Bowling Green builds its 1.5 millionth Corvette in 2009 image: GM Corp
If youre going to be in the Bowling Green, Kentucky area after September 13 and want to arrange a tour of Chevrolets Corvette assembly line, were sorry to report that youre (temporarily) out of luck. In order to gear up for the start of C7 Corvette production, the plant will stop public tours on September 14, resuming them at an unspecified point in the future.
According to The Detroit News, some 40,000 to 50,000 visitors tour the Bowling Green Assembly Plant annually, usually in conjunction with a visit to the adjacent National Corvette Museum. The museum wont be impacted by the plant changeover, although Corvette buyers tours are also on hiatus for the time being. We assume that owners can still purchase the $500 photo album of their Corvette being born, and we also assume that new car deliveries at the Corvette Museum will continue.
The 2014 Corvette is perhaps the worst-guarded secret in GMs recent history. While the automaker has gone to great lengths to ensure secrecy, Jalopnik once published renderings of the car, thought to be accurate, based on leaked insider information. More recently, a supplier inadvertently published CAD drawings of the C7 Corvettes front end.
While details on the car remain scarce, theres no shortage of internet rumor surrounding its design and launch. GM isnt saying when the car will hit the market, but we expect to see it by mid-2013, debuting as a 2014 model.
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