Category: Corvette News

Corvette Assembly Line Workers Are getting Ready To Strike over Jobs being Outsourced C8 Assembly Line. The members of UAW Local 2164, representing the C8 Corvette assembly plant workers, have almost unanimously rejected the manufacturer’s latest contract offer. The sticking point is GM’s reliance on outsourcing a range of jobs to non-union labor. Negotiating better terms for sanitation and health and safety rank among the union’s other stated priorities. GM’s previous contract with Local 2164 expired two years ago, and although a strike isn’t imminent its members have already approved…

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Top Gear UK Has A Look At The 2023 Z06 Top Gear UK 2023 Corvette Z06 Video. Ollie Marriage from the British automotive review show Top Gear recently came to Las Vegas to check out the upcoming 2023 Corvette Z06. While Chevrolet is not letting any reviewers get behind the wheel of the 2023 Corvette Z06 (except for Jay Leno that is), they were able to get up-close with both a Silver Flare Metallic base coupe and a Sebring Orange Tintcoat Z07 convertible. That gave their viewers a better idea…

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Make a C8 Your Classroom Picture courtesy of Ron Fellows Performance Driving School. Do you have two days available with nothing to do? I recommend you spend them behind the wheel of a mid-engine C8 at the Ron Fellows Performance Driving School. There are other great racing schools out there that offer instruction that cater to varying abilities and are staffed with incredibly talented instructors, but the Ron Fellows school offers the mid-engine C8 as the classroom. This makes the Ron Fellows Driving School, based out of the luxurious Spring Mountain…

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WE’RE BUYING 2023 Z06 OrdersAnd Other DREAM CARS! Friends, as you all know, we don’t fuss with auctions or shuffle cars from other dealers. Our cars come from you.So, if you are thinning out your collection, let us know! Click here to email us about your C8 Z06 Order or other car(s). GM Preps Tornado Damaged C8’s To Be Crushed Picture courtesy of Kornel J Werner. As many of you know by now, on December 11th, 2021, a tornado hit the GM Bowling Green assembly facility damaging over 120 C8…

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Picture courtesy of Corvette Blogger. General Motors restarted operations at its assembly plant on December 20th, nine days after a violent tornado swept through Kentucky and damaged the facility. GM is not taking any chances and will be scrapping any Corvettes that show damage. This includes not only the cars being assembled on the line at the time of the tornado, but will also include the finished cars parked outside the factory waiting for shipment. According to Corvette Action Center, approximately 115 Corvettes inside the assembly plant “were damaged beyond…

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Tornado Closes Corvette Assembly PlantNCM Motorsports Park closed Picture courtesy of Corvette Blogger. As I am sure you already know, a number of tornadoes swept through portions of six states in the Midwest and Southern U.S. over the weekend. One of the twisters landed in Kentucky and traversed over 200 miles on the ground, killing more than 50 people. The storms also made their presence felt at the Corvette Action Center and the GM Bowling Green Assembly Plant that builds the Chevrolet Corvette. All the plant employees are safe at…

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WE’RE BUYING 2023 Z06 OrdersAnd Other DREAM CARS! Friends, as you all know, we don’t fuss with auctions or shuffle cars from other dealers. Our cars come from you.So, if you are thinning out your collection, let us know! Click here to email me about your C8 Z06 Order or other car(s). C8 Radar Detector damaged driver’s side mirror Picture courtesy of gm-techlink. Customers are complaining that the driver’s side outside rearview mirror on some C8’s are getting damaged and have a poor appearance. The mirror starts showing numerous lines…

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Chevy asking current C8 owners about EV’s Picture courtesy of Chevrolet General Motors has made it well known that they have prospects for an all-electric future. Their site even stated on their site that they will have 30 new EVs globally by 2025. We assume some electrification plans for the Chevrolet Corvette are in the works, but we just don’t know what they are. We have seen spy shots of what looks like a hybrid, maybe the ‘E-Ray’ trademarked back in 2015, but what form this will take is not…

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Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family from the Corvette Mike team. WE’RE BUYING 2023 Z06 OrdersAnd Other DREAM CARS! Friends, as you all know, we don’t fuss with auctions or shuffle cars from other dealers. Our cars come from you. So, if you arethinning out your collection, let us know! Click here to send me an email about your C8 Z06 Order or other car(s). C&D Awards 2022 C8 Corvette a Top 10 Winner Picture courtesy of John Ror – Car And Driver Car and Driver test over 100…

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WE’RE BUYING DREAM CARS! Friends, as you all know, we don’t fuss with auctions or shuffle cars from other dealers. Our cars come from you. So, if you are thinning out your collection let us know! Click here to send me an email about your car. bob bondurant 1 Picture courtesy of Sports Car Digest Bob Bondurant, a former champion race car driver who opened a high-performance driving school in 1968 and taught numerous A-list actors for their movie roles, died last Friday in the Phoenix suburb of Paradise Valley…

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