Tracker

Bought vert last Saturday from Kerbecks, great car all I ever wanted. They had a great selection on the floor when I was there and at a fair market value.

LIE2ME

What kind of discounts were they offering?

6spdg37s

Dave@kerbeck just mentioned in a previous post on here that they are 2k off MSRP for the convts. go on kerbeck.com there site is completely up to date

Tracker

Yes 2k under MSRP :rof l:

BlueOx

Nobody here knows what "expected demand" is for either Corvette coupes or convertibles.

Remember that verts are harder to utilize at a track, have a shorter time to utilize during the year because of weather issues, and are comparatively more expensive vs the coupes. Corvette verts always sell in smaller numbers than coupes.

RidgebackKing

To me, the verts look too much like the C6. The allure of the C7 is it's dramatic styling but the vert loses a lot of that. Again, just my opinion. Nobody come crying that I'm vert owner bashing.

AVETTE

SAME HERE, C7 vert looks too similar to C6, but the lines on the coupe WOW

Melor

Great stats. I love charts and figures. Any chance you have a breakdown of sales by color?

Paul

C7 BOB

I think there are several factors:

higher cost

lack of roll bar - a significant issue for some people

lack of retractable hardtop - I've had several, will not go back to a ragtop

bad weather in parts of the country this past winter

upcoming Z06 convertible

less luggage space than coupe

Sailfun

In the case of the C7 I think the issue on selling the convertibles is simple. The coupe is visually far more appealing. This had not been true on past versions and other brand convertibles on the market.

sprtplt

Exactly. The vert loses nearly everything distinctive about the C7. You might as well buy a C6.

Bill17601

My last Corvette was a convertable. I bought the coups because of the great look of the roof flowing into the body. It is unique to the C7 and not found on any other generation. The convertable,in my opinion, looks like any other Corvette convertable. That is not to knock convertable Corvettes. They are amazing. I just think the new coupe, going down the road, is a head turner.

~Stingray

Wow, the recession really destroyed corvette sales.

Larry/car

Agree with the track utilization and the convertible does cost more, however my C7 convertible has a heater (comes standard) as does the coupe, the utilization is the same for coupes and convertibles, year round. I just sold my C6 coupe and went with the convertible because removing and reinstalling the top was a pain. With a light wind two people are needed for safety, anything stronger than 10 knots forget it. The convertible top goes up and down with the push of a button, love it. Looks; C7 convertible looks like a C6 (?) call your eye doctor immediately! the coupe with the targa removed isn't a beauty, the convertible wins this battle hands down. When the roof is up or top installed the coupe is prettier. The C7 top is really an improvement over previous versions, the top is blended into the design and rooks good.

LIE2ME

Before the C7, I thought the last good looking 'Vette convertible was the C3. From the C4 to the C6 I thought the convertibles were hideous with the top up. It looked as thought someone had cut the top off a coupe and stapled a piece of canvas over the hole. The only thing uglier was the Nissan 350Z convertible ..

I have only seen the C7 convertible is pictures but the top does look much better integrated into the body design. It is not to the level of the Jaguar XK or the BMW 6 series, but much better. Like Larry, removing and replacing the C6 top was such a pain in the a-- for me, I do not believe I had the top off more then 5 times in the 2 1/2 years I owned the car. When I owned convertibles the top was down nearly every day. I am looking forward to the same in my C7 'vert when she FINALLY gets here.

Joe B.

The same could be said of the C2, I think, yet total convertible sales greatly exceeded those of the coupe.
Of course things were different then, in regards to A/C, power options, regs and rules, driving environment. Taste, as in a roadster more epitomized the sports car concept.

v8capt

The C 7 with the top down is a thing of beauty. We have a hard time keeping people away from it, we feel like a rock star. The convertible is much quieter than the coupe, I've ridden in both. To each their own, but we absolutely love our convertible.
Capt Bob

RedC7AZ

People generally believe a Convertibles are meant to be driven with the top down. The top is there just to cover the interior of the car in bad/cold weather.

Both the coupe and convertible are open air cars, however I think people in colder climates lean towards the coupe over the convertible. People know that in cold climates they are going to have the convertible top up/coupe roof on 80% of the time. People generally believe it's a more pleasant experience inside the car in a coupe when the top is on over a convertible when the top is up.

Plus, many people believe a soft top convertible looks much better with the top down. So if you live in a cold climate and will only have the top down only 20% of the time where the car looks its best, people must be thinking it makes more sense to get a coupe, as the car looks its best all the time.

...and the top removal on the coupe is easy. If it WERE that difficult we'd see less coupe buyers and more convertible buyers and this thread wouldn't exist.

youcancallmeray

Have to believe the convertibles are in much lower demand than expected. I ordered my car in January and still at 1100. Dealer had enough allocations that my order should have been accepted by GM this month, however all 5 orders ahead of me are for coupes and 3 of the last 5 allocations the dealer received were for convertibles. One of these actually sat on the dealer lot for over a month( no markup in price) before it was sold. Another local dealer has taken all the orders he can for the year and has had another convertible sitting on the lot for over 2 months. I am in Florida so lack of interest in convertibles has nothing to do with the cold winter.

RedC7AZ

Just because 1 convertible sat on a lot in Florida for a month or 2 does not lead to the general conclusion that convertible demand has nothing to do with the climate. I'm sure a convertible sold in 2 days somewhere in the Northeast. That doesn't mean convertibles sell fast in the Northeast either. You can't make a determination on a sample size of 1.

There must be other factors contributing to why the car has been there 2 months.