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Johnston County Public Schools:
Good day, and welcome to this week's
edition of the superintendent's vlog.
This is Ross Renfrow, superintendent for
Johnston County Public Schools. It is
the first full week of July, and lots are
going on. I think back to where I was
last week at this time at a
superintendents' meeting and just hearing
my peers across the state talk about all
the things happening in their public
school systems, and I promise you I know
perception is reality, but we are blessed
to be in the Johnston County public
schools when you hear stories about
things that happen across the state. So
blessed and thankful to be here. Today
being July the 2nd, our six new
principals are assuming their new roles
today as lead learners in those
buildings, so we applaud them for the
efforts. And stop by and meet your new
principal, if you've got one this year.
Only six this year. That number has
diminished greatly over the last two and
a half years, so hats off to those six
folks, and live the dream because it is a
great job to serve in that capacity.
Last Thursday stopped by Facility Services
for our trades fair. It was an awesome
idea and still would love to get on that
lawnmower and cut grass for the public
school system.
Maybe that's what we'll do whenever we
finish being the superintendent. Man just
love to get on a lawnmower cut grass. It
is really, really soothing to me, but want
to thank the Dolores Gill and her team for
having such a creative idea and
recruiting folks to come in and serve in
those needed capacities. Last item for
discussion, this is the Fourth of July
this week. So what do we do on the Fourth
of July...
you know cookouts, homemade ice cream,
hotdogs, baseball, apple pie, Chevrolet...the
whole thing in public schools, so you
know we celebrate the Fourth of July
every day in the Johnston County public
schools. You know patriotism is one of our
regular character traits that we observe.
It is our job to grow good citizens each
and every
day, and so it takes us all working
together to do that. Thank you all. Happy
Fourth of July, and we'll see you next
week. Thank you.
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2020 Corvette Stingray Convertible Reveal — Mid-Engine C8 Corvette Convertible!
Edmunds:
MARK TAKAHASI: Mom,
apple pie, baseball.
These are things
we traditionally
think of as American, right?
Personally, I think
of our accomplishments
to describe the uniquely
American experience.
We're here at the
Kennedy Space Center
in Florida, where 50 years ago,
three brave astronauts strapped
into a Saturn 5 rocket,
blasted off to the moon,
forever changing
humanity's story arc.
16 years before that, though,
America's sports car was born.
And it's closely tied
to the space program.
We're here to check out the
latest version of that sports
car in the 2020 Chevrolet
Corvette convertible.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
In 1953, Chevrolet
introduced the Corvette,
a small convertible
sports car, to compete
against those little
roasters GIs were
falling in love with overseas.
America's first
astronaut, Alan Shepard,
had a '57 'vette
just like my mom's.
A decade later, the
edgier, second generation
was introduced, along with
the iconic Stingray name.
And this one, in particular,
used to be Neil Armstrong's.
Come on, how cool is that?
We just happen to have a
'66 this same color rotating
above the Edmunds
reception desks too.
The third generation,
C3m three showed up
just as the Apollo program
hit its stride in 1968.
There's a famous
photo of the Apollo 12
astronauts posing with their
custom gold 427 Stingrays.
Starting in 1984, the C4 ensured
the 80s and 90s were rad.
The C5 'vette ran
from '97 to 2004,
and we had a wonderful Z06
from 2002, our long-term fleet.
The true 21st century Corvette
started with the C6 and C7s,
which dramatically increased
the technology and performance
quotient.
That brings us to the
all-new 8th generation,
which represents the biggest
change in the Corvette's
history.
We showed you the Stingray
coupe over the summer,
and for the most
part, this convertible
is mechanically identical.
Under this deck lid is the same
6.2 liter, naturally aspirated,
push rod V8 that puts out 495
horsepower and 470-pound feet
of torque.
Attached to that is an
8-speed automated dual clutch
transmission.
Sadly, it doesn't
sound like we're
going to get a manual
this time around.
There are some design challenges
that go along with a mid engine
sports car like this.
And if you look at
something like, let's say,
the Lamborghini
Diablo Spyder, where
the deck looks really huge and
heavy and the seating position
is way too far forward.
That is not the case with
a Corvette convertible.
They styled it impeccably, so
it looks almost like the coupe.
These nacelles here that
run from the headrest all
the way to the tail really
break up some of that space.
And these intersecting
lines and decreases
lighten that visual weight.
Also helping to break up
some of that visual weight
is this black fascia
down here, which kind of
helps it not look as heavy and
chunky as it normally would.
