I picked mine up 3-1-05 as promised. I had a deposit on it for weeks. It was sold 4 times before they could prep it and get it to me by one salesman, and more waiting with other sales people. Received a letter it was the first 05 to arrive to them and sold. Only 10 arrived within 100 miles by 2-27 including mine.
My dealer wrote it up with the GM employee pricing $30,200.00 +/- and the sport package at $3,100.00 and there is another story. GM Marketing advertised the sport package complete for 3,100.00, parts dept ordered it and when I came to pick it up it is missing the new front upper grilles and new spoiler. We find out Marketing put to much in the package and those parts cost about $600.00 more.
At the same time they were ordering the other parts for me at no charge, (great dealer), they were getting a memo to the other sales people. Apparrently GM is not going to help the dealers with their (GM's) mistake.
My sales person also told me they need to get all their orders for 05's in by end of March. This is supposed to be a short production year so 06's will be here when all the other cars introduce in the fall.
I'm also hearing that the sport package will be a factory option for 06, with some speculation that the current sport package may be similar to 06 changes.
Anyway what I'm hearing seems to support a limited production run of 12,000 for 05 because of timing the 06. I previosly heard of a one third drop in production because of the lackluster 04 launch, rebates and all. Don't expect them this year, the 6.0L is a beast and I'm getting thumbs up and looks like I never expected.
More fun than my 69 427 vette!