No more Z51's available in 2014?

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gregb

Discussion Starter · Jan 15, 2014

A dealer (San Jose, CA) just informed me that there will be no more Z51's allocated in 2014 and you would have to wait and order a 2015 model.

I'm currently at 1100 and have a order number for my Z51 but now am wondering if I can expect my order to be fulfilled or if they are going to come back to me and tell me to either go with another non-Z51 2014 model or wait until 2015's become available.

Note, I got this info from another dealer and not the dealer I placed the order with as the original dealer is not communicating with me ;(

Anyone else heard of this or is the dealer misinformed?

Thanks,

-gregb

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pneild

· #21 · Jan 28, 2014

I think you numbers are a little optimistic. 2 shifts per day, that's 16 hours/day. 960 minutes. By those visiting the plant a Corvette is produced every 17.5 minutes. That's 54.8 cars per day or 274.28 per week. With 7 months between now and August, or 28 weeks. That 7679 cars total.
Let's say 50% are Z51s, thats only 3840. 60% would be 4608. Considering the snow and delivery issues - again I think a little optimistic. But I'm optimistic too so I'm letting my Dec 13th order ride.

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mjw930

· #22 · Jan 28, 2014

pneild said:
I think you numbers are a little optimistic. 2 shifts per day, that's 16 hours/day. 960 minutes. By those visiting the plant a Corvette is produced every 17.5 minutes. That's 54.8 cars per day or 274.28 per week. With 7 months between now and August, or 28 weeks. That 7679 cars total.
Let's say 50% are Z51s, thats only 3840. 60% would be 4608. Considering the snow and delivery issues - again I think a little optimistic. But I'm optimistic too so I'm letting my Dec 13th order ride.

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You can't extrapolate the numbers like that. What you need to do is look at real production numbers. Here are the sales statistics for Oct, Nov and Dec 2013.

Oct. 3,929
Nov. 2,527
Dec. 3,005

If they maintain a rate of close to 3000 / month and figure Jan - June that's 6 x 3000 = 18,000 MY 2014 cars to be produced in 2014. Assuming a 50% Z51 rate that should equate to ~9000 Z51's that have or have yet to be built in 2014.

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elegant

· #23 · Jan 29, 2014

The current production rate is 152 new Corvettes every BGAP work day. Given that we are right now at about 13,500 produced (and just verified that this is accurate), by the end January (this Friday) BGAP will have built 14,100 units.

If production of the 2014 ends on June 27th (which I am thinking but is far, far from fact), GM will have produced about 30,000, 2014 StingRays. Thus, if anything, my estimates on post # 18 of this thread as to the number of Z-51's yet to be produced this year, seem to be a low.

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