YOU’VE BEEN WARNED. Now you are going to have to figure out how to explain why there will be Shelby Mustang GT500 in your driveway to your significant other.
It’s nearing the peak of summer, which means 2013 model year cars are only weeks away from being released. But before we can welcome in the last of the C6 models for next year, we owe it to the 2012′s to take a look back and see just how well the Corvette did this year. So here are some of the production numbers for the Corvette’s 2012 model year compliments of CorvetteBlogger, and some of them may just surprise you.
Just like in the 2010 and 2011 model years, the Grand Sport got the most amount of buys for 2012. Between the Grand Sport coupe (5,056 sold) and the GS convertible (2,268 sold) , the model made up nearly 63 percent of all Corvette sales. Coming in at a far second, was the base model with 2,820 coupes and just 651 convertibles sold to make up 29.5 percent of Corvette sales.
As far as the high-rolling Z06 and ZR1′s go, only 478 Z06 models were sold, making up 4.1 percent of total sales, and only a measly 404 ZR1′s were sold, making up just 3.5 percent of sales. In total, 11,647 Corvettes were manufactured for the 2012 model year.
Not surprisingly, the most popular color among the 2012 models was Torch Red with 19.5 percent of Corvettes sold sporting the color. The vibrant shade was closely followed by the Carbon Flash Metallic paint of the special Centennial Edition cars. Nearly 19 percent of Corvettes sold featured the special edition package.
Other interesting tidbits we found browsing through the 2012 production numbers were that 62.3 percent of Corvettes were sold with Ebony interiors while only 88 were sold with yellow stitching accents and 105 sold with blue stitching accents.
Option packages appear to have been popular with 2,416 Corvettes sold with the 1LT option package, 1,691 sold with the 2LT package, and 5,510, or 47.3 percent, sold with the 3LT package.
For more of the 2012 model year numbers, check out the full report from CorvetteBlogger.com.
Ok car and Mustang fans you are going to like this:
BOOM!
Agent 47 Harbinger Mustang for racing or street!!!
Isn’t that wicked looking?
They tried for the look of the 69 TransAm Mustang.
Shelby 1969 TransAm Mustang
The Harbinger is built for track or high performance street duty. Here are some specs and more pics. (Check out the racing video too.)
– Limited production of 250 serialized chassis
– Harbingers can be built using a brand new Dynacorn repro body or an existing 69 or 70 Mustang shell. {but it would have to be the fastback or sports back – not my ’70 Coupe 🙁 }
Race spec, low visual obstruction design, 12 point, chassis stiffening roll-cage of DOM steel.
Race proven SLA (double A-arm) Front suspension.
Ultra stable, Bill Osborne designed, V-link rear suspension.
Speedway Engineering 9” full floating rear axle.
Penske adjustable racing shocks with optional weight jacks at all four corners.
Ducted, low drag and lift hood, engineered and crafted by Agent 47.
Come ON!!! Tell me that’s not awesome!!!
Agent 47 designed vintage Recaro style racing seats.
Agent 47 designed, lightweight, Forgeline racing wheels.
Those are nice!!!
Brakes and master cylinders by AP racing.
Check out this set up.
16 lightweight components manufactured using the latest Rapid prototyping technology.
NVH controlled interior with strategic, lightweight, sound dampening materials.
A work of art. Very limited body roll with this set up. Much improved over the original ’69 TransAm
I’m not advertising for these guys, I just really like what they’ve done. There are parts for Fox bodied and other Mustangs as well.
Here a long racing video (cameras are set up for you can see how the body reacts to cornering).
Remember a few post ago that covered MOPAR’s in Sweden? (Short Link: http://wp.me/pKHNM-174) I wrote how interesting it was to see US sheet metal in other countries.
Well check out this car show in Rothrist, Switzerland. This is from Andres Palomares who lives in Bern, Switzerland. There are some great examples of US car history in this show.
Switzerland is beautiful and visited Interlaken several times while living in Europe.
