How The 2023 Corvette C8 Z06 Is Made

thank you [Music] in this video we're going to take you behind the scenes and how the Corvette is built and it is a rare opportunity to get to talk to the men and women who build this car we've already done a video on how this vehicle was engineered we've talked to the chief engineer we put it up in the lift we've driven the vehicle but because of the culmination of everything we've done we have the unique opportunity to go behind the scenes to see how cars are made so we are going to attempt to in this video walk you through how Corvettes are built foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] after we've finished our c806 video I was a bit shocked at Jack's affinity for this car we are sitting in your own vehicle that you watched go down the assembly line that you talk to the people who built it tell me why you wanted to roll the dice on a first generation first of its kind Corvette like this I think one of the unique opportunities you and I have in our career is to get to meet many of the men and women who designed various Vehicles whether it be the Porsche GT3 the Nissan Z the GTR the Mazda Miata the thing that struck me after meeting the men and women who built the Z06 is the level of passion they have for this field goal it's not just another project it's not just another Corvette in many of these people's cases it is the peak of their career it's something they will talk about into retirement and it's a dream they've had over their decades-long careers and getting to see the level of passion that both the engineers have but as you're going to see in this video as well the passion and the people who are working at the assembly plant have for this product is almost inspiring to be honest it is a very very unique product in that regards and as you're going to hear from in this video a lot of the people who work at that factory have wanted to work on Corvettes their entire life [Music] uh Don Sherman I'm a general assembly superintendent here Bowling Green Kentucky I've been my General Motors for about 13 years now started out in Lordstown Ohio build the Chevy Cruze been with Corvette since C7 prior to that I worked at the Corvette museum for quite some time late C5 C6 so I've been in and out of this plant since I was about 21-22 so I did my Affinity with Corvette started very young my dad showed Corvettes when I was born so he had a 77 show car that you know Ed Roth wrote articles about magazines I mean it was a serious show car so my mom was nine months pregnant with me and she was they were they were flat betting that truck or the car of course because he wouldn't drive it uh Manhattan we live in New York at the time so he was flat betting the car to a car show Manhattan when my mother went to labor and they had a detour to the hospital so we detoured to the hospital mom got there and my dad left my mom there and then proceeded to drop the core of the car off at the conference center and then set it up of course because they had Chrome undercarriage right so he had all that Chrome dust we had to set everything up luckily he did get back in time from when I was born which was which was good um and you know he worked the gym at the time obviously and he had to pick his son up in a Corvette and the other Corvettes sitting there you know on Jacks so he borrowed his General Foreman at the time worked at GM he borrowed his 78 Corvette and he picked my poor mother who you know just had a baby and myself up into 78 Corvette and drove us home so and then of course he drove me home to like you know a room with an eclair's Corvette bed that I couldn't yet use for three or four years I mean it started really young we you know we showed cars together for a long time you end up getting a C4 as well and then um eventually he worked here I worked the museum like I told you for quite some time met my wife there we've been married 15 years so um that's a start after that my dad I'm actually second generation gym employee so my dad was actually working here for 15 17 years before he retired so it's cool I got a chance to work with him in this kind of format for a few years which is really neat now I've read about Zorro and I read all the stories and Harley Earl and you know like Bob Lots where they're hiding like Kobo Camaros back in like these you know CMM rooms and all this like all this cool stuff I feel like I get to be a little bit apart a piece of that history you know I get to be a part of the history that I read like I got my own little portion of it here you know like I remember the first meeting I was at where I heard the word Mid Engine and I was like oh it's it's this is real like we're doing this you know which that work still gives me anxiety I'm like saying out loud because it was such a big deal to say you know I'm an engine but uh but no there's no you know no crazy ending or anything like that just eventually got here and I got a company car that's a Z06 is pretty cool you know so I feel very accomplished I'm happy where I'm at in life you know [Music] my name is Jeff Brown and I'm a vehicle assistant engineer for the Chevrolet Corvette and I've been with GM for five years I've realized I've been on a collision course for the automotive industry pretty much my entire life when I was a young kid my mom would try to point out cars and be like oh it's a blue car it's a car it's a truck and I'd be like no Mom that's a Buick or no that's a Chevy and she was like what's wrong with this kid where is he learning this stuff and I just have always been so passionate towards it I've also been pretty much a Chevrolet person my entire life we grew up farming so every summer all of our support vehicles are Chevy trucks and I was also during the Leica Rock era so to me the only pickup truck that had any business being on the road was a Chevrolet that's all I've owned that's all I still own so as I kind of reflect on how I'm even here today it seems pretty inevitable and I really enjoy what I do [Music] when you first went to Bowling Green to shoot the