gets a Z6 allocation and their numbers up you know
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they can order whatever they want with it all the visible carbon fiber stuff z7 packages there it's pretty incredible
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that we're at this stage right now although we do see some hiccups here and there but for the most part 40 or 50 a
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day is what they're building that's great news buddy and speaking of great news let's talk about eray because now
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they are shipping and they've been invoicing as well for customers yeah so it was Friday February 22nd GM finally
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started invoicing there was about 111 or so eays that had been built up to that point and once they invoice them then
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they're released for shipping we had passed along some congratulations as these first eay buyers are now officially going to become owners we're
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still waiting on GM to release the very first photo of the VIN 001 eay to come off the assembly line that one was the
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one that was purchased by Rick hendrik we know he's actually got a couple lined up and so we've been talking to our friends down at City Chevrolet trying to
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find out when those cars are going to arrive there they are shipping and it's all good news that is good news and speaking of that Mike Ferman just shared
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pictures of the first eay that he had arriving at Chiswell Chevrolet yeah I think it was pretty much one of the very
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first e-rays to end up at a dealership that we have photographs of we've been watching since we got the news last
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Friday about the car starting to ship we've been waiting who's going to get it first and Mike said we got one coming he wasn't really quite sure when and it
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arrived last Wednesday that was a really interesting car it was a cacti green EEG with natural interior yeah VIN number
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was 40 and he says it's going to a customer up in New Jersey we're anxious to see of course we're recording this on
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Friday you know we do Mike's delivery photos on Sunday so we're anxious to see if the customer does pick it up this
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weekend so pretty exciting stuff I would be dropping things and going down to see him at Chiswell Chevrolet and picking up
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my sting right yeah I'd be sleeping there the night before yeah absolutely right just wake me up when you come in
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Mike I'll be on the door yeah we'll be there at 5: a. Mike just let me know when you get here right also Keith you talked about two
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order Cycles in February but I know that GM did do another order cycle for stingray in February didn't they yeah
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just a little bit of insight of what's going on here so when the ZO6 first came out in late 2022 GM was doing a separate
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order cycle just for the z6s and then the Stingrays had their own eventually they combined them into one order cycle
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per month that's been going on for several months now just the one order cycle per month you know we get the allocations and then the constraints
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come out the next week and that's when the order banks open what was interesting though was when dealers got their allocations and the constraints
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came out for early February they called it order cycle one not just order February or cycle they call it February
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or Cycle One people are saying hm does this mean there's going to be a two and of course there was so GM did another
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round of allocations it was only stingrays some dealers did pretty good some didn't get any cars for the month
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it seems to be hit or miss on how some of these people are being treated but the good news is a lot more stingrays
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are getting out there the other really good news about this order cycle is that most of the constraints are now lifted from the stingray dealers are still
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getting numbers on how many z51 versus non-z 51s they can order we told a story about how a dealer last month could only
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order non z51 now it's reversed in this month he can only order Z1S from his allocation that he got huh you would
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think with as many cars as they're building that they would really have gotten past this bottleneck right it is what it is but the other good news is
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that finally those q9i those gloss black wheels were not on constraint for the second order cycle oh that's good the
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tech bronze package was available now we haven't seen that available since it was released and of course those have the
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tech bronze wheels and those are now available so the only item that wasn't available for that second order cycle
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was the 5 zuu the stingray high-wing in the different body colors okay that's really good news so we saw Z6 get its
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constraints cleared earlier in the month and now the stingray is almost cleared of its constraint I think the next ordering cycle is going to happen
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dealers will get their allocations on March 7th and then on March 14th is when the order bank opens up we'll get
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constrained information and they can place our orders like I said they're cranking along we've got March April and May and then after that it's really kind
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of up in the air if you order a Corvette in May generally it would take two to three months for it to be built and shipped out now we're getting into that
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July period August when we might see the model year change over so there might not be too many ordering opportunities
