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Rick Hendrick, Call Your Office…

December 22, 2021 admin

Photo Credit: Chevrolet

When Rick Hendrick purchased the very first C8 Corvette for $3 million in January 2020, he famously quipped that he’ll never drive it.

Now his dealership in Atlanta, the Number 8 Corvette dealership in the country, is ensuring that some of their customers will never drive the new 2023 Corvette Z06 when it goes on sale in the summer of 2022.

Check out this email from the Rick Hendrick Chevrolet Duluth dealership to a customer on the Corvette Forum who was assured in writing in October 2020 that his only dealer markup fee on the 2023 Corvette Z06 would be a “$749 dealer administration charge.”

Instead, just 13 months later, he is being offered the mandatory option to take an “accessory package” that costs $13,000.

Are we going to watch a great Corvette enthusiast and friend to the Corvette team spend millions of dollars to own the very first 2023 Corvette Z06 at Barrett-Jackson in January, knowing that his dealership in Atlanta is gouging customers who were promised MSRP pricing over a year ago?

It really leaves a bad impression in our opinion…

Is City Chevrolet marking up Z06s? How about any of the other Hendrick Chevy dealerships?

Here is the email from the CorvetteForum.com:

From: Rick Hendrick Chevrolet Duluth
Sent: Friday, December 17, 2021, 9:00 AM
To: raduziub
Subject: RE:Re: Re: RE: C8 Z06 dealer tours news & do you still take deposits for the C8 Z06?

Our dealership will be requiring an accessory package with each of our Corvette orders, will include items such as paint protection film, ceramic coating, window tint and a few other items

Total cost for it will likely be ~$13,000

Best,
Justin Cochran
___________________

From: Rick Hendrick Chevrolet Duluth
Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2020 3:23 PM
To: raduziub
Subject: RE:RE: RE: RE: Corvette

No worries! We have a dealer administration charge of $749.
Best,

Justin Cochran
Rick Hendrick Chevrolet Duluth
3277 Satellite Blvd
Duluth, GA 30096

Demand for the new Corvette Z06 is such that shitty dealership practices like this will go unpunished because these cars will be going for $20K over the purchase price on the secondary market anyway. But you can at least hit the dealer in the end with a 1-star rating on their dealership surveys that follow the sale, especially if they promised you MSRP IN WRITING.

We might expect these games from a Joe Schmoe dealership, but a Hendrick dealership pulling this crap? Seriously, screw these dealers…

UPDATE
Check out this great response from the Hendrick customer who is now saying the dealership’s management has reached out to him and will be making everything right:

WOW, Keith and dear fellow members, thank you for all of your posts and actions!
I’ve just got off the phone with the General Manager from Rick Hendrick in Duluth, GA where I made my deposit in 2020, and I was informed that there was a little mistake and miscommunication from their end.
Because I made my deposit so long in advance, I was grandfathered in for no extra charges, so no, the $13K will not apply to my allocation.
Not sure if that $13K package fee will apply to anybody else that made a deposit recently, or if it is something that is going to be implemented and communicated to all new deposits from a certain date, but I wanted to share right away what I’ve just learned.
Thank you again awesome Corvette Forum Community and best wishes to all!
Happy Holidays!

Source:
CorvetteForum.com

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[VIDEO] Chevrolet Sends Out Revised Launch Video to Z06 Email Subscribers

December 21, 2021 admin

Photo Credit: Chevrolet.com

Are you on Chevrolet’s C8 Corvette Z06 mailing list? I signed up when the 2023 Corvette Z06 was first revealed and this morning we got an email from Chevrolet detailing the design and artistry of the new American sports car. I have a screenshot of the full email below, and if you’re interested in receiving your own updates from Chevrolet on the Z06, you can sign up here.

Today’s email was titled “the All-New 2023 Corvette Z06: Sculpted to soar” and the links in the email take you this unlisted Chevrolet video in which a portion of the Z06’s live reveal video has been recut into this 9-minute video. You can see the video underneath the below email:

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Source:
Chevrolet.com

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[SPIED] 2023 Corvette Z06 Driving on the Streets Around the Nurburgring

September 21, 2021 admin

It’s been nearly a month since the Corvette engineering team was testing the 2023 Corvette Z06 at the Nurburgring and we are still coming across new videos like this 2-minute quickie showing the camouflaged prototypes roaming the city streets around the race track.

