2022 CORVETTE NEWS SO FAR RICK CONTI ON LOCATION NCM BASH EVENT

You hear stories about plant closings, and we've been able to get through it for the most part, so we're making as many cars as we can, we're pretty much taking every order we'll take for 21. and we're going to start preparing to move to 22 this summer. I have to tell you now my first reaction to seeing it on the Internet before I saw a person share that with you on today's show, the caffeine brown, what the hell? Hello guys, good morning and welcome to have coffee with Conte. How did you like that sunrise to start today's program?

Alright. It's right there, outside the rear window of our hardtop convertible. We are on our way to Boulder Green Kentucky for the annual party.

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I love going to this

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, I've been going for years, of course it gives me the opportunity to drive the car, although Ryan is driving right now, but I love these events, it's the Corvette family, you get ideas and whatnot things people are doing. their cars and it's great to hang out in a

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atmosphere the best place in the country is the national

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museum now the day before we go down because I had to work I missed the reveal of the three new colors I mean they are really new for

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An orange that replaces orange. This hyper. What's up with hypersonic grey? It looks like a silver flare and catheterization. I have to tell you now my first reaction when I saw it on the Internet before I saw a person and shared. that with you on today's show the caffeine brown what the hell is that is what we are going to share for you today a coffee with the highlights and the happenings at the

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2021 event thank you for joining us I will tell you what I just said guys I have than to share this with you.

I'm so excited to be in my car and I love this interior. If you remember, if you're a Corvette person, you know that this interior was introduced in 2017 as part of the Grand Sport Collector's Edition and I was like wow, I love it and I can't believe that four years later, here I am enjoying it with you at the channel. I wouldn't be enjoying this if it weren't for you, so thank you again. I say welcome to the cafe with conte, okay, or we can say it again, welcome everyone to the cafe with kante, the kids want to know the best part about having your son drive the corvette, that's right, dad can take a refreshing nap, we See you in Bowling Green, love. see them here, I know there are a lot of people watching the party virtually and all that and I respect that because they didn't want to travel, but I will tell you that there is nothing like being here and I have been here so many times that I have brought dealer cars to car shows used and stuff I was never able to enter the car in the concours there's a dealership car well guess what I entered my car right there she entered with a thank you touch plate I gotta be a shoe man I'm such an idiot I'm such a big boy and this is so much fun, we will walk.

There are many cars here who said that no one will come to the party this year. There's nothing to do. Look, we're going to share it all with you today in our content coffee edition. I'm very glad you joined us. Try to capture the moment, the essence, the fun, the information too, of course, I have it back right there, so when they come so, oh, where are you from? Yes, you brought some coffee with you. It's coffee with conte. I say yes. Anyway, wrong accent. Anyway, I have the nameplate behind here, so when the guys start walking this way, they'll be gone. to go, what's that bam more to come from 20?

What is this 2021 party event at the national corvette museum? You're going to do the package, go ahead and do the pat. Everyone wants to rub my butt. I love it, everyone except my wife. What happens after 26 years of marriage? Man, whatever, now we told them there's nothing like being here. Well, let's show them who's here. We're going to show you some cool cars that you've driven across the country to come to the National Corvette Museum. Come on. there's more come on cgm you're missing out don't we need a chrome wheel guys every time i see you guys make an aftermarket chrome wheel on the c8 wow wow man that looks now i have Seen made with standard open spokes?

I haven't seen him in person at the trident wheel. That's really good. In case you didn't know, there is a front camera here, so this doesn't happen. Sorry I don't want to be a smartass but I'm just stating the obvious this is where the

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event used to happen all the time they would block this area will cooksey david hill all the guys would be here doing presentations I want you to do something for me okay we've I have very good memories with a new car. I am very happy to see you here at these events.

I feel very honored at this moment. A guy we featured twice in the vlog. You guys are in Corvette world. Do you know who Ralph is? Hello friend, what? It's an absolute pleasure to meet you at this event, we wanted to meet you too, man, you hear stories of plant closings, and we've been able to get through it for the most part, and that's why we're making as many cars as possible. We can pretty much take all the orders we will take for the 21st and we're going to start preparing to move to the 22nd this summer.

