TARANTULA

Maybe Mary Barras jet lands at 10:30pm

crabman

Maybe the car is awful and they want to show it in a unlit building after dark? Or... What about the vampire angle? Having the reveal after dark could help open the market up to new buyers from that previously untapped market. I think Tarantula may have it though, it works out well with the flight time from the Great Lakes region.

RonnieC6Z

You, my friend, are an idiot.

fasttoys

I am at a leadership meeting that happens to be out of town, I call these events Nappy Time. I will be good for this reveals.

johan gouws

Actually an early Friday event and not a late Thursday

Atari_Prime

Maybe they want a younger audience and by then the golfing crowd will have gone to bed?

RonnieC6Z

Good grief! What a bunch of cry babies! Why is it in California? Why is it so late at night? Why is it in crappy Tustin instead of Newport or Laguna? Or Beverly Hills? Why is GM so screwed up? Come on people...get a life! A few years back I went to the reveal of the Ferrari California. It took place in So Cal...in an airplane hangar...at 8 PM!
There are 250 members of the media coming from everywhere to this event. Many are not arriving until the 18th. Most will fly into LAX instead of John Wayne. You just don't hop into a car at LAX and bingo...you are in Tustin. This is L.A. on a weekday folks. We have something here called L.A. traffic....not just traffic but L.A. traffic. I am going to the reveal and from my house it will take 2.5-3 hours to get there. I won't get home until after midnight. And that is fine with me. So if you live elsewhere and want to watch it, then watch it. If you don't, then don't. But please, stop all of the bitching and moaning.

Sub Driver

I cant believe the amount of cry babies around here. If you don't see it live, you can look at it in the morning and guess what...….you will have not missed a thing. There will be pictures, videos and discussions about this car for MONTHS before anyone will even own one. Put your big boy pants on and stop whining.

Atari_Prime

Well said. A bit jealous that you get to go and I don't. I drive by the hangers on my way to work. But, that said, I didn't really try to get an invite I just kinda hoped one would magically show up in the mail for no reason.

colo63sw

Reveal at the very end of the day (nighttime)?????
Screw that. The reveal will be 7/19 for me, I'm not waiting up because of that kind of yanking around by GM.

Jaylars

It is all about a car, not Bubba the loyal Corvette owner in Suffolk NY. It is simply a media event designed to be recorded and then distributed among different media outlets and their audiences like every other unveiling. GM is putting on an evening gala event, not the State of the Union Address. Let's give GM some credit for actually doing it this way and not doing it at some random auto show or car event with 10 other manufactures unveiling their next best thing.
Relax, drink a beer tonight and see what happens.

roadbike56

Based on 2018 statistics, Eight of the top ten Corvette sales dealers are in the Eastern Time Zone. Two are in Central Time Zone. There are zero top 10 dealers in Mountain or West Coast. I see Corvette marketing department is off to a great start with the C8.

Sub Driver

So the reveal time/location is somehow going to have an impact when the car goes on sale? It is definitely getting deep in here.

tcinla

GM is sending the message to all of the Florida Retiree's that it no longer needs them.

Speednet

I don't know, maybe because it lasts something like 4 hours including half time. Maybe you should "give it a rest" -- so you can stay up past your bedtime.

Tonylmiller

Sure, it isn't the end of the world, but why pick a SUCKY time instead of an OPTIMUM time? Sure, people can watch it tomorrow (like me), but why force your buyers to do that? It is not nearly as exciting to watch it later. Besides, the biggest dealers are in the east anyway. It just seems like they picked the most stupid way to do it. I mean, why not do it at 2 a.m. on a Tuesday, right? After all, everyone can watch it the next day.

Why not maximize the marketing impact by getting the most live views?

RonnieC6Z

States that have the most registered Corvettes: Texas California & Florida. And the order of those 3 states changes from year to year. It does not matter where the big volume dealers are. What matters more is what states have the most dealers and where folks living in the 3 mentioned states buy from. Since dealers in California tend to sell Corvettes at higher prices, many Californians buy from out of the state.

Sin City

Vegas baby --- Western time.

BrantW

People like you are what give Corvette a bad name and make it embarrassing to be a member of this community.

Corgidog1

Read the schedule wrong. I knew GM could not have been that smart.....
Yup the Mets are a mess.