production watching this car down the line what was your overall feeling just talking to the people there and then seeing this this occur because this is really rare most people will never get to see their car going on a manufacturing line I think what's changed my perspective on the Corvette more so than anything else is from a manufacturing perspective you and I idolize cars like the GT3 GT3 RS GT4 RS McLaren's Ferraris and whatnot the difference between a Corvette and even something like a Miata is the sheer number they produce if you look at how this car is built and you and I had the opportunity to see how the NSX Type S was built we've seen how the GT4 GT3 is built the key difference between those cars in this is the volume of production and because they can build more of these vehicles they can amortize their cost over more customers more people can experience these cars that's what actually makes these even somewhat affordable a hundred and forty thousand dollars 6 thousand dollars is a lot of money but the only reason they are that inexpensive relative to something like a Ferrari the fact that they can actually build these cars [Music] well GM I think we definitely did it right in my opinion I was here for that obviously we got a brand new paint shop state of the art brand new body shop we've got brand new cockpit lines brand new engine assembly lines brand new Skillet system you know in GA we got we did everything essentially from the ground up no expense spared the right way you know I started building Corvettes here in 84. so C4 to C5 changed quite a bit but c667 the actual infrastructure was pretty similar you know so it was a drastic change you know we invested a lot and we think it paid off we Consolidated the paint panels to try to arrive as late in the process as possible because we don't want to get mutilated right we want to put them as far back in the process as possible so we created a delivery system that since our paint panels actually to scale at the very end of it like I said before chassis 3 before the car gets its Wheels essentially uh skilled system is basically a conveyor platform that the operator can walk onto and ride and perform the work on the car as or as it's actually moving so there's no loss of time the car never stops and actually as the car goes up and travels up and down for ergonomics depending on the hybrid operator and that was a big a big process change for us you know before we had several different conveyors we made cockpit online on change not Skillets I mean the skillet system was probably the biggest additional you know I had a brand new body shop for C7 a brand new body shop and I built another one for C8 right next to it you know both running at the same time incredible you know it had to be right the latest in technology the latest technology everything had to be right but initially it starts album by the shopping paint shop so paint shop paints a panel set essentially versus a full car if you will like most plants do right so they paint this set and this set is sent out to multiple places throughout the plant obviously for assembly at the same time the bodies are being built aluminum bodies being built sent over to get e-coded then brought back for some composite panels that's Body Shop body shop then sends the car over to GA my neck of the woods and we start over and trim so all this is going on and it sounds simple but you got cockpits being built you got drivetrain being built all that's being built while the car is coming over to trim so once the car gets over to a trim shop uh you get the glass installed the cockpit like I said the floor uh the carpets and that type of internal trim to the interior there and then the car goes over to chassis and then that's where actually a lot of people hear the term marriage or it's one of the most popular spots on our tour there is when the body actually marries to the drivetrain and the suspension and the Cradle is actually bolt up to the body so then the car gets married and it goes over to chassis and all the underbody and arrows done there everything under the car is shot and it goes over to our Skillet system whereas dense with people you guys see it when you walk through very a lot going on a lot of panels are getting installed at that point are getting fit at that point cars starting to actually look like a car at that point so it goes through the skillet system and it goes over the chassis less chassis chassis three and that's where good the wheels get hung for the first time obviously the floor the car actually hits the ground for the first time uh you get fluid fills and then of course the greens start the first car start and it comes over to final line where you do your final fits final checks and goes over Dynamic testing oh I made that sound very simple but obviously this whole process takes a lot longer about two days for the whole process to go through the actual the entire system all the same quality control aspects all the same quality control plans we still use all that here however there's the obvious differences one is option content I mean this car is incredibly incredibly difficult to build a ton of options whether you have cl7 packages whether you have different color emblems different types of leather different types of seats that we were talking about so what that requires is essentially a massive amount of air proofing automation I mean we have from hot low-tech archaic you know air approving to the most high-tech you can come up with here no matter what it takes to get that in the customer's hands the right way how they wanted to build we do that here in Bowling assembly but it takes time it takes Manpower what's different well the four minute cycle time is different for a GM facility some of our competitors you know build offline and have no timeline essentially we don't we stick to you know our four million cycle time so that's one of the big differences another big difference is the fact that we Bank a positive panels you know we paint composite panels we paint them separate