2023 Z06..... how are we not talking about this!!
 

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I can't wait to see the aftermarket headers that will come to market!!!

i was astonished to hear 670hp out of a naturally aspirated 5.2v8. I figured GM would aim high but that is above and beyond what I thought possible in what is still a relatively pedestrian car.

Pretty impressive for roughly the price of a cayman gts.

The Z06 version makes the C8 into a serious screamer with its 5.5L flat plane crank. The base model is enough for me with its 0-60 time of 2.8 seconds vs 2.6 seconds in the Z06. Then later, the ZR1 has a turbocharged version of the Z06 engine, making around 800 hp. Things are going to get serious...

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a38060129/2023-chevy-c8-corvette-z06-c8-stingray-compared/

I had a 2008 Z06 and 505 hp (out of a normally aspirated small block 427, which was cool) wasn't the problem. Traction was.

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From the sounds of it by some of the car youtubers I follow, it appears to check off a lot of boxes for them. Obviously all of this is just from what they saw/heard on the video but seems exciting.

Sounds damn good.

It sure seems like a potent weapon. I still don’t love the looks of the c8 from some angles, but I can’t imagine there will be much that can compete with it for the money.

hope it can hang with a GT3RS.
with the new nannies your grandmother will be able to maintain traction.

Is this the mid engine Corvette they should have been making for a long time?

I may part with my lil SC in a few years, provided my car goes up and used C8's go down. ;) I may have to wait more like 10 years for them to get very reasonable. lol

The Z06 is just amazing!

Cool.

As an American it makes me happy to see a fast car from Corvette.

0-60 in 2.6 is the only number I noticed they mentioned. They went to the Nürburgring with a guy in a race suit, yet they never mentioned any sort of time for a lap. A Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 1LE did a 7:16 back in 2018, so they have to be in the 6 minutes range.

The performance cars coming from the U.S. in the last 10 years have been pretty epic, even more so when you factor in the cost for that performance.

I like the technology aspects of super and near super cars, but I think on the road this will be somewhat less fun to drive than an ND2 miata or base model cayman even. Would be too much car for me to be comfortable in HPDE as well.

Have no interest in cars and coffee or instagram type activites, so not sure what I would do with one.

Do want!

that's a heck of a slick promotion as well.

Here’s a good engine article describing why this engine should be more reliable than Ford’s recent flat plane V8.

https://www.motortrend.com/news/2023-chevrolet-corvette-z06-flat-plane-crankshaft-tech/

I’m with you Aschen. It’s neat but I get nothing from bragging and it would be so hard to stay out of trouble

Helluva good video about what appears to be a helluvan automobile. Out of the nearly 90 cars I've owned, only one was a Corvette, a C5 Z06. Looked cool, sounded cool, offered lots of performance per dollar, and I really didn't like it. Haven't even considered another Corvette since that experience ... until now.

This thing, particularly in Z07 form, looks good and sounds fantastic.

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Do it right and get the Z07 option.

https://www.motortrend.com/news/2023-chevrolet-corvette-c8-z06-z07-package-details/

Zora Arkus Duntov would most likely approve.

As much power as 5 GM V8s from the early 80s.

He's waiting to shower his approval on the upcoming Duntov edition.

Own the same car but with another 125 NA hp. I don't even bring it out if it's below 50 degrees. Cold tires, cold pavement and big hp are asking for big trouble.

No doubt. A friend had a 2007 that would break traction at 85mph if the traction control was turned off. It was like driving on an ice rink with the traction control turned off...

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Once the 911 is gone I'll be in the market for a 2016 or newer Z06. Seems like a really fun car.

I have an 07 as well and I can't add to what you posted except the stupid grin on my face once the tires start to grip. :)

That will be too late to get in on the class action C7 Z06 lawsuits.

Maybe I should wait and see how this plays out! I might be able to snag one on the cheap!

C6z really is peak vette for me, sorta scared off by fixing the valve guides but otherwise a great recipe

Lemans blue one for sale reasonably priced locally avoiding the temptation to go look at it

Fixing the guides is the perfect time for cam, headers and intake. Lingenfelter Will send you the entire set up.

I had the valve guides replaced at 70,000 miles as a preventative measure. The cost was around $4000.
A year later I had a low oil pressure warning. Turned out to be a broken main bearing.
The engine rebuild was $2500 plus labor. That was 3 years ago and I haven't had any problems since.
The car now has over 100,000 miles
I don't track it any more.
There's no Porsche tax.

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dad knew a lot a car guys in detroit

zora was by far the coolest with the pure love of speed
90 mph on a rush-hour surface street with 5 y/o me just cause I had asked

btw he scored Porsche first class win post ww2
and infected my dad and brother with 356 fever

I want to like the mid engine but it’s just doesn’t look right imo. Too many straight edges and the side vents are not proportional to the car. I’m sure I could not handle this car.
I did recently drove a friends 02 convertible, it was a blast. Id definitely consider one. Other friends 12 (I believe) super sport is quite a car as well.

Don't want. It's crude GM quality. I want a 2022 Porsche GTS.

Not a fan of the new mid engine Vette. Looks like it was designed by a 13 year old asked to draw a supercar. I thought the front engined ( almost mid engined ) Vettes were super cool and wild looking. The flat plane crank sounds like crap if it sounds like the IMSA cars. Who would have thought that the Lexus V8 in Imsa would be the better sounding engine?

I love the performance, but the looks are not doing it for me.

+1 On the styling. I call it the Corvettaghini. You see one up ahead of you, or coming towards you and you say? WTF is that?

The first time I saw one in the wild I thought it was a poorly done Lambo kit car until I was close enough to realize it was the Corvettaghini.

Amazing performance numbers, no doubt.

Well, at least they tried to clean up the hideous back end of the car a little. Maybe they’ll update the regular C8, too.

I agree with others, the overall styling is too hideous to buy one. It makes a C7 look great and I hated the C7 when it came out.

Bang for the buck goes to the vette though. Who else is cranking out a production car at the price point of a vette with similar performance? The vette is an impressive beast.

I agree on the styling, I am a less is more kind of guy, but the value AND quality is amazing in this car.

Funny to me, the styling is really nice from a distance or corner of the eye. I catch my self snapping around when I catch one in traffic. I do wish the rear allowed it to feel wider, next to a Lambo or R8 I think it would look very narrow.

I think for me I can see looking for a C7 GS manual in a few years to replace the SC.

Shes a beut I really like them in any of the blues or orange.

Spending $6500 to keep such a car running for 100k miles is really reasonable but I know I would be in for the cams, headers, tune while Im in there. Gets you to 10k+ pretty quick which changes the value proposition for me a little.

C6GS starts to look like the bargain to me and still almost 2x the power of my exige. Still I dream of an LS7 in my life at some point.