This week marks a special milestone for the 2015 Corvette Z06. The Corvette Assembly Plant just completed its first retail production of the new 650 horsepower Z06, a Black coupe that will go to Chevrolet dealer and NASCAR team owner Rick Hendrick.
Earlier this year, Hendrick paid one million dollars at Barrett-Jackson Palm Beach to own the first retail VIN of the Corvette Z06 with the proceeds of that sale going to charity.
A member of the StingrayForums.com named elegant was at the plant in Bowling Green on Monday and witnessed Hendrick’s new Corvette Z06 coming off the assembly line at 9:26 am. Corvette Plant Manager Jeff LaMarche and other plant staff were there for photos documenting the roll-off.
The Bowling Green Assembly Plant is building just under seven Corvette Z06s per hour. All the Z06s currently being built are manual Coupes but Corvette Marketing Manager Todd Christensen told us at SEMA that Convertibles will start production later in November and Corvette Z06s with the new 8-speed automatic transmission will start production in December.
If the roll-out of the Corvette Z06 is anything like last year’s Stingray rollout, then we can expect for Chevrolet to hang onto these completed cars until a series of quality assessment checks have been completed.
Autoblog reached out to Chevrolet spokesperson Monte Doran who provided the following statement. “Yes, we started producing customer cars yesterday,” said Doran. “We are not shipping cars to customers yet, though. We’re still doing final quality checks and audits and will begin shipping cars in the coming weeks.”
In related Corvette Z06/Stingray production news, Christensen told us that the CFZ option is on full constraint for Stingray orders as the Carbon Fiber Ground Effects Package has been prioritized for Corvette Z06 production.
Finally, Chevrolet touted the return of the Engine Build Experience at SEMA. The program allows owners to build their own supercharged LT4 engine under the watchful eyes of the Chevrolet’s engine builders at the Bowling Green Assembly Plant’s Performance Build Center. The program is slated to start up in January, but currently the pricing for the Experience has yet to be finalized. The Corvette Museum will play more of a role in the Engine Build Experience this time around and NCM will receive part of the funds raised from the program.
Source:
stingrayforums.com via Autoblog
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