from the car itself right so we paint the panels as a set and the panels get delivered but then the panel's got to be installed so you got these freshly painted panels right they've got to be installed handled and not mutilated in the process and then fit like when I was building a Chevy Cruze we'd fit the doors and body shop you know raw metal fit them right there so the whole process lends itself to be completely different just starting with the panels alone complexity proliferation really is the biggest thing we have to battle around here people ask like how can a car be so expensive I always counter how can it only cost that much I really think that every car that we build is a miracle there's so much integration there's a global supply chain that has to feed a car at a specific moment that we basically call two to three weeks in advance right so to bring all of that together with all these different options you can just imagine that completely proliferates the challenges that we have to deal with and it makes it harder but that's what we have to do there's no other way we go about it I think it's hard to put in perspective for the common person that when you hear manufacturing or assembly you think that Chevy or GM or they they'd make every single part for this and traditionally almost every single car that we touch these days has a minimum of 50 different suppliers through different parts we're talking about Transmissions we're talking about bolts and fasteners shock absorbers every little detail of the car is no longer manufactured in-house so part of the complication of having all these different suppliers is somehow scheduling and obtaining all these parts from all these different areas at once to build a car in one facility now there's the back end part of that as well predictive software and algorithms to connect with dealerships to online websites to know when to trigger these suppliers to ship x amount of parts to this location Wheels tires trucks have to be there but can you clarify a bit the difference between manufacturing and assembly for this plan so let's be clear Bowling Green assembly plant is a assembly facility this plan has existed since the early 80s it has a little over 1200 employees and it covers 212 acres and it is where the Corvette is put together to assemble a C8 Corvette either Stingray e-ray or Z06 it takes about a day and a half or three complete shifts for a single c806 or standard C8 or e-ray to be assembled on a good day the total plant output is approximately 200 Cars the only thing that is physically what's called built there is the aluminum substructure of the vehicle essentially the aluminum chassis they take pre-made sub-assemblies and weld them all together there in their body shop or the Bowling Green assembly body shop where they use hundreds of feet of adhesive screws and welds to put together the aluminum substructure where then it is sent down the assembly line where body panels go on door trim seats and drivetrains the drivetrain is a good example of how the assembly process works this is a just in time facility which means the global supply chain has to get the parts there days before they go into the vehicle and the drivetrain whether it be the lt2 that's found in the base stingray in the upcoming e-ray is sent in from the tandawanda engine facility out of state however things like the lt6 the upcoming LT seven and other future engine variants or like the current lt4 are built on site in the performance build Center where a few engine builders come together and build these limited production engines while 200 Cars a shift does not sound like a lot of vehicles going down the line what people seem to forget often is not only are these cars complicated to build from an overall engineer's perspective they are also highly customizable compare this to something like a gr Supra where those cars are essentially monospec in comparison the Corvette you can pick different body styles you can be convertible Coupe you can pick different overall trim levels whether it be the upcoming e-ray the c06 or a standard Stingray and on top of that there is a wide variety of trim levels and color packaging options you can even override GM's manufacturing colors so if you wanted to say do a brown exterior where the red interior you could do that you could pay GM several hundred dollars to over override their color spec so you can essentially build within reason a fully customized car which further adds a level of complexity to the C8 Manufacturing [Music] so as a Vehicle Systems engineer it's a pretty comprehensive role I specifically Focus within the chassis and active thermal spaces so all of those components on the car are responsible to ensure that they're launched correctly and also ensuring that everything already on the car is working as we expect and also driving any change that we need to so it's it's so fun because I get to collaborate with all of our best and brightest across the parts of the car that I find the most interesting right the brakes the suspension the steering the structure all the stuff that I really went to school for Corvette's really unique so it's still part of the Chevrolet family so we still have over 100 years experience building cars globally at scale so that's how we have this skill set to be expert to building this at volume and getting this in the hands of more customers than many of our competitors are able to do and it's so cool to walk down the line and see the complete variety of cars that are built and are specked we've leveraged the C8 architecture like no other Corvette in its past we have right hand drive variants we're exporting this car across the world all of those different regions have different requirements that we have to accommodate and coming from largely truck if there's something that goes down you might have the opportunity to sort of stop the bleeding a little bit with different options that you can introduce in the meantime we have one car that we have to get all the parts on just in time with no margin for