Only the high wing Z06 is shown and we are able to hear some very nice exhaust sounds out of the rumored 5.5-liter flat-plane crank V8 engine as the drivers pull out onto the roads.

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Source:
The Andy / YouTube

[SPIED] Spy Video Shows the 2023 Corvette Z06 with a Magnesium Transmission Casing

July 25, 2021 admin

[SPIED] Spy Video Shows 2023 Corvette Z06 with a Magnesium Transmission Casing

Time and again we’ve seen that General Motors isn’t shy about utilizing advanced materials in the manufacture of automobiles, and when they are used, most likely that application was found on the Chevrolet Corvette.

Magnesium is one such material that has been featured on the Corvette before as it is lighter and more rigid than aluminum, so it makes perfect sense that automotive engineers would want to incorporate the metal alloy to help reduce weight when possible. GM estimates that a vehicle’s fuel economy improves 7% for every 150-kg reduction in weight, and to give you an idea of the potential weight savings, a part made from magnesium alloy is 30% lighter than those made from aluminum alloys.

In the past, the C5 Corvette featured magnesium wheels that helped to reduce the unsprung weight of the car while the C6 Corvette ZR1 saw the material used on the chassis with specific applications on the engine cradle and the roof.

But General Motors has come a long way since those examples. Fifteen years ago, GM was part of a coalition of auto manufacturers and the US Department of Energy to test the use of magnesium alloys for engine blocks, and in 2014, GM China began operations of a magnesium alloy Vertical Squeeze Casting (VSC) machine for developing next-generation magnesium castings which would allow mass production of the lightweight metal.

[SPIED] Spy Video Shows GM May Offer the 2023 Corvette Z06 with a Magnesium Transmission Casing

Fast forward to April 28, 2021 where a group of Chevy engineers was testing the C8 Corvette Z06/ZR1 Prototypes in Marietta, Ohio. Local Corvette enthusiast Dave Wesel was there and captured the engineering team starting up the prototypes and leaving the grounds for a full day of testing.

Another Corvette enthusiast saw that post and did something that many of us have always wanted to do. Driving from South Carolina to Ohio, he mounted a sneak attack on the cars in the middle of the night to gather data on the next-generation Corvettes. Brandon Byers of the Vette Titans Facebook Page recently began sharing some of what he found under the Corvette prototypes: the signature color of magnesium alloy on the case of the TREMEC dual-clutch transmission:

Spy Video Shows GM May Offer the 2023 Corvette Z06 with a Magnesium Transmission Casing

This isn’t the first time that the lightweight alloy has been used on a transmission casing. Vette Titans also shared a link to the Mercedes-Benz 7G-Tronic transmission that went into production in 2003 that utilized magnesium alloy for its casing.

As the DCT for the Corvette Stingray weights in at just over 300 lbs, utilizing magnesium to lower the weight of the transmission’s casing could pay instant dividends on light-weighting the track-focused Z06.

In an exclusive interview with Rick ‘Corvette’ Conti, Brandon explains why he wanted to see the cars up close and personal and how he was able to do so despite the fact that the security guard was very good at doing his job. From the footage he was able to get over several hours with the car, he notes that there were no turbos found on the car which deflates our theory of the center-mounted exhausts being the ZR1s. He also says that he doesn’t believe that Chevy designers have fully finished the rear fascia of the car. You can see the entire discussion here which features footage from Brandon’s night with the prototypes here:

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Source:
Brandon Byers / Vette Titans Facebook Page and Corvette Conti

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Tag Archives: 2023

Rick Hendrick, Call Your Office…

[VIDEO] Chevrolet Sends Out Revised Launch Video to Z06 Email Subscribers

[SPIED] 2023 Corvette Z06 Driving on the Streets Around the Nurburgring

[SPIED] Spy Video Shows the 2023 Corvette Z06 with a Magnesium Transmission Casing

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