Tweet
FACT: We know nothing yet. I believe that GM has yet to make up its mind as to when they are going to reveal the ME.
Quite a few of us got their hopes up for the following, but already passed events
A) Pebble Beach
B) Laguna Seca
C) SEMA
D) LA Auto Show
E) NAIAS
F) Daytona (ROLEX 24)
All of those reveal event options clearly came and went without our desired ME reveal.
I initially had, but have since removed the Feb 9th Auto Show from the reveal options below,for two reasons including our poll software only allows ten total choices, and second, the ME is not ready for its reveal. But could the LT2’s motor be revealed there?
So what is our collective, current best thinking as to when the C8 itself would be revealed?
Assumption: For all the following auto-show-connected events, the reveal would be a private, stand alone event a day or two before the event, then the ME would be displayed again during both the show’s press days and then its public days:
What do you think of the reveal options, if as several sources have suggested, it would be revealed by this summer?
1) March 15th Geneva Auto Show: World’s most prestigious but not in U.S.; also, GM has never revealed a new generation outside the U.S.
2) March 16th Sebring Race: Such a popular race; might this be the place?
3) April 19th New York Auto Show: Largest U.S. show with 1,100,000 visitors and the site of previous Corvette model reveals. 1953 Corvette revealed in NYC. Probably a very likely candidate IF the C8 is ready to be revealed by then, and if not then ready, think the LT2 would be revealed there and a date for the ME’s reveal also announced at that show.
4) April 25th NCM BASH: While a few thousand Corvette owners who would be ecstatic, based on “audience viewership size,” even if the C8 were revealed by the Bash, GM would have IMO instead revealed it a week earlier at NYAS with its huge viewing audience and prestige. A “too bad, but IMO an “unlikely” — especially for those of going to the event.
5) May 26th Indy 500 Race: 1/4M in attendance; 4.9M U.S. television audience plus estimated 2M additional worldwide audience, and if there, C8 could be the Indy 500’s Pace Car. If I were GM, would have a Bruce Springsteen concert the Friday before the Monday race, and make a package deal with two race tickets. [Checked and his schedule is wide open LOL.] A quite likely reveal location for many, but to GM?
6) June 2nd Belle Isle Indy Car race: Just 3 miles from GM’s headquarters, just across town from the site of the 1.3.13 C7 reveal (the Russell Industrial Center owned by GM); perhaps likely for many reasons including “home of the Big Three” U.S. car industry.
7) Mid-June, 24 Hours of LeMans: World wide attention but so many competing activities that week & the race. IMO, “not likely,” though some disagree.
8) July “Wild Card: Somewhere within the U.S.: Maybe a TV reveal, All Star baseball game; or something not yet imagined by us — but maybe so imagined by GM? Should we yawn or pay close attention to this time slot?
9) August 18th Pebble Beach Concours: More mid engine cars are sold in southern CA than anywhere else in the U.S., and what bigger way to say, “notice me” to the world’s sports car elites than to come to their home “pavilion turf” where most build mega-expensive, temporary buildings to entertain their elite clients.
10) NCM 25th Anniversary in Bowling Green (August 28-31): Across the street from BGA; 8,500 Corvette enthusiasts arrive there at the end of the 2019 National Corvette Caravan, and as to those who say BG is in the middle of nowhere, IMO if “city X, country Y” which is located 10,000 miles from BG has an editor or journalist interested in exciting automobiles, would they not send a representative to the C8 reveal if given a month’s notice? The old, “if they reveal it, they will come.” Two top GM Corvette team members are on the NCM Board of Directors, and the tie between GM and NCM has never been closer. Another dark horse, long shot, rated “exquisite”for the 8,500 Caravan attendees (though that could easily be 10,000+ attendees if announced a month in advance).
Your thoughts??? Please if you vote for July Wild card, please specify below what you are thinking?
Quite a few of us got their hopes up for the following, but already passed events
A) Pebble Beach
B) Laguna Seca
C) SEMA
D) LA Auto Show
E) NAIAS
F) Daytona (ROLEX 24)
All of those reveal event options clearly came and went without our desired ME reveal.
I initially had, but have since removed the Feb 9th Auto Show from the reveal options below,for two reasons including our poll software only allows ten total choices, and second, the ME is not ready for its reveal. But could the LT2’s motor be revealed there?
So what is our collective, current best thinking as to when the C8 itself would be revealed?
Assumption: For all the following auto-show-connected events, the reveal would be a private, stand alone event a day or two before the event, then the ME would be displayed again during both the show’s press days and then its public days:
What do you think of the reveal options, if as several sources have suggested, it would be revealed by this summer?
1) March 15th Geneva Auto Show: World’s most prestigious but not in U.S.; also, GM has never revealed a new generation outside the U.S.
2) March 16th Sebring Race: Such a popular race; might this be the place?
3) April 19th New York Auto Show: Largest U.S. show with 1,100,000 visitors and the site of previous Corvette model reveals. 1953 Corvette revealed in NYC. Probably a very likely candidate IF the C8 is ready to be revealed by then, and if not then ready, think the LT2 would be revealed there and a date for the ME’s reveal also announced at that show.
4) April 25th NCM BASH: While a few thousand Corvette owners who would be ecstatic, based on “audience viewership size,” even if the C8 were revealed by the Bash, GM would have IMO instead revealed it a week earlier at NYAS with its huge viewing audience and prestige. A “too bad, but IMO an “unlikely” — especially for those of going to the event.
5) May 26th Indy 500 Race: 1/4M in attendance; 4.9M U.S. television audience plus estimated 2M additional worldwide audience, and if there, C8 could be the Indy 500’s Pace Car. If I were GM, would have a Bruce Springsteen concert the Friday before the Monday race, and make a package deal with two race tickets. [Checked and his schedule is wide open LOL.] A quite likely reveal location for many, but to GM?
6) June 2nd Belle Isle Indy Car race: Just 3 miles from GM’s headquarters, just across town from the site of the 1.3.13 C7 reveal (the Russell Industrial Center owned by GM); perhaps likely for many reasons including “home of the Big Three” U.S. car industry.
7) Mid-June, 24 Hours of LeMans: World wide attention but so many competing activities that week & the race. IMO, “not likely,” though some disagree.
8) July “Wild Card: Somewhere within the U.S.: Maybe a TV reveal, All Star baseball game; or something not yet imagined by us — but maybe so imagined by GM? Should we yawn or pay close attention to this time slot?
9) August 18th Pebble Beach Concours: More mid engine cars are sold in southern CA than anywhere else in the U.S., and what bigger way to say, “notice me” to the world’s sports car elites than to come to their home “pavilion turf” where most build mega-expensive, temporary buildings to entertain their elite clients.
10) NCM 25th Anniversary in Bowling Green (August 28-31): Across the street from BGA; 8,500 Corvette enthusiasts arrive there at the end of the 2019 National Corvette Caravan, and as to those who say BG is in the middle of nowhere, IMO if “city X, country Y” which is located 10,000 miles from BG has an editor or journalist interested in exciting automobiles, would they not send a representative to the C8 reveal if given a month’s notice? The old, “if they reveal it, they will come.” Two top GM Corvette team members are on the NCM Board of Directors, and the tie between GM and NCM has never been closer. Another dark horse, long shot, rated “exquisite”for the 8,500 Caravan attendees (though that could easily be 10,000+ attendees if announced a month in advance).
Your thoughts??? Please if you vote for July Wild card, please specify below what you are thinking?
Comment