Why Does GM Buy a Corvette
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Melting Slicks
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From: Chester Virginia
Why Does GM Buy a Corvette
Found a 'new' corvette at the local Chevy dealer over the weekend. The window sticker shows it was shipped to GM LLC in Detroit. It has less than 50 miles on it. What would GM have done with the car?
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What was the VIN number. It could be a captured test fleet car that just never got much use. It could have been an executive car. VIN will tell us if it is a regular production vehicle or a pre-production model (captured test fleet).
Racer
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In my case i was told my loaded 2015 Convertible with 150 miles was used by GM as a show car and my dealer had bought it from GM directly and drove it back to Grand Rapids from Detroit. No way they would order a car so loaded to have for stock on the lot, so the miles made sense but to confirm it I bought the build sheet through the Corvette Museum and that did confirm the story. It was ordered by GM themselves and shipped to Global Logistic Services in Sterling Heights, MI. Kind of neat knowing that maybe thousands of people dreamed of owning my car!
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Melting Slicks
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The VIN checks out as a regular production model - all characters match the VIN code. VIN=1G1YM2D77F5119307. It is a loaded model so maybe it was an advertising show car.
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My 2012 GS was a "program car", which simply means that GM titled it for one of many special purposes. In my case it was one of the cars used to drive Indy car drivers around Texas Motor Speedway before the race. It had 40 miles on it when I bought it. Got a couple $1000 off because of those 40 miles...
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My local dealer just got two new Corvettes in that will be on display in Hershey Park.. When GM takes them out of there they will go 20 miles down the road to the GM factory sale at Manheim Auto Auction
Racer
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From: Sebring Florida
I bought a "new" 2007 convert from a dealer who said the car was used at the Daytona 500 as an event car. Had 58 miles on it and a document showing the car was bought by the dealer at Daytona Speedway from GM. Car was bought "new" by me in Dec. 2007 so it sat on the dealer lot for about 10 months. They told me they were selling it as a new car with a full warranty. I got about $13,000 off list. When I did have a differential problem about 4 years later with 9,000 miles on the car, I was told car was no longer under warranty. I argued and lost. GM considered the in-service date to be the first time the car was used at Daytona. So, basically, I lost almost a year of the 5 year drivetrain coverage. Dealer either lied to me or did not know the in-service date (which I find very hard to believe). Anyway, Chevy Customer Service got involved and GM did pay for my repair because they realized that I was a lifelong Corvette owner. Lesson here is to check the in-service date when buying this type of car.
Drifting
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That's a GM Company car. Ordered by Chevrolet through the Chevrolet zone office. Sometimes these cars are built by Chevrolet at the end of the model year to use surplus parts and then offered to dealers that may want one but is short on allocation of there own.
Last edited by Black&White; Jul 1, 2015 at 10:32 PM.