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to go for the 202 24s even though we're just now getting into March traditionally they've done the March April and May and then afterwards we
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just kind of wait and see what happens there right I think we'll get some of that news at The Bash just a wait and see what happens yeah that's all we can
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do also I'm jumping around here Keith but I know that the eay just got approval to be on Australian roads which
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is good news for the Aussies yeah GM specialty Vehicles is basically the arm of General Motors down there that
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handles the importation Silverados and the Corvettes into Australia and New Zealand they had already confirmed the
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right-hand drive eay would be exported to Australia New Zealand but last week the news came out that the DMV the
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Highway Traffic Safety Council is there in Australia has officially approved the car for use on Australian roads it's
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just one of those little things that one of those little Milestones that every car that's being imported into the country has to go through we understand
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it's going to be a very similar version to the United States model here they had a couple issues with the stingray and
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the exhaust notes down there they needed them to be a little bit quieter that was one of the fixes we saw when the sting ray first got down there but for the
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most part it looks like the only difference will be a right-hand drive versus our left drive cars that's cool that's great well we talked about
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Australia Keith let's talk about Canada Corvette won the JD power award for ALG
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residual value in Canada what exactly is the ALG residual value award yeah I
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think the key term is residual value so this award honors these models that are projected to hold like the highest
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percentage of the manufacturer suggested retail price or fouryear period it's really an estimate but you also base it
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on past performance the Corvette had already won this in December for the United States market so congratulations
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to the Corvette team and its customers for Canada for having this as well it's just one of these nice awards that lets
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people know that they're buying a Corvette you know it's going to hold its value very well and we kind of expect that already but we are seeing that and
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so is JD Power very nice well buddy let's take our first break we had a lot of news in segment one W yes we did yes
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current and up toate on what's happening with America sports car in this second segment of Corvette today we always
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cover Corvette racing and Corvette rumors Keith let's start with racing Corvette racing is going to be racing in
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Cotter aren't they yeah actually it was on Saturday the new Corvette Z6 gt3r made its racing debut in the World
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Endurance Championship or they call it wack I always just call it the World Endurance Championship right this opener
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took place in Cutter you know the last few years it happened in Sebring they did the Sebring 1,000 mile race of the
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night before they ran the 12- hour Sebring race so now it's a little bit different now we're over in Qatar and Richard Prince is out there for Corvette
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racing to cover and everything we're recording this on Friday so we haven't seen the race yet that race takes place on Saturday fact you got to get up at
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three in the morning if you want to watch it live Steve so oh that's awful at least for us on Eastern time yeah but
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we have two Corvettes running in W they're being campaigned by British team TF sport we results up right now on
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Corvette blogger you can check that out and then Steve and I will talk about this race next episode of the headlines that sounds good also speaking of racing
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let's talk about Lama a little bit I know they've released the list of racing participants is Corvette racing on that
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list you know they're not and you see that it's kind of like oh I'm feeling nostalgic already yeah Corvette racing
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has been synonymous with lemons for so many years but yeah the official lemon's entry list came out on February 19th
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while we don't have Corvette racing on there what we do have is two Corvette Z6 gt3r is on the provisional grid from TF
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Sports so now that honor of racing Corvettes at lamons will be on their shoulders lamons is essentially a World
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Endurance Championship race right you know we'd always have to previously race in a couple World Endurance Championship
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races to get an invite to lemons when we were just in impa last year's a little bit different we had the W team and they
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were doing very well in fact they won lamons last year other than 2020 due to co Corvette racing has been there since
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2000 so nine races won 13 Podium finishes I think last year Corvette
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racing actually won their first Lemons with the C8 there's a lot of stuff going on there but there's also a lot of history and tradition I talked about
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that's where Jake first showed up you know they just were painting a skull on the floor basically we're a bunch of
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pirates over there taking on the establishment that's how it was viewed that pirate actually then became Jake