error and understanding the immensity of that really brings everyone to together to build the car and to make sure that no nothing is missed and that all the details are understood [Music] when it came to specking out my own vehicle honestly the purchasing process of a Corvette is very very similar to most other let's call it more boutique style cars you sit down with your new car manager in my case it was a castle Chevrolet McHenry I sat down with him I went all right this is my spec that I would like because I have no imagination this is the same color as my C7 but this time around I went with the Werther's original tan interior or this butterscotch interior because I thought blue over town would have been cool but what's unique about Corvette versus a more commodity sports car or even some of the more Boutique Brands is GM has almost an immediate feedback loop from their customers because you have the option to do the museum delivery so right by the Bowling Green facility there is the Corvette museum where you can take a tour of the history of Corvette and you can get a tour of the manufacturing facility arranged and because of that the engineering team at GM can immediately hear from customers what they want what they don't want how these vehicles are being ordered and they can directly from Word of Mouth here from their customers of what options they want in the future which is very very unique yeah it is unique basically to any other sports car that we look at in the Modern Age and I know you brought up the gr Supra but a lot of these sports cars that we enjoy like you feel like you're just shouting into the clouds if you have a problem just they make it they disappear like once the media cycle is over it's like that's it you don't know if they're really working on the background to make any improvements or how they hear but it that's the one thing I found interesting about the Corvette team they're really engaged in like the forums and like to your point it's it's just brilliant that they can use the museum delivery as a way to interact with customers getting them in the factory it's it's one of the best parts about this experience even though this wasn't my car and I'm you know I'm not like Miss Johnny Corbett but going to the factory to see it I have a much better appreciation for why people love this thing and the potential future owners what they can look forward to if you look at what Porsche does the LA experience Center or the Atlanta experience Center it is very special for customers but you don't have Engineers they're captive talking to the customers they're talking to sales people and product Specialists it's not the same thing that's essentially just pulling a sheet off and talking you're not seeing the people that are involved in making it and that's what makes this different and it's special because if you're born and raised here in the United States like this is this is Peak I mean if you're into cars like actually going to be able to see where a car is made is like just amazing it really is it makes you realize that again cars are made for more people by people and it takes a dedicated work staff but you forget very quickly that these cars are built over a long period of time Car Projects take in some cases in this vehicle's case almost a decade to come to fruition it's countless countless hours by dedicated engineers and on top of that it's people whose livelihoods revolve on whether or not these cars are built the factory workers admittedly one of the biggest responsibilities that I own with this job is conveying the needs of the manufacturing facility back to our engineering teams because you can imagine when you're only looking at the car your focus is the car so you're going to have a no compromise attitude to putting whatever content on it you need to be the best and that's where I have to remind everyone hey yes of course but remember how we actually have to put the car together next to the cars that we've already been building for some time so here in Bowling Green Kentucky obviously we build our all Corvettes so your base Corvettes your z51 Corvettes and now your z06s and from the introduction of the powertrain the engine and transmission marriage down the general assembly lines you'll see every variant that we build back to back and we have to be robust to that that everyone that we put in each of the different Footprints has the skill and the knowledge um to put whatever car that we put in place together so Tech time is the amount of time they have to perform their job their complete job and their footprint essentially that car will travel for four minutes in front of that operator and if they're not done to four minutes it'll stop so most are cycle times the the amount of work they do is typically like you know three minutes and 50 seconds or 57 seconds or what have you that is the big thing in Bowling Green is that like most of our other plants you know my last plant was 57 seconds I mean those cars are moving don't don't walk in front of the conveyor you know this one I have to stare at a fixed object to make sure it's still moving you know I mean sometimes so there it's certainly a lot slower Pace you know a lot less cars obviously you know manually right but again a lot more content you know a lot more content is what drives those job Cycles yeah they're doing the amount of work you know easily four times the work that you would see in a normal facility or our truck facilities if you were to miss a day at work right someone doesn't know your job not uncommon to have to put two three people on a job and try to figure out how to get it going this this plant does have we call Knack jobs Knack three whether it's welding or fitting a car that are more critical to the to the car itself so this plant I will say has a lot of those jobs like the whole fit process itself is very very layered so like in the morning I have a list and I'll check certain job stations to make sure those same players are on those jobs because if they aren't you know when we don't put the right