One thing that I
was really concerned
with the design of
this new C8 Corvette
was this really,
really big center thing
with all the buttons on it.
They're all climate controls,
so it sort of makes sense,
but I have to say this.
In photos, it looks
really awkward.
In practice, sitting here,
it's actually pretty good.
I mean, you have
everything at your command.
Maybe they could have slimmed
it down with fewer buttons,
but I'm sorry.
It kind of works.
You also have this nice
little hand rest here
for the dial controller.
And this squared off
steering wheel actually
feels pretty good.
I have to say, it might be
fulfilling some like Formula 1
driver aspirations.
Overall, the interior
has a nice snug
feel without
feeling too cramped.
There are obviously
a lot of challenges
when it comes to converting
the coupe to a convertible,
so I'm here with Ed
Piatek, chief engineer
for the Corvette.
Ed, what kind of
challenges did you
run into with this
mid engine Corvette?
ED PIATEK: Well,
typically you have
a lot of challenges from
a structure standpoint
if you're removing the
roof from a coupe that
uses the roof as a load path.
But in the case of all
the Corvettes going back
to the 6th generation car,
they've all effectively
been convertibles.
They all have
removable roof panels.
So we can't count on the roof.
So when we do a
car like this, we
use a tunnel-dominant structure.
If you took a look at
the underbody of the car
you'll see we've got a
really big tunnel section.
And that gives it
sort of the backbone
that gives you great bending
and torsional stiffness.
So for us to do a convertible,
it's not as big a challenge,
as far as having to remediate
that and put band-aids
on the car to get
the structure back.
MARK TAKAHASI: So that's
all really impressive,
but something I heard earlier
is even more impressive.
How much more does
this convertible
weigh than the coupe?
ED PIATEK: We're still in
the final validation phase,
so I don't have an exact number.
But it's going to be less
than 100 pounds difference
from coupe to
convertible, which is
why we think the acceleration
performance that everyone's
excited about for the
coupe will carry right
over into the convertible.
MARK TAKAHASI: That's
amazing considering
that a lot of convertibles
weigh several pounds more
than their coupe counterparts.
Thanks a lot, Ed.
ED PIATEK: Hey, thank you.
MARK TAKAHASI: It's
been a pleasure.
I can't wait to drive it.
ED PIATEK: It's great.
I'm here with Kirk Bennion,
chief designer of the Corvette.
What were your main
challenges with the C8?
KIRK BENNION: Well,
I would tell you
in developing this
convertible top,
the mechanization was something
that we started on very early.
There were certain
things that we wanted
to maintain in the design.
We want to maintain the
shoulders and the quarters.
But also we wanted to
maintain some surfacing that
led up to those nacelles.
So we started with a
small patch of surface,
and we continued to develop
that fiber link system
to give us his tapered upper.
But to work around
that early surface--
we didn't even know
what the car was
going to look like
as a whole, but we
knew we wanted these particular
elements in the design.
MARK TAKAHASI: But a lot of
the challenges for mid engine
is the back end
looks really heavy,
and the passenger
compartment looks like it's
squished too far forward.
How did you solve that?
KIRK BENNION: A lot of that
depends on just where you
place that windshield.
And, you know, kind of like
with the windshield assembly,
and your wiper assembly,
call panel and that,
we like that to be
over center of axle--
center of the front wheel.
We feel it-- for this car that
gives us the best proportion.
It's that right
amount to reach, where
it doesn't look
like it's crammed,
with it's reaching forward.
And then it gives
us just enough room
in the back to kind of stretch
things out and still get
that for-- you know, what we
call a cockpit forward accent.
But in doing so, that allows us
to lean out the car, basically.
MARK TAKAHASI: Well,
it's a pleasure
to see it in the flesh.
Thanks for taking the time.
KIRK BENNION: Thank you.
MARK TAKAHASI: If you ask
me, the Corvette convertible
is just as sharp as the coupe.
And it's also as relatively
affordable costing,
$7,500 more.
Expect a starting
price of around $67,000
when it goes on sale
in March of 2020.
I'm not completely convinced
it's worth shelling out
the extra money for
the convertible,
since the coupe already
has a removable roof.
Whether you choose the
coupe or the convertible
you're pretty much
guaranteed you're
going to be driving the new
hotness for at least a couple
months.
That's it from the
Corvette convertible unveil
at the Kennedy Space
Center in Florida.
If you thought we'd come here
and not check out the astronaut
experience, you're wrong.
For sticking around this
long, here's a bonus.
Some snippets from
astronaut camp.
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Come on, Doug.
