C8 Z06 Production Creeping Along Slowly

We religiously follow Roger Kiel's Facebook posts where he charts the daily production of America's Favorite Sports Car, and it looks like Tuesday, December 21st was the last day of "regular" production counts with 61 Z06s completed that day.

On December 20th, just 10 Z06s were completed. The following day (December 21st), there were zero Z06s completed, but workers still assembled 176 Stingrays that day. And finally on the last production day of the year (December 22nd), just two Corvette Z06s and 191 Stingrays came off the line.

Since production restarted in 2024, there have been just three more cars completed (January 3rd) for a total of 2,741 for the model year.

We haven't heard of any specific issues affecting only the Z06, and many that we have turned to don't have any answers either, so we'll keep our eyes out on this.

With the absence of the Z06 on the line, we've seen some big numbers for Stingray production over the last couple of weeks. Should these production counts continue, we are expecting to see the 10,000th Corvette Stingray for the 2024 model year completed on either Thursday or Friday. Chevy only built 119 on Monday so there is quite a bit of movement in these daily numbers.

As for the 2024 Corvette E-Ray, the first three retail units were completed in mid-December. The new performance hybrids were supposed to restart production in earnest on Monday, January 8th according to many of the TPWs that buyers have been sharing, and we'll probably see those unit counts either on Wednesday or Thursday. We learned on Tuesday morning that the Assembly Plant was without power for an undetermined amount of time due to the powerful winter storm crossing the Southeast, so workers have to contend with that as well as any parts shortages.

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Source: Keith Cornett - Corvette Blogger

Posted 1/12/24