people behind them we could have some major issues and fit or mutilations or you name it so this plant does most plants the 60 second attack time that just drives a very basic job right you only have 57 seconds to do something four minutes you can get really creative you know we do and that leads to um like I said it just leads to a different Dynamic and regarding I don't know if it's more of a skilled process but it's just a lot a greater quantity of just Knack type jobs now because we know that every single iteration of the C8 goes down the same line that doesn't mean it's the same process to build each one of these cars they require and have unique challenges that to them namely the Z06 so if you were standing there as a Observer you will literally watch a convertible go down the same line as a right hand drive export model somewhere like the UK or the Middle East as a Z06 as a Z06 convertible and all the future cars and the same assembly Personnel who are putting in seats and suspension components have to go from one task to the next and not be interrupted in their process in terms of creating new iterations like the Z06 or the e-ray there's going to be unique challenges and even like a car like the Z06 you would think okay well how hard is it but it took a lot of work on the back end to get all the workers up to speed in terms of development planning and then to actually make that work um first of all it's I I believe what I'm saying is correct that this has the most panels that differ from a base car ever from a varying Corvette like our you know the ZR1 had a few different body panels but the co6 has wider quarters wider doorings wider fenders faces I mean it's loaded up so there's a lot of a lot of content so the content drives certainly there's more work you know more actual jobs added to actually compensate for the changes in the variability of the car at the basic level believe it or not the parts are a lot bigger um which drives a lot more Fasteners which makes it a little bit more difficult to handle like a wheelhouse liner for example I mean they have to wrestle the Z06 it's wider shoot one side the other side pops out you know it's just it's some of those cumbersome parts that are a little bit different for the Z06 but really it's new content that's I mean it's really just basically new content that I'm introducing to the mix where you already have to learn right-hand Drive stingrays exports you know so it's just new content that we haven't seen that much do we do validation builds sure GM gives us plain validation builds which is great because it gives us the opportunity to practice you know without having to worry about the line shutting down that type of thing uh the sub assemblies like and like I said we've adapted you know we've added people where people needed to be yeah that's the biggest thing I mean when you have Manpower inputs you're adding costs to the car and essentially the cost of the customer right so with this car being what it is you know a Supercar right at the price point that it's set at you need to make sure you're doing everything you can to try to keep that attack time recycle time or you know just make it make it where it needs to be financially right so that's our goal at a very basic level another challenge we overcame on this car that really highlights how you balance engineering the car from an ideal product perspective but also understanding your manufacturing constraints and and needs is the baffling the auxiliary radiator so essentially this is the piece that seals the side radiators within the housing and the opening on the side of the car and from a ceiling perspective you'd make it as big and as intrusive as you could to completely seal it off to make sure you maximize the airflow over the radiator we've certainly done that we haven't compromised that performance at all but initial baffle designs were really hard to put in the car it was just hard to push it install it and get that retention and it was exhausting work I knew that because I did it you know having the opportunity to go over to that station and try and be like is this really a problem and be like yeah this is a problem I wouldn't be happy doing this all day so again I'm not gonna have somebody else to so we've completely optimized that shape to ensure that the ceiling performance is still there the cooling performance inductive performance is still there on the car but it's completely seamless and it was a testament that we did it right when we introduced that part to the line for the first time and I kind of sat there quietly watching The Operators install it I saw the part come up they put it in without issue and about three cars in I asked them so what'd you think of the new part like what I didn't notice anything very different about this we were like got it good so we're able to build the car the way that we need to it's really rewarding um from an injured perspective I think one thing that's really unique about Z06 is that the engine's assembled right across the hallway from where we actually introduce it to the engine engine marriage station so for a stingray for example our team in Tonawanda New York builds the lt2 it's brought to the plant and then it's introduced to the engine line whereas the lt6 is in pieces nuts and bolts again across the hallway so from my perspective in launching a Z06 I found a lot of advantage in that that anything that we would see it on the engine line or once it came down the chassis lines would have the opportunity to go again right there and see if there's any opportunities for improvement it really it made my feedback loop a lot shorter because I knew who to talk to how to find it and had tangible Parts on site so you're not waiting to correspond across the company to get anything else changed or implemented the lt6 components come in in various pieces and then we have one Builder that takes it from cradle to grave and seeing the equipment as an engineer is incredible that's another thing that I I don't think a lot of customers fully