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Old 05-05-2014, 07:25 PM
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North Houston here.... Saw 4 today...
Old 05-05-2014, 07:28 PM
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And they told me I'd have the only one!!
Old 05-05-2014, 07:35 PM
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They are selling them as fast and they can make them.
Old 05-05-2014, 07:39 PM
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Originally Posted by Walt White Coupe
They are selling them as fast and they can make them.
To park on Dealer's Lots.
Old 05-05-2014, 07:43 PM
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Originally Posted by go4kj
Give it a year, you say, when the Corvette will be as common as a bellybutton. But like a pierced one, the C7 will still be impossible to ignore.
NICE
Old 05-05-2014, 07:49 PM
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My neice graduated from the Ohio State University over the weekend so I drove from New Jersey to Ohio and I didn't see 1 C7! Not even mine which should be on a it's away here!!!! 873 miles!
Old 05-05-2014, 08:18 PM
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Originally Posted by Spark 2
To park on Dealer's Lots.
That might be but they aren't sitting on dealers lots very long.
Old 05-05-2014, 08:18 PM
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Approx 1 out of every 12000 cars in the US is a C7. So if you are seeing more than one a week you are spending way too much time looking at cars!!!
Old 05-05-2014, 08:23 PM
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Originally Posted by Snorman
I'm in Ocean County, and have only seen one.
S.
Me too, I passed by a torch red C7 today in traffic.
Old 05-05-2014, 08:32 PM
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Boston suburbs here. I've seen one in the last week for sure, and I think a second one but less sure about that.
Old 05-05-2014, 09:24 PM
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Originally Posted by VETJAZZ
And they told me I'd have the only one!!
Damn time to give it away as yours is now nothing special
Old 05-05-2014, 09:39 PM
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Awesome-up almost 200% and over 11,600 sold in one month.








Last month’s sales numbers for the Corvette say it all. Compared to 2013, the sales for new Corvettes increased a whopping 199 percent in April with 11,693 units sold. Yup, that’s nearly a 200-percent increase in the number of new ‘Vettes delivered in the U.S.

According to a Bloomberg Businessweek report, Corvette sales numbers even scored higher than the highly buzzed Mercedes-Benz S-Class.
Old 05-05-2014, 09:54 PM
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These numbers are not adding up.

The article is misquoting Bloomberg. The sales numbers are for January through April not April alone.

Here is the original Bloomberg article.

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Old 05-05-2014, 10:00 PM
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Originally Posted by Michael A
These numbers are not adding up.

Good Car Bad Car shows April U.S. sales at 3514. The can't be sending 8000 cars out of the country.

Michael
He, or the source he was quoting mixed up the numbers.

Jan-Apr Year to date sales are 11693
April sales are 3514, as you noted.

BTW, inventory has jumped from a 7 days stock to 27 days stock, 60 days is considered ideal so while they are in shorter supply than say a Camaro they have gotten past the "every one leaving BG is sold" days.
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In the last two weeks I'm shocked at the amount of c7's I've seen. I've already ran with many of them on the back streets of cape cod and the highways. I've seen probably more c7's than c6's.
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Thanks for getting it right, guys!
Old 05-05-2014, 10:20 PM
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Bitter sweet, I like it to be our little secret.

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Old 05-05-2014, 10:31 PM
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I'm starting to see them on the roads but when I park mine there is almost always someone taking a pic of it when I come back.
Old 05-05-2014, 10:53 PM
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Originally Posted by Modshack
There are only 3 in my town of 80K. Sure the C7 is a hit, but 30K cars (anticipaated for the 2014 build) is hardly a blip on the Machine that is GM...
30,000 cars X $60,000 = $1,800,000,000

That's ONE BILLION, EIGHT HUNDRED MILLION in GROSS sales.
A little more than a BLIP, I'd say.

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I live in the DC metropolitan area.

I am near one of the largest Corvette dealers nationwide

Strangely enough, I have seen a grand total of ZERO C7's in my area.

Others apparently concur since after 2 months, I still get honks and beeps on the road.


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