50th year

I have been perplexed on the 32 miles on my new GS. Over the years all of my new corvette orders only had 2 or 3 miles on them. I decided to email the Corvette Technology and Data Services Manager. He may not have been the person to ask but here is the answer I received from him.

can’t say for sure. But my last three Corvettes all had more miles on them. This was because they used to randomly select cars for quality audit, which involved more testing… anything found there would be taken care of at the plant and also provide feedback. I was in a position to ask for the audit (why not make even more sure the car is right before I take delivery) and so they all got the additional miles.

If they are still doing the audit, your car might have been one of the lucky ones. Did you document the odometer reading? That might be an interesting historical fact about your car going forward.

JDub64

When I was on the assembly plant tour a few weeks ago I was told that quality engineers will select a few cars at random for extensive test drives. They take them out on the interstate and put them through their paces. A new Corvette can therefore end up with 20 or 30 miles on it instead of the normal 3 to 5.

This sounds like what you were told by GM and makes sense. I think you can be confident that there was nothing at all wrong with your car when it left Bowling Green!

JW

Patriot10

Just so long as the tires aren't toast or look like someone was abusing the car, I'd be fine with it, too.

robert miller

Plus was told if this is the fact on the car also take it over to the track.

Kracka

Extra miles from QC audit can be a good thing, it means your car was gone over a lot more thoroughly at the factory than most! My car was delivered with 3 miles on it, and had it been selected for the audit it would have likely meant a few less things for the dealership to handle under warranty.

jimmie jam

"I recently visited the Lambo factory and the person giving the tour said many of the cars will be driven up to 50 miles on a test run. This is similar to Ferrari. Go figure." Very typical, I believe that all Ferrari cars are driven on their test track after assembly...all of them. FWIW.

50th year

So far no trips to the dealer. 1500 miles. The car doesn't miss a beat at WOT but at low to medium acceleration it acts different. Like the computer is trying to figure it out. Its probably just me and I am not use to the a8. All my previous corvettes were a6 or m6.

23/C8Z

Not an issue op. Mine had 27 miles on it and it was from Criswell (Mike furman) I inquired about the miles and Mike told me the same thing and reiterated they don't test drive new no mile Z06 corvettes. I am pretty sure yours was from the QC dept at the factory.

my only gripe is the couple brake duct chips I had from driving with no side protection before I could get my hands on it.