ZR1 is Jezza's Car of the Year

[Godzilla]

In yesterday's Sunday Times, Clarkson finally came out of the closet and declared the ZR1 his personal Car of the Year, following Top Gear magazine's award of Performance Car of the Year.

Ironic that Corvette's status has never been higher just as dealers are closing wholesale and GM themselves are on the brink of collapse...

I just hope they make enough ZR1s to make me getting a reasonably priced 2nd hand one possible.

[v8yea]

Where are the Stratstone cars going ?
I would think they will auction the secondhand stock eventually,anybody know what auction house they use ?

[JimexPL]

BCA, but I doubt that you would see any vette in there unless all of the sites are closed, and even then if there are still performance car sites (lotus etc) then the stock would be placed there, as the lessons learned by trying this before will have been forgotten.

We used to occasionally drip feed Cadillacs in to the auction houses (Leman will recall this profit opportunity!).

I expect that the used stock will end up in the remaining showrooms, and the new stock returned to Wavendon.

Edited by JimexPL on Monday 29th December 18:56

[mitch_]

v8yea said:

Where are the Stratstone cars going ?
I would think they will auction the secondhand stock eventually,anybody know what auction house they use ?

There's not alot of secondhand stock to speak of.......

[qube_TA]

Is the article available online?

[Vet Guru]

v8yea said:

Where are the Stratstone cars going ?
I would think they will auction the secondhand stock eventually,anybody know what auction house they use ?

Stratstones have loads of other sites these cars will get sold at, Just like a load of Cadillac at Jag and Merc dealers now.

[vetteheadracer]

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/driving/jeremy_cl...

[v8yea]

Ah well........I suppose we will just have to wait for the rest of the company to fail....remember Volvo Man ?

[Le Man]

JimexPL said:

BCA, but I doubt that you would see any vette in there unless all of the sites are closed, and even then if there are still performance car sites (lotus etc) then the stock would be placed there, as the lessons learned by trying this before will have been forgotten.

We used to occasionally drip feed Cadillacs in to the auction houses (Leman will recall this profit opportunity!).

I expect that the used stock will end up in the remaining showrooms, and the new stock returned to Wavendon.

Edited by JimexPL on Monday 29th December 18:56

It was apparent when I moved to Cadillac in 2006 that the stand in values of identical CTSs at the same age varied by up to £13,000 so I got hold of the cheapest and sent them to auction where they made significant profits. Shortly afterwards, the values were harmonized across the group.
It would never have happened at Reg Vardy because their focus on stock management was just so much better.

Edited by Le Man on Tuesday 30th December 08:20

[malc350]

Oh no, based on his previous opinions maybe it's not a lot of good then

Actually I would imagine the ride has improved over the Z06 as all he did was moan about how bad the Z06 was on public roads, transmission snatch, hard ride, whatever else he moaned about too.