2023 Corvette on Pace to Become Third Most Successful Model Year in History

With supply chain issues seemingly in the rear-view mirror, the 2023 Corvette has been produced in rather large quantities thus far.

As is the case with any vehicle that’s been around for 70 years, the Corvette has enjoyed its fair share of ups and downs in terms of sales in its seven decades of existence. There have been great years, solid ones, and not-so-fantastic results along the way, but one would be reasonable to assume that the last few, well, haven’t been the best. This is because while the C8 is an amazing machine that remains in high demand, supply chain issues have hampered GM’s ability to build them, just like most other models out there. However, that doesn’t seem to be the case with the 2023 Corvette at all.

Rather, in a recent article revealing that GM has provided some additional Z06 allocations to dealers which were outside of the regular order cycle, CorvetteBlogger also made a pretty interesting discovery – the 2023 Corvette has already cracked the top 10 in terms of the total number of units that have emerged from the Bowling Green Assembly Plant.

And it may very well wind up landing in the top three when it’s all said and done.

With a little over six weeks left for 2023 Corvette production before the Bowling Green plant switches over to 2024 model year production, GM has built a grand total of 45,152 units – good enough for the sixth most of any model year Corvette, ever. It ranks only behind 1979 (53,807), 1984 (51,547), 1977 (49,213), 1978 (46,776), and 1976 (46,558), as well as ahead of 2016 (40,689), 2007 (40,651), 1980 (40,614), and 1981 (40,606).

CorvetteBlogger previously estimated that GM would build around 50,000 Corvettes in 2023, and thus far, it seems to be pretty much on track to hit that number. If it does, it would make the 2023 Corvette third in terms of total production in the model’s illustrious history, which would be a pretty amazing feat. After all, it wasn’t terribly long ago that the automaker was struggling to get the C8 off the assembly line, with all kinds of supply chain issues rearing their ugly heads.

Regardless, this is great news for those that have been patiently waiting to buy a C8, and it also means that values will likely continue to fall to a reasonable level, as has been the case in recent months. The supply-demand curve for the mid-engine sports car took quite a while to balance out, but it certainly looks like we’ve finally reached that point in the car’s fourth year of existence.

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