The global chip shortage has caused most automakers to make certain decisions regarding the prioritization of which vehicles will get the chips, and up to now, the 2022 Corvette has been very well protected from these shortages. However, a memo to dealers this morning outlines one of the popular safety features on the Stingray has been deleted due to lack of chips and new customers probably won’t be happy about it.
The news comes from our friends at the Corvette Action Center who shared the details of the latest constraints affecting production of America’s Favorite Sports Car.
Effective January 24th, Chevrolet has removed the Rear Park Assist from orders due to lack of chips. This is the feature that senses and warns you of objects behind you when you are slowly backing up. Buyers whose vehicles were stripped of this option will receive a $50 credit. Alas, not all is lost as Chevy estimates the availability of parts to retrofit the option will return sometime in the fourth quarter of 2022.
Other constraints for the 2022 Corvette include those we previously have shared. Namely, the Engine Appearance and Lighting Package (ZZ3) has been stripped from orders as the company that makes the carbon fiber components is exiting the business and ceased all carbon fiber production on January 31st. The High Wing Spoiler in Carbon Flash Metallic (5ZZ) is also be stripped from orders, but customers are being offered the ability to add the new Low Profile Wing which utilizes the same mounting points as the High Wing.
Now for some good news! The Carbon Fiber Outside Mirror Covers (5JR) and the Carbon Fiber Grille Inserts (RZ9) will be available to order once again beginning February 7th. However, the grille inserts are only available for 3LT only.
Chevrolet also reconfirmed the 2023 Corvette Order Guide will be arriving on March 21st followed by pre-orders opening March 24th.
Finally, Chevrolet says that 146 Chevrolet dealers are taking part in the 2023 Corvette Z06 Dealer Tour. Just like the 2020 Dealer Tour, two pre-production 2023 Corvette Z06 models will hit the roads and will be bringing the cars and their huge displays of various package options and colors available. Contact your local Chevrolet dealer to see if the Z06 Tour is coming to their location.
Source:
Corvette Action Center
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Doesn’t the rear-view camera serve the same function? You have to look at the screen, of course…
Global chip shortage????? I thought that was resolved months ago! Are any other manufacturers deleting these types of standard features?
Gee, 50 bucks? Can I give it back to you and you fulfill the original order?
It is a benefit I consider very important.
Eliminating a safety feature from any car is never a great idea. Doing it with a car that really needs safety features to help with rear and side visibility issues is nuts.
I heard that the tires for the Stingrays are also on back order, so they are going to ship the newly built Stingrays without them but give you a $1000 credit so you can get your own tires once it arrives at your dealership. Seems pretty fair to me.
HEY DT WHERE DID YOU GET THAT IDEA ?
CHIP SHORTAGES WILL BE WITH US FOR AT LEAST THE REST OF THE YEAR.
THE REAR CAMERA MORE USEFUL
Completely redundant with the federally mandated backup camera and they just add to development and production costs. Parking assist sensors should’ve been done away with in 2019. Having them now is like having a CD player in the factory head unit.
You really need to have the backup sensor, for fifty dollars why can’t it be put in later. When it’s available? The high wing can you not find another manufacturer? Or have any after market one available. I think the high wing makes the car .
Unacceptable. Park Assist sensors provide an audible proximity guage of distance to impact, which cameras do not. They are absolutely necessary, and especially on a $90k+ car. They should also be on the FRONT of the C8, like on all other cars (even cheap ones). This is a big steaming bowl of Not Good.
I’ve got one vehicle with park assist only and one with camera only. I’ll take the park assist over the camera and it doesn’t fog over or give a poor view in shadow like the camera does.
The article did not mention whether that is effective on existing orders already accepted by the factory or on new orders. Somehow I also think the cost to retro-fit will be substantially more than the $50 credit they are giving for it not being there in the first place.
if you really need parking assist to park a vette you probably should not be driving one.
I have back up assist in my car…and where it helps me the most is with things coming in from the side which are outside of the view of the camera. And it has been great. The camera is better when backing into a spot. It is more accurate and I never have issues with weather…Even when I lived in the rust belt. This to me is a big deal, and you can get mad at GM all you want. But frankly this is out of their control. Much like the Carbon fiber kits. You can poo poo the loss of this feature all you want, but it is a very helpful feature and has probably saved many cars from needing body repair (driver fault or NOT)
Yes, chip shortage???? The global semiconductor industry reported record profits for 2021. The REAL problem wasn’t a reduction in the number of “chips” produced. Rather the industry reallocated their production to others who didn’t have lean inventory models. There was no shortage for chips for laptops needed for the millions of folks who stayed home and worked from their house; nor the millions of school age kids who were being schooled at home via laptops. Auto corporations like Ford and GM blew it! Honda, Toyota and other “foreign owned” automobile manufacturers saw what was happening due to the “Covid impact” and had the foresight to buy up all the chip capacity manufacturers could produce leaving many other U.S. manufacturers without the chips they needed to deliver on the increased demands of the worldwide consumer. I just purchased an Acura with the full Technology package as well as heated/cooled seats and all the other chip derived options. It was produced and delivered with everything on the build sheet. Hopefully, the lean inventory bean counters at some corporations will now “get it”.
Communication from GM has been abysmal. GM took a “Sold Order” from me in March of 2021. My dealer told me this would carry over into the 2022 model year. Now they are talking production of the 2023 will be starting in March of this year. What am I getting ? A 2022 or a 2023 ? Not too long ago they were telling us that the high wing was back into production for the 2022 and now, guess what ?, they are no longer available. Another thing: will high wing spoilers be available on the 2023 Z06 ? If so, I will be very angry because the 2022 Stingray orders should be given the spoilers first, after all, these were ordered first. I hope I don’t see one on a 2023 Z06. Too many screw-ups over this car.
@DT
As an IT professional with close ties across the automotive industry, I can tell you that assessment is not correct. All auto manufacturers are dealing with the chip issue, as it’s a matter of engineering design cycle timelines. The chips in the laptops and cellphones you reference are the newest on the market, because the product design cycle for those items is less than 12 months. That’s why Apple and Samsung release a new phone with a new chipset every year. The product design cycle for automobiles is on the order of 5 to 7 years. By the time a car comes to market, the chipsets it was designed to work with are many years old, and the chip manufacturers have to specially manufacturer now-obsolescent chips for them.
This is not an issue when everything is running at full capacity and they can manufacture these chips at a scale to supply the entire industry. But everything ground to a halt in 2020 and cars were not being manufactured. When production began slowly coming back online, chip manufacturers made the business choice to pivot to production of only current-day chips for laptops and such, and not the specialty production of obsolescent chips for the auto manufacturers, since they knew it would be a long time before the auto industry was back at normal production levels.
This is why there is a chip shortage across the whole industry. I don’t doubt that some automakers were more prescient than others, but this is industry-wide, as all operate on the just-in-time model you mentioned, which was originally developed in Japan, by the way.
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