Jim Campbell- GM

It's great to see you and you know what, I think everybody at SEMA we're working on our passion from when we were kids to being adults to work on high performance cars and parts and even racing. And we did have a really exciting night the other night. We revealed all the new Camaro performance parts and accessories that go on the sixth generation Camaro. We had quite a story around parts packages for our Corvette seventh generation Stingray and then a lot of surprises on the truck side too. It was a great night. I want to talk about those parts for the Stingray because you know, I don't know how I got this lucky. You took me out to Spring Mountain, let me loose in some Z06s. An incredible vehicle, but not everybody buys a Z06.

Yeah, there's no question. I mean, that's really the idea is we have this amazing Corvette Z06 with incredible pieces and parts that obviously we spent a lot of time on in terms of testing and integration, validation, and we basically are pulling those down for the Stingray owner or the Stingray Z-51 owner. And it really touches all the key areas in terms of downforce, bringing the downforce package down, cooling for the engine and for the transmission, all the way through our suspension system, and just bringing the goodness of the Z06 parts down for a Stingray or Stingray Z-51 to really make it even more fun to drive, more trackable. And I tell you what, a lot of fun. We did it with also some of the validation with a guy named Ron Fellows who knows a thing or two about winning big races and championships, the biggest of them all, including the 24 L. So yeah, it's worked out really well and a really good response. We announced those parts that were concepts a year ago are now available for sale in our catalog. And it was great to see Ron out there. And I'm really excited about the new series.

Yeah. Well, there's certainly a tremendous excitement around what we do on the C7R level that runs in GTLM and all the way over to races like LA. But there's a real grassroots spirit and a lot of energy around autocrossing and really using your Corvettes, your day-to-day driver, and go have some fun on the weekend. And so what we have here now is something that Ron announced is really to use this combination of parts from the Z06 combined with what we use in SECA, which is a T1 suspension kit on a Corvette Stingray Z-51 along with Michelin Racing Slicks. And Ron has a long association with Michelin as we do on Corvette, and put that all together in a challenge series. Corvettes against Corvettes. So they're going to do that on Spring Mountain. I think they're going to run 15 to 18 races a year and Ron announced it at our event last night and the day before.

Well, we're going to build 69 of them. We did announce the new Copo. Courtney Forch helped us do the design on it and we also announced that for those that are interested in buying it, you can register at our website which is chevrolet.com/performance. You can register for more information. And so we're excited about that. And then Courtney did a great job with our design team. She went to our build center. We build them. We're going to auction that car off with Courtney at Barrett Jackson. So I want to thank the folks at Barrett Jackson for letting us do that. All the proceeds are going to go help United Way help a lot of people in need. So, pretty cool, but a great way to kick off the Copo Camaro for the sixth generation.

Well, obviously, Kid Rock is from the Detroit area. He loves things that are made in Michigan. He has some friends that worked up at the plant over the years where we build our Silverado HDs. He went up to the plant and walked up and down the line for several hours. Had a chance to actually start that Silverado HD that we eventually basically modified and updated for SEMA. And he drove it down to our tech center where the design center was. Came into the design center and they basically traded ideas. He did some homework the night before on things that he wanted in his Silverado HD. Worked with our designers and one thing he wanted, you're right, he wanted a big bow tie as big as he could make it on the front and the back. We did it. We revealed it last night and it's an awesome looking truck and he loved it.

But Al's here for sure. Our chief engineer on the Camaro is here and all of our engineers are here supporting the effort at SEMA. But want to thank you for having me on. In addition to those Corvette parts, we have a lot of Camaro parts, both accessories and street level performance parts from airboxes to suspensions to exhaust systems and everything in between. So really appreciate you having me on. Great to be here.

Thanks for having me on.