Seeing how the sales of the new turd are already dead, this should not take all that long.
Yes, Corvette C7 Stingray is already available at Hertz Car Rentals but it is available in a few select locations only. The question is WHEN will the new Corvette available en mass under its own "special" ZHZ edition the way C6 was available from 2008 to 2009 (Hertz rented Corvette C6 through 2012 but it was not the yellow ZHZ after 2009 model year).
The question is not IF but WHEN. The sales figures and increasing discounts clearly demonstrate the unpleasant truth of new Corvette being a sales failure. Just like this happened in 2008, when the sales of Corvette started to sink very low (in spite of LS3 power upgrade), +General Motors is already becoming desperate to attract enough buyers to the new Corvette to keep its production going.
Thus, this new car is bound to repeat the fate of previous generation and end up as a Hertz rental designed to lure new buyers and increase sales figures.
However, last time Hertz rental edition happened, it inflicted a very damaging blow to Corvette's reputation and used car values. Even though there were plenty of those yellow Corvettes being wrecked by careless and inexperienced drivers, there were still plenty of them left to literally flood the used car market and drag legitimate well taken care of privately owned cars down to the point where wholesale pricing became a pipe dream to the owners trying to sell their cars.
To further add to this Hertz original failure, there were plenty of used car dealers peeling off Hertz insignia from these cars and trying to pass the formal rentals as legitimate used cars.
In the end, yes, General Motors did managed to fleet sell a few more of Corvettes but the damage from this both desperate and outright stupid move has never really vanished completely.
So now, the sales of new Corvette are already dead, from the get go. What are the chances of GM marketing team repeating the same move? Well, the chances are very very good.
All the buyers of the new Corvette better butter up their lower cheeks, the thousands of new Corvettes literally filling up dealers lots is only the beginning.
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