Some 2020 Corvette Customers Won’t Get Theirs
What many people feared was confirmed this week: General Motors won’t be able to fill all the 2020 Chevrolet Corvette orders it received since last summer—21,181 as of May 1.
In fact, the automaker doesn’t know exactly how many units it will build this year.
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“The plant is still coming up from COVID. We still haven’t brought up the second shift yet, so we’re still ramping up,” GM spokesperson Kevin Kelly told The Detroit Free Press.
Without getting into specifics, he also said there are issues across the board with suppliers.
The first model year of the eighth-generation (C8) Chevrolet Corvette has been struck by bad luck. Before the pandemic that suspended operations for two months, there was the UAW strike that lasted over a month and delayed the start of production of the 2020 Corvette until February 3.
GM also had to retool the Bowling Green, Kentucky assembly plant for this first-ever mid-engine Corvette.
In order to fill as many orders as possible, the automaker decided to extend production through the fall. Work on the Corvette Convertible is supposed to begin this summer.
Customers who have ordered a 2020 Corvette and can’t get one will be offered a 2021 Corvette instead at no extra cost. Orders for the latter will open in late July and production is scheduled to start in November.
