AFVETTE

I agree, if a dealer has an allocation they should be able to order ANYTHING ON THE MENU. The more they sell, the more allocations they get plain and simple. I don't get the "constraint" thing except for a shortage of parts or if it affects something like options that impact CAFE.

Tom

hawkgfr

Its not late in the model year in February....

mksz51

You've been waiting 3 months. Many of us (including me) waited 6 months+ for a Z51 from a local / smaller dealer. I did go a summer "Corvette-less" since I sold my C6 before the C7 was available (darn glad on that one). Ultimately it will be a lack of patience that ruins your dream. My advice, as unsavory as it is, is to be patient and wait for the car you want OR be creative and acquire via distant / large dealership. It's too much money to spend to settle on a compromise. Once you get your dream car all the unhappiness from waiting will be quickly forgotten. I doubt 2015 will be any better on availability and the price will only go up.

Larry/car

I purchased a base convertible, really pleased, I had a C6 coupe with magnetic ride. The C7 outperforms the C6 without the suspension option Z51. I am planning on driving a Z51 equipped car with magnetic ride in the future. I will then decide if trading present car is warranted then. I have a C7 now for summer fun!

jerryv

The carbon fiber dash can be added anytime .. so forget that.

Only you know how important the Z51package is. For me, it was not an issue .. I'm never going to push my car hard enough to need it. I might add the Z51 sway bars to stiffen it up a little, but it's just not important to me.

If it IS important to you, get in touch with one of the big dealers and get it. It's really that simple. Instead of getting angry about not getting what you want, do the work and GET what you want.

Hope it works out .. ordering these suckers can get stressful.

rudolph schenker

Distant/large dealership worked great for me. Easy deal, MSRP, car had what I would have ordered anyway EXACTLY! Shipping was very reasonable.
Patience is good, but allocations are very frustrating sometimes. Hope you get your car soon!

Kracka

Find a dealership with Z51 allocations and get courtesy delivery to your local dealership.

onyx_z71

He ordered in February, so he's going to get dinged with the price increase if he switches dealers.

Kracka

Ouch, missed that part

dbdave

In defense of the smaller dealers, how does one of them ever develop the necessary 'allocation' if they're never allowed to sell any cars? It would take quite a few years to be able to sell any amount of inventory so they could get the allusive 'allocation'. You would think that GM would allow the ones that are able to get paid orders to get them filled.

I can see dealers not even wanting to sell a Corvette because it's such a hassle.

youcancallmeray

Actually if the ordered was placed in February as per the OP, the price is protected. Making any change such as deleting the CF dash or Z51 option will nullify the price protection. Probably would have to pay the same amount as expected for much less car.
I am in same situation. If I don't get my Z51 exactly as ordered and price protected I would rather wait for a 2015.

LHarper

I hear you. My last two Corvettes have always been serviced by a Chevrolet dealer thirty miles from me. I take it there because the service and work is second to none. Yesterday I called them about getting a new Corvette and was told they are too small a dealer to get Corvettes. This did not surprise me as I have tried in the past to order Corvettes from them. Too bad when you have a dealer who has taken care of you for many years on cars they did not even sell you and are not able to order a new Corvette for you. GM, dealer and myself lose in this way of doing business. I value and enjoy having a good relationship with the dealers that service my cars. Only fair and smart business to encourage such relationships. GM needs to reconsider and change their allocation program.

onyx_z71

GM memo to all Chevy dealers in 2012 was that 2014 allocation would be based on 2012 Corvette sales and you can order as many 2012 Corvettes as you want. The way I understand it, any dealer could have ordered 600 2012 Corvettes and had the allocation Kerbeck got for 2014, but apparently only Kerbeck was willing to put forth the initiative of selling 600 2012 Corvettes for GM. If small dealers make no effort when asked to, then they deserve no reward later, and if your hometown dealer wants to know why he can't get you a car, he needs to look no further than the mirror in his restroom to know why.

onyx_z71

His order never went past 1100, so he can probably make any change he wants and keep price protection unless he goes from coupe to vert or vert to coupe.

jerryv

If an order is in the GM system, as a sold order in the buyer's name, entered prior to Mar 3, it can be changed without losing price protection. I was in the same position .. order placed before the price increase, and I wanted to change the color and add NPP .. the dealer warned me that I MIGHT lose price protection, but checked with his GM rep and found that the order could be changed and still retain price protection. So my order was changed, and I'm still price-protected.

ALL orders, whether price-protected or not, will be invoiced at the new (higher) price, but GM will credit the dealer for the increase amount. This fact makes it possible for dealers to pull a fast one, if they're so inclined.

JoesC5

I have a local Podunk dealer that didn't sell enough Corvettes in 2012 to make the top 900 list of dealers for the first round of allocations. He did make the second round, after they opened the order sheets to all Chevrolet dealers that wanted to shell out the money to sell Corvettes, and he received his first two C7's, both being Z51's, a couple of weeks ago. A Z51 coupe(that sold the next day after he received it) and a Z51 convertible.

Somehow he managed to get two Z51's as his first two C7's, and neither were presold orders to GM.

C7Joy

My locals could not touch one so I went 260 miles from home.

I don't understand how a car could be "ready for production" and then stopped due to constraints. To me ready for production sounds like status 3300 - 3400. At that point I would think the plan had already come together. I wonder if the OP had a status code of 2000 or better when the dealer gave him bad news.

markk1

Dude, let me tell you; that Mustang can't hold a candle to the C7 IMHO. I found out the truth about who could get allocation and who could not the hard way myself. Ordered on 10/21/13, cancelled and went with a Forum Dealer on 1/27/14. Heard all the garbage about constraints, etc. Z-51 was at 50% then, still at 50% (as I predicted in January - GM has no incentive to require their suppliers to increase production this year only to have things drop off when the "gotta have a C7" buyers all have their cars). My Forum Dealer had allocations available for the Z-51 even at 50%. I chose them because I HAD to have a 2014 C7. If I wanted to wait for a 2015 (with price increases and all), I could have stayed loyal to the local dealer. The reason the Forum dealers have allocation is because they sold a crapload of C6's last year. Simple as that. My car was on their lot on 4/1/14, after riding the slow train from Bowling Green. Come over, I will give you a ride and you will change your mind about the Mustang...

markk1

I believe the fact is that GM does not accept the order until the dealer is provided an allocation for the constrained build. In other words, once GM accepts the order, they accept it constraints and all and production is not held up for constraints at that point. Of course, extenuating circumstances can crop up, but it seems that is not generally the case.

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