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Only top Chevy dealers will get ZR1

06/23/2008, 11:02 AM

By paulee

Less than 9 percent of all 3,932 Chevrolet dealers will be able to sell Chevy’s most expensive product, the Corvette ZR1. The dealers with the highest total overall and Corvette sales will get the flagship model.


The car will go on sale in August, with dealers getting an allocation of between two and four models. GM has not revealed how many of the $105,000 supercars it will build, but 1,000 units is expected to be the bare minimum, if just to satisfy the 338 dealers that will get the car to sell.

“Would it be fair to take a dealer who sells Corvettes for us all year, every year, and not give them one? There are always trade-offs,” Chevrolet spokesman Terry Rhadigan told Automotive News.

The ZR1’s hand-built, supercharged 6.2-liter V8 makes 638hp, making it the most powerful Corvette to ever roll out of the factory. According to the automaker’s claims, it annihilates quarter mile in just 11.3 seconds and sprints to 60 mph in just 3.4 seconds. With such lofty performance figures and the associated low production numbers, we expect stories to rill in soon about drastic price increases from dealers and re-sellers alike, such as the one for $350,000.

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06/23, 11:33 AM

posted by:

MugenSentraKen

==========>>i recon i wouldn’t see one round here in my ‘hood then….

06/23, 11:34 AM

posted by:

MugenSentraKen

===========>>too bad, cause i shore would like to play wit one from a stoplight wit my sr20 sentra…..

06/23, 11:41 AM

posted by:

Need4SSpeed

yeah, your sr20 Sentra would beat it i’m sure with its fart can, huge wing, and vinyls. How much HP does all of that give you?

06/23, 11:46 AM

posted by:

howsmydriving

Damn! Does this mean I that in the future, I won’t be able to buy all of my ZR1’s at the dealer down the street?

06/23, 11:51 AM

posted by:

MugenSentraKen

===========>>no i do not have a wing at all and absolutely ZERO vinyls, thank you. And i coulda sworn i said “PLAY WIT” and not “outrun”. Go tryda find some other slowpoke to pick on Need4SSpeed cause i’m pretty sure speed is not your forte.

06/23, 11:55 AM

posted by:

MugenSentraKen

============>>and i was dynoed in North Carolina at 287whp under high boost vs. my stock 140hp. Go tryda find some other slowpoke to pick on Need4SSpeed cause i’m pretty sure speed isn’t your forte. Now back on tha ZR1 Corvette subject…..

06/23, 12:05 PM

posted by:

jonstew

287 whp? Unless the car weights like 1600lbs you won’t even be a pest to someone in a Z06 let alone a ZR-1, sorry.

06/23, 12:07 PM

posted by:

sp44

287, 638,,,, that could be close. Only reason I would want to line up next to one is to drool over it not try to run and embarrass myself.

06/23, 12:10 PM

posted by:

SigmaHyperion

Could you really “play wit” (sic) a car that could probably launch in THIRD and STILL stomp your ass?

06/23, 12:12 PM

posted by:

MugenSentraKen

===========>>once again, i coulda sworn i said “PLAY WIT” n not “outrun”. No duhhhhhh, i got enough common sense to know no1’s ‘93 4door sentra will outrun a zo6. that’s common sense. i said pay wit, not outrun, calm down audience….lol..

06/23, 12:12 PM

posted by:

sp44

you can’t play wit something you can’t see :)

06/23, 12:14 PM

posted by:

MugenSentraKen

=========>>sp44, first i would drool over it. then i would stomp it just to see how close[or far] his tail lights would be from my headlights in amazement…lol

06/23, 12:18 PM

posted by:

MugenSentraKen

==============>>i pulled up beside an ‘02 Z06 last year at a stoplight and my ex girlfriend yelled out tha window “Hey, that thang gotta hemi?”…..

06/23, 12:38 PM

posted by:

Need4SSpeed

“Go tryda find some other slowpoke to pick on Need4SSpeed cause i’m pretty sure speed isn’t your forte…” Yeah, actually how fast have you gotten that little Sentra up to? I bet it won’t even go past 140mph. Actually I’ve driven Vette’s up to 180mph something your Sentra would never see.

“Hey, that thang gotta hemi?â€â€¦.. well ast least she’s your ex because only a stupid bitch would ask a Vette driver something stupid like that, and I know she was probably joking but I guess that’s what they do down in the south don’t they?

06/23, 1:01 PM

posted by:

MugenSentraKen

=========>>*WOW* NeedNoSpeed, wow. 180. i’ll give u a handclap. i drove my cousin’s ‘05 C6 186. Twice. Man, i’m gettin off that that’s grade skool stuff lol…. And for my ex to be a stuped “B” she shore does make up a lot better automotive jokes than you do.

06/23, 1:04 PM

posted by:

davebo

From the way this guy presents himself through his text, I honestly can’t gauge what region he’s from or level of education he’s completed. I mean “Go tryda”? Who the hell types like that? And what on Earth is with all the equals signs before each post?

In regards to the article, in the last ZR1 piece it mentioned the low production run the first year, but it didn’t occur to me that I might not ever get to even see one at my local dealers. I have a feeling the Ourisman Chevrolet dealer near my office does pretty well for itself though. However, won’t all these ZR1’s be spoken for before they ever arrive, and most likely be picked up the very hour they’re delivered by anxious owners? I doubt many of us will actually see them sitting at a dealership.

