Monday, June 20, 2011
C7 coming in 2014, with a $131m production upgrade. Will the vette's fit and finish match it's performance. We hope so!
TRANSCRIPT
Hey everyone, welcome to a special edition of AutoWeek TV for Thursday. I'm Mark Vaughn, West Coast editor of AutoWeek, and I'll be your host today.
Here are the headlines:
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Corvette is adding jobs and spending money at its plant in Kentucky. But here's what you need to know: General Motors brass confirmed that the C6 will live on for the 2012 and 2013 model years. And the C7 comes on for 2014.
Expect big things for the next Vette, because GM is adding 250 more jobs at the factory, and spending $131 million to upgrade it. Something must be up, because the changeover from the C5 to the C6 generations only resulted in about $9 million of improvements. Do the math.
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And speaking of muscle cars, Dodge let slip plans to bring back the Super Bee name for the Charger in a presentation to analysts this week. This name was used in the late '60s and early '70s, and came back for SRT8 Chargers in recent years. Look for it this year, and go to autoweek.com for the complete story.
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Plus, do you like cars? As in Cars 2 the movie. AutoWeek has learned that Ridemakerz and Disney have teamed up to sell customizable versions in stores this summer. Want to know more? We've got an in-depth feature coming up in the magazine. We'll tell you more soon.
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OK, now we've got a report from the track, and fresh video of McLaren's newest race car. Our man Greg Migliore has the details.
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McLaren is back on the track this year, and it's slowly trickling out video of MP4-12C GT3 race car. Get ready. It will make be shown at Goodwood this summer, and more details were revealed this week.
McLaren will deliver 20 copies of the racer to privateer teams in 2012. This year, it will run a development schedule, including the 24 Hours of Spa.
So what do we like about this car? It uses the same twin-turbo 3.8-liter V8 as the road-going version, though it's actually detuned to about 493 hp. It also uses a lighter six-speed transmission instead of the road version's seven-speed.
The aero package is specific to the GT3 complete with a splitter, door blades and rear spoiler.
This is McLaren's first effort at GT racing since the F1 GTR ended in 1997.
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Thanks, Greg. That's it for today. Thanks for watching. I'm heading back to the West Coast, but I'll keep sending you video from all of my test drives and travels. For AutoWeek, this is Mark Vaughn.
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