DO NOT Order A C8 Corvette Until You Watch This Video!

You won't want to

order

your CA Corvette until you see

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, let's get right to the point. Hi Curtis, I'm coming to you from the full octane garage and as many of you know, I'm a big Corvette guy I've ever owned. Lots of Corvettes. I have taken museum deliveries of recent Corvettes and have been eyeing c8 Corvettes, so I did some research on how to

order

a c8 Corvette and have some information I think you might want to hear. There has been a lot of misinformation out there, a lot of people say that each dealership will have a five to ten thousand dollar profit margin and that is true in some places.

I've seen some youtubers try to walk into the dealership and they order their Corvette today and they act like they're going through the configurator and ordering their Corvette, they're not ordering their Corvette, they're not even choosing any of the options that will be real when the order forms are up. available as of As of the date of

this

video

, there are no dealers that are able to place an order in the system for your Corvette, so don't be fooled by these YouTube videos with people hyping all the hype today. I've ordered your new Corvette, here's the real one.

The real story is that they have put a deposit on a Corvette at a dealership to maintain a position in the line and it's very simple, some very large dealerships on a highway will use two dealerships as an example, one is the car back there, the warning. The world's largest Corvette dealer in the USA less Stanford in Dearborn Michigan is another Corvette dealer, a large Corvette dealer. I've had previous experience dealing with less Stanford, so I have a bit of information about them. I have in my hand what we call a reservation deposit confirmation and a reservation.

The deposit is just that it is a reservation to get a line to buy a Corvette CA. They simply want a $1,000 deposit in the form of a credit card or check and that is according to the Stanford document which is here and I will have a copy of it. site here is fully 100% refundable until the time you place your order and that is the official order in the system which as I understand it will not be able to be placed until late August or early September, there are some Chevy dealerships available. Here I believe Chevy has a video that gives a little more detail on when they will be able to order and what that will mean, the online configurator is just that's what they think the options will be. will be available at the time of order so you can build your excitement, build what you want to build in a Corvette, and wait for those options to be available to order once you place your actual order after the reservation has been completed.

You go to some local dealerships here in Nashville and I've heard they want a $2,500 deposit that is non-refundable until the price comes out on the new Corvettes. The official price is not out of the Corvette. It will be. less than sixty thousand dollars as a starting price, that is all that is known at this time, no dealer has official information as of today on what the options on a CA Corvette are going to cost, there is speculation and there is very good speculation about that the options If you take a 20-19 Corvette and add about five thousand dollars to any option configured, you'll be pretty close now, there are options that are not available on this year's Corvette, like the raised rear spoiler, who knows what. that's going to cost, it's probably going to be an expensive option because a lot of people will want it, it looks really cool and I think it'll be a fantastic addition to a c8

corvette

, but keep in mind you don't know. how much it costs now, so it's really important to understand why less Stanford, as an example, requires $4,000 once the price is available and you have online orders available and at the time of this video, the time of the email I received from Les Stanford was There are about two hundred and fifty people in line in front of me.

If I were to place my order today, I would say my reservation today is not my order, which means they get an allocation. The first assignment they have is a little over one hundred. cars, so I would probably be on the second assignment, which means I would most likely receive an early delivery of my Corvette in early spring 2020. I am now in Nashville, minus Stanford, in Michigan, which would do is make a delivery to the museum. an hour and fifteen minutes away from me, even if it was four hours away from me, I would do the museum delivery option.

I have done this in the past on my 2014 Corvette. It was a fantastic experience. I highly recommend it to anyone. you get a personalized tour of the factory, you get a personalized tour of the museum, you get some behind the scenes activity and you get to drive your car out of the Corvette Museum parking lot, which is really cool, we had a really good experience, it was a Close to $1,000 option, so add another thousand dollars to whatever you think your Corvettes will cost and you'll have yourself a nice museum delivery experience. Now I could fly to Michigan, pick up my car, take it home without permission abroad, without any protection, you can also order. that car from less Stanford and have a delivery truck take it to your house for whatever the fee is seven hundred thousand dollars, whatever it takes to transport a car from less Stanford in Michigan to your location.

I've heard a lot of dealers do it because you know, think about this, some dealers will only get an allocation of thirty Corvettes and they know there's going to be a huge demand in their area and if all the dealers in their area don't have a lot of Corvettes, they'll go. Put a premium on that Corvette and the premiums will be between five and ten thousand dollars is what I anticipate. I have friends in California who have looked and gone to almost every dealership and they want a minimum of five thousand dollar premium on top of the sticker price, a minimum of sixty thousand, so you can count on a sixty-four thousand car. nine hundred and ninety-five dollars, if you don't have options, you know that's not going to happen, you know you're going to have some options, so The moral of this story and really what I'm trying to understand is that there are too many dealerships.

