2009 Corvette Production Numbers

The final numbers are now out for the 2009 model year production of the Corvette (I got this info from the Corvette Action Center) and thanks to the recession it was one of the lowest production years in recent history. Production has typically been about 35,000 cars per year lately, but the total production for 2009 was only 16,956 :( Here is the breakdown:

Total coupes: 8737
Total convertibles: 3343
Total Z06s: 3461
Total ZR1s: 1415

It's interesting that they made more Z06s than convertibles!

Here is the breakdown by color from most produced to least:

Black: 3665 (21.6%)
Cyber Gray: 3104 (18.3%)
Victory Red: 2231 (13.2%)
Crystal Red: 1987 (11.7%)
Blade Silver: 1642 (9.7%)
Velocity Yellow: 1370 (8.1%)
Jetstream Blue: 1367 (8.1%)
Arctic White: 863 (5.1%)
Atomic Orange: 726 (4.3%)
Luxo Blue: 1 (it was the ZR1 auctioned off at Jackson Barrett for 1 mil)


Atomic Orange has been dropped from the lineup, which typically happens to a color that ends up being less than 5% of total production (unless that happens with white, as they'll probably never drop white, it's the only color that has been in production for every single year since the beginning of the Corvette in 1953)

Here are more numbers:

Manual Transmissions: 8396
Automatics: 8560
Z51 package: 4515
CSC package: 72
Hertz cars: 375
GT1: 125
Canadian cars : 315
Museum delivery: 392
Chrome wheels: 5649
Comp gray wheels: 1028
NPP: 6238
F55: 3520
Mexico: 8
1LT: 3271
3LT: 5230

Trying to keep a positive attitude!

I truly believe that good things happen when you keep a positive attitude in life, but you also need to be realistic as well. With all the bad things that have happened to me this year it has been difficult to be 100% positive, but I'm surprisingly more relaxed than I ever thought I would be. I've always been the type that had more of a negative attitude, even when things were going relatively well for me. So it is shocking to me that I've been able to keep my sanity with all the hardship I've seen this year. I guess that my brain is telling me that things can only get better for me, and that dwelling on the bad things isn't going to be very productive at all.

I still have to be realistic though, and realize that I may not easily find a job as a Photoshop retoucher again. The printing prepress industry is dying in the Toronto area, many of the high end shops have now closed down and the ones that are left aren't hiring. So I might just need to focus on how I'm going to earn a living for the next 15-20 years until I can retire. Maybe this layoff was the kick in the butt that I needed in order to get out of this silly business and into something that will make me a heck of a lot more money.