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The Last C5: The final C5 wears VIN 34064 and spent most of its life in the Bob McDorman collection until late 2010 when it sold for $45,100 including commissions. It currently has 13 miles on the odometer. You’ve got another chance to score this ride at Mecum’s Kissimmee auction coming up next month in Florida. We assume that the last C6 has already been spoken for and will show up at the National Corvette Museum, one of the major auctions houses, or in a collection belonging to some savvy collector. That just leaves the last C3? Know where it’s at? Chevrolet Introduces New Global Tagline – “Find New Roads” With the seventh-generation Corvette due to be unveiled Sunday and more than 20 other vehicle launches planned globally in 2013, General Motors announced today that it will also begin a new Chevrolet advertising campaign next month. That means the end of the road for the “Chevy Runs Deep” slogan, which debuted in 2010 and was met by some with indifference because they thought it was confusing and hard to translate into some languages. Our non-scientific poll, however, showed the overwhelming majority of the visitors to Corvetteblogger.com liked the slogan. Regardless, with so many new models being launched in the coming months, the new slogan – “Find New Roads” – no doubt is very appropro. Alan Batey, vice president, U.S. Sales, Service and Global Marketing, believes the time is right for the new campaign and slogan.
“We are continuing to grow globally, especially in key emerging markets,” Batey said, “and Find New Roads will help us drive even more consistency – both internally with our employees and externally with customers.” Indeed, the company will be hoping to continue a positive trend that has seen Chevrolet sales grow about 38 percent since the launch of the mid-size Cruze sedan, the brand’s first truly global vehicle, in 2009. Find New Roads will carry the banner for the brand as it develops new products and technologies for sale in more than 140 markets. The new slogan summarizes Chevrolet’s commitment to align its engineering, design, and retail operations behind a single vision and communications platform, GM said. “Find New Roads embraces the spirit of ingenuity that has been in Chevrolet’s DNA since the beginning and it will continue to guide every aspect of our business moving forward,” said Mary Barra, senior vice president of Global Product Development. “We have sold Chevrolets around the world for almost a century, but this is the first time we have aligned behind one global vision. As we develop new products our designers and engineers will be empowered to find smarter solutions to address customer needs and make their lives better.” GM CEO Dan Akerson told The Wall Street Journal that the Find New Roads tag line “offers a challenge to people, which will give the tag line longer legs.” He said: “It will also mean different things to different people because the car represents different things to different people.” In addition to driving internal consistency for Chevrolet, Find New Roads also will be used in advertising around the world, beginning in the United States this quarter. “Find New Roads will enable the whole company to rally around a consistent theme for the brand, and at the same time serve as an external message that works in all markets,” said Batey. “The theme has meaning in mature markets like the U.S. as well as emerging markets like Russia and India, where the potential for continued growth is the greatest.” Court Rules Vintage Corvette Belongs to Last Buyer “Let the buyer beware” recently took an unusual turn in Indiana. Maybe now it should read “Let the original buyer beware.” Last week, we reported a story about federal prosecutors in Indianapolis, Ind., releasing details of a racket there that allegedly used mechanic’s liens to steal cars from banks and others who had ownership interest in the vehicles. Prosecutors say a business known as Mechanic’s Liens Plus has been operating the scam in Indianapolis and they charged the owner of the business and his daughter, along with a Bureau of Motor Vehicles insider who helped with the scheme. Apparently, people would pay $1,000 to Mechanic’s Liens Plus to file fake paperwork to enforce a mechanic’s lien on cars, enabling the drivers to escape making payments that they owed on the cars. One of those cases involved a 1965 Corvette that James N. and Stephanie L. Brinkley bought in 2005. A year later, they contracted with Michael Haluska to restore the car, but the two parties eventually had a falling-out over Haluska’s work and the amount of money they still owed him.
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