appreciate if you're technically inclined at all to see the thought and intention behind all of the tools the tolerances the Precision that goes into just putting the pieces together of the car it's it's fascinating and you can really get lost in that I think lt6 is so incredible because obviously it's hand built you have one person who put their pride into it but from again my perspective what's really cool to me is by the time I see the engine on the general assembly line the heat shields on the exhaust manifolds are already discolored because we send the car to a 20-minute dyno test before it goes into the vehicle now you can't talk about CA Corvette without bringing up the entrance and we've had extensive conversations with the chief engineer the engineers of the lt6 specific at this point to the Z06 Corvette your car and there's a lot of information out there about how you should treat an engine how you should break it in but from spending some time at the plant we also met the engine builders the very specific process they go through to put them together in an eight hour shift they're capable of putting together 2.75 engines in an eight hour period and these are high Precision the lt6 is a very high Precision design it shares most of its architecture with the lt6r which is in their race car so a lot of that mentality from cooling to Thermal control to oiling system all of that is there so there is all of that thought to attention to detail to make this a high performance car but there's also some special considerations you have to look at in in terms of break-in and can you walk me through some of that so there are two separate break-in milestones for the c806 you have the 500 Mile Mark when you hit 500 miles the engine opens up the full RPM band prior to that they want you to gently break in the engine vary the RPM and they limit your total RPM electronically to 6500 your next break in Milestone is at 1500 miles where by then all of the sacrificial layers all of the bearings in their eyes are fully set for track load High thermal load High engine load for long periods of time so when we talk about dinoing this car before it leaves the factory each engine before it goes in the car has a 20 minute engine Dyno cycle and from talking to Dustin Gardner and Jordan Lee that was more of a quality gate and the way that they break in that engine for the 20 minutes which is not a long period of time it's the look for leaks it's to look for Quality defects but it also runs the gamut of RPM range that it would experience on the street before it goes to a dealership and what they're trying to avoid is an abusive customer that takes it from the dealership and does a donut right out of the lot and bangs it off the rev limiter so part of this break-in accommodates it but it's not a high RPM high load engine Dyno break-in there's only one high RPM run that would be from essentially third gear or second gear all the way up to almost red line but not Redline and the reason that they're doing this and the reason that there is this break-in process is they work with so many different bearing suppliers and different Supply Flyers over the course of their history of Designing these engines for 20 plus years but in the case of the lt6 when you look at the bearing design which comes from Tenneco their engineers said look we're going to put a sacrificial layer that that base layer on the bearing and that is designed to be malleable because we're dealing with a flat plane crank engine which there's a lot of vibration in there's different forces and to get an even an even wear on that bearing is not physically possible there's always going to be uneven wear so the bearing manufacturer recommends you do not thermally Shock the bearing it's the worst thing you can do over the course of that 500 Miles you're going to create a smooth surface without potentially skimming a bearing if you're operating this engine at high load High thermal shock to it your likelihood of doing long-term damage it's not just about the short term it's the long term life of the engine that's what they're concerned about the most and that's what a lot of people seem to not understand so once you get past those break-in points they feel that it's safer they also as a preventative measure in that first that first Dino cycle they dump the oil out of the dyno cycle put in fresh oil so you get rid of some of the contaminants from the curing silicone they're talking about uh air aeration in the oil there's a lot of factors on the back end that most normal people don't understand in terms of oil temperatures Cooling and all the safety measures of trying to break in an engine like this and the the argument that we see online constantly is well race engines get break in hard you break it in hard Lake you would want to drive the car and the reality is in all their testing in all their years is the average speed of a normal car is about 35 miles an hour that's where the engine lives most of its life so it makes sense that you want to have a broad range of brake and not just high RPM high load it needs to be at the low middle and high so that engine has a normal life cycle to it again there's a lot of engineering that we're going to cover in future videos but that's kind of the highlights that's straight from the horse's mouth and that's exactly right jack you have these gentlemen that we talk to that have spent their entire life working on these and this is the culmination of all that work so I tend to believe that they're looking out for the best interests of their engine [Music] foreign obviously we've shared how excited we are to build this car here but beyond the scope of just Chevy Corvette or building an American-made car this facility is still a testament to American manufacturing where again we've brought people from not only our plants from across the country and the globe but we've also I've interacted with a variety of different team members who have worked in manufacturing in countless different industries that ended up here and they've adopted the