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A Costco Membership Can Save You $3,000 on a New Corvette

Costo members receive a range of benefits beyond the opportunity to buy cheese in bulk. You can get deals on travel, gas, eyeglasses, prescriptions, auto insurance, and so much more. The retailer even sells cars, and if you’re a member, you can save a couple thousand dollars on a range of vehicles. Right now, it’s offering a sweet deal on the Chevrolet Corvette through the end of April.

CarsDirect first found the offer, which allows Costco’s Executive membership to save $3,000 on a 2024-2025 C8 Stingray or E-Ray, which buyers can combine with other Chevy discounts to save even more. , the automaker also has a discount of up to $2,500 for 2010 or later Camaro owners or lessees who want the 2024 model, though it doesn't apply to the E-Ray.

Chevy also offers an additional $1,500 discount for Camaro owners who own or lease another eligible Chevrolet model. That means a current Camaro owner could save $4,000 on a 2024 Corvette on top of the Costco deal for a total savings of $7,000, helping the automaker move the remaining 2024 inventory.

The Stingray costs $69,995 for the 2024 and 2025 to start, including the destination charge. The E-Ray, with a hybrid all-wheel drive system and 655 horsepower, starts at $108,595 for 2025, while the 2025 is $2,000 cheaper to start, at $106,595.

Chevy introduced last week that it would be pausing Corvette production for “project improvements” and “manufacturing updates.” The business confirmed that production would be down this week and again the last two weeks of March. It’ll also be down for the week of May 19.

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Leaked Document Hints at New Shelby GT500

Ford has a stable of potential Mustang variants that it could surprise us with at any moment. Product planners had the Mach 1 for the previous-gen pony, and it’s been over a decade since we last saw a Boss 302. Those are certainly iconic cars fans love, but the Shelby Mustangs get much of the attention, so a document allegedly from a local UAW branch purporting that a new GT500 is coming soon caught ours.

The memo, posted to the Mustang subreddit, says that Dearborn Engine Plant (DEP) will add an afternoon shift to its “niche assembly line” to accommodate a volume increase that’s allegedly for the 2026 Mustang Shelby GT500, which is where Ford builds the F-150 Raptor R motor. It says, “I can’t wait until we start building engines for such an iconic vehicle with an engine that will be named Legend.”.

The only identifying information on the document is a URL to UAW Local 600, which represents workers at the plant. We reached out to the union office to confirm the memo’s authenticity, but haven’t heard back. We’ll enhancement this story if we do.

When reached by Motor1, a Ford spokesperson told us the business can’t comment on speculation.

Ford hit the ground running with the launch of the seventh-generation Mustang in 2023, quickly introducing high-performance variants of its iconic pony car like the Dark Horse and GTD. It also not long ago introduced the EcoBoost RTR, which borrows parts from the Dark Horse.

But if Ford continues to operate as it has, these special editions will exist for a few years before making room for something else, which may include a new GT500. We’ll have to wait to see.

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Waymo Hits 200,000 Paid Trips Per Week Before Tesla Even Gets Started

Waymo unveiled that it now does 200,000 paid autonomous rides per week. That's double what it stated six months ago.

Waymo operates self-driving taxis in Los Angeles, Phoenix and San Francisco.

After years of broken promises around self-driving cars, Tesla plans to start an autonomous ride-hailing service in Austin this summer.

In the race to lead the autonomous vehicle space—and maybe even the future of transportation—Google's Waymo has about a 100-mile head start. The self-driving taxi division just hit a new milestone: over 200,000 paid rides per week through its Waymo One service.

If this feels like deja-vu, that's because it was only in August that Waymo introduced it was doing 100,000 paid rides per week. The corporation has grown rides by 20 times in less than two years, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai noted in a Thursday post on X announcing the news.

That means the gulf between Waymo and Tesla, which has been making huge promises around autonomous driving for years, feels bigger than ever. Tesla CEO Elon Musk has mentioned his enterprise would sell a self-driving car "soon" since at least 2016, but you still can't take a nap in the driver's seat of your Model Y. (Well, while it's moving, at least.).

Last year, Tesla revealed the Cybercab, a purpose-built robotaxi without a steering wheel or pedals that the automaker says will hit production by 2026. But the truest test of the automaker's self-driving ambitions will come far sooner than that. Musk unveiled on a recent earnings call that, starting in June, the enterprise will deploy driverless Teslas in Austin, Texas. People will be able to order rides through an app, as they do for Waymo or Uber.

After Austin, Musk says the service will swiftly expand to other cities. But, again, he's made these indicates for years. And, to date, Tesla hasn't yet proved it can make a car that drives itself without supervision in public.

Musk's killer app may be cost and scale. Teslas only use cameras to "see" the world, while Waymos rely on a wider array of more expensive sensors and highly detailed maps of the cities they operate in. (To get a sense of the costs involved here, just know that Waymo closed a $[website] billion funding round last year.) If Tesla can achieve the same reliability as Waymo with cars you can buy for $40,000 or $50,000—a big "if"—that's a big deal. But so far, while Tesla has been ironing out the kinks, Waymo has cemented itself as the driverless taxi enterprise in the [website].

One of the OGs of the autonomous-vehicle industry, Google (now under parent firm Alphabet) started researching self-driving cars in 2009 and launched Waymo in 2016. Today, Waymo has autonomous, electric Jaguars on the road in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Phoenix. Next up: deployment in Atlanta and Austin on the Uber platform, and Miami too.

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