Let's go steal a rocket.
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That's where I belong.
Why Chevy Is Radically Changing The Corvette
CNBC:
The Corvette is widely regarded
as America's sports car.
The Chevrolet Corvette has been in production
since 1953, making it one of
the longest running production
vehicles in history.
Of course, it's also one that
has occasionally risked the axe, especially
in times of stress for
Chevrolet parent General Motors.
In spite of that, the car has endured
and it is about to undergo its
biggest change in history.
The Corvette is becoming a mid-engine sports car
and it is one of a small
number of mid-engine sports cars that can
be bought for less than six
figures.
GM President Mark Reuss told the crowd
at the Corvettes unveiling that the
car would start at less than 60
thousand dollars and gasps could be heard
from the audience to
understand what this means.
It is important to take
a look at Corvette's history.
The first Corvette was designed
by legendary General Motors designer
Harley Earl.
Earl saw that American soldiers returning
from Europe after World War 2
had gone crazy for European sports cars,
and he wanted to create an
American competitor.
GM built 300 of the first Corvettes
in 1953, while the initial Corvette
was a virtual masterpiece
of automotive design.
The car's performance was mediocre.
GM engineers had put the car together
from materials the company had on
hand. Its six-cylinder engine lacked the
horsepower needed to match the
car's sleek looks.
The first Corvette sold poorly and was
being outsold several times over by
competitors such as
the Ford Thunderbird.
Just a few years after its creation,
the Corvette was already in danger of
being discontinued.
But the car had caught the attention
of a Russian born Belgian immigrant
engineer and race car driver named Zora
Arkus-Duntov, who soon got a job
with GM and became the
Corvettes first chief engineer.
Arkus-Duntov is credited with pushing
for a sportier, higher performing
Corvette. Over time, the car grew a
reputation as a working man's answer
to high end Italian and German supercars
and developed a proud and devoted
following apart from its lower price.
It also, over time, became known for
keeping its engine in the front of
the car. Like many conventional cars.
But the performance and handling of
a mirror engine layout is often
favored among makers of super cars
and high end sports cars.
Arkus-Duntov
had pressed his bosses to make a
mid-engine Corvette, and for years the
company experimented with designs.
You know, creating a car with the
drive train centralized in the middle of
the vehicle helps
centralize the mass.
When you do that, you end up with
more equal weight between the front and
rear axles and on the front tires.
Essentially, that makes the car more
stable, even at higher speeds and
even around sharper corners,
braking and acceleration.
Everything you're doing in the car especially
is a performance car is more
stable, more balanced when you have
mass centralised engine design over
time.
Chevrolet developed several different iterations
of what was called the
Chevrolet Experimental Research
Vehicle or CERV.
These cars were outfitted with
mid-engine configurations too, some of
which Arkus-Duntov himself held patents, but
none of the designs ever made
it to production, even as high
end performance vehicles from other
manufacturers routinely demonstrated the
advantages of the mid-engine
layout.
That Corvette was able to compete with
many far more expensive cars was
impressive that it did so while keeping
its engine in the front of the
car. For many of its fans added to
its charm, in some ways, the car
appeared to succeed in
spite of itself.
I think that when we talk about Corvette
and the idea that it stayed true
for so long to its heritage front engine,
rear drive and over time, as we
saw more mid-engine cars coming out,
performance levels getting higher and
higher.
Part of the mystique and the aura
around mid-engine was literally that was
the engines like right
behind your head.
Changes like ride and
drive dynamics, too.
But it kind of gave this idea that,
to compete at this level, you have to
have a mid-engine.
At the same time, Corvette soldiered on
and it was great Nuremberg lap
records.
It was crazy amounts of power grid,
all despite the fact that didn't have
this latest and greatest
exotic car engine.
Part of its success has come
from the credibility Corvette has established
in racing.
Corvettes have been a popular choice
for racing enthusiasts for decades,
even when General Motors has not
been formally involved in racing.
In 1960, a private race team entered a
Corvette in the 24 hours of Le
Monde endurance race in
Le Mans, France.
In 1999, GM began sponsoring a Corvette
racing team, which has since won
107 races around the world.
That is more than any other car
in the history of the International Motor
Sports Association, one of the major
sanctioning bodies for racing in
North America.
In addition, the current Corvette racing
team has had eight victories in
the car's class and the 24 hours
of Le Monde race since 2001.
The Corvette also benefited from some
clever publicity, courtesy of early
NASA astronauts in the early 1960s.
