The white convertible 3LT, sporting a red interior and black soft top, rolled off the line on May 28. Its predecessors began filling garages on June 30, 1953.

Building 1,500,000 of just about any complex machine is a serious milestone, but it's much more than that to the motoring spirit of America when it's the Chevrolet Corvette. Today General Motors announced the production of the 1,500,000th Corvette at its Bowling Green Assembly plant.

Looking back on the nearly 60 years of Corvette production that got them to the Grand Sport, Z06 and ZR-1, Rafferty remarked, "The 1.5 millionth Corvette is a great example of how Chevy is America's Brand. For nearly 60 years we have built America's Sports Car and this milestone is a solid proof point."

 

wow 1.5 million corvettes. i dont see that many here in illinois

 

too cool! That white with the red looks great.

 

Amazing accomplishment!!!

 

wow, this is amazing, very very big milestone for them for a car like this

 

museum is actually pretty cool. quite a milestone.

 

Awesome!

I never paid attention to corvette until the C6, and maybe the stingray

Does anyone know which year/model sold the most?

 

Wow, 1.5 million, someday I will own a Corvette. It's a great car, yet it is a achievable goal for most people to own one.

 

Congrats to that team and its accomplishments.

 

Well done GM.

My mum had a white on red convertible. Loved that car.

 

quite the feat...
the corvette works because its a sports car that any person can strive to own. Its fun, stylish, reliable and quite a bargain as well.

you can go buy a ZR1 today and stomp porsches and such that cost 2x as much all night long.

very suprising because i dont see as many vettes as i used to...although you see a host of them running around when its nice out.

 

still searching for more numbers...

2005 37,372
2006 34,021
2007 40,561
2008 35,310

 

here we go ----

feel free to add them up

1953 300
1954 3640
1955 700
1956 3467
1957 6339
1958 9168
1959 9670
1960 10261
1961 10939
1962 14531
1963 21513
1964 22229
1965 23564
1966 27720
1967 22940
1968 28566
1969 38762
1970 17316
1971 21801
1972 27004
1973 30464
1974 37502
1975 38465
1976 46558
1977 49213
1978 46776
1979 53807
1980 40614
1981 41606
1982 25407

1984 51547
1985 39729
1986 35109
1987 30632
1988 22789
1989 26412
1990 23646
1991 20639
1992 20479
1993 21590
1994 23330
1995 20742
1996 21536
1997 9752
1998 31084
1999 33270
2000 33682
2001 35627
2002 35767
2003 35469
2004 34064
2005 37372
2006 34021
2007 40561
2008 35310
2009 15999 ***

*** 2009 Production through 05/28/09

 

What a succsess story, 56 years of nonstop demand. Too bad GM can't duplicate this on any other model. Surely design engineers have much looser rein from the bean counters than any other platform.

 

"Just when I think I'm free..... they pull me back in............."