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General Motors announced this afternoon that it will idle five of its assembly plants in January due to large inventories of passenger vehicles on the ground. According to an Automotive News report, the Bowling Green Assembly Plant, home of the Corvette, is one of the factories that will be closed. The report said the closures […]
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Today officially marks the 64th year of the Corvette as the 2017 Corvette model year begins retail production today at the Bowling Green Assembly Plant. The plant has been building the 2017 model year Corvettes for a few months now as those cars get driven and analyzed by engineers as part of GM’s Captured Test […]
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It’s hard to believe that production of the 2016 Corvette will be ending in just a few months. Seems like we were just at the NCM for last year’s bash where all the great updates and specials editions like the Z06 C7.R Edition were announced. But time flies and model years come to an end. Thanks to our friend Rick ‘Corvette’ Conti, we have some important production-related dates for the 2016/2017 Corvettes. Production of the
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The second year of C7 Corvette production ended almost two weeks ago and thanks to our friends at the National Corvette Museum, we already have a breakdown of the final 2015 Corvette production statistics. For the 2015 model year, Chevrolet build 34,240 Corvettes. Production decreased 8% from the 37,288 Corvette Stingrays built during the C7’s inaugural year, but we’ve been told that the production cycle for the 2014 model year was slightly longer than 2015.
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At the National Corvette Museum’s Bash, we learned that 8,206 Corvette Z06s have been produced so far in 2015. That count is as of April 22nd, so by now that number has probably grown in the few days it’s taken us to digest this information. Regardless of the Corvette Z06′s 2.95 second 0-60 mph time […]
If you have to have a 2015 Corvette Stingray or Z06, you better hit the gas because the window to order one from a dealer with available allocation is rapidly coming to an end. Kerbeck Corvette’s Dave Salvatore gave us a heads up about the coming end to 2015 Corvette production and when the start […]
We’ve always thought the seventh-generation Corvette Stingray looked like a Batmobile. Now we know one reason why. General Motors says remnants of an adhesive used to join body panels of the 2015 Stingray can be reused to help save an embattled bat species in North America. White-nose syndrome has already killed an estimated 5.7 million […]
It was back in August that we learned the General Motors produced 37,288 Corvette Stingray for the 2014 model year and now we’ve got the breakdown on the production statistics. Leading the way was the Corvette Z51 Coupe which accounted for 41% of the models built and the most popular color was Torch Red which […]
Photo Credit: car-revs-daily.com We knew that the 650 horsepower Corvette Z06 would be a hot sale and that demand would be high during the initial stages of the new super car’s rollout, but the numbers we are hearing about those interested in buying a Z06 are just incredible. Corvette Chief Engineer Tadge Juechter took a […]
Earlier this month we ballparked 2014 Corvette Stingray production at just over 36,500 units which takes into account the 35,523 known VINs plus an additional 1,050 for the Premiere Editions. But we were too low in our estimate. GM officially revealed at last weekend’s Corvettes at Carlisle show that 37,288 Corvettes were built during the […]
