GM Bowling Green Assembly — Attraction in Bowling Green

CORVETTE ASSEMBLY PLANT BOWLING GREEN! Just one hours drive from Nashville is the Mecca for all things corvette: Bowling Green Kentucky. This small country town is home to both the National Corvette Museum as well as the General Motors Bowling Green assembly plant which exclusively assembles the Corvette and ONLY the Corvette. Since 1981 every Corvette ever made originated inside of this facility.

Seeing the assembly plant was one of the most remarkable things I’ve ever done.

Cell phones and cameras are NOT ALLOWED inside of the plant, so the photos you are seeing above are from google for the sake of illustration. Forgive me. If you guys know us you know how agonizing it must have been for Jessica and I to leave our phones in the car and literally be offline for 2 hours. Haha.

The plant is unreal. If you’ve been to EPCOT and seen the ride “Test Track” I got those vibes as soon as I walked in. There are corvettes in various stages of completion all around you, many of them on a track like assembly line, some hanging from massive orange hooks from the ceiling like a dry cleaners, and some being transported on massive autonomous Roomba like robots the size of king mattresses. Once again, one of the most incredible and remarkable things I’ve ever seen.

The plant is 1.7 MILLION square feet. All climate controlled, all under roof, and is responsible for the construction of every corvette on the planet since 1981.

You can’t help but be amazed at what they have done here, creating a car that is comparable to sports vehicles twice its value, and doing so right here in America in the middle of Kentucky. While next level robotics, automation and even Star Wars style robots are everywhere in the factory, so are thousands of assembly workers, quality checkers, operators and technicians. It’s an incredible marriage of old school wrenching and latest generation computer controlled precision.

As for the museum, perhaps that deserves its own separate post. I will say, seeing the plant and taking the tour would be a non negotiable prerequisite to coming here if you ever make the trip. Arrange that in advance, we saw someone walk in behind us and get denied access because the tours had already been sold out...

My wife and I drove 2 hours one way and paid $100 for tickets to the museum and factory tour. We parked in the C lot which is a good hike to the tour conference room. We were in a hurry to beat the pending rain storm.

Once we came out of the tour and walked to our car, we notice a ticket on our windshield. This was due to not parking my Porsche GTS in the C3 lot which is designated for non UAW, foreign cars.

Heres a sales and marketing 101 tip. Don’t give your potential Z06 “conquest” sales prospects a ticket for parking in the wrong lot. (See photo).

Ok to end on a positive note…

Stop passing out tickets to potential customers for parking in the “wrong” lot.

Consider having a parking lot designated for tours (potential customers) closer to the door.

Or have a shuttle bus to take potential customers from the museum to the factory and back.

The tour was excellent. Be ready to walk about 1.5 miles. The new Corvette is the best sports car bargain out there. The ZO6 is an amazing work of art. The flat plane crank engine is incredible. I can not believe it is being built.

Best of success to all the people who make the...

Amazing tour. Mike was our tour guide and was awesome. My wife and I went on September 29th.at 1:15. At the end of the tour someone from your group is supposed to be picked randomly to start a new Corvette right off the production line. Unfortunately our group was not granted that luxury as there was a lady who let everyone know during the safety briefing her husband worked at the plant in the electronics division. Half way through the tour a employee, (assuming her husband) joined the rest of the tour. We come to the end where someone is to be picked to start a car and before Mr. Mike even gets to get to that point the employee is already talking to the guys on the production line and before you know the lady who's husband works there and her father were already behind the wheel and both were in there glory. Mr. Mike stopped mid sentence and said we'll thats unusual. So glad employees can come join the tour and take away the opportunity for people to do something they otherwise may never do. The employee wore a safety vest with the name "Aydenai" I probably spelled it wrong but the cameras should be able to see along with our tour...