It’s a great assumption. The second “group” of allocations will be cut down from what GM Canada originally thought due to strike and that group will get built right into the final weeks of Sept 2020 and be delivered after that time ... so technically we could see some Canadians getting their 2020 C8’s in Oct / Nov 2020.... just in time depending where they are in Canada to put to bed for the winter unfortunately
Yes and no.
tl;dr - I velieve that no one - even GM execs know how many Canada will get. With the popularity of the C8, it might not be very many at all...
By no means am I an expert, I've only made observations from 3 years of experience.
I do not believe there is a set number of how many 2020 Corvettes Canada will get. For every vehicle that has had a major update and release, we seemed to have gotten a set number at the beginning of the model year, but the latter half... I cannot believe that it will be any different for the Corvette.
I hate to say it, but GM Canada is insignificant compared to GM USA. Our market is less than 10% the size of the American market, thus we are a very low priority - the Americans needs must be met first. We basically get what is left. In essence, if the sales in the USA increased by 1%, dealer lots here will be empty, waiting for more. If sales dropped 1%, we don't have enough room for the influx of extra vehicles. I've seen this a few times.
Late Spring, 2017, truck sales were booming in the USA. By June, we had 5 measly Silverado on our lot, and it was the same for all dealerships within 1000km of here.
The release of the 2018 Traverse - a top player in its class and turned out to be extremely popular. We got a few to begin, but once they took off we couldn't get one for 3-4 months. We even had an EMPLOYEE order in the system that GM wouldn't accept because they were selling too well in the USA.
I like to be optimistic, saying that we will get plenty of 2020 Corvettes, but the realist in me is saying... not so likely.
We saw this with the C7 ZR1. A handful came to Canada when they were first released, and then that was it. Canada didn't get any more for a year and a half, and yet there was one rolling through the NCM every day, much to our frustration. To a business: Why would they sell them in Canada when they're selling just fine in the USA? We only got a handful more in the summer of 2019 because sales dropped a bit in the USA with the hype for the 2020 C8 Corvette building up.
