2023 Corvette Z06 In Hypersonic Gray Spotted In Public Parking Lot: Video
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General Motors pulled the sheets on the 2023 Corvette Z06 back in October, revealing a high-powered track-ready sports car equipped with a laundry list of go-fast goodies. Now, we’re checking out the new Z06 in the real world with this particular example spotted in a public parking lot.
We’ve seen the 2023 Corvette Z06 a few time before, including at the recent 2021 SEMA Show in Las Vegas where it gave us some very tasty internal combustion goodness, as GM Authority reported previously. Now, we’re seeing the Z06 in a less glamorous, more-realistic location courtesy of the following brief walkaround video.
Recently posted online by YouTube channel Horizon Speed, this video clocks in a little over two minutes, and includes a walk around of the 2023 Corvette Z06 and some light commentary. The mid-engine sports car is finished in Hypersonic Gray, with the exterior also covered in a thick layer of road grime – as expected for any car driven on public roads in Michigan during the winter months.
This particular example is also fitted with the Z07 Package, which ups the ante with larger carbon ceramic brakes, carbon fiber wheels, and a full carbon aero package with a new splitter, front-corner dive planes, an underbody strake, and, as GM Authority was the first to report on a massive rear wing.
Back behind the cabin, the 2023 Corvette Z06 draws motivation from the naturally aspirated 5.5L V8 LT6 gasoline engine. Output is rated at 670 horsepower and 460 pound-feet of torque, all which is directed to the rear wheels through an eight-speed automatic transmission and shortened 5.56 final drive ratio.
Under the skin the sharper exterior, the 2023 Corvette Z06 rides on the same Y2 platform as the C8 Corvette Stingray. Sales are set to launch next year, with production taking place exclusively at the GM Bowling Green Assembly facility in Bowling Green, Kentucky.
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See in this video Hypersonic Gray Metallic looks awesome, but in person I can’t seem to unsee an olive green hue to it which honestly drives me insane because I wanted a darker gray & black accented Z06.
Overdone front end pieces. Not elegant.
I agree. Too much going on up front. C8 emblem removed or not installed yet ??
Elegant??! Race cars are not supposed to be elegant!!
To many creases in the hood, looks like crap
Red Caliper with CF brakes…. unlike configurator. Update seems like you can now spec CF then change caliper color. Revision to visualizer?
Drool, Drool.
I am now reading that you can purchase an option that let’s you build the engine that goes in the Z06. I would do that.
But based on pre-sales for a car that has not announced a price, I might not be able to have a chance until the C9 generation.
Good thing I do have a C8 plain old boring edition to drive while waiting.
De-badged mine, I like the cleaner look, and it seems to round out the a bit, to my eyes.
The busy lines are style yes, but also a function of some clever aero work. The aero efficiency is one way they one of the ways they get the fuel mileage they do with the Stingray to avoid any gas guzzler tax etc.
On that GM has done and AMAZING job. My best recorded millage is 37.3 MPG, over 50 miles. I had the roof down &70-75 mph. I regularly see 32 MPG on the highway, I don’t know where they are getting the 27mpg hwy EPA rating.
They actually just revised the mpgs for 2022s too since so many optioned the Z51 package.
So now 2022s are rated 24 mpg HWY
I’ve always loved Corvettes and I love all the lines on the new C9. When I grow up I’m gonna own on e someday!!
I am surprised there’s little mention of the added radiator in the front middle
What tires are on that? Surely NOT the standard Z07 Michelins in that climate.
Looks like a set of Micheline Pilot Sport 4S
Didn’t know that they were rated for snow and ice.