Plant Shutdown Update
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St Jude donor '09
Plant Shutdown Update
The BG assembly plant schedule:
Starting Sept 28 the plant will be shut down for 3 weeks.
Resume building 010 cars the following 2 weeks, then down for all of November.
Following week they return to work at a rate of 8 cars/hour.
Starting Sept 28 the plant will be shut down for 3 weeks.
Resume building 010 cars the following 2 weeks, then down for all of November.
Following week they return to work at a rate of 8 cars/hour.
Drifting
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St. Jude Donor '09-'10-'11
Production slowdown
WOW--That's a lot of hiatus in the production. Sorrowful for those waiting, but I'm glad I got mine already. The Corvette will live on so long as there are motorheads in America. Keep the faith and save the wave! 
Team Owner
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From: Springfield MO
Don't want to make a prediction..... but I don't see how they can continue at such a low production rate. GM was ready to pull the plug on the Corvette in 1992....and sales were better then now.
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GM has already announced that the 2013 Corvette C7 will come out in the spring of 2012. They want to take advantage of it being the 60th anniversary year.
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I think they will be more productive if they go back to the way things used to be: you want a vette? You order it and wait 6-8 weeks to get it, rather than going to the lot and getting shoe-horned into one already sitting on a lot.
streamline the inventory, eliminate the surplus and get back to the quality, not quantity mentality!
streamline the inventory, eliminate the surplus and get back to the quality, not quantity mentality!
Team Owner
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From: Springfield MO
I think they will be more productive if they go back to the way things used to be: you want a vette? You order it and wait 6-8 weeks to get it, rather than going to the lot and getting shoe-horned into one already sitting on a lot.
streamline the inventory, eliminate the surplus and get back to the quality, not quantity mentality!
streamline the inventory, eliminate the surplus and get back to the quality, not quantity mentality!
What... you had to wait months to get a new Corvette because the factory could not produce enough to meet the demand. Now....there is no demand. That's why the factory has cut production...to get rid of inventory because there was no demand for the units produced.
Even with the drastic cut in production, no demand is being generated. My local dealer has two 09 ZR1's on his showroom floor....at $7,000 off MSRP......and they're still there. You want to see a new Grand Sport up live and close..... drop by his showroom and take a gander.
GM is doing everthing possible to streamline inventories and eliminate the surplus......and it isn't working.
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Let's keep our fingers crossed.
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St. Jude Donor '06 thru '20
This is the change you asked for. We will have to wait a few more years for hope.
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I sure feel for our friend's in BG. Great town , good folk's
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I sure feel for our friend's in BG. Great town , good folk's
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What are the specs of your car? I assume your delay must have something to do with constraints or someone screwed up big time.
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Yeah, . . . right . .
Then was replaced with another BOZO.
Good luck with that one.
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What needs to be done is :
Eliminated the ZR1 altogether (no need in this economy).
Make the Grand Sport the new Corvette (this is what
the C6 should have looked like anyway).
Make Coupes and Convertibles only (no speciality Corvettes).
Eliminate the 2LT package ( Base & Luxury only).
Lower the MSRP down to $ 46,500 (for Base model).
Keep production down to 26,000 to 30,000 units.
Problem solved.
.
The end.
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Good luck with that one.
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What needs to be done is :
Eliminated the ZR1 altogether (no need in this economy).
Make the Grand Sport the new Corvette (this is what
the C6 should have looked like anyway).
Make Coupes and Convertibles only (no speciality Corvettes).
Eliminate the 2LT package ( Base & Luxury only).
Lower the MSRP down to $ 46,500 (for Base model).
Keep production down to 26,000 to 30,000 units.
Problem solved.
.
The end.
.
Last edited by RSWLGRN; Sep 24, 2009 at 06:37 PM.
Le Mans Master
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Here is the current plant schedule from the Bowling Green site:
Tours will not be available for these dates in 2009:
January 1 - March 6
March 27 - April 15
April 30 - May 19
May 22
May 25
May 28 - June 16
June 25 - July 21
August 3 - August 21
August 31
September 7
September 28 - October 16, 2009
November 2 - November 27
December 24
December 25
December 28
December 29
December 30
December 31
No Tours will be given on Fridays, except September 4, 2009.
Tours will not be available for these dates in 2009:
January 1 - March 6
March 27 - April 15
April 30 - May 19
May 22
May 25
May 28 - June 16
June 25 - July 21
August 3 - August 21
August 31
September 7
September 28 - October 16, 2009
November 2 - November 27
December 24
December 25
December 28
December 29
December 30
December 31
No Tours will be given on Fridays, except September 4, 2009.