Bowling Green Upgrades !
Racer
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Yeah who would want a Ford GT or 911 twin turbo, all Ferraris with mid engines are garbage. F1 cars are no comparison to Nascar. I only drink Budweiser and wont acknowledge any other beer. I know the type.
Intermediate
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Chevy's Pumping a Lot of Green into Its New Corvette Paint Shop
Chevy's Pumping a Lot of Green into Its New Corvette Paint Shop
The C7 looks good in pretty much any color, but the color Chevrolet is concentrating on most with its upcoming $439 million Corvette paint shop is green.
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The C7 looks good in pretty much any color, but the color Chevrolet is concentrating on most with its upcoming $439 million Corvette paint shop is green.
Read the rest on the CorvetteForum.com homepage. >>
Burning Brakes
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I'm doubtful they will improve the car's paintjob, but I'm hopeful that we will have an expanded color selection when this plant gets running. It's a buzzkill waiting to see only one or two new colors every year, and they are usually pretty close to what colors we already had. In some cases the new colors are a step back.
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I'm doubtful they will improve the car's paintjob, but I'm hopeful that we will have an expanded color selection when this plant gets running. It's a buzzkill waiting to see only one or two new colors every year, and they are usually pretty close to what colors we already had. In some cases the new colors are a step back.
Le Mans Master
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Race Director
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From: Manheim Pennsylvania
Chevy's Pumping a Lot of Green into Its New Corvette Paint Shop
The C7 looks good in pretty much any color, but the color Chevrolet is concentrating on most with its upcoming $439 million Corvette paint shop is green.
Read the rest on the CorvetteForum.com homepage. >>
The C7 looks good in pretty much any color, but the color Chevrolet is concentrating on most with its upcoming $439 million Corvette paint shop is green.
Read the rest on the CorvetteForum.com homepage. >>
They are digging in a box of ground?
I don't know?????
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Chevy's Pumping a Lot of Green into Its New Corvette Paint Shop
The C7 looks good in pretty much any color, but the color Chevrolet is concentrating on most with its upcoming $439 million Corvette paint shop is green.
Read the rest on the CorvetteForum.com homepage. >>
The C7 looks good in pretty much any color, but the color Chevrolet is concentrating on most with its upcoming $439 million Corvette paint shop is green.
Read the rest on the CorvetteForum.com homepage. >>
"Well, lets fill up a box with dirt, and then pretend to shovel some out."
"Oooh, that's a great idea."
Racer
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C7 of Year Finalist (performance mods) 2019
Chevy's Pumping a Lot of Green into Its New Corvette Paint Shop
The C7 looks good in pretty much any color, but the color Chevrolet is concentrating on most with its upcoming $439 million Corvette paint shop is green.
Read the rest on the CorvetteForum.com homepage. >>
The C7 looks good in pretty much any color, but the color Chevrolet is concentrating on most with its upcoming $439 million Corvette paint shop is green.
Read the rest on the CorvetteForum.com homepage. >>
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From: PHILADELPHIA PA
New Paint Shop
From the GM notice:
"State-of-the-art FANUC robots with Versa-bell 3 electrostatic applicators for an extremely smooth finish and maximum transfer efficiency, saving 25 percent of the paint material used, which also benefits the environment
Longer, high-efficiency baking ovens for exceptional paint finish and lower energy use.
"With this major technology investment, we can continue to exceed the expectations of sports car buyers for years to come," said North American Manufacturing Manager Arvin Jones. "These types of investments are evidence that the customer is at the center of every decision we make.""
It appears that they think they already have excellent paint so we'll have to see how this pans out.
"State-of-the-art FANUC robots with Versa-bell 3 electrostatic applicators for an extremely smooth finish and maximum transfer efficiency, saving 25 percent of the paint material used, which also benefits the environment
Longer, high-efficiency baking ovens for exceptional paint finish and lower energy use.
"With this major technology investment, we can continue to exceed the expectations of sports car buyers for years to come," said North American Manufacturing Manager Arvin Jones. "These types of investments are evidence that the customer is at the center of every decision we make.""
It appears that they think they already have excellent paint so we'll have to see how this pans out.
Safety Car
Joined: Apr 2007
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From: Southeast, WI
From the GM notice:
"State-of-the-art FANUC robots with Versa-bell 3 electrostatic applicators for an extremely smooth finish and maximum transfer efficiency, saving 25 percent of the paint material used, which also benefits the environment
Longer, high-efficiency baking ovens for exceptional paint finish and lower energy use.
"With this major technology investment, we can continue to exceed the expectations of sports car buyers for years to come," said North American Manufacturing Manager Arvin Jones. "These types of investments are evidence that the customer is at the center of every decision we make.""
It appears that they think they already have excellent paint so we'll have to see how this pans out.
"State-of-the-art FANUC robots with Versa-bell 3 electrostatic applicators for an extremely smooth finish and maximum transfer efficiency, saving 25 percent of the paint material used, which also benefits the environment
Longer, high-efficiency baking ovens for exceptional paint finish and lower energy use.
"With this major technology investment, we can continue to exceed the expectations of sports car buyers for years to come," said North American Manufacturing Manager Arvin Jones. "These types of investments are evidence that the customer is at the center of every decision we make.""
It appears that they think they already have excellent paint so we'll have to see how this pans out.
More sickness to come! If it all comes to this, then dump the Vette.
Melting Slicks
Joined: Jul 2008
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From: Ottawa Ontario
Maybe they're afraid they'd hit a sinkhole if they dug in the actual ground!
Instructor
Joined: Feb 2014
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From: Daytona Beach Florida
LOL Been seeing the mid engine Corvette rumors out since the mid 1960's. Will never happen. Toured the plant last month and the plant is working everyone 10 hours a day, 6 days a week to keep up with demand as much as possible. Extra investment will ease some of those pains. NOT build a mid engine car. When you already have a car that is as nice or nicer and as fast or faster than the competition that sells their cars for twice what the Corvette sells for, no need to build a $150,000 mid engine Corvette. With 50-50 weight distribution the present vette handles awesome already and mid engine won't improve that dramatically.
Tech Contributor
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Tech Contributor
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But more directly, the new robots will have better characteristics like more accurate fluid and air control, faster failure sensing, etc.
This all adds up.
Race Director
Joined: Aug 2010
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From: Houston TX
maybe this will allow the BG plant to continue to offer low-volume colors (with optional cost if necessary), giving the customers more choices...
current paint shop capacity is limited to 10 colors.
current paint shop capacity is limited to 10 colors.