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our mascot we also had the train horn signaling for lunch every day and just a bunch of these little Traditions so I
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hopefully TF sport will be able to carry that on their shoulders again it's always exciting to see lemons and of
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course we have two Corvettes over over there so that makes it even more exciting you got to carry on Corvette racing tradition even if it's not
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Corvette racing in its purest form right exactly yeah there's still a lot of fun out there people still look to the team
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I think TF sport will do very well they've had a good history leading up to their time now with Corvette they've got
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some good drivers so here's hoping yep that's for sure all right Keith let's get to the rumors category first the eay
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hit Virginia International Raceway and did a lightning lap how did that turn out wow it was good this is the 17th
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year for car and drivers lightning lap competition they hold it every year at Virginia International Raceway they call that the American nurburg ring and you
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know when you have the same drivers running these cars year after year it develops this hierarchal chart of how
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cars do and it's funny how they've changed so much over these 17 years now we've got the new Corvette Ray in the
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race the card actually did really well it came in 31st Place overall there's been 327 Vehicles tested over the years
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and the eay is now 31 the lap time for the eay was 2 minutes and 45 seconds around the track and that makes it the
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fourth fastest Corvette and it's actually the first non-z Corvette to make the list other cars in that 245
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time period you have the Lamborghini peran Evo the Camaro ZL1 1LE Ferrari 488
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GTB yet a half a million dollar 4 GT ran a 245 wow you had the McLaren 650 spider
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just behind the car you had the Porsche 911 Turbo S from 2017 the 2018 Porsche
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GT3 and a 2016 Porsche GT3 s when you see how cars did previously and how the
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new cars are doing it's pretty cool there to see that now it wasn't all good news Steve we did notice that the eras
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battery pack didn't really have the capacity to provide full Boost for the entire 4.1 mile lap so as you're
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watching the video you know the driver you see his hand lead the steering wheel and he's punching that charge plus button down there at certain locations
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where he'd build the charge and then he'd release it again but very first turn it's very slow turn but the eay did
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it in 1.12 G's and that traction from the all-wheel drive system yanked it out
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of the corner about a half a mile per hour faster than the Z6 did so you can see some of these comparisons between
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the Z6 and the stingray where the eay kind of slots right in there you know but like I said it was faster out of
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that corner with the all-wheel drive but on the front straight it was actually slower than the stingray 149 versus 147
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whereas the Z6 was hitting 159 at that front straight so there's good things and bad things car is H heavier you know
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it did its job on the launch and out of corners but on 4 one mile track you're can have limitations with his battery
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pack so it's definitely a real win for the model yeah and a couple other things Keith did I hear that there's some price
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cuts on wheels for the 2024 Stingray man how rare do we hear price Cuts with
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Corvette you know and especially C8 has all been about gradual increases we kind of knew that when they came out and said
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oh yeah it's gonna be priced at $599.95 everybody's like what and then of course we see over the course of the
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last four years that price has gone up by $10,000 then all of a sudden we get news that there's a price cut to a
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couple Wheels wondering what's going on with that right this happened at the end of February two Stingray Wheels were
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reduced down to 99.95% the wheels are the five split spoke design in sterling silver and the satin graphite the
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sterling silver Wheels were reduced by $1,000 they were originally 19.95 wow while the satin graphite Wheels were
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reduced from $4.95 though they came down by $500 why did they do this you know this came out right before that second
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order cycle with all the Stingrays so we were thinking oh this has got to be in response to those Q I those gloss black
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wheels those 20 spoke wheels that no one can get right Steeler's been complaining about the lack of that wheel and here's
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the thing is buyers aren't moving from them they want those wheels or they're not going to place their order huh so we're thinking well now that they have
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this other black wheel that's the same price as those gloss black wheels maybe that's an equal substitute but then
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again you know we just had the constraints come out and there was no gloss black wheels on a constraint list very interesting there so they reduced
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the prices of these wheels they're greatl looking Wheels hopefully we'll see them stay that price throughout the 2024 model year and be interesting to
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see Steve that they do raise him back up in 2025 yeah that's for sure I wouldn't doubt it I know I know let's not say
