Chevrolet offering a 10-percent discount on all versions of the Corvette.
Your local Corvette dealership doesn’t just want to sell you the Corvette you end up buying. It wants to sell you your next Corvette…and the one after that.
“Chevrolet will offer each dealer a limited number of Bonus Tags. Under this program, the dealer sells the car at the Supplier Price and then there is a rebate that would take the price down by 10% off that MSRP. Supplier Pricing falls between Employee and regular Retail pricing.”
Those cuts can add up to substantial discounts, such as more than $13,000 off the MSRP of a 2017 Grand Sport convertible with the 2LT package or a Grand Sport coupe with a 17-percent discount at Kerbeck Corvette in Atlantic City, New Jersey. I looked on the website of a Corvette dealer in Central Texas and found a Corvette 1LT marked down from an MSRP of $61,160 to a price of $52,160 and a 2LT slashed from $71,200 to $62,200.
The 2018 model year will bring in a number of changes, many of them cosmetic. Chevy will offer new exterior colors and wheel designs, as well as tweaks to the interior and improvements to the Head-Up Display and rear-view camera image. Magnetic Ride Control will be a stand-alone option on the Stingray. The Z07 Performance Package will no longer be necessary to get ceramic brakes on the Grand Sport. The 3LT version of that car and the 3LZ version of the Z06 can be turned into a Carbon 65 Edition, which features Ceramic Matrix Gray paint, carbon fiber exterior touches, and special interior trim, including a carbon fiber-rimmed steering wheel.
Derek Shiekhi's father raised him on cars. As a boy, Derek accompanied his dad as he bought classics such as post-WWII GM trucks and early Ford Mustang convertibles.
After loving cars for years and getting a bachelor's degree in Business Management, Derek decided to get an associate degree in journalism. His networking put him in contact with the editor of the Austin-American Statesman newspaper, who hired him to write freelance about automotive culture and events in Austin, Texas in 2013. One particular story led to him getting a certificate for learning the foundations of road racing.
While watching TV with his parents one fateful evening, he saw a commercial that changed his life. In it, Jeep touted the Wrangler as the Texas Auto Writers Association's "SUV of Texas." Derek knew he had to join the organization if he was going to advance as an automotive writer. He joined the Texas Auto Writers Association (TAWA) in 2014 and was fortunate to meet several nice people who connected him to the representatives of several automakers and the people who could give him access to press vehicles (the first one he ever got the keys to was a Lexus LX 570). He's now a regular at TAWA's two main events: the Texas Auto Roundup in the spring and the Texas Truck Rodeo in the fall.
Over the past several years, Derek has learned how to drive off-road in various four-wheel-drive SUVs (he even camped out for two nights in a Land Rover), and driven around various tracks in hot hatches, muscle cars, and exotics. Several of his pieces, including his article about the 2015 Ford F-150 being crowned TAWA's 2014 "Truck of Texas" and his review of the Alfa Romeo 4C Spider, have won awards in TAWA's annual Excellence in Craft Competition. Last year, his JK Forum profile of Wagonmaster, a business that restores Jeep Wagoneers, won prizes in TAWA’s signature writing contest and its pickup- and SUV-focused Texas Truck Invitational.
