I love my 2023 Z06/07 70th Anniversary edition in Pearl white, your review was spot on, I had several cars in my lifetime, 911’s etc, but this Z06 is by far the best and more satisfying car I have ever owned.
I love the 911, but this is definitely more exciting than most 911 trims. Glad I was able to do this phenomenal car justice with this video! Thanks for watching
You’ll regret it. I’m a GT3 guy for 20 years. I bought a 23 Z06/z07 htc 3LT. I got rid of it in a month. No where near the Porsche. Got a new Lambo. The motor is awesome but everything else is just meh.
@ straight line only. It still loses going around the track which is embarrassing, since it has almost 200 more horsepower. With that suspension and the same brakes with 200 more horsepower it SOULD DEMOLISH a gt3 yet it can’t. Another embarrassing GM product. With 200 more horsepower the GT3 should be WAY behind the Z06. The Z06 can’t even break 7 minutes on the Ring, The GT3 shouldn’t be able to beat the BASE Z06 much less the Z06 with that motor. Just like all corvettes the ONLY way it ever wins is if it has 2-3 more liters of motor size . What happened to no replacement for displacement. Instead of the 458 GM should have benchmarked the GT3. I had a Z06 23 htc 3LT Z07 htc. Kept it for a month. Brakes were mushy transmission hunted for gears, it tram lines , the interior is just terrible AND the prices are crashing. 23 and 24s with most options are already below 130k with less than 1000 miles on graham Rahals site. A used 23 GT3 is STILL OVER $250,000. There’s a reason why, because the market DOESNT Value this vette .
Had my z06 for over a year now. It's simply amazing people don't understand until they drive it. They just see random videos of it going against hypercars and 1000hp cars off a roll and wonder why they're losing lol. It's just not meant for that. I went to the ron fellows z06 owners school last summer and i tried to beat the hell out of the car i used for the 2 days and just when you think you're pushing the car hard, you're not even touching 10% of it's capabilities. We're talking about near GT3RS capabilities and we all know that car is the master when it comes to a complete track car.
So, I know to be that horse, I’m the guy who just traded a 2024 Lamborghini Huracan TECHNICA for a 2025 Z06 Z07 coupe. The Lambo was nicely loaded at $320K sticker. The Corvette is every option available at $191K.
I feel you should have kept that Lamborghini. I have the new c8 Z06 and it's a great car. Maybe you could have gotten a lesser trim 1lz for around 110k so that you could keep both the Z06 and also the Lamborghini alongside. The V10 in the Lamborghini is also incredible.
actually, I have three other V10 Lambo‘s. My favorite one is the STO. Comparing to Corvette, the STO is a much more focused and much less compromised car. It is very raw, direct and simple. The Corvette still has power seats, even with the track seat, set up, heated seats, ventilated seats, dual zone AC controls, higb end stereo and other luxury features. The STO has none of that. And, truthfully, I love that about that car. Needless to say, there is a price difference, unfortunately. The sticker on my STO was $452. STO CCMR Brakes are the best on any car I have e ever owned.
Boy did you fu@k up. I traded my 18 GT3 for a 23 Z06/Z07 htc and cash. I was in love with the engine but the brakes were mushy . $165,00 MSRP. The transmission wasn’t any where near the PDK. It hunted. Shifted when I didn’t want to and didn’t shift when I wanted. The car tram lines like crazy. It’s dangerous in the hands of a beginner. The electronic limited slip is horrible cutting horsepower in turns. The interior was below standards of European standards. The panel gaps were awful. The second screen rattles horribly. The prices are tanking . You can get a 23 24 Z06/Z07 with every option for $130,000 with less than a 1000 miles. I had it a month and traded it in on Huracan Technica. 300% better than the Z06. Awesome motor. Much better interior with Italian flair. The brakes are the same brembo carbon ceramic but they WORK!. The tranny is obviously much like the PDK or perfect. You traded a car that’s going to be one of the last normally aspirated super car V-10 classics for a car that’s going to be in the $90k range in no time. Unless you needed out of the lambo financially I can’t imagine that trade And by the way the Technica brakes are the same on the Technica
@@timmietz Good to know. I have 4 c8 z06s since I got too excited and felt they were a bargain compared to the 458 and Huracan which I've always lusted over. $115-120k a piece. That's like 4 of them for the price of one of your high end lambos. Still envious of your Lamborghini's but content with my z06s since they don't attract way too much attention at work and where I travel / park.
