Just one day after resuming operations after a three-week shut down, the Corvette Assembly Plant announced to its workers this morning that the plant will also be shut down for an additional four weeks at the very end of the year.
The news of the shutdown has been confirmed by our friends at the MidEngineCorvetteForum, although we are not 100% certain of the dates. The Assembly Plant usually shuts down for a couple of weeks around Christmas and New Year’s, so we believe the shutdown period will be Monday, December 7th through Friday, January 1st with the plant reopening for operations on Monday, January 4th.
With that closure, we are counting a total of 11 weeks of shutdown time during the 2026 calendar year according to our news archive:
• January 5
• April 27
• May 4
• June 1
• September 28
• October 5
• October 12
• December 7
• December 14
• December 21
• December 28
Each assembly plant shutdown this year has been blamed on supplier-related issues, which really leads to the question of what specific parts are causing the entire line to have to shut down for weeks at a time? Instead, we also wonder if market conditions are being factored into these decisions as well.
We hate to bring news like this to those trying to order new Corvettes, but it’s also par for the course when it comes to producing Corvettes during the C8 era.
Source:
MidEngineCorvetteForum.com
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Instead of printing what a forum speculates, why not print what a call the the GM public relations department spokesperson tells you?
I wonder what the average worker thinks of all the weeks off? If you survive from paycheck to paycheck, you sure wouldn’t want to work at the Corvette factory.
This is not good news:
According to Chevrolet.com “Search Inventory” at 11:00 PM Tuesday, there are 2,906 new Corvettes available for sale within 2,000 miles of Kansas City.
2027 MODEL YEAR:
Corvette Grand Sport – 798
Corvette Grand Sport X – 66
Corvette Stingray – 986
Corvette Z06 -;497
Corvette ZR1- 37
Corvette ZR1X – 13
2,397 Corvettes
2026 MODEL YEAR
Corvette E-Ray(43)
Corvette Stingray(265)
Corvette Z06(165)
Corvette ZR1(1)
474 Corvettes
2025 MODEL YEAR
Corvette E-Ray(14)
Corvette Stingray(7)
Corvette Z06(14)
35 Corvettes
2,906 New Corvettes total available for sale.
Perhaps Chevrolet is about to have a Corvette Clearance Sale to earn some Corvette Profit!
Very sad news for all of the good folks at the Assembly Plant at Christmas. Good luck.
Jeff Thomas,
Maybe not Profit, just Cashflow and hopefully Breakeven.
US wages have not kept pace with the real cost of living. Don’t believe the government shadow statistics. GM just needs to sell some cars. Maybe they should focus on costs and bring prices back to earth.
I am 80 and I still have 4 Corvettes all with manual transmissions. Perhaps sales would improve if they offered manuals again.
MECF took the lead in reaching out to the right contact at the assembly plant and received a confirmation. This isn’t speculation and you would be surprised how many times someone from GM/Chevy confirms info for us and then says, “don’t mention me in the article.”
The overpriced C8 has gone stale.
GM should make Corvettes only for dealers with customer orders. Very few should be ‘on the lot’. Just like Ferrari.
Numbers do not lie, the C8 is not a hot commodity any longer; too many sitting on dealers’ lots. I do not believe for a second that the shutdown is due to parts availability; three weeks recently and four more in December? Please, and GM had the audacity to increase the price at the end of September? GM will have to start offering big discounts soon if they want to keep their assembly personnel occupied. I can see 2028 C8 total production around 15K. They better hurry up with the C9.
I think car sales overall are weak due to high cost of living and growing inflation… corvettes shouldn’t be hard to sell.
Hey everybody,
My motivation to get a Search Inventory list on Tuesday night of available Corvettes for sale nationwide was to lock in the 2,906 quantity of new Corvettes providing an alternative to G.M. and Chevrolet blaming suppliers for a total of eleven weeks of Assembly Plant shutdowns. Historically the Plant had two weeks each year to close, July 4rh and Christmas.
So, what is the Truth. We can handle the Truth.
Way too many 2027 great, new, faster, but way too expensive Corvettes sitting around getting dirty at Chevy dealers or that Carbon Fiber supplier guy being lazy and too slow building wings and interior trim?
HEY TONY AND JOSH – What is going in Bowling Green?