March Sales
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Nope, pickins are slim on the lots right now. Even the big forum dealers are running the lowest number of in-stocks units ever. I checked Crisswell a week or so back and if I read it right, he had something like 18 in stock (that's r.e.a.l low). They must still be selling FAST....
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Not hard to understand at all and not a bad thing. For example, Honda sells 350,000 Accords each year built in its Maryville, Ohio plant, and 1.2 million total vehicles in the United States. So 1000 more Corvettes in a month is like one day's worth of Accords. And its similar with many other new models which have been introduced recently. The Corvette is a low volume production model, even in its best years.
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Not hard to understand at all and not a bad thing. For example, Honda sells 350,000 Accords each year built in its Maryville, Ohio plant, and 1.2 million total vehicles in the United States. So 1000 more Corvettes in a month is like one day's worth of Accords. And its similar with many other new models which have been introduced recently. The Corvette is a low volume production model, even in its best years.
in January and February respectively.
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Even giving the C7 the benefit of the doubt and not including C6 sales, they have recorded ~16,640 in sales and have built a little over 21,000 so far. All those extra unsold cars in the dealers showroom's helped sales last month to the walk ins, and more aggressive pricing.
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You are assuming that 100% of the 800 cars built each week are presold, which is not true. What percentage of those 3200 cars are being ordered for dealer's inventory because the dealer doesn't want to lose an allocation because he doesn't have every car he has allocations for presold?
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Check it out . . . with a flashlight.
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I don't know if this is the same on the C7 assembly line, but one of the cool things about the C6 was in the passenger front wheel well above the tire at 12:00 the build date is clearly marked in a white grease pencil, along with production worker's initials. This is marked as the car is being built on the line.
Check it out . . . with a flashlight.
Check it out . . . with a flashlight.
No date on any of the wheel wells.
Thanks for the info. It never hurts to check.
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C6 Z06 prices have already taken a serious hit because people that are interested in buying a used one are factoring in what it will cost them to upgrade the engine when they are handing over the money to the Z06 seller, as they have heard about the LS7 problems, that has nothing to do with the C7, but with the LS7. When that new C7 Z06 comes out at $80,000, think about what is going to happen to the value of the tricked out C7 that you paid $75,000 for.
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