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that out loud maybe and then they won't go up next year right right our final rumor Keith this was kind of confusing
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you're gonna have to help me with this GM had started a customer satisfaction program about missing engine appearance
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panels for 2023 C8 what's going on with that we're in 2024 already yeah you know
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Jim Authority reported this new customer service program the description was very cryptic I'm going to read you the
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description and see if you can figure out what they were talking about okay the back body opening side filler is an
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aesthetic component that comes in pairs with one filler installed on each side of the vehicle that's the description
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yeah that's really confusing what we did was we got with some friends we figured out what it was and sure enough they're talking about the engine appearance
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package which has the two carbon fiber closeout panels on each side of the engine okay the engine appearance
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package was one of those options that caused issues with the late 2023 Corvettes being built Chevy was doing a
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build shy they were building these cars but they weren't complete they were still missing some options so they would just park them out back and then when
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the options came in they'd go out back put them on the car and then release them for shipping we know that there was a whole bunch of cars back there so it's
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still kind of confusing because we know that at one point Chevy said you know what we're just going to create this other RPO the wiring harness that's part
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of the engine of appearance package we'll put that on the car it's a 100 bucks and then if the owner wants to
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order their closeout panels later when they're in stock they can do that this is a kind of a really weird program
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we're not hearing really of anybody that said oh I was charged $9.95 but only got the light there's no numbers on how many
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cars were done like this so we're just kind of waiting to see but it must have been enough for them to open up this
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program and be able to serve these customers again on their missing parts yeah that's good news for 2023 owners
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that's for sure we'll take it we'll take whatever we can get on those cars because the end of that model year was a little crazy they were breaking records
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and all kinds of stuff was happening there so just glad to see that they're doing some followup and getting that done exactly well buddy let's take our
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docomo Steve Garrett with me is Keith cornette from Corvette blogger.com if you want a deeper dive into any of the
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stories Keith and I cover you can always go to Corvette blogger.com in this final segment we talk about the lighter side
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of Corvette Keith this is the oh my gosh did he really do that the dumb a story
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of the Year this guy just got out of prison he had no right home from prison he decides to steal a transport of C8
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Corvettes and I think there were like eight of them on the transport I don't think that guy's going to ever make it
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home he's going to go right back to jail do not pass go do not collect $200 right I think the term for this is
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institutionalized and home for him is prison because that's where he headed back after this you know this story went
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viral for a number of reasons it's really quite funny so happened in Tucson Arizona as reported by the Sheriff's
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Office out there they say 23-year-old Isaiah Walker approached the driver of a truck carrying Corvettes on it and after
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kind of lulling them into a false sense of security he grabbed the driver threw him down to the ground and took off with this truckload of Corvettes valued at
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$1.25 million oh my gosh a deputy later spots the truck and attempts to get Walker pull over but now he's driving
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recklessly so imagine truckload of Corvett driving recklessly forcing other vehicles off the roadway eventually
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Walker stopped the truck and was arrested by the deputy and he say he admitted stealing the truck told him
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because it wasn't for the Corvettes it's just he needed a ride home the stolen truck was actually safely recovered
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without incident there was no damage and so it was released to the driver so he could continue on his way just a crazy
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story the picture show this truckload of Corvettes on a dirt road oh my gosh somewhere out there after they were able
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to stop stop it but apparently everything was okay and they went on their way we saw this story everywhere
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as you would who steals a truck to get home from leaving prison have you ever heard a hitchhiking
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guy oh my God Uber yeah something yeah call a
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cab also buddy and this is for C6 owners there's a special bulletin for fixing a
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fuel leak but it's expired what's going on with that yeah so back in the day GM found an issue with the C6 Corvettes
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fuel system they'd actually been paying for fixes ever since so apparently the leak was in the leftand fuel pump module
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flange there was actually a leak there so you start smelling some gas and fuel loaders in your garage after driving
