The 2023 Corvette Z06 has the goods to topple supercars with much larger price tags, as GM Authority laid out in a comparison earlier this month. But the specs and bang-for-the-buck value aren’t the only things that make it impressive – in fact, just listening to the 2023 Corvette Z06 rev is an experience, as demonstrated in the following exclusive GM Authority video.
Coming to us from the recent Woodward Dream Cruise in Detroit, the video opens with a rear view of the 2023 Corvette Z06 Convertible. We see the rear hatch cover open, with the hard-top convertible roof folding into its designated storage position. Meanwhile, the 2023 Corvette Z06’s engine is heard idling with a high-strung V8 tone emitted from a quartet of centrally mounted exhaust pipes.
The rear storage hatch closes, and the idle settle down a bit, falling in revs. We then see the taillights go dark, indicating that the driver is moving their right foot over the the throttle. With that, we hear the 2023 Corvette Z06 Convertible rev up, zinging high in the rpm range and issuing a rather exotic-sounding exhaust note.
No doubt, “exotic” is the correct adjective to use here, despite the domestic origin. Mounted behind the cabin in the 2023 Corvette Z06 is the naturally aspirated 5.5L V8 LT6, the most powerful atmospheric V8 engine ever fitted to a production GM vehicle. With a flat-plane crank and sky-high 8,600-rpm redline, the LT6 was developed in conjunction with the championship-winning C8.R race car, and produces 670 horsepower and 460 pound-feet of torque in the 2023 Corvette Z06 production model.
For those viewers that need even more exhaust-note goodness, the video continues with some footage from the 2021 SEMA Show, where the new Z06 hit the stage and wowed the crowd with a few more revs, so stick around for that.
As a reminder, the 2023 Corvette Z06 is based on the GM Y2 platform, with production taking place at the GM Bowling Green plant in Kentucky. Unfortunately, production will be heavily constrained, as GM Authority exclusively covered previously.
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Comments
458 and F430 still sound way better. Zo6 sounds like a girl having a fake orgasm
Well, I witnessed on youtube a channel operator with some credibility put the Ferrari 458 with 700 horses and stratospheric price tag through the paces against a “lowly” base Corvette with 495 hp and while it won 2 of 3 races against the Chevrolet – and just barely at that – nobody in their right mind should be dissing the 70 grand Corvette given its incredible value. So your girly comment about the Corvette says so much more about you than the car.
Music to my ears.
Vette Guy. You would know. ✌️
Had my name on two lists (keyword “Had”), but I’m so burned out on being jerked around with all the hype, then pricing, then production constraints that – I’m done with waiting on a Z06. And now… having heard the exhaust – frankly – it’s not worth all the extra bucks. I’ll stay with my 2021 3LT Z51.
No THunder wind up toy !
Sounds European now when it should sound like a Detomaso Pantera.
Well, this sound thing is getting to be like beating a dead horse. Marketing has done a number on yes, myself as well as “All” of us young and old. I will admit I am guilty, I had to have a set of Borla’s on my new C5. Now I have a (64) C2 with chambered exhaust, a (22) C8 with the HP exhaust as well as a 70 Nova pro- mod with unseeming loud Thursh mufflers. Being an “old guy” (76) and a car buff all of my life, I can remember getting pulled over for having a pair of “Cherry Bomb” glass packs on my car. Do we realize that there has been a multi-million dollar industry built on how your car sound’s. Now you can spend the price of a used car on after-market exhaust systems for a C-8. I feel it is still all about sex and how to be noticed, loud fast cars, the big fast boat, along with the weight loss, hair growth, muscle making and testosterone supplements as well as wave treatments and the little blue pill. It has been happening since the stone age in one way or another with the biggest club, shiniest sword, nicest clothes, fastest horse. My question what’s next with the up-coming EV’s? What will be the trend? Look how quiet my car is? Comments good or bad I can take it;
Well, I witnessed on youtube a channel operator with some credibility put the Ferrari 458 with 700 horses and stratospheric price tag through the paces against a “lowly” base Corvette with 495 hp and while it won 2 of 3 races against the Chevrolet – and just barely at that – nobody in their right mind should be dissing the 70 grand Corvette given its incredible value. So your girly comment about the Corvette says so much more about you than the car.