GM-UAW Deal: C7 Corvette Planned for 2012

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During the negotiations last week between General Motors and the United Auto Workers, the main sticking point which resulted in the 2 day walkout according to various press accounts was job security. The UAW was looking for assurances that jobs wouldn't be sent abroad. A glimpse into the tentative agreement that GM and the United Auto Workers signed which ended the walkout also provides details about the GM lineup, the factories that will produce them as well as future target dates for production. The summary of product commitments included in the agreement shows the C7 Corvette and the Cadillac XLR as arriving in 2012, making them products of the 2013 model year lineup. We've already heard that GM has greenlighted the C7. In an interview earlier this year, Corvette's Chief Engineer Tom Wallace suggested the C7 Corvette could come as early as 2010, while a google search shows GM's Vice Chairman Bob Lutz is all over the place with various target dates for the C7. Even future GM product watcher Ted Krygier's website has the C7 (codename GMX711) being introduced during the summer of 2010.The key point I'm making with these observations is that its important for the faithul not to get caught up with talk of "delays" as target production dates are simply "targets". The good news is that the C7 is coming and will be here quicker than you think. If you have ever read about the development of the C5 corvette in James Schefter's All Corvettes Are Red, you get a sense of the major undertaking for producing any new car, and then double or triple that when the new car is the Corvette. Thanks for the tip, George!
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[Rich Z]

Darn, I'll be 62 years old then.......

You know, when I was a kid, all the futuristic magazines and stuff were predicting we would all be flying around in our own personal flying machines. Well, they were ALMOST right...... Just haven't left the ground with one yet....