Coupe vs Vert build question
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Coupe vs Vert build question
A lot of vert orders are now at 3000, maybe beyond. When they start building convertibles, will coupe production stop for a while, or will they go down the assembly line back to back - side by side?
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They will travel the line together. No stoppage of coupes. There will be at least one coupe between convertibles as there are a couple of production steps that take additional time (and operator effort) for the convertible and they use the coupe in between to recover some of that time in between.
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Last I heard production of Convertibles was supposed to start in December. And, I agree, they will mix them together down the lines.
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It's hard to make predictions, especially when they are about the future. I don't know about the C-6 but when I visited the factory in the past they built C-5 and C-4 convertible and coupes mixed together. I saw a the coupes and verts mixed together. You might see a few verts then a few coupes all mixed together.
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My vert order went to 3000 last Tuesday and I know Eagle3sh vert order also went to 3000 as well.
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Maybe no stoppage but slows them down. My car was due to go in my last dealers allocation and they slipped two convertibles and two non-z51's in (all sold units of course) that were behind mine. He didn't understand the non-Z51 coupes going 1st. Hopefully mine will get picked in the next one. Maybe this week .
They will travel the line together. No stoppage of coupes. There will be at least one coupe between convertibles as there are a couple of production steps that take additional time (and operator effort) for the convertible and they use the coupe in between to recover some of that time in between.