It’s not uncommon for a certain subset of auto enthusiasts to boast about the rarity of their vehicle. Indeed, it’s that rarity that often makes a vehicle’s value climb above the rest, usually with owners pointing to some combination of equipment or options that was produced at a lower volume compared to the rest of a vehicle line. No doubt, this sort of attitude will apply to the 2023 Corvette Z06 as well, and with that in mind, GM Authority is listing off the rarest 2023 Corvette Z06 color combinations.
For those readers who may have missed it, we provided similar coverage for the Corvette Stingray, listing out the rarest (and not-so-rare) color combos for the 2023 model year. Now, we’re doing the same thing for the 2023 Corvette Z06. Notably, the ’23 Z06 had far lower production numbers than the ’23 Stingray, with a total of just 6,413 Z06 units produced versus the 47,372 Stingray units produced for the 2023 model year.
With that covered, let’s take a look at the 2023 Corvette Z06 Coupe color combos. Customers were offered 14 exterior colors and eight interior colorways, with the rarest combination of colors being one unit produced in Caffeine paint (paint code G48) with an Adrenaline Red interior, as well as one unit produced in Rapid Blue (paint code GMO) with a Red Dipped interior.
Black (paint code GBA) was the most popular exterior color, while Jet Black was the most popular interior colorway.
| Paint Color | Color Code | Jet Black | Adrenaline Red | Tension/Twilight | Sky Cool Gray | Natural | Natural Dipped | Red Dipped | Ceramic White | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Black | GBA | 327 | 126 | 13 | 7 | 18 | 9 | 34 | 0 | 534 |
| Arctic White | G8G | 131 | 103 | 10 | 18 | 20 | 5 | 35 | 0 | 322 |
| Torch Red | GKZ | 205 | 126 | 0 | 8 | 17 | 18 | 18 | 0 | 392 |
| Accelerate Yellow | GD0 | 135 | 5 | 0 | 14 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 166 |
| Red Mist | GPH | 141 | 14 | 0 | 8 | 53 | 37 | 0 | 0 | 253 |
| Caffeine | G48 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Rapid Blue | GMO | 55 | 2 | 69 | 25 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 160 |
| Amplify Orange | GC5 | 149 | 0 | 4 | 39 | 26 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 230 |
| Ceramic Matrix Gray | G9F | 45 | 41 | 9 | 24 | 2 | 2 | 15 | 0 | 138 |
| Hypersonic Gray | GA7 | 153 | 63 | 13 | 28 | 17 | 3 | 17 | 0 | 294 |
| Elkhart Lake Blue | GS7 | 48 | 5 | 8 | 18 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 91 |
| Silver Flare | GSJ | 38 | 42 | 3 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 27 | 0 | 130 |
| White Pearl | G1W | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 217 | 217 |
| Carbon Flash | GAR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 172 | 172 |
| Total | 1430 | 528 | 129 | 199 | 185 | 99 | 150 | 389 | 3109 |
Moving on to 2023 Corvette Z06 Convertible models, customers once again had 14 exterior colors and eight interior colorways at their disposal, and among these, we find one unit produced with Caffeine exterior paint and a Jet Black interior (a color combo which GM actually recommended), one unit produced with Rapid Blue paint and the Natural interior colorway, and one unit produced with Ceramic Matrix Gray paint (paint code G9F) and the Natural Dipped interior colorway.
White Pearl (paint code G1W) was the most-popular exterior color, while Jet Black was the most popular interior colorway.
| Paint Color | Color Code | Jet Black | Adrenaline Red | Tension/Twilight | Sky Cool Gray | Natural | Natural Dipped | Red Dipped | Ceramic White | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Black | GBA | 245 | 88 | 2 | 19 | 15 | 8 | 40 | 0 | 417 |
| Arctic White | G8G | 93 | 116 | 11 | 19 | 19 | 13 | 56 | 0 | 327 |
| Torch Red | GKZ | 157 | 136 | 0 | 10 | 37 | 39 | 28 | 0 | 407 |
| Accelerate Yellow | GD0 | 96 | 3 | 2 | 11 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 116 |
| Red Mist | GPH | 133 | 37 | 0 | 15 | 56 | 76 | 7 | 0 | 324 |
| Caffeine | G48 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Rapid Blue | GMO | 42 | 5 | 96 | 26 | 1 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 180 |
| Amplify Orange | GC5 | 174 | 2 | 3 | 50 | 27 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 274 |
| Ceramic Matrix Gray | G9F | 35 | 27 | 11 | 23 | 2 | 1 | 19 | 0 | 118 |
| Hypersonic Gray | GA7 | 125 | 80 | 12 | 41 | 12 | 8 | 24 | 0 | 302 |
| Elkhart Lake Blue | GS7 | 20 | 6 | 12 | 20 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 69 |
| Silver Flare | GSJ | 30 | 46 | 5 | 11 | 7 | 3 | 25 | 0 | 127 |
| White Pearl | G1W | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 446 | 446 |
| Carbon Flash | GAR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 187 | 187 |
| Total | 1151 | 546 | 154 | 245 | 188 | 182 | 205 | 633 | 3304 |
It should also be mentioned that some of these rare color combos required the Color Combination Override option (RPO code D30).
As a reminder, the 2023 Corvette Z06 features the naturally aspirated 5.5L V8 LT6 gasoline engine and rides on the GM Y2 platform. Production takes place at the GM Bowling Green plant in Kentucky.
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Comments
Brown and sports cars don’t go together.
Instead of caffeine, maybe they should call it: tintcoat, metallic, ceramic, amplify, accelerate, pearl, hypersonic mist brown.
Still waiting for “eat my dust” tan.
I believe a more accurate word for paint color choice for this story would be would be “hated” rather than “rare”.
Nobody wants the ugly brown color, just like the color brown it replaced. Very few bought it.
I’ve obseved that neither the amplify orange or the caffeine come off looking well in images. Had I seen the caffeine in person it would have been strongly considered.
One of the local dealers had one in that caffeine (dookey brown) color… it sat on the showroom floor until it was dealer-traded out of state.
Did you mean Donkey brown?….ha… great name for that sh-t color
I guess someone could pick up an ugly duckling used brown one at a cheaper price once the original owner decides they hate it and no one else will buy it. Then do a wrap of their preferred color.
What happened to the days they named the colors after racetracks something credible for Corvette now how about caffeine and cacti caffeine isn’t even a color and instead of cactus let’s call it cacti GM has become such a woke company obviously with leadership and then don’t forget we want to have Corvette SUV and any other type a vehicle they could call Corvette for their trashing the Corvette name in the long run destroying the Corvette the real Corvette that is sales
WTF do you mean by “woke”? Is it you don’t agree with gm’s corporate philosophy? You don’t agree with whoever is the exterior color palette designer’s aesthetic naming of colors? Or is it just a throw-away pejorative for anything you don’t like? It obviously you doesn’t mean Merriam-Webster’s #1 definition – a: aware of and actively attentive to important societal facts and issues (especially issues of racial and social justice).
You are certainly free to go buy a white Ford pickup.
Let’s see what happens with Cacti. . .
Another crap color.
Silver with blue stripes. Detroit Lions Edition 😎