Why wait until 11 p.m.?
Safety Car
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Maybe the car is awful and they want to show it in a unlit building after dark? Or... What about the vampire angle? Having the reveal after dark could help open the market up to new buyers from that previously untapped market. I think Tarantula may have it though, it works out well with the flight time from the Great Lakes region.
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Drifting
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Good grief! What a bunch of cry babies! Why is it in California? Why is it so late at night? Why is it in crappy Tustin instead of Newport or Laguna? Or Beverly Hills? Why is GM so screwed up? Come on people...get a life! A few years back I went to the reveal of the Ferrari California. It took place in So Cal...in an airplane hangar...at 8 PM!
There are 250 members of the media coming from everywhere to this event. Many are not arriving until the 18th. Most will fly into LAX instead of John Wayne. You just don't hop into a car at LAX and bingo...you are in Tustin. This is L.A. on a weekday folks. We have something here called L.A. traffic....not just traffic but L.A. traffic. I am going to the reveal and from my house it will take 2.5-3 hours to get there. I won't get home until after midnight. And that is fine with me. So if you live elsewhere and want to watch it, then watch it. If you don't, then don't. But please, stop all of the bitching and moaning.
There are 250 members of the media coming from everywhere to this event. Many are not arriving until the 18th. Most will fly into LAX instead of John Wayne. You just don't hop into a car at LAX and bingo...you are in Tustin. This is L.A. on a weekday folks. We have something here called L.A. traffic....not just traffic but L.A. traffic. I am going to the reveal and from my house it will take 2.5-3 hours to get there. I won't get home until after midnight. And that is fine with me. So if you live elsewhere and want to watch it, then watch it. If you don't, then don't. But please, stop all of the bitching and moaning.
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I cant believe the amount of cry babies around here. If you don't see it live, you can look at it in the morning and guess what...….you will have not missed a thing. There will be pictures, videos and discussions about this car for MONTHS before anyone will even own one. Put your big boy pants on and stop whining.
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Drifting
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Good grief! What a bunch of cry babies! Why is it in California? Why is it so late at night? Why is it in crappy Tustin instead of Newport or Laguna? Or Beverly Hills? Why is GM so screwed up? Come on people...get a life! A few years back I went to the reveal of the Ferrari California. It took place in So Cal...in an airplane hangar...at 8 PM!
There are 250 members of the media coming from everywhere to this event. Many are not arriving until the 18th. Most will fly into LAX instead of John Wayne. You just don't hop into a car at LAX and bingo...you are in Tustin. This is L.A. on a weekday folks. We have something here called L.A. traffic....not just traffic but L.A. traffic. I am going to the reveal and from my house it will take 2.5-3 hours to get there. I won't get home until after midnight. And that is fine with me. So if you live elsewhere and want to watch it, then watch it. If you don't, then don't. But please, stop all of the bitching and moaning.
There are 250 members of the media coming from everywhere to this event. Many are not arriving until the 18th. Most will fly into LAX instead of John Wayne. You just don't hop into a car at LAX and bingo...you are in Tustin. This is L.A. on a weekday folks. We have something here called L.A. traffic....not just traffic but L.A. traffic. I am going to the reveal and from my house it will take 2.5-3 hours to get there. I won't get home until after midnight. And that is fine with me. So if you live elsewhere and want to watch it, then watch it. If you don't, then don't. But please, stop all of the bitching and moaning.
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It is all about a car, not Bubba the loyal Corvette owner in Suffolk NY. It is simply a media event designed to be recorded and then distributed among different media outlets and their audiences like every other unveiling. GM is putting on an evening gala event, not the State of the Union Address. Let's give GM some credit for actually doing it this way and not doing it at some random auto show or car event with 10 other manufactures unveiling their next best thing.
Relax, drink a beer tonight and see what happens.
Relax, drink a beer tonight and see what happens.
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Based on 2018 statistics, Eight of the top ten Corvette sales dealers are in the Eastern Time Zone. Two are in Central Time Zone. There are zero top 10 dealers in Mountain or West Coast. I see Corvette marketing department is off to a great start with the C8. 
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So the reveal time/location is somehow going to have an impact when the car goes on sale? It is definitely getting deep in here.
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Good grief! What a bunch of cry babies! Why is it in California? Why is it so late at night? Why is it in crappy Tustin instead of Newport or Laguna? Or Beverly Hills? Why is GM so screwed up? Come on people...get a life! A few years back I went to the reveal of the Ferrari California. It took place in So Cal...in an airplane hangar...at 8 PM!
There are 250 members of the media coming from everywhere to this event. Many are not arriving until the 18th. Most will fly into LAX instead of John Wayne. You just don't hop into a car at LAX and bingo...you are in Tustin. This is L.A. on a weekday folks. We have something here called L.A. traffic....not just traffic but L.A. traffic. I am going to the reveal and from my house it will take 2.5-3 hours to get there. I won't get home until after midnight. And that is fine with me. So if you live elsewhere and want to watch it, then watch it. If you don't, then don't. But please, stop all of the bitching and moaning.
There are 250 members of the media coming from everywhere to this event. Many are not arriving until the 18th. Most will fly into LAX instead of John Wayne. You just don't hop into a car at LAX and bingo...you are in Tustin. This is L.A. on a weekday folks. We have something here called L.A. traffic....not just traffic but L.A. traffic. I am going to the reveal and from my house it will take 2.5-3 hours to get there. I won't get home until after midnight. And that is fine with me. So if you live elsewhere and want to watch it, then watch it. If you don't, then don't. But please, stop all of the bitching and moaning.
Why not maximize the marketing impact by getting the most live views?
Drifting
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States that have the most registered Corvettes: Texas California & Florida. And the order of those 3 states changes from year to year. It does not matter where the big volume dealers are. What matters more is what states have the most dealers and where folks living in the 3 mentioned states buy from. Since dealers in California tend to sell Corvettes at higher prices, many Californians buy from out of the state.
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