06/23, 1:20 PM

posted by:

acura_el2000

do you actually have Mugen parts on your sentra?

06/23, 1:27 PM

posted by:

MugenSentraKen

=========>>sorry davebo if ur too old&grey 2read SouthCarolinian slang.

06/23, 1:29 PM

posted by:

MugenSentraKen

===========>>lol acrua2000…nah i don’t, but my gf does on her ‘97 civic tho…

06/23, 1:37 PM

posted by:

brassmonkey

If mugen pulled up in his Asian-ized Sentra next to a ZR1 at the light, revved his hamster to ask for a race, 99 times out of 100, the ZR1 driver would not respond. Just laugh, like the rest of us are doing.

06/23, 1:43 PM

posted by:

davebo

I’d hardly consider 29 to be old and gray, but I guess I just don’t understand South Carolinians. Or is mugen (who doesn’t apparently own any mugen parts himself) just making this slang up as he goes along? My sister attended college in North Carolina and she speaks and types rather well. Certainly South Carolina can’t be so far removed?

06/23, 1:50 PM

posted by:

MugenSentraKen

======>>brassmonkey: mighty funny a guy in a Viper followed me to tha backstreet n raced my ‘91 Eagle Talon TSi last year and lost….

06/23, 3:38 PM

posted by:

A4

NEWSFLASH: ALL SENTRAS ARE PIECES OF ****!!!
THIS JUST IN!!! 287whp IN AN ECONOBOX PRODUCES NOTHING BUT WHEELSPIN AND TORQUE STEER!!!

06/23, 3:40 PM

posted by:

A4

BREAKING NEWS: SAYING lol IS FOR GRADE “SKOOLERS”!!!!

06/23, 5:15 PM

posted by:

ktulu

can I have 1?

06/23, 5:18 PM

posted by:

anderson_b76

Spending a $105K on a Chevy? That’s like spending $105K on a Nissan…oh yeah, wait, that new GTR is that price…what is the world comming too!

06/23, 6:49 PM

posted by:

brassmonkey

Oh, yeah, Mugen?!? Well, the other day I totally dusted a 1984 Renault Fuego with my Merkur XR4Ti! No Mugen parts? How do you think you are getting 280 whp with JC Whitney parts? And you are claiming accurate figures from a toothless hillbilly running a dyno in North Carolina? What did the dyno look like, two 55 gallon drums on their sides spinning over a ‘gator swamp? Fag.

06/23, 7:57 PM

posted by:

USMUSL

The ZR1

06/23, 7:59 PM

posted by:

MugenSentraKen

===========>>HaHa laugh out loud brassmonkey, 280whp? easy. its called SR20DET. “T” stands for “turbo”. All said. And how do i get that power without mugen parts? easy. MUGEN AINT NISSAN, MUGEN is for HONDAS. NISMO IS 4 NISSANS. Get some correct facts b4 making incorrect assumptions. read up, chump!

06/23, 7:59 PM

posted by:

USMUSL

The ZR1 even at 350K would be able to hang with a lot of Ferraris around the same price. There’s a lot of great tech in that car. Has everyone forgotten how many Le Mans races team Vette took home to the USA, shiz.

06/23, 8:28 PM

posted by:

LS7

Why is it that whenever there is a story of a world-class American car, some f.ag has to pitch in his 2 gay cents with his underwheling rice rocket, or his overpriced eurotrash? Pathetic.

06/23, 9:52 PM

posted by:

Get Real

Maybe because since 1984 Corvette has been lost in the design world.
Better and better mechanicals hiding under a ho-hum bodies.
Kind of like an ugly girl with a nice personality.

06/23, 10:25 PM

posted by:

LS7

Let’s assume that Corvettes are super ugly. The ugliest car ever built. Now.. why the f.uck are the ricers still bringing other gay cars? If you want to criticize the Vette, criticize the bet. Instead of nut hugging your right hand drive boosted garbage. Clearly this article is aimed at new Corvettes. I can see someone bringing up a comparison to the new Skyline GTR, but for some f.aggot to compare the ZR1 to his stripped out 240SX with some science project engine installed in his mom’s basement is out of line.

06/24, 12:04 AM

posted by:

anderson_b76

LS7….anyone spending six figures for a sports car not only wants performance but wants styling and class, both of which the Corvette is not. For $150K, I’ll take a Porsche GT2 or GT3 and kill mop the vette all over the track and look a lot better in a Porsche doing it. Keep your plastic car in the $55K range…exactly where it belongs.

06/24, 12:09 AM

posted by:

bigp

duh

06/24, 9:54 AM

posted by:

MugenSentraKen

==========>>anderson, u wouldn’t even get CLOSE to a GT2 with 150large, maybe a GT3….back in ‘05 I was at a porsche dealer in NC they wanted $136large just for a GT3….

06/24, 9:55 AM

posted by:

MugenSentraKen

========>>and $128k for an ‘05 996 turbo…

06/24, 9:12 PM

posted by:

LS7

anderson_b76: LOL @ GT3 killing ZR1. That is some funny lame ****.

06/25, 2:17 AM

posted by:

Got Handling?

============>> is your opinion so special that it deserves to be highlighted MugenSentraKantSpell?
.
Where I live the cheap minicab drivers like to put whatever badging they can onto their econoboxes, you will see Yaris’ and the like with “Type R” “EXuP” “AMG” & “kompressor” badges, often all on the same car. Their ignorance is hilarious but understandable, what’s your excuse?

 
 
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