Supposedly there are some unmasked C7s already built/running around?
06-04-2012, 08:02 AM
#41
Melting Slicks
As they prepare to build more of the C7 a lot of people outside of product design & engineering will be exposed to the car, in and outside of GM. Once C6 production stops entirely, a leak will happen. My guess, Chevy may even release teaser ads (like the dark Viper profiles we saw before the car) to stoke the flames late this year and prior to the actual announcement. I don't see Chevy faking leaks, there is no benefit.
Cheers,
JB
Cheers,
JB
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06-04-2012, 10:11 AM
#42
Le Mans Master
Has GM teased anything before past Corvette unveilings? I don't recall any.
Is anyone in the supply chain really going to risk their job for five seconds of Internet fame? I doubt it.
At some point this summer we should get some long-lens shots of a C7 at Milford proving grounds wearing nothing but dazzle tape. But I kind of doubt that the cars need to be out in public without padding at all.
.Jinx
Is anyone in the supply chain really going to risk their job for five seconds of Internet fame? I doubt it.
At some point this summer we should get some long-lens shots of a C7 at Milford proving grounds wearing nothing but dazzle tape. But I kind of doubt that the cars need to be out in public without padding at all.
.Jinx
06-04-2012, 10:28 AM
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Has GM teased anything before past Corvette unveilings? I don't recall any.
Is anyone in the supply chain really going to risk their job for five seconds of Internet fame? I doubt it.
At some point this summer we should get some long-lens shots of a C7 at Milford proving grounds wearing nothing but dazzle tape. But I kind of doubt that the cars need to be out in public without padding at all.
.Jinx
Is anyone in the supply chain really going to risk their job for five seconds of Internet fame? I doubt it.
At some point this summer we should get some long-lens shots of a C7 at Milford proving grounds wearing nothing but dazzle tape. But I kind of doubt that the cars need to be out in public without padding at all.
.Jinx
06-04-2012, 11:20 AM
#45
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06-04-2012, 11:52 AM
#46
Melting Slicks
According to Rick Conti at least, something might be happening next week at/near the plant that could possibly reveal a little more about the car?
http://www.corvetteconti.com/blog/?p=15123
Stay tuned I guess.
http://www.corvetteconti.com/blog/?p=15123
Stay tuned I guess.
Looks dangerous.
06-04-2012, 12:47 PM
#47
Hard to say what they will do in June...if anything visible to the public.
06-04-2012, 02:33 PM
#50
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I believe this has always been true that annual allocations numbers are based on prior year sales, sometimes adjusted upward if sales are hot. I wasn't interested at the time the C6 was introduced as to how '04 C5's were inventoried in the summer of 2003, a full year earlier.
For this particular dealer though I don't think they usually offered deals this good at the beginning of a new vehicle sales cycle that is also at the height of the summer sales period. But "pump and dump" may be part of their game to stay at or near the top in annual Corvette sales and to reap getting the max C7 allocation, especially early.
For this particular dealer though I don't think they usually offered deals this good at the beginning of a new vehicle sales cycle that is also at the height of the summer sales period. But "pump and dump" may be part of their game to stay at or near the top in annual Corvette sales and to reap getting the max C7 allocation, especially early.
. Dealers who were doing a good job with Corvette sales were not pleased.Last winter Chevrolet notified dealers that they must sell 4 Corvettes in the 12 months prior to C7 introduction to get a C7 in the first 6 months of production. A few dealers I've spoken to say that their C6 sales are so slow lately that they're worried about even selling 4 cars. So there's the incentive to make sure to move cars as soon as possible now, less worries as the deadline approaches. And for northern dealers this is Corvette season, they don't sell in the fall and winter.
06-04-2012, 02:45 PM
#51
Melting Slicks
Corvette allocation traditionally has been based on prior Corvette sales. The system worked well for Rick Conti at the various dealers he has worked for up until the ZR1 introduction when he was in Wisconsin. Anticipating the introduction of this hot new model Rick was writing "minideals", selling Corvettes for very little profit to increase their Corvette allocation. Then later on Chevrolet notified dealers that ZR1s would be allocated based on overall dealer performance, not Corvette sales . Dealers who were doing a good job with Corvette sales were not pleased.
...[snip]...
. Dealers who were doing a good job with Corvette sales were not pleased....[snip]...
06-04-2012, 03:20 PM
#52
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If referring to all-new generations our nicknames have been wrong all along:
The 1968 was just a new body on the 1967 chassis and powertrain so it should be nicknamed C2.5, making the all-new 1984-1996 a C3 and the all-new 1997-2004 a C4, the 2005-2013 a C4.5, and the 2014 a C4.3/4. And in about 5 years the all-new Corvette will be a C5
.At the various seminars Tadge and Harlan prefer to say "the new car", not "C7".
06-04-2012, 04:10 PM
#53
Melting Slicks
Thats how it used to be. Before the mid-1990's the terms "C4", "C3", "C2", and "C1" didn't exist. When the all-new Corvette was being developed the designers nicknamed it the C5 because it was the fifth generation of Corvette. The C5 nickname caught on and in the late 1990s we started calling 1984-1995 Corvettes C4, 1968-1982s C3, 1963-1967s C2, and 1953-1962s C1.
If referring to all-new generations our nicknames have been wrong all along:
The 1968 was just a new body on the 1967 chassis and powertrain so it should be nicknamed C2.5, making the all-new 1984-1996 a C3 and the all-new 1997-2004 a C4, the 2005-2013 a C4.5, and the 2014 a C4.3/4. And in about 5 years the all-new Corvette will be a C5 .
At the various seminars Tadge and Harlan prefer to say "the new car", not "C7".
If referring to all-new generations our nicknames have been wrong all along:
The 1968 was just a new body on the 1967 chassis and powertrain so it should be nicknamed C2.5, making the all-new 1984-1996 a C3 and the all-new 1997-2004 a C4, the 2005-2013 a C4.5, and the 2014 a C4.3/4. And in about 5 years the all-new Corvette will be a C5
.At the various seminars Tadge and Harlan prefer to say "the new car", not "C7".
06-04-2012, 04:10 PM
#54
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That's a photoshopped photo of course 
but I assume it's supposed to be a campfire out in front of the Corvette plant in Bowling Green where we can figuratively "camp out" and wait all warm and toasty for some sneak peaks at a car that won't actually even be shown to us any time soon LOL. 
but I assume it's supposed to be a campfire out in front of the Corvette plant in Bowling Green where we can figuratively "camp out" and wait all warm and toasty for some sneak peaks at a car that won't actually even be shown to us any time soon LOL.
06-04-2012, 05:33 PM
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Maybe Jinx, can have the old Carly Simon song Anticipation play when someone clicks a C7 thread... yes, i'm kidding guys.
06-09-2012, 11:29 PM
#57
Melting Slicks
According to Rick Conti at least, something might be happening next week at/near the plant that could possibly reveal a little more about the car?
http://www.corvetteconti.com/blog/?p=15123
Stay tuned I guess.
http://www.corvetteconti.com/blog/?p=15123
Stay tuned I guess.
06-10-2012, 12:06 AM
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Melting Slicks
06-10-2012, 01:38 AM
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06-10-2012, 01:44 PM
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