passion and they've seen that what we do here is very different because the global landscape is changing it's constantly evolving manufacturing is going to a lot of different places in the world for various reasons so the fact that we've been able to maintain this footprint in this place and still attract people in large quantities to be a part of this American effort is also something that I think is is very inspiring [Music] thank you [Music] in watching this video hopefully you've come to appreciate that cars are made by people for people they don't just show up on your doorstep like an Amazon package after you order one I've had the unique privilege of meeting the engineers who designed the c806 the men and women at the Bowling Green assembly plant who put this cart together with this unique opportunity hopefully it provided you a window into their world so even if you're not a Corvette fan You Come Away with a greater appreciation of the sheer complexity that goes into assembling a car this vehicle is a culmination of thousands of people's efforts and abilities and this for many of them is their dream job tell me your name and how long you've been to GM my name is Curtis Coburn I've been here at the facility seven years but as a whole 22 years for General Motors I got here in 2015 I'm the team leader here in chassis too I have six jobs in my area we put on the e-boost we do the wheel wheel connections we do a battery tray this is what we do over here I repair all these things and and with me I'm a fourth generation of Automotive worker that works in this industry so I love it and it's part of me and it's in the blood [Music] I'm Morgan beachboard I've been here seven years and I work in performance build Center Building engines I build three different engines Cadillac Escalade Cadillac Blackwing and the lt4 Camaro engine and it takes eight hours to build 2.75 engines it's my way of life I mean I'm here more usually than I am at home but that's because I love it here so much you know working with everybody everybody's really nice and and great and then the job just it means a lot to me I'm proud of what I do that's what's great about Bowling Green it's the only place in the whole world the Corvettes made foreign job and I've carried over into business was becoming very very good at doing a lot with a little and some of the jobs I've had I've had minimal resources budget I've had no support from management or the corporate side in terms of Direction and I've been able to get a lot done and I prided myself on being creative and on the video side Jack and I as two people we go out and we see some video teams of like 10 20 30 people on the corporate side we're like why how is this possible I would love to have that amount of resources but the reality is we're able to get a lot more done now that doesn't mean that I don't have help and I brought this up in many other videos because of my long-term relationship with Dell on the corporate side when I supported servers infrastructure and users where I literally spent my life trying to make other people's jobs easier which meant if they didn't complain I was doing something right that that was really my Mantra and it was about the tools that I had implemented so a lot of My Success was trial and error on the technical side and now running my own business I've I've taken a lot of those things I've learned in Enterprise support and applied it to my own job so of course a lot of that's troubleshooting a lot of is that technical aptitude to make these tools work for me where typically I would have five people doing it it has to be me in the case of equipment I'm using all these Dell mobile Precision workstations to travel to bring it to the shop to set up demos to really work with footage to now move into the HDR realm where many corporate creators and people that work in this industry have shied away from it because it is more complicated it takes more technical aptitude to get it working I can push ahead by myself I can I have the tools to do that so things like the mobile Precision workstation I used to have a huge Tower I was bound to my desk I can literally take a laptop with Nvidia RTX processors or professional processors and Intel processors and get that work done literally bringing it here to the shop where I can edit I can take care of this I can go halfway across the country and still get content out because that's the only way that money is made and to have that level of power in a small form factor with all the thermal management and the Enterprise mentality behind it in terms of software and drivers they understand people need uptime that's what I'm looking for in an appliance and while it may not be the flashiest thing in the world the engineering behind it the work behind it to make sure people like myself can continue working consistently at a very high load all the time is why I really appreciate these tools and then also professional level displays calibrated displays out of the box that all I have to do is minimal work to get that that color profile set up for HDR BT 2020 and all the other confusing specs 2084 at learning about knits and how different color profiles work for different delivery from web to srgb to hdr on TVs I mean it's just unbelievable the amount of crap that you have to deal with but when you have the tools and some of the support to make this work projects like the Corvette video future projects like NSX and some other car brands were able to get these things out I appreciate all the time of the viewers the patreons and of course the people on the corporate side like Corvette and GM that take this seriously that believe in what we're trying to do and help to educate and teach people about the fact that things don't just magically appear in the air that there's still people behind all the things that we love and are passionate about thanks for watching we'll see you next video [Music]

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Id: Z2ag9b8BWzI

Length: 42min 2sec (2522 seconds)

Published: Sun Jan 29 2023