Lefty32

Historically, it seems the production year was July-June Production year

plemm

I’ve been in 3000 status since Oct 26 and I still don’t have a TPW. This is a bit ridiculous to be honest, why give allocations for vehicles you don’t plan on building for 6-8 months.

3LZR21U

I doubt you're going to see production run vehicles out that early though. CTFV and maybe 0000001 vins, but not regular production. June is usually when the configurator goes live.

guido13

I think that GM is going to cut back on production and there will be a Grand Sport in 2025.

3LZR21U

You owe me $0.05 for spreading the GS BS.

dohabandit

For some folks "Grand Sport" is apparently a big deal. When I first rolled my 2021 Z51 into my driveway, a neighbor with a C7 GS was nearby walking his dog. Before I even got up my driveway he asked me what car I got.
I told him it was a C8 Z51 with MSRC, PTM, PDR, yadda yadda. He said, "Ohh, too bad you didn't get the Grand Sport, it's a much better car." He wasn't joking either. All I could say was, "Uhh, yeah, they don't make a GS version YET..."
I thought about getting some vinyl cut to apply to the side of the car spelling out Grand Sport Killer, haha...

dw886

Wow, didn't realize that people were sitting at 3000 that long after the January startup where they started producing cars. That sucks - from reading the delivery stories, I just assumed that the allocations for last fall were all scheduled and/or produced and slowly trickling out.

I've been watching the Z06 "Roll Call" threads, and those seem to go from 1100 --> 3000 after a week. It took mine about 3 weeks for that to happen, and now that it's at 3000 I was expecting for it to get a TPW soon - that's clearly the wrong expectation based off of your experience.

Are there any threads tracking E-ray orders from allocation --> acceptance --> production --> delivery? If not, that would be nice to see, as we'd have some idea of the backlog of orders and where GM was at with digging out of the hole. It's no wonder there's been no allocations for the last 3 cycles when there's still October allocations that haven't been scheduled to be built yet...

3LZR21U

I'm quite certain that you could do that--just GRAND SPORT graphics on a SR...and someone will pay a 10k premium over blue-book for it. There's a lot of stupid out there.

rackemup

C7 Grand Sport is a very cool model of Corvette and quite desireable. It never ceases to amaze me how some believe that "Z51" is also a seperate model above the Sting Ray as the Grand Sport was and might be at some point in the C8 generation. Z51 is an option package as is "2LT, "3LT", etc. and not another model like Z06 or E-Ray.

3LZR21U

To be fair, the C4 ZR1 was a package. Yes, it doubled the price of the car. It absolutely was a package.

JerryU

Yep the 1st C8 production year 2020, GM extended builds to end September/October to meet the ~half their original forecast number they promised. The Pandemic was the major cause of not being able to make their hoped for volume. They said they did not want to do that again and would get Corvette back to their MY (Model Year) schedule for all GM of ~June/July.

It appears they have not told dealers what their expected E-Ray MY2024volume might be.

JerryU

Yep the 1st C8 production year 2020, GM extended builds to end September/October to meet the ~half their original forecast number they promised. The Pandemic was the major cause of not being able to make their hoped for volume. They said they did not want to do that again and would get Corvette back to their MY schedule for all GM of ~June/July.

It appears they have not told dealers what their expected E-Ray MY2024 volume might be.

Z0Sick6

Can anyone chime in with the farthest out TPW date?

For folks in October with no TPW dates, is it due to a constraint?


I'm supposed to go in next for an allocation at a dealer thats around 25 in corvette sales. I have an itch and don't want to go another summer without a car. So may pick up a used c8 for nominal loss if I won't expect a car till about September. What do you all think? I'm not looking for a crazy build. No carbon. 2lz convertible, red on black wheels. 2 tone black red gt2 interior.

plemm

I finally received my TPW this week, my build week is 4/15/24. I was in 3000 status since October 26, that was almost 6 months with no status change. My vehicle had no constraints as Makmulkin would not give me an allocation if I had any constrained items. I wanted black wheels and they had zero in black or carbon flash, that was my only sacrifice. I already have aftermarket wheels waiting. I had lots of carbon fiber options that were not on constraint, level 2 interior option, front splitter and sides. I ordered the 3Ltz in HTC with just about every option except wheels.

Hopefully GM has figured out how to produce these and you won’t have a wait time like me, hope this helped.

/Bear/

@plemm Interesting!

Two ERay window stickers have recently been released for MacMulkin customers who I don't know... VINs 206 and 216. I know the first seven who've taken delivery because we all waited in line together.

Since you're the next person on the list that I know of, I thought maybe one of those new ERays was yours. Been hoping to see those owners post, but they're probably not members here.

Congrats on getting your ERay soon!

ETA: Actually, I just realized that I know the guy getting VIN 216, so only 206 is still a mystery.

ERay2024

I am in the same situation. Ordered 10/23. 3000 on 10/24. Your order and mine are almost exactly the same. HTC, Stealth, Carbon Level 2, Exposed Carbon front & Sides, Exposed CF Wheels w/stripe, Red Mist, 3LZ. Still no TPW.

Maybe your car will be available for the Corvette Bash! How cool if you could have Museum Delivery on 4/26

Z0Sick6

My buddys eray order was picked up 2/20. He got a tpw this week from Shane at NCM 7/8. Awful timelines for people. Someone in October still doesn't have a tpw????

plake

This is ridiculous, and there going to add more model variations.

chevyrules727

If it’s at 3000, only Shane can share TPW. Dealer or concierge doesn’t see it.

Hopefully that TPW shifts to the left.