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Thursday, September 25, 2014

National Corvette Museum Winter Deliveries of Corvette C7 cars equipped with Summer tires continue

As already mentioned here, National Corvette Museum ritual is a permanent part of the Corvette senior citizen nation.

However, there is a very interesting angle to the old geezers picking up their cars during the winter months, with the only tires available of SUMMER variety.

Maybe, this is a way +General Motors  came up with to refresh the buying ranks?  A combination of summer tires, cold temperatures and icy or wet roads can certainly be a very interesting experience to a silver hair racer driving in a car he or she are not familiar with...

Some of the museum delivery subscribers end up driving their new cars for thousands of miles, including areas with super low temperatures and pretty dangerous road conditions.  Corvette summer tires cracking and splitting in the cold is a well documented fact, so the question exists: why would +General Motors condone this irresponsible practice? 

IF all season tires were optional on the Stingray and upcoming Z06, there could be some justification to this practice but there are no run flat all season tires available for the newest Corvette.  Perhaps, the museum deliveries should be suspended until this issue is resolved or does GM have an agreement with hospital and cemetery operators throughout the snow country?   The answer of course lies with GM and fine folks at the NCM.  And here is an idea for GM and NCM: why in addition to the freshly constructed road track not include a matching cemetery?  Considering the actual Corvette buyer demographics, there is lots of money to be made, especially when allowing the old geezers to drive off in the middle of winter on summer only tires.  Hmmm....

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