The 2023 Corvette Z06 is here, making its formal debut in October and giving fans of America’s Sports Car an all-new, next-level performance option in the mid-engine Chevy Corvette lineup. Now, as is tradition, the first retail production 2023 Corvette Z06 Convertible will be auctioned off for charity.
The first retail production 2023 Corvette Z06 Convertible is set to cross the block as Lot 3005 on Saturday, April 9th, at 4:30 p.m. EST at the 2022 Barrett-Jackson Palm Beach Auction at the South Florida Fairgrounds. Proceeds will go to benefit the Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF), the nation’s largest organization exclusively representing Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and Predominantly Black Institutions (PBIs).
The vehicle in question will be the top 3LZ trim level, with the winning bidder given the opportunity to customize the first retail production 2023 Corvette Z06 Convertible as they see fit, including colors, interior options, wheels, and more.
As a reminder, the 2023 Corvette Z06 Convertible features a hard-top retractable roof, a first for the Corvette Z06 nameplate. Behind the cabin, the new Z06 is equipped with the naturally aspirated 5.5L V8 LT6 gasoline engine, which is rated at 670 horsepower and 460 pound-feet of torque, with a stratospheric 8,600-rpm redline. Output is routed rearwards through the GM eight-speed dual-clutch automatic transmission. Under the skin, the 2023 Corvette Z06 rides on the same Y2 platform as the C8 Stingray, while production takes place at the GM Bowling Green plant in Kentucky.
Earlier this year, the first retail production 2023 Corvette Coupe was auctioned off at a Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale event, with Rick Hendrick, CEO of Hendrick Companies, placing the winning bid at a whopping $3.6 million. Proceeds from the auction went to benefit the non-profit organization Operation Homefront, which helps to support military families in need.
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Source: Barrett-Jackson
Comments
It didn’t take too long for GM to jump on the progressive Racist bandwagon! How about a Blackwing for a white collage?
Could you please explain comment, I do not understand it.
I believe he means to say there are no more poor unfortunate white children in this country. They are all born with a silver spoon in their mouth. When there is complete color blindness the division will be over! I do applaud the first Z06 going to support veterans of this great country! That donation seems to be color blind.
Grow up loser, not their fault you got a tiny dick
And still no MSRP ? How will someone figure out whether to bid 3, or push it to 4 million .
When can we finally order our Z06? I sold my 2016 Z06 with Z07 package a month ago in anticipation of ordering my 2023 Z06 track version! Can GM please release an order date?
Since Hendrick already has one maybe this will end up in Leno’s garage.
Just give it ( or sell it) to Hendricks or Leno)……..They’ll have it anyway!!!!!!!!!
Good one supporting veterans of all race’s I won’t buy one for the supporting of only unfortunate black children because unfortunate white kids don’t exist I grew up poor with both parents working 2 jobs pops 20 years in the army and 20 with the state of ky I worked since I was 14 and worked full time while putting myself thru college full timepaid my student loans off now to be fortunate enough to bein a position to have been waiting for this P.O.S to hit the market reading this totally turned me off of buying one and to think of always having the 57 vette as my dream car I feel the same way I do about Coke Mc ds Walt Disney and the rest of these anti white ok with racism as long as it is against whites who deserve to be punished for something none of us had anything to do with these corporations or their products I’ll just buy more guns bullets and continue to work and pay them taxes to support the half of the country that refuses to do something for themselves while blaming all but themselves for their misfortune that excuse is getting old how about get off my back your starting to get heavy
Geez. One would think that a college educated individual, at the very least, would have learned about run-on sentences and punctuation.
Why is there still a need for HBCU’s? Blacks are free to attend any college that a white kid is. Black people have been fighting for a colorblind society for years, yet they still want to carve out a niche for everything that caters just to blacks.