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C8 Corvette Z06 Reservations Are Now Open, Bachman Chevrolet Promises No Markups

Even though we’ll have to wait until 2021 for the 2022 model year, the C8 Corvette Z06 is now available to reserve at select dealerships. Bachman Chevrolet is one of those dealers, and as opposed to the outrageous markups on the Stingray we’ve covered in a previous story, this dealership doesn’t intend to rip off customers.
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“All orders will be sold at MSRP, no dealer markups or BS addendums with added junk for dealer profit,” we’re told on the Louisville Chevy Dude website of Mike Davenport from Bachman Chevrolet. A C8 Corvette Stingray Z51 customer himself, the Chevy Dude lists a refundable deposit of $1,000 on his website.

Making a reservation means that you’re entitled to be placed on the purchase list for the flat-plane crankshaft V8 sports car with 600-ish horsepower and a redline of more than 8,000 rpm from 5.5 liters of displacement. The dealership then sends you an order checklist once pricing and options become available, and the orders will be taken in the order the deposits were made. And by the way, “this is a very slow process.”

It could be months before the order is placed after the reservation deposit, and once the order is placed, an additional $4,000 deposit is required for the order to get 1100 status. If you’re wondering what that means, 1100 is when the order has been placed by the dealership but the manufacturer has yet to confirm the order.

Moving on to another part of Mike’s website, the questions-and-answers list highlights that 2021 allocations are available at Bachman Chevrolet. The salesman and YouTube vlogger hasn’t mentioned anything in terms of pricing information for the Z06, but we can get a general idea about what’s what by looking at the bigger picture.

The C7 Z06 is listed at $80,900 on Chevrolet’s configurator for the U.S. while Car & Driver expects about $85,000as the starting price for the C8 Z06. Given that the previous generation had 650 ponies on tap thanks to a 6.2-liter supercharged small-block V8, the heir-apparent has to be special in other ways if the LT6 doesn’t match or exceed 650 horsepower from natural aspiration and 5.5 liters of displacement.
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About the author: Mircea Panait
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After a 1:43 scale model of a Ferrari 250 GTO sparked Mircea's interest for cars when he was a kid, an early internship at Top Gear sealed his career path. He's most interested in muscle cars and American trucks, but he takes a passing interest in quirky kei cars as well.
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