The owner of a C8 Corvette Stingray has shared a video of a right-hand-drive C8 Corvette Z06 Convertible that he spotted in a parking lot for a retail plaza in Michigan.
This video, which was shared by Instagram user @daryl_wizinsky last week, shows a pre-production, Arctic White-painted C8 Corvette Z06 with a right-hand-drive cabin layout. As we already know, GM Authority will offer the C8 Corvette Z06 in Australia and New Zealand, so this would appear to be a pre-production version of the RHD models that it will export to these markets. It seems possible other RHD markets may receive the Corvette Z06 in small numbers too, like Japan for example.
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This particular Corvette Z06, which is wearing a Michigan manufacturer’s license plate – a clear sign that it belongs to General Motors, appears to be fitted with the available Z07 Performance Package. The Z07 package adds a full carbon fiber aero kit consisting of a larger front splitter, front-corner dive planes, a new rear wing, and underbody strakes. The package also includes upsized carbon ceramic brake rotors, sticky Michelin Sport Cup 2 R ZP tires, unique FE7 suspension with Z07-specific Magnetic Ride Control dampers, and optional carbon fiber wheels.
Another interesting aspect of this pre-production Corvette Z06 is the exhaust arrangement. This car features the outboard exhausts that come on the C8 Corvette Stingray, rather than the quad center-exit exhaust arrangement that was shown on the Z06 upon its debut. As GM Authority reported previously, the outboard exhaust arrangement was GM’s original design for the Z06, with the automaker implementing the center-exit exhaust later in the vehicle’s development cycle. Certain pre-production versions of the Z06 have been spotted with this outboard exhaust, but the production models will have the center-exit arrangement exclusively.
This interesting RHD Corvette Z06 was spotted parked next to a prototype for another future GM product – the 2023 Cadillac Lyriq. Both of these vehicles will enter production later this year as 2023 model year products.
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Going to Prince Charles, Paul Hogan, Jeremy Clarkson, Elton John? 🙂😁🙂….
Get ready to hear all the people who “ordered” corvettes complain that RHD models are being produced.
Did GM really pull the plug on the new C8 Z06 for North America
I hope mine doesn’t arrive with RHD!!
Different Bill than above. OMG news flash, a RHD for the Aussie market! What will they think of next?
There should not be any complaints. The way it works is that each vehicle assembly plant allocates the volume for each country, for the sole reason that each country has its specifics (for multiple reasons), and then the plants figure out the best way to produce them at the rate of the line. So for example: if 90% is LHD, the plant tries to make a big batch of LHD and leave the RHD orders to be built, lets say, in three days. In that way you prepare all part numbers related to the RHD model to be line-side and this planning goes all the way up to suppliers that make RHD specific parts like windshield wipers, mirrors and headlamps (to name a few); these suppliers also try their best to make those parts in quantity and time in the most effective way. And this is because each country is awaiting for their allocated volume. Yes, the USA is the biggest consumer, but all other countries want their small volume as well. We have to be patient, specially in these very abnormal world scenario…
Thank you Sonic, I will now be able to sleep better!
Now only if GM can do the rest of the line-up like that instead of leaving billions on the table for RHD nations…
I saw a story that GM wall canceling the C8 Z06. Did anyone else read it?
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Did anyone notice the non Z06 exhaust? Maybe an eray or grand sport?