$78,000 for 650 HP/TQ with NPP (dual mode exhaust) and Magnetic Ride suspension standard. That's a heck of a lot of car for the money. Corvette Z06 - Pricing - Chevrolet Corvette Stingray C7 Forum
Base z06 Coupe-$79,000 3LZ Preferred Equipment Group-$8,650 ZO7 Performance Package-$8,000 Carbon Fiber Ground Effects Kit-$3,000 Visible Carbon Fiber $1000 Destination $995 Total Price-$100,645.00. *Edit * 8 Speed Transmission add $1800 Not bad at all. Leaves enough space for a C7 ZR1 or a Zora Mid Engine car.
What is disappointing is the curb weight! The Z06 is now a bloated pig. They need to eject all the junk that does not make it fast. It is a hot car at 500lb less. If people want 100lbs of nav system then buy a stingray or a camaro. Oh and I'm a Corvette lover by the way and a corvette racer.
Remember the C6 is a 10+ year old platform. New Cars tend to be heavier. Tough I do hope they make a 3100 lb carbon version.
What does it weigh now? They need to build a track focused GT3, that's what Z06 used to be like By the way I have a 67 Vette race car incoming, here's a teaser Image Unavailable, Please Login
3524 pounds for 650 hp and 650 tq is quite impressive. Meets all safety and emissions requirements and has a full warranty including driver event track time. 5 year 100k mile drivetrain warranty for 650 hp! Buy a gmepp extended and just enjoy the driving experience.....change the oil and tires and add gas... Remember as well the 3524 weight is weight with all fluids and full tank of gasoline.... Many manufacturers tend to leave fluids out when publishing curb weight. I'm impressed......with the car with no disrespect intended towards Modded personal cars as individuals personal choice. The 300000 mile validation process on gm vehicles impresses the hell out of me ... Just jump in and go.
The nav system probably weighs 4 lbs. All the CF/Al/Mg bits needed to achieve your weight target would not allow Team Corvette to achieve its pricing goals, so I'll take it as is, for under $90k even with the Z07 pkg.
I'm with you FBB, 500 pounds off the top would be a world of difference. I have a good friend and racing buddy who is at Milford in the Vehicle Dynamics group.. We were chatting one day and he said they have a correlation of planform area with curb weight. GM has a lot of correlations that they use when they are designing cars to get them in the right ball park early in the design process. Anyway he said that if you gave him the planform area of the car he could predict the curb weight within 10%.... My response was "John, that's the difference between a racehorse and a jackass..." Think about it, if a car weighs 2700 pounds as compared to the same car at 3300 pounds, that's a huge difference in weight, performance and just how the car feels... I think the light bulb went on and he did agree. While "size matters", and it is easier to make a smaller car lighter (obviously), it's the details that count and how you execute the design process to minimize weight is where the payoff is. Corvettes now have an aluminum frame and all of the subframes and suspension is aluminum alloy, as well as the engine, transmission and diff, and they weigh 3500 pounds. Don Gartlits coined the phrase "it gets hard to add in any more lightness", and he was right. Our old C5Z's at about 3,000 pounds are probably the lightest Corvettes we will see unless they do a new smaller platform. That's probably the only way to get the weight back down to around 3,000 pounds with all the stuff (supercharger, nav, dynamic control, etc..) that are on these cars now.
I love the analogy! As a datapoint when I first started racing my C5Z06 it was 3100 wet with me in it. As the classes morphed my current minimum race weight is 3450lbs meaning I'm starting at over 3500lbs! My ballast is where I want it low and centralized mostly around the tunnel plate where I have 1.5" steel bars welded onto a 3/8" steel tunnel plate. The car handles like a pig. You can just feel the sluggishness in the chassis, the lack of responsiveness and lack of crispness, and our tire wear is greatly increased. Adding more power does not compensate for more weight. It is a bandaid for more weight. I will take weight reduction over power any day of the week.
That price is pretty dang close to what the C6 Z06 sold for. It's definitely an amazing car. It be nice if they just came loaded. I am not sure why they offer different aero packages. It should be the car comes completely set up from an aero point. All of the Carbon and splitters should be standard, not an option. And maybe just give interior options between 2LZ and 3LZ.
It's an option to grab headlines with the 78k price. If it were loaded, they would clock in at $100k +.
For the average Vette owner, all the aero stuff is overkill. The only people who need the aero are the track junkies....for everyone else, having a 650 hp beast for under 80k is more appealing. This thing bases out only $9000 more than my 2006 Z06 did back in the day!
Might as well stick a fork into the Viper...... Have seen a couple $155k stickers on them.....gee having problems selling it?
Never thought I would consider buying a newer Corvette (had 4 in the past), but the convertible would make a nice DD.
I can say the weight will make me wait and keep my C6Z for a while. Most people don't care about weight, so cars will generally just keep getting heavier to provide the room, sound deadening, and other comfort accessories folks really want. Maybe look into a lighter ZR1 if they drop significantly in response to the Z06.
I understand some people are not pleased with the increase in weight (I am not happy about it either) but if you can name me another car with 650 HP that weighs less than the Z06 (3,524 lbs) and doesn't cost $1M (P1, LaF, Venom GT, etc...), I will be happy to hear it. It's the lightest car in its class. Even the mighty F12 weighs in at just over 4,000 lbs (4,003) when you add in all the fluids and fuel. http://www.0-60mag.com/news/2013/10/why-was-motor-trends-ferrari-f12berlinetta-so-slow-and-heavy/ Also, keep in mind that this car is a Z06 in name only. It was never designed to be a stripped out track car like previous models. It was designed to be a combination of the previous gen's ZR1 and Z06 and it was designed from the outset to be a convertible.
Whats better a650 hp car at 3500lbs or a 550 hp NA car at 3000lbs. I guess for the street the z06 is more htan is needed, still cant help but think this a step backwards for track. Maybe it ca do a faster ultimate lap, but multiple laps over the course of a day the weight is going to take atoll on brakes and tires, no way around the tore issue even if it runs ceramaic brakes.
The Corvette still look too Corvette .... can't they get a more radical body change ? I still see the last 3 versions when I look at it.
