A myriad of production issues continue to impact the entirety of the auto industry, including GM and the Chevy Corvette. Now, GM Authority has learned that production of the Chevy Corvette at the GM Bowling Green plant in Kentucky will be offline until September.
According to GM Authority sources, Chevy Corvette production at the GM Bowling Green plant will be down until after Labor Day due to an issue unrelated to the ongoing global semiconductor shortage. Chevy Corvette production is expected to resume on September 6th.
GM is actively working with partners and suppliers to resolve issues as they arise. Of course, GM isn’t the only automaker feeling the heat, with nearly every major OEM forced to contend with breaks in the supply chain and other related issues, including GM’s crosstown rivals, Ford and Stellantis, among others. In fact, it’s becoming increasingly difficult for automakers to forecast when these shortages will end, leading many to decline to publicly address when the situation will improve.
As a reminder, the GM Bowling Green plant in Kentucky is the exclusive producer of the Chevy Corvette, and has been since it first opened in 1981.
As GM Authority exclusively covered previously, production of the new 2023 Corvette Z06 will be heavily constrained for the foreseeable future, limited to just 10 percent of accepted orders. For the moment, there’s no clear date in sight with regard to when the constraint will be lifted.
Notably, supplies of the Corvette C8 Stingray are currently running at an extremely low level. Per GM Authority sources, the 2023 Chevy Corvette C8 Stingray was running at a five-day dealer supply as of the beginning of August, with just 448 units in stock, and 930 units in transit. The low inventory supply is a continuation of low supplies seen previously, and with continuing high demand for the sports car, plus this latest production hiccup, it’s looking like that won’t be changing any time soon.
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Friend has 3lt coupe on order, $91,365 list would have begun production last Monday but no red interior. In fact many interior colors are on constraint. He changed to black, but then told no red brake calipers. He told them he would wait.
Some things are just worth waiting for. My dealer told me they could remove the calipers and paint them for me. Notwithstanding the lack of identifying logos – I declined to have the brake system dismantled on a brand new car. No thanks.
2023 Z06…website still says available Summer 2022
@Chevy – I know what Summer 2022 is, but can you please help me with that other word, “available”…? This word is apparently a bit more tricky.
When will the 2024 Corvette stingray start production
Probably in 2025……lol
When you source parts globally, aka heavily from China, exspect chinas problems to be your problems. Chinas still on lockdown, mostly because their trying to prevent a revolution.
Speaking of which. How much more are the unions going to take of these production halts??? I’m waiting for union strikes to start. I can only imagine union bosses are working overtime to keep those squashed close to probably the most critical election cycle in our lifetime
I’m just guessing, along with everyone else, but my 2021 order was delivered in June of 2023 probably as one of the first of the 2023 model year. I love the car, but truly believe my stubbornness in ordering NO options on my 1LT made it move along the order matrix better. I let myself have one boy toy…the performance exhaust…and that was a good choice. I really wanted the folding side mirrors…as my history with my Cadillac Allante and garage doors was not so good…but in typical new car fashion, I was unwilling to pay $6,800 for that pleasure. That’s right…you have to go to 2Lt for the mirrors, and that is downright absurd. By the way. Standard 1lt ride in Touring mode is magnificent for street driving. Magnificent.
What is the cause of the constraint?? This is a meaningless term that just puts the reader off and does not explain anything.
Whatever, life goes on, albeit Vetteless, I can wait.
Over promise, under deliver. Continue to ignore your 8 speed transmissions lawsuit,
just piss off the world on general principal.
I wanted a C8 Z06 so very, very much. But your inability to do your jobs has utterly destroyed my belief in your company and products. Goodbye GM. Won’t even read these articles anymore, done.
GM’s logistics planners and inventory support people should have their heads on platters.
This situation is avoidable with better forward planning and today’s data pathing.
Too many people compressing seat cushions and drinking coffee in air conditioned offices.
This article quote says it all “Production of the new 2023 Corvette Z06 will be heavily constrained for the foreseeable future, limited to just 10 percent of accepted orders. For the moment, there’s no clear date in sight with regard to when the constraint will be lifted”. I am starting to think all of these constraints are being done on purpose to push the car manufacturers to EV’s sooner than later. The latest cover of Car & Driver “EV of the Year”. That’s all you hear and read about. I know a conspiracy theory, but when read the quote above “For the moment, there’s no clear date in sight with regard to when the constraint will be lifted” I have to ask why. That said, I am not counting on ever getting my order accepted on a Z06, maybe a Zora in 2026. Very disappointed in the government and the direction GM and others are taking.
Agree!!
The Government ?
If this was a joke it would be funny. This slow down gives the dealers more reasons to add $$$$ to the sticker of the C8 and years to the Z06. I just basically follow the forum and the comments here I’ve given up even thinking about buying one. So the Car is closing in on being 5 years old and they still price the ’20 model at $100,000 or more and unbelievably people buy them
I have been waiting a year. I ordered in 8/2021 and was told it will be another year, at best, and I will get a 2023. This shortage has existed since the C8 was introduced in 2020. It would seem that in the last 3 years GM could have resolved these parts problems. Of course, one way to increase profits is to go on a “build to order” manufacturing system, then restrict supply and the prices will skyrocket over manufacturers “list” price – which is exactly what happened.
I’ve been on the list since February of 2021. My order turn finally came up in June, but there was a constraint on the Z51 package. My production date finally came for 8/23. Now, the plant is shut down presently. It’s no big deal for me because I just keep saving more bucks to put down, when it finally arrives in Santa Maria, CA.
As long as I receive a quality build, I have absolutely no problem with the delays or the shut down.
I just went into my shop, walked by our 2020 3LT C8 and thought what a great car it is.
I placed order on C8 Z51performance package on November 30th 2021 and have been told by dealer I should get the car by late spring of 2022 it’s September right now and I’m still waiting 😏.
I see a lot of C8 corvettes near Ottawa Ontario and Gatineau QC, neighbours and people at the grocery store. They’ve produced a lot of them already. Very nice cars.