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Bowling Green Corvette Assembly Plant Set to Close March 20th

March 19, 2020 Rob Loszewski

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Yesterday, the Big 3 auto-makers of Detroit agreed to shut down manufacturing operations in the United States in wake of the current state of affairs with the Coronavirus pandemic. GM officially released a press release shortly after stating that they would begin closing their assembly plants across the U.S. in a systematic fashion.  The factories […]

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Final Production Numbers for the 2019 Corvette Released

September 12, 2019 Rob Loszewski

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Yesterday, the Bowling Green Corvette Assembly Plant released final production numbers for the 2019 Corvette model year. A total of 34,822 Corvettes were built for the 2019 model year. That’s a significant jump from the 2018 Corvette production numbers of 9,686. However, the 2018 model year was cut significantly short in order to re-tool the […]

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Bowling Green Corvette Assembly Plant to Re-Open November 6

October 19, 2017 Rob Loszewski

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According to the Bowling Green Daily News, the Corvette Assembly Plant is scheduled to re-open November 6th. Over the summer, the Corvette assembly line was completely dismantled and rebuilt  in order to improve efficiency, flexibility and re-route the Corvette’s body panels through the new paint shop that is at the opposite side of the building […]

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[UPDATED] GM To Stop Taking Orders on 2018 Corvettes in November

October 12, 2017 Rob Loszewski

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Last night, news broke that GM would stop taking orders on 2018 Corvettes at the end of November and start accepting orders for the 2019 model year. We reached out to GM for verification and below is their response: “The 19MY order guide will be published 11/20, and the first DOSP will be 11/30 (Nov […]

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Corvette Sales Slide in April compared to April of 2016

May 2, 2017 Rob Loszewski

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GM released sales figures for the month of April this morning, and Corvette sales continued on a downward trend for last month. A total of 2,756 Corvettes were delivered last month as compared to 3,142 Corvettes delivered the same time last year.  That’s a difference of 386 sold units, or a 12.3% decline. A total […]

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So Why is the Bowling Green Corvette Assembly Plant Shutting Down for So Long?

March 11, 2017 Rob Loszewski

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By now, everyone has pretty much heard that the Bowling Green Corvette Assembly Plant will be shutting down for at least a couple of months after 2017 Corvette production comes to an end in June. In January, GM announced that it would be temporarily shutting down 15 of its assembly plants due to a glut […]

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