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Zora’s dream of bringing a mid-engine Corvette to market has finally been fulfilled!
Chevrolet is celebrating the Start of Regular Production (SORP) of the 2020 Corvette Stingray today and they shared this photo of a Black mid-engine Coupe on the Corvette assembly line in Bowling Green, KY.
The car is the VIN 001 Corvette that was purchased by Rick Hendrick for $3 million last month at Barrett-Jackson. Chevrolet told us previously that the first mid-engine Corvette produced for customers would be a Black Coupe with the Z51 package.
Here is Chevrolet’s tweet celebrating the start of C8 production from this afternoon:
Regular production for the 2020 #Corvette #Stingray coupe began today at GM’s Bowling Green Assembly in Kentucky. pic.twitter.com/zYemFNDv2l
— Chevrolet (@chevrolet) February 3, 2020
Chevrolet is saying that initial vehicle shipments to dealers are expected to begin in late February or early March.
Congratuations to all those who worked on the new Corvette to get it to this point and we are excited for all of our friends that have a new C8 Corvette on order. The new Corvette Stingray is a grand slam home run for Chevy and from it, we will see a paradigm shift in how people will view mid-engine sports cars in the future.
And with VIN 001 coming of the Corvette assembly line today, that future is now!
Update
Chevrolet also offered up this trailer for a two-part documentary of the C8 Corvette’s development called Revolution. The documentary will be released at a future date.
Source:
Chevrolet / Twitter
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Kinda makes one wonder if that is, in fact, the first production C8, what are all those delivery bagged C8’s in the back storage lot of the Assembly Plant? Are those ALL, “EX” vins? Or are the photos shown on this web site way out of sequence?
The ones on the back lot are probably the pre production ones to make sure the assembly line is set up correctly.
Knowing that production is 2 months behind schedule how many 2020 C8’s will be produced?
Dave
Anyone have any accurate knowledge of when C8 CONVERTIBLES will enter production and/or begin retail deliveries?
The first C8 Convertibles are slated to start the week of April 6th. We will most likely see the first deliveries in late April or early May.
Anybody got a good guess as to how long from production to carrier?
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