2013 Grand Sport Question/Info Wanted

[Russell O.]

Back in December of 2012 my wife and I purchased a GS for our anniversary, which falls on the 12th of December. (12-12-12) It is Arctic white with Titanium interior, black wheels, silver calipers. We didn't order this by any means, it was on a local dealership's showroom floor. Time has passed and I have come to realize that this color combination may be somewhat "rare". Only 712 GS coupes had the white color, but out of all the 13,466 corvettes built this year, only 973 of them had the Titanium interior option. If I do some math, 7% of the corvettes have Titanium interiors. So 7% of the white GS coupes would be 50. (give or take) So my GS could be 1 of 50 made with that color combo, maybe less if the wheel color, calipers are taken into consideration. My real question is this, how can I find out how many GS coupe's in white were built with the titanium interior? Thanks for any help.

[David H.]

Re: 2013 Grand Sport Question/Info Wanted

Russell,

I remember back about 10 years ago, Ken Fichtner (a Chevrolet Dealer in Montana) had posted on CF specific detailed numbers about various options on 2003 Electron Blue convertibles. His personal car at that time was an EB convertible - as was mine at that time. He never posted any other detailed option info on any other colors, so I supposed he had called in a favor from someone at GM. I have never seen any other published info that was in greater detail than the "Black Book" data you already have. Absent a well placed friend at GM, I don't think the information is available.

[Joe L.]

Re: 2013 Grand Sport Question/Info Wanted

Back in December of 2012 my wife and I purchased a GS for our anniversary, which falls on the 12th of December. (12-12-12) It is Arctic white with Titanium interior, black wheels, silver calipers. We didn't order this by any means, it was on a local dealership's showroom floor. Time has passed and I have come to realize that this color combination may be somewhat "rare". Only 712 GS coupes had the white color, but out of all the 13,466 corvettes built this year, only 973 of them had the Titanium interior option. If I do some math, 7% of the corvettes have Titanium interiors. So 7% of the white GS coupes would be 50. (give or take) So my GS could be 1 of 50 made with that color combo, maybe less if the wheel color, calipers are taken into consideration. My real question is this, how can I find out how many GS coupe's in white were built with the titanium interior? Thanks for any help.

Russell------


Keep this in mind: if one considers all possible combinations of colors, interiors, and options, just about every Corvette is one of a very small number of identically manufactured Corvettes.

[Tom H.]

Re: 2013 Grand Sport Question/Info Wanted

I believe the NCM can do the math and tell you the info. I have had several customers come back with the numbers on their cars.

[Tom B.]

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Russ... the Titanium interior is rare. I'm an ex Chevy dealer service manager 35 years in the business. Thats a great combination with the white. I ordered a brand new 08 Z51 6spd like that. It was sold before I could take delivery to a customer who saw it. I did a recent search of 2015 Vettes w titanuim interior in any body color and couldnt find a one. You have a great car! Is it a 3lt?

[Russell O.]

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Thanks Guys for the responses back so far. Joe, you are very correct with your statement. But it would be neat to know if your car is 1 of something with a certain color combination.

[Russell O.]

Re: 2013 Grand Sport Question/Info Wanted

Russ... the Titanium interior is rare. I'm an ex Chevy dealer service manager 35 years in the business. Thats a great combination with the white. I ordered a brand new 08 Z51 6spd like that. It was sold before I could take delivery to a customer who saw it. I did a recent search of 2015 Vettes w titanuim interior in any body color and couldnt find a one. You have a great car! Is it a 3lt?

Tom, it is only a 2LT with automatic, but I wish it was the 3LT. (no home link) In the weeks prior to our purchase, I had searched for the perfect color combination and never even considered this color combination that we ended up with. I was focused on a white GS with red interior and my wife just didn't care for it. I even came across a yellow GS with red interior which I thought was cool. No go, and really too far away. So this one had sit on the showroom floor for 3 months, waiting for us I guess.

[Mike E.]

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IMO we are actually very lucky Chevrolet/GM and the government didn't kill off the Corvette completely after the bankruptcy. The production figure were so dismal after the economic downturn.

Here are the number. Some of these production figures haven't been this low since the early 1960's. Perhaps 50 years from now the later C6's could be as rare as some of our beloved vintage Corvettes. Prior to the slowdown typical production was in the 35K+ units a years. The 2014 C7 ended production with 37,288 units build, back up to a sustainable number.

****** 2009 Production ******
Coupes 8,737
Convertibles 3,343
Z06 3,461
ZR1 1,415
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Total 16,956

****** 2010 Production ******
Coupes 3,054
Convertibles 1,003
Grand Sport Coupes 3,707
Grand Sport Convertibles 2,335
Z06 518
ZR1 1,577
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Total 12,194 100%

****** 2011 Production ******
Coupes 3,112
Convertibles 780
Grand Sport Coupes 5,212
Grand Sport Convertibles 2,782
Z06 904
ZR1 806
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Total 13,596

****** 2012 Production ******
Coupe 2,820
GS Coupe 5,056
Base Convertible 621
GS Convertible 2,268
Z06 478
ZR1 404
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Total 11,647

****** 2013 Production ******
Coupe 2,597
GS Coupe 4,908
Base Convertible 720
GS Convertible 1,736
Z06 471
427 Convertible 2,552
ZR1 482
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Total 13,466

Below is a PDF from the NCM that shows some production breakdowns from the 2013 model year.

http://www.corvettemuseum.org/specs/...vetteStats.pdf

[Jake D.]

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So, according to that spec sheet, GM made 400 white GS coupes with the 60th anniversary package. There was 355 white GS coupes made with the stripe package. That means there was 45 white GS coupes made without the stripes. Our car is one of the 45!!