red 1

My 15 has the round steering wheel, I don't think the flat bottom wheel came out until the 16 model.

monicatomokc

You are correct; my mistake. Don't know why I thought it was 2015.

itchiesvette

15's had round wheel flat wheel was in 16.

SilverGhost

Ok, take the numbers from this site

http://www.goodcarbadcar.net/2011/01...s-figures.html

lets play with one number first: corvette sales in total in the US for 2016: 29,995

subract from the number at this site

http://www.corvettemuseum.org/wp-con...ar-End-HWC.pdf

2016 US delivery Corvette production: 37,282

So, what happens when you make 7,000 more C7 Corvettes every year than you can sell?

GM starts gynormous rebates and special pricing deals on the 2016 overproduction to get them sold

GM cannibalizes sales of the next model year (2017) production during the first 8 months (Sept 2016-April 2017) of the next model year selling the "2016 Christmas cakes in January" for deep discount.

Then GM starts the same thing all over again for the 2017's with deep discounted, cannibalization of 2018 production with gynormous sales beginning in April 2017 of the 2017 overproduction

And just to peek at the overhang before final 2017 production/sales numbers hit the streets: go to cars.com, do a search of new vettes for sale (and, realizing that not every Chevrolet dealer puts his inventory on this website), you pull a very imprecise number off of it: 10,879 new 2017 vettes for sale, 800 new 2016 vettes for sale (as of April 22, 2017.) So over 25% of the estimated 2017 production (based on 2016 production stats) is still for sale two months before the end of production of the 2017 model year.

So what does all this have to do with the resale value of a 2015 vette?

I will speculate that the days of 80% resale value on C7 vettes are fading fast. Chevy used to make 25,000 vettes/year, and life was good for the Chevy dealers and owner trader inners/sellers (remember that US demand for 29,995 vettes.) But, with the ramped-up production of the C7, to a record 40,689 units last year, but with only 29,995 units sold in the 2016 calendar year (and some of those were 2015's and some were 2017's) there is simply going to be a glut of C7 vettes on the market. Which is great for new C7 vette buyers, but lousy for used C7 vette sellers.

CP

How do you get information like this for other years? I am interested in 2015 numbers.

PeytonJ

My 15 has round wheel I think flat bottom was on 16's

john m

I have '15 regular production VIN 5100006. The first 5 'regular' 15's were all white ( (I was there and saw them on the line during my plant tour) What you have there is the first '15 built, probably in April or May of 2014. It will list MVB on the build sheet as a build validation car.

Foosh

^

That makes sense as I noted in post #3 above that my '14 was built 3 months after the '15 001 car, which is the subject of the OP.

j-Raw

I couldnt find it on the build sheet but maybe its in code. Anyone have a photo of theirs to compare?

mountainears

If it was me, I'd take it to Barrett-Jackson and see if they can find another drunk person to dump $80k on this vehicle because of the low VIN!
https://www.barrett-jackson.com/Even...VIN-004-205944

ZL-1

Yes in recent years pilot cars (validation builds) have vins starting with 000001, then regular production starts again with 100001. So there are two #001 cars. The pilot cars are put in the Captured Test Fleet for evaluation and driven by GM employees. You see them around Bowling Green and Warren MI with a blue CTF sticker on the left side of the windshield. Some of them are later freshened up and sold through the GM auction system to GM dealers.



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dcbingaman

EVERY 2014 Z51 listed on Autotrader today is listed for $50K +/- $3K. Every single one. Making allowance for haggling says they will probable sell for around $45K but not much less. The days of a $30K C7 are still YEARS away.

cor28vettes

Lets hope so bc there are currently eleven C5Z's at and above 30K on autotrader.

mracer14

My 2015 Z51 Coupe did not have a flat bottom steering wheel.

Red C8 of Jax

First flat bottom steering wheels came out with the 2016's.

bbrown450

Nice ride ...my concern on that interior, while certainly unique, is that it would be a dirt magnet