The Assembly Plant Reaches Pre-Coronavirus Production Levels with 94 Corvettes Completed on Tuesday

More good news coming out of the Bowling Green Assembly Plant!

This week we’ve already been blessed with the news that new shipments of the 2020 Corvettes are on their way to dealerships and now we received some really great news on production totals.

This morning we learned that the Corvette Assembly Plant had built 94 Corvettes on Tuesday, the most in one day since the resumption of production on May 26th following a two-month layoff due to the Coronavirus. This is even better than the 87 Corvettes that were completed on Monday.

According to a C8 Corvette Facebook Group that is following daily production, the assembly team completed VINs ranging from 3596 to 3690. By dividing the number of cars by the 8-hour shift, we get 11.75 cars per hour which essentially means that full production for the 1st shift has been achieved.

Our assumption is that now with “full production” reached for the 1st shift, the Corvette Team will be able to see any cracks in the supply line before we get to July 6th when the 2nd shift is planned to start up.

And speaking of the supply lines, The Detroit Free Press has an article out today on Corvette production and one of the interesting points comes from Michael Kvicala, a marketing specialist with Tremec, the company that builds the C8’s 8-Speed Dual Clutch Transmission. In the article, he says that the Tremec plant in Novi, Michigan “is running the same production rate as the [Corvette Assembly] plant.”

“We’re hitting our quantities that they were requesting,” Kvicala told the Free Press. “We work hand-in-hand with those guys and they know everything we’re doing.”

Source:
MidEngineCorvetteForum.com and C8 Corvette Owners

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