Look at a dealer like Les Stanford. Look at a dealer like Kerr Beck. Rebecca is also charging a $1,000 reservation fee to get in line. They sell about three hundred Corvettes a month. They've probably been making their reservations before anyone else, so they may have a lot more people in line. We, Stanford, may not have that many people in line and they don't get. About the same number of Corvettes either, but it's not a small portion. I think they have about a hundred Corvettes a month, if I remember the last time I talked to them, they have America's Corvette King on their letterhead here, so that means they probably sell some Corvettes, so why do I want you to see this video before making a reservation or placing an order on your Corvette?

First I want you to realize that if you do this today you are not placing an order, you are placing a reservation and with this, this document here says that it is a place of first right of refusal at Les Stanford for a line number in your production of Corvette, you now have a place to put the number here. I suspect that when you fill out this form, they will be I'll give you the number in line you're in so no one can jump to the front, it's a pretty respectable thought and I assume they'll respect it, so when you make your reservation or ask how many Corvettes they have. you get one month, what is your allocation for the first quarter or the first half of the year based on past sales?

They should probably know this and then ask where you are on that assignment and keep in mind that assignments aren't always. I get all z50s. They may only have an allocation of half of them z51 s cars and half of them standard cars, so it is also important to ask when you receive this allocation how many of them will be premium z50s and how many of them will be premium z50s. They'll be their normal cars that you probably won't want to buy and when you start looking at the Z51 with some options, you'll be in the seventy-five to eighty thousand dollar range, is Kurt's anticipation.

That's my prediction. which will cost between seventy-five and eighty thousand dollars, that's a great car for seventy-five to eighty thousand dollars, I would say, and I would highly recommend it. I mentioned that Nashville dealers want a two thousand five hundred dollar deposit that is not even refundable. until you order the Corvette, so always ask when I can get my money back if I make a deposit, what line number I am, what are the restrictions on getting my money back and at what point will I have to commit and pay some extra money to make a Ordered for my Corvette.

What I haven't asked the Stanfords is how much additional money I will need at the time of the order. It may not be like that anymore, if it's not crazy extravagant, you know, a strange color combination. They may want to have the car on their lot, so they may be okay with that, if I make a delivery to the museum, they may want a little extra money for that delivery to the museum, so those are some pretty questions. serious questions that will need to be answered, we hope. That this is a very informative video that will give you an idea of ​​what I will say minutiae.

You are in the YouTube community and what is real life. I've been through the process. I have ordered a museum delivery vehicle from Les Stanford. I am speaking with a voice of experience. I'm not just guessing what's going to happen. I am NOT a first time Corvette buyer like a lot of these YouTube guys are. A lot of these youtubers say they are making a big deal out of their CAS purchase and they go and pick out colors and make it look like they have their orders and that's a bunch of crap, they don't have their orders, they have a stockpile so let's be very clear. about this I'm probably going to hate this a little bit and that's okay because I want to be clear.

I want you to realize what the real story is. I have an order for a CA Corvette. No. I have a reservation. in a CA Corvette not yet, but I'm seriously thinking about it and that's why I did all this research and discovered a lot of myths and facts in the YouTube community that I think really need to be cleared up, so again I hope. You found this video very informative. I hope to see you in a c8 Corvette in the near future and please if you find things that are different when you go to Chevy dealers if you find some dealers that ask for premiums.

If you find that some dealerships are not accepting reservations, let us know in the comments below. We would be very interested to know what your experience at Corvette dealerships really is. If you have a Corvette dealer who says they are taking an order. I'd be interested to hear that because I don't know how that's possible and I think you'll have a great time in the process once it becomes an actual order. At least you'll be able to track your progress. You will know when. It will be delivered and it will be a fantastic experience, especially for all of you who have never owned a Corvette and this is your first thought of getting a Corvette because it's mid-engined, it's really cool and it's a bargain.

So guys, thanks for being with us, we love having you and we hope to see you in the future at Full Octane Garage, don't forget to like and subscribe, share this with your friends and if you got good feedback, great. some hate comments ok we are insensitive we can accept them but again I think this is as realistic as the truth on the date this video was posted and in the future as the date changes until August I'm sure There will be some upcoming changes where ordering systems will open up, assignments will become real and you will see a lot more information from people that is different than what they have already posted and don't forget to check out Octane Insurance for your insurance needs.

We'll be sure to see eight Corvettes at great value as recreational or pleasure vehicles, so we look forward to talking to you about that in the future as well.