This is going back to what I was talking about earlier with the stats so far for the 21 corvettes, look, overnight, this is based on over 19,000 orders, look in the top left corner, look at the convertible, 41 convertibles, it's the highest, I think we've done, since we started offering rims, probably back in the '60s. Well, it's more than double what we did with the previous soft top and I think the more people are exposed to this convertible with a retractable hardtop and the benefits it has, being able to take road trips and raise and lower the roof as much as you want without worrying about storage.

You know, having the same track performance capability as the coupe and the way it really gives an exotic look from top to bottom and people are really starting to take notice of that. Yes, I would say that is our plan, it is not just an abstract goal. our plan if we

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nue to operate as we are doing now, so barring some unforeseen disruption which we have had too many and which is still possible, but barring an unforeseen, you know, dramatic disruption, we should have no problem building all of our 21 orders. that we know Corvette customers historically and thank you for being a new owner and this is not something new where you can talk to the chief engineers and the program managers and everyone, this has been going on forever, we are always accessible and probably the only consumer product where you can talk to the people who are actually responsible for it.

Many companies have outsourced customer relations and you can't talk to the people who are actually in charge of the product, but we are proud to be among you and there are no questions too difficult. You may not like our answer all the time, but we're there to talk about what we've done, so thanks for joining us. Well, we have a new spoiler for the '22 model year, so stop. those who maybe want something between the z51 spoiler and no spoiler uh this is a good look a good option for you is our low profile spoiler. You can get it without the z51, so if you get a car that's not the z51, you'll get With this option you get a spoiler and a splitter, so it's something new for 22.

A little more

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for

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later, but We thought we'd share some little tidbits on your birthday that you always try to have something new for people to learn. about our future, so one question and I think we're going to ask questions. I think the first question some people will ask us is about Windows 22 orders and right now it looks like in July all the information will be for resellers and to order and any future announcements we make will be available by next July. Well, guys, the seminar is over. I had the opportunity to meet many people who watch the channel.

In fact, someone was here wearing my farewell shirt. I really appreciate it. That now I told you that coming to Bowling Green I would give you my honest opinion on these new colors. You already saw a bit of the bee images beforehand. Let's have a conversation about these new colors for 20 22. I said this color here. I was disappointed because like I have the camera light on right now, let me get rid of this thing, that's a little bit better, so now you can see the differences with the camera light, without the camera light, that new hypersonic gray faded and seemed to be On the camera I thought it looked like a flash of silver and I thought, well, wait a minute, why do we have two colors that are almost identical?

This color in person, let me tell you, they have lights on right now so you can see it. a little better it's more like a gray it's like a satin steel the only thing that disappoints me is that it's nice that they took the time to give us the colors and not just a small sample, it's on a real body panel of the car, but I wish we had it in a complete car. You know, with all the contours, especially on the C8, how the colors will set up a little differently and how the light bounces around.

You get a real appreciation for what that color is. and what it's going to look like on the car if we could, you can see it on the car, so this is all we have, you've got some outlines and these rear quarter panels, that's cool, but I'm telling you this even on The Camera on right now I don't know if he's getting it or not, it's like a metallic gray, okay, so they call it hypersonic gray, but it's not like a silver flash, it's deeper than that, so I wish it was outside. We saw it better now, this color here, the caffeine brown.

I just have to be honest with you, you look to us to give you your opinion and make your decisions when you buy from afar, you buy a car that you don't have. I've seen that you certainly hadn't driven before you bought it, a lot of people do especially in the environment we're in now so thank you for that trust and that's why I wanted to be here so I had my eyes on it and Give you an opinion to help you in those future decisions. Back to caffeine brown in a second. The new orange. Yes, it looks identical to Sebring Orange, but there is no longer a metallic color, so it resembles Rapid Blue and will look fantastic on this car.

