At the C8 release Travis Hester then president of GM Canada told us that they would be expecting dealers to take orders throughout the winter months in order to keep our priority status with GM. GM has a tenancy to neglect Canada and in some years and it was thought that if we ordered all year round we would keep in their inner circle for gaining allotment
With the C7's, there was not a time we could not order Corvettes through the winter, they just didn't arrive until April.
There have been numerous GM executives publicly saying something about the C8 Corvette that turned out to not be true. I won't accept anything unless it is on a written statement from GM.