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they found that it was for the 2013 Corvettes and so what they did was they had a special program in place that
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either in 10 years or 120,000 miles they would fix this issue unfortunately that 10 years has now elapsed with the 2023
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being gone so if You' never had this fixed now you're on your own this is one of those things if you're in the market
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for a uc6 it might be something to check and see if it's already been done if you find an owner that hasn't been done
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maybe it's a bargaining chip for negotiating your best deal these things happened they did take care of it for up to 10 years and now it's one of those
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deals where you're kind of on your own absolutely right also speaking of going viral Keith there was a picture of a
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purple Corvette with purple wheels out the color was outstanding I'd love the car I'd leave the wheels just standard
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but man that was a great purple color Steve I found the perfect color for the C8 but unfortunately it does not exist
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these photos were actually rendered from a digital artist on Instagram I saw him over the weekend I sent them to a couple
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people saying oh here's my car we ran a hotter not poll on Corvette bloger asking our readers about the color and
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overall it had a 60% approval rate on it yeah the color is called Purple Heart metallic Steve I tell you this color has
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been in my head ever since I first saw it yeah the world needs some purple Corvettes and this is a great color that
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of course leads us a couple questions about what colors might go away after 2024 and what new colors are coming in
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we love talking about colors and speculating about what we're going to see you know the rumors actually been of course the cacti came out a lot of
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people think that's just a one-year car but it's actually doing surprisingly well so I'm not sure if we're going to see that back for 2025 or not but one of
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the rumors has been yellow we might get a change for the yellow car okay and then of course every year I've been
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going back to the ceramic Matrix gray has been on Corvette since 2018 sure it's an interesting color it's hav been
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in that mid level but that's definitely a color that I think maybe it's time has come to be replaced with a purple how
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about that yeah my wife loves ceramic Matrix gray and you know what if we don't get the purple you can always get
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it wrapped in that color there you go and I've already started trying to match that color with the different wraps that are out there I've not had the success
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I'm looking for yet but I know it's out there I know that if there's one purple eay on the streets I know whose car
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that's gonna be Keith our final story buddy Corvette raced the Tesla cyber truck how did that
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turn out yeah so Tesla cyber truck is now out it's all-wheel drive electric I think even in the launch video Elon put
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a por on the back of the car or trailered it and then raced the Porsche in like an eighth mile race and actually
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beat it now that the Cyber truck is out there YouTubers are racing against traditional sports cars including a
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couple videos of it racing Corvettes so the guys at throttle house they raced the top level cyber Tru which is
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nicknamed The Cyber beast and it beat the Z6 from a standing start but loses in a roll race the Hennessy performance
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they raced the mid-level Cyber truck again all-wheel drive EV and it was just no match for their 700 horsepower
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supercharged Corvette stinger I imagine we'll see more of these and of course there was also the news that Elon is
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finally getting serious about the Tesla Roadster which he claims will go 0 to 60 miles hour and under one second wow
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that's supposedly hitting the market here in the next year or two as well of course we've been waiting for that car forever anyways I think a car like that
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could actually turn people a little bit more towards the performance of EVS all these Corvette people out there saying
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oh I'll never own an eeve i' never do electric and then you see a car go 0 to 60 in under a second yeah there might be
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something to that so we we'll have to wait and see but with the Cyber truck out there I think you're going to see some more Corvettes racing it and it's
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fun you know it's a novelty item right now and that's kind of what it's being treated as well buddy we had the World of Wheels in February here in Kansas
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City and they had two cyber trucks there one was the silver and then one was wrapped I mean it looked pretty good you
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got to look inside you got to sit inside it it wasn't bad I would never own one but still it was great to see it in
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person yeah you know you've heard a lot of polarizing things about him but it is what it is and it's it's something
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different it breaks the mold whether it sticks around or not will be the real key to its success definitely well buddy
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thanks for being back on Corvette today I appreciate you we'll see you in two weeks yeah thanks again Steve all the
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stories we talked about today they're up on Corvette blogger.com we got a search box there at the top so you can easily find stuff and if we see you on the road
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