It already does, so I was bummed that they were getting rid of it. I'm glad they kept it in a similar tone. Well, it will be a little more exotic appeal in this car that is already configured well. Back to uh caffeine brown I'm trying so hard to tell you that right now, okay, so let me sort that out right now. What I'm seeing doesn't matter to me. I'd rather have Zeus Bronze. I don't know what's going on with this thing, there's some red and I'm just going to do this, let me take this leap of faith in this prediction that it's going to be the lowest production color for 2022.

It's like, wow. You're fine, wait until next year. I guarantee you. It's good to have different things. We have talked about it. They talked at today's seminar about people wanting more colors. I mean, my goodness, we have 12 on the palette now, maybe not. I've got enough colors right, that's the feedback you should give when you're here at the party and it's unfortunate that the Corvette team couldn't be here to hear that feedback from you. Brown caffeine so you can see again. no outside it's not in a car I'm walking to see how the light illuminates it just a little different here um it's brown it almost looks like a meatloaf some of the red there looks like a meatloaf so if I want a meat that was stupid yeah want a meatloaf car, let me know what you think in the comments below, okay, I have to admit real quick, I think we're too late.

I'm sure I registered my car to possibly win. one of these recognitions and awards, some of you really live for that, going to car shows and winning an award. I just wanted to be here in the middle of the national corvette museum the first time I drove my car here. The car here has the name Taj. I thought it would have been a savings if I had gotten here a little earlier. I didn't stop in Elizabethtown and have a barrel of cookies like I always like to do and it was a long wait, breakfast time is always a long wait there, but they're starting to line up here now and no, I don't know if they're making balloons. or what they did, but I don't think there was any recognition on our car. but it's okay, those of you who saw us today said: Hi Rick, I love the car.

Some people said: Hi, how can I buy that Zora sticker? Thanks for that. And the Zora Tag sticker I'm designing is coming to the store soon, thanks everyone. for asking, okay, I figured it out, everyone got red sheets, look at this little red sheet, congratulations, you're a celebrity car show winner, I didn't get a red sheet, I didn't win anything, you know what, the win though , victory is here? man, it's okay, you guys know how it is, the seminar is over, everyone starts leaving, but we're still here, I can neverLeaving here, a couple things have changed since I was last here in September with Ryan for his birthday.

In this guy, it looks like a real restaurant, stingray grill, very nice corvette museum. I like it, let's get into it real quick. I still had the vendor line here. I know a lot of this was done virtually this year, but you miss out on the opportunity to come and talk to all these people. Just put it on my car man yeah honey but it's cool to be here with these guys get some cool ideas check out these steering wheels you can put on your car they're awesome I like that fast blue man it's really nice Dana.Forester is simply a very talented artist who offers some unique and great photographs that you would be proud to own.

He does a wonderful job and of course we always have Kim around with your beautiful jewelry. It's a pleasure to see you as always, darling. Fantastic, he looks at all the sweet things. oh how could I miss this? I'm such a big kid, how could I miss this? Look at these cars, oh yeah look at this, okay how fast these suckers go so this is going to go over 30 miles an hour right out of the box okay and we have the brushless system you can put a lipo on it 3s and reach over 70 miles per hour.

I'll be right back, so you already knew, as soon as I turned off the camera, I spoke to the sellers, they are always lying down. I see something I like. and I buy it, you better give me a good deal bro, it's available now, okay, we'll see about pre-orders, get them in June. I went with the updated one and I'm going what speed again 70 to over 70 miles per hour sounds like a drag race challenge between the remote car and the real car, which one do you guys want to drive? I don't know, that's coming soon. Another channel in the typical way.

I'm the last one to leave. I told them I almost never can just. Getting out of here was a little late, but we were here. All the kind comments, the comments, I appreciate them, but you know, I really enjoyed hearing you guys share your passion for this car. Thank you very much for taking the time to come. above, say hello, talk and just talk about Corvette, some history, some stories, some goals, it's great to be a part of this, thank you all for watching today, don't forget to subscribe, like this video, make those comments to Then we'll see you again. soon thanks for watching today's coffee with kante oh and one more thing before we go just to write down every corvette I passed today absolutely the thumbs up yeah ah it feels good to do it from my car thanks again to you guys you made all this possible you