To The bearers of Doom and Gloom,

The Corvette is an institution and will remain in the GM family. We at Les Stanford Chevrolet offer all of you fine people the opportunity to own America's Sport Car for a better than fair price. Contact me and see what a deal can be had for all.

Dennis M. Tap
Sales Consultant
Les Stanford Chevrolet
1-800-699-VETTE
1-313-724-1428 direct
dennis_tap@lesstanford.com

 

 

its nice to say, but you dont really know unfortunately.

 

They said the same thing about Oldsmobile ...........

And they discounted their cars as well to rid the inventory.

 

The question is not if the Corvette will remain in the GM family, but if the GM family will remain in America. I'm leaning more toward the camp of thinking that GM will survive, but it will be a significant struggle for them in the next few years.

 

It is up to us Americans to insure that GM survives, if families continue to send thier checks to Tokyo, Japan and Korea, we may eventually have to kiss Ford, GM and Chrysler all goodbye
I can go out in my neighborhood and show you an import in every other driveway and then they ask me if I know anybody hiring????
I tell them Nissan, Toyota and Kia, can you make that commute?????

 

Dennis. No offense, but why do we now have an opportunity to own a sports cars for such a more than fair price? Because the auto industry, including the dealers, are desparate, their business is failing. Not because they like us, and want us to be happy that we can afford to own a new car. That has nothing to do with it. I am sure it things were clicking along and everything was rosey, the dealers would be very obliged to offer us the same car for msrp or more, if they could.

 

 

I find it interesting that most of us Corvette folks know one of the main GM problems - too many overlapping models. Still can't figure out why the big shots at GM can't cut some of the models and get back to building a few less model cars and make them the ones the public is willing to buy....the Corvette being one of them - of course.

 

well, it is called being in and doing business....I do not understand why so many people take it so personally...

It has nothing to do with the dealers "liking us" or not, they are not in the business to make friends, and do not confuse friends with loyal customers...

right now you have the upper hand on that relationship....if you are buying a car take advantage of it because who knows, in 3 years it may swing back the other way...

 

Yep and i hear it all the time the nissans,and toyotas are made here too,but the profits go back overseas,and while its true GM got fat over the years and fell behind..............Its a shame that americans and alot of them dont even think about buying a chevy but go running to get a nissan.....Sad ........Sorry call me stupid ....But no import name in my driveway EVER...............God bless america

 

Imports are only assembled here. The sheet metal, block castings and major components are produced overseas, packed more effeciently in containers than the unit as a whole and then assembled here for the Nissan huggers can say that it was built in the USA Sad

 

I seem to recall that when GM was almost broke the last time (a few decades ago), there was serious consideration at the highest levels of the company to sell Corvette. I'm not saying that is what they are going to do. I'm just saying "never say never".

 

I say buy the best vehicle you can for your particular use and budget. I'll be darned if I'll apoligise to anybody for anything in my garage. If it were not for the pressure put on "The Big Three" by the imports they would still be putting out the same junk they were 25 years ago. BTW that was about when I bought my 1st trouble free Honda. Yeah they made some bad decisions and those pigieons are coming home to roost. Dropping thier pants and bending over to the UAW 60 odd years ago being their biggest. My Great Uncle Survived the Battan Death March and the years up to VJ Day doing forced labor in Japan. If he doesn't have a problem with the Toyota pickup in his driveway don't tell him he's unpatriotic. He will get out of his wheelchair and punch you in the nose. Me, I'll be on 911 saying you assaulted a poor disabled POW

 

Left out whats in my garage as feel it has bearing on post. can't seem to get signature to add to post.. The Toy Box: "73 MGB roadster/ '02 Cadillac Deville/ '06 GTO 6 speed man. impulse blue on blue/ '06/C6 coupe, 6 speed man. velocity yellow/ '07 Accord v6 and "the beater" 99 Ranger v6..

 

The profits go where the shareholders live. I live in Georgia and I own Toyota stock, so do many other investors. Money is fungible around the world, anyone can buy shares on the Nikkei, or the London Exchange, as easily as they buy on the New York stock exchange. The smart money, of whatever nationality, buys stock in the good companies, and avoids the poor companies.

 

Totally false. Cyanede Plastics in Henderson Kentucky makes the interior parts for the Toyota Tundras, Sequoias, and Siennas built in Princeton Indiana. The frames are made by Dana in Owensboro Kentucky. Unlike the Corvette, whose transmissions are made in Mexico, Toyota builds the transmissions for its US manufactured vehicles in Princeton Indiana and Buffalo West Virginia. Toyota's V8 engines are made in Huntsville Alabama (also some of its V6 engines are made there, while its I4 engines are made in Cambridge Ontario Canada and Buffalo West Virginia, as are most of its V6 engines). The Corvette's engine is foreign made in Canada. The Tundra's sheetmetal is stamped in a $1.3 billion dollar stamping facility Toyota built in San Antonia Texas where sheetmetal for most other Toyota models is also stamped (the Long Beach California facility does the stamping for the Corolla and the Pontiac Vibe).

Frankly, Toyotas have more American made parts in them than does the Corvette. Toyota is rapidly becoming the largest employer of auto workers in the US. Toyota's Georgetown Kentucky Camry plant is the largest vehicle assembly plant in the world. Honda's Marysville Ohio plant exports more Accords than GM exports from all of its US plants put together. KIA's integrated plant in West Point Georgia will do virtually everything in plant to produce the KIA Sorento. It is the most highly integrated auto manufacturing facility in the world.

All GM seems to know how to do lately is outsource and downsize while the Japanese, Korean, and German companies are busy building plants in the US and paying American workers to crank out automobiles.

 

My thought exactly.
It will remain in the GM family as long as you keep getting shipments

 

Be American buy American!!!

 

I'm old enough to remember the Ford Maverick and Falcon, the Chevy Corvair, the Nash Rambler and Studebaker even had the Lark. All small cars. Us Americans did not want to buy those small cars so the Big Three kept building what we wanted. It will take some time, but I have faith in the U. S. of A.