GM President Ed Cole and a Florida
Chevrolet dealer named Jim Rathmann, a
former Indy 500 winner, offered astronauts
from some of the Apollo
missions a special deal that let
them drive any Chevrolet vehicle they
wanted for a year for one dollar.
Many, of course, chose the Corvette.
That doesn't mean things have always
been easy for the Corvette.
General Motors has been
close to canceling the.
Car a few times, but it's always seemed
to save it at the last minute.
One famous incident was in the 1990s
when GM wanted to shut down the
Corvette program in favor
of more popular models.
At that time, the company was
reportedly losing 1000 dollars on every
Corvette it made.
But Corvette program manager Russ McClain
and his team secretly went to
work on a new Corvette.
McClain told no one except his wife that
he had been ordered to cancel the
car.
The car they created was released in
1997 and became Motor Trend's Car of
the Year in 1998.
Corvette sales have seen a decline
in recent years, falling from 33,329
units in 2015 to
18,791 units in 2018.
GM, along with rivals Ford and
Fiat Chrysler, have rapidly been abandoning
traditional passenger cars.
However, industry watchers say the Corvette
name has now lived long enough
to attain a kind of iconic status,
not unlike the Ford Mustang, which Ford
has decided to hold on to even
as it slowly drains its portfolio of
traditional sedans and coupes.
But General Motors has decided it is
time for a big change to Corvette,
and many industry observers say the
mid-engine gives GM a shot at
attracting a new audience to the car.
I think for General Motors and
virtually every automaker whose main stream
or even the luxury brands
that have these halo cars.
The rationale is literally that is that
we have to have something that
brings you into the showroom or gets
our own employees excited because it
does have that trickle down
effect from said vehicle.
And it's one of those things where
you're never going to justify on paper,
you work in product planning, your
corporate bean counting, whatever you
want to call it.
On paper, it doesn't make
a lot of sense.
Can you truly measure
its effect overall?
Not really.
I mean, if you really want extrapolated
down to word of mouth kind of
thing, which again, is pie 1, the
highest, you know, most reputable things
is , I heard it from X, Y, Z,
and you really can measure stuff like that.
You can say, you know, on the
internet we saw this much activity.
We saw as many clicks.
But at the end of the day, it's
one of those things that you really can't
measure people's feelings.
And we know the cars of this nature,
they stir the soul and they get
people excited.
The new Corvette boasts
some impressive specs.
It will have 495 horsepower.
And when paired with a performance package,
we'll be able to go from zero
to 60 in under three
seconds according to GM.
That is approaching
supercar performance levels.
For example, it is within just fractions
of a second of the times boasted
by the 350 thousand dollar Ferrari
488 Pista and the 573 thousand
dollar Lamborghini Aventador
SVJ Roadster.
Chevrolet said redesigning the new Corvette
from the ground up provided a
historic opportunity Chevrolet designers have
wanted for 60 years.
The company said the Corvette can stand
tall with the best the world has
to offer.
GM President Mark Reuss also said Corvette
has pushed the potential of its
front engine design as far
as it can go.
But not everyone is happy about
the switch to a mid-engine layout.
Some longtime Corvette fans have cried
foul over the change, some
considered a betrayal
of Corvettes legacy.
Some complain the car is just aping
European designs and some don't like
how the mid-engine layout
changes the car's proportions.
Others are more optimistic;
if a bit guarded.
General Motors has been trying to
cut costs and improve profitability, and
its push has resulted in some bold,
if controversial moves such as cutting
production of several of its
passenger cars in late 2018.
As of September 2019, shares of GM
had risen about 12 percent over the
past five years.
With sales being so small, many think
Corvettes status as a kind of 'halo'
car becomes ever more
important to its survival.
It gives GM a chance to make
an inspiring, attention grabbing vehicle and
showcase the company's
engineering talent.
By switching over to
a mid-engine design.
Corvette is showing it can make
a world class vehicle and undercut
higher-end makers of super
cars in price.
It's always fascinating to
watch the supercar evolution.
This is a this is
a segment that doesn't stop.
It's never standing still.
It's never static. Every
not even a year.
It's really more like almost
every three to four months.
There's another super car
coming around the corner.
I think General Motors has stepped
into this competitive segment with a
very capable entry in this
new C 8 Corvette.
And it will be fascinating to watch
how how effectively they compete at
their price point with
much higher priced vehicle.
When they've got a vehicle that already
looks like it's going to be
offering performance based models that
are just being produced, despite
all the data that shows sport
utility is taking over the U.S.
auto market.
The next few years could be
some good ones for sports cars.
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