{"id":38926,"date":"2011-05-05T01:02:52","date_gmt":"2011-05-05T05:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedetroitbureau.com\/?p=38926"},"modified":"2011-05-04T19:12:04","modified_gmt":"2011-05-04T23:12:04","slug":"gm-bringing-completely-different-corvette-to-market-in-201","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/2011\/05\/gm-bringing-completely-different-corvette-to-market-in-201\/","title":{"rendered":"GM Bringing “Completely Different” Corvette to Market in 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Grand Sport is the latest variant of the C6 Corvette .<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

General Motors has confirmed the next generation Corvette will roll out in about two years \u2013 and the maker\u2019s top North American executive hints it will be \u201ccompletely different\u201d from the look of the current 2-seat sports car, which has undergone mostly evolutionary changes during its nearly six-decade history.<\/p>\n

GM will invest $131 million in the Bowling Green Assembly plant to support production of the next generation Chevy sports car, adding about 250 jobs in the process.<\/p>\n

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Get the Royal Treatment!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cThis is a significant day for anyone who believes that America should build world-class, high-performance products,\u201d said Mark Reuss, GM North America president. “Corvette has no domestic peer for performance and pedigree and stands alongside the world’s best supercars with almost 60 years of continuous heritage,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

The current version of the Corvette, known to aficionados as the C6 \u2013 or sixth-generation Corvette \u2013 was launched in 2004.\u00a0 The project was originally planned to reach market a year earlier, to celebrate the 2-seater\u2019s 50th<\/sup> anniversary, but was delayed in order to get a variety of technical issues dealt with.\u00a0 At the time, GM\u2019s \u201ccar czar,\u201d former Vice Chairman Bob Lutz, declared it critical to make the \u2018Vette a true competitor to the performance cars sold by manufacturers like Porsche and Ferrari.<\/p>\n

But while the C6 has generated plenty of praise \u2013 all the more as variants like the 638-horsepower, $111,000 ZR1 have rolled out — it still hasn\u2019t quite garnered the reputation of those high-line competitors.<\/p>\n

It has continued doing reasonably well in the market \u2013 even as fuel prices have soared, however \u2013 with the 4,293 Corvettes sold during the first month of this year representing a 22% jump, year-over-year.\u00a0 That\u2019s still a fraction of the nameplate\u2019s peak pace, nonetheless, Chevy selling more than 40,000 Corvettes as recently as 2007.<\/p>\n

GM is expected to make even more dramatic changes with the new model, which Reuss suggested will be \u201ccompletely different\u201d from the current-generation Corvette.<\/p>\n

The plant in Bowling Green is scheduled to continue building the current-generation Corvette for at least the next two model years, including the 2012 model that goes into production this summer. During this period, the investment starts to take effect, preparing the facility for the next-generation Corvette, Reuss said.<\/p>\n

“This investment in Kentucky is among $3.4 billion made in the United States since mid-2009 to keep or create more than 9,000 jobs for American workers,” Reuss added.<\/p>\n

Bowling Green is the exclusive manufacturer of all versions of the Chevrolet Corvette \u2013Coupe, Convertible, Grand Sport, Z06, and ZR1.<\/p>\n

Paul A. Eisenstein contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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