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It’s been a bit of a rollercoaster since Chevrolet first starting accepting orders in September for the 2020 Corvette Stingray Coupe.
After the first order consensus in September, Chevrolet scheduled the first wave of retail production to begin in early December. But then came the nearly 6-week long UAW strike which shut everything down.
Making Sense of EX, MVB, CTF, & SORP
Yes, Virginia, there really are two 2020 Corvette VIN #00001 Stingrays…and a third is coming! But we’ll talk about a little later into our deep dive into the 2020 Corvette production process.
Over the last several weeks, I’ve read a variety of social media discussions related to the 2020 Corvettes we’ve seen so far.
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Last month we poured over a lot of interesting data regarding the seventh generation Corvette’s production run. We looked at total C7 production focusing mostly on color, we broke down the run of C7 Z06’s, had a post about overall Grand Sport production, and we also looked into the ZR1’s extended one-year life.
Over the weekend we started hearing some whispers about the start of the 2020 Corvette production being shifted to early 2020 due to the GM strike. While no official statement has been released, Corvette enthusiasts with TPWs (Target Production Week) started receiving updates showing their orders were pushed back.
Here’s what our friends at the MidEngineCorvetteForum are saying on this:
Information given by Chevy Chat to a person whose car had/has an EXTREMELY low VIN, that customer being told by Chat today that his TPW, which was originally confirmed for December 2nd production (an order with no complicating issues such as requested changes, no constraints affecting it, etc), now has a January 20th TPW.
The King returned to his hill as a grand finale for the seventh generation Corvette. 2,441 ZR1 coupes and 512 ZR1 convertibles were built during the extended 2019 model year for a grand total of 2,953 retail units of the supercharged swan song of the C7.
The ZR1 is undoubtedly the most capable Corvette of all time but with option ZTK (colloquially known as the big-wing package), buyers had to decide if they wanted to slay road courses with the 950 lbs.
Continue reading C7 Corvette ZR1 Total Production Breakdown at Corvette: Sales, News & Lifestyle.
Earlier we covered the overall numbers for C7 Corvette production. When you break the numbers down by model, new trends appear. The Supercharged Corvette Z06 debuted in 2015 and a total of 39,940 Z06s were built in the five-year run.
2016 was the peak year for Z06 production with 14,275 leaving the factory.
Continue reading C7 Corvette Z06 Total Production Breakdown at Corvette: Sales, News & Lifestyle.
When the Bowling Green Assembly Plant closed at the end of July, it officially marked the end of Black Rose Metallic as an exterior color for the 2018 model year Corvette. The color was a throwback to the exterior of the same name that was offered from 1992-1994 C4 Corvettes. Black Rose Metallic returned in […]
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Now that the Bowling Green Assembly Plant is closed for the next three months as it undergoes a series of upgrades, we got an opportunity to get the latest production numbers from the Corvette team. The 2018 model year started on June 5th and was halted on Thursday afternoon (July 27) with the completion of […]
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As we brought to you on Friday, Chevrolet has released the totals for 2017 Corvette production which also included the final totals of the 2017 Corvette Grand Sport Collector Edition. However, there were some stats that we know that owners of the Collector Editions would appreciate and so a big thanks for the Corvette Team […]
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The Bowling Green Assembly Plant wrapped up production on Friday, June 2nd and so now it’s time to take our regular deep dive into the production statistics for the 2017 Model Year. For the 2017 model year, Chevrolet built a total of 32,782 Corvettes. The number one selling model is the Corvette Stingray Coupe which […]
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