A Z07 as well, even more special! I love that GM casually dropped a bonafide race motor into this car, yet gave it more power and more revs over the one found in the C8.R, and Z06 GT3.R lol. The ZR1 is going to be a missile, but the Z06 will be my favorite still. Give me a ZL1 1LE, and a nicely specced C8 Z06 with Z07, and I’m a happy man lol. About that 5th gear, it only really rears itself at the *very* top end, as shown in the longer tracks that the car has been run on. The ring time posted by Sport Auto was rather sloppy and timid, with a lot of mistakes made throughout. If you go to watch Misha Charoudin’s ring video, he all but negates the taller 5th gear by keeping the engine at a high RPM even when he *does* shift to fifth. Per his words, the Z06 is an easy sub-7 minute car. Awesome review!
So, I know to be beat that dead horse, but I’m the guy who just traded a 2024 Lamborghini Huracan TECHNICA for a 2025 Z06 Z07 coupe. The Lambo was nicely loaded at $320K sticker. The Corvette is every option available at $191K.
Definitely black and I do actually like red. The only thing I don’t like about the Z is the black boomerang on the side. It looks like a fish mouth opening and the gas cap looks like the eye. Once you see it you can’t unsee it. That’s why I like the e ray… I like When they match the boomerang with the color of the car
Rear wheel weight on non CF wheels/tires is 71lbs EACH vs C7Z06 OEM rear wheel/tire 57lb each 14lbs per corner of rotating mass is a BIG deal for braking, accelerating and cornering performance.
Stingray had only 7-8 as the long gears, driving the Z06 on track I don't think I even got to 5th gear before hitting 150 and needing to slow down for a turn
It will depend on the track to some extent. In the context of the Nurburgring, a lot of time was lost on the super long döttinger höhe straightaway as well as the run up to schwedenkreuz, where it sat in 5th gear for long periods of time.
@ stingray is def better for daily driving and getting to speed from stops is much quicker than the Z06. Only thing I love more about the z06 is the amazing sound and wider body. Z06 def better for track though 1000%
It’s a coupe rather than a sedan, and nearly every Ferrari, McLaren, and Lamborghini doesn’t have a manual. I’m a diehard manual enthusiast as well, but they knocked this DCT out of the park imo. Thanks for watching!
@@running2redline I have to say this. I traded in a 2023 ZL1 to get into this car. I bought it new and I had only put 9500 miles on it. I'm not gonna lie. There is not much drop off in performance at all between the two. I'm kinda having a hard time noticing much difference in power. Maybe it's gonna take a minute to realize it. I don't know..Don't get me wrong, the z06 feels good. At high speed it handles so well that you feel like you are driving slow 🤣 But that ZL1 is just brute power. And when you ask for it, it's instant. It doesn't bs. And driving this Z06 makes me realize just how good that camaro is. That camaro is a damn animal in its own right
So I have a 2019 ZO7 package in Admiral blue carbon brakes and all that. I am trying to convince my wife to trade up. Should she let me???? Her excuse is my car is paid off and more than I can handle already. Oh mine is a manual and i do love the crap out of it but I hate it when she makes sense but…..😅
I would definitely test drive one to see if you can do without the manual. A 19 Z06 should hold value nicely as the final year with the manual and is a great car. As for your decision, I can’t give you financial advice haha. Best of luck with what you decide to do!
$120k USED C8Z06 with 460tq (C8 TQ number is the lowest all C8) vs $70k USED C7Z06 with 650tq (which is the 2nd highest not incl the ZR1 not yet for sale)
The C7 struggles to put it down in 1-3 gear, this Z06 has very little wheel spin in my experience. I can appreciate the manual in the C7 though. Thanks for watching
They copied a true exotic.. it’s a regular sports car, not supercar, still far too many corners cut by American manufacturer, folks need to stop trying to put this car against true exotics.. it’s also putting out more than stated HP, meaning the engineering is not as impressive as people want you to believe.. they copied a 458, that’s why it’s not celebrated by exotic owners .. American engineers always cheat engineering but pounding a ton of Horses as if that’s enough
LOL you obviously do not know what you are talking about but you are entitled to your opinion even if you are way off. A true car enthusiast NEVER puts a type of car down based on YOUR comment. May ur education and opinion in cars grow in positivity.
Here’s a piece of information that will blow your mind. GM didn’t copy the exotics, it’s the other way around. Cadillac (GM) was the inventor of the flat-plane crank engine over a century ago. You can make these statements, but when the Z06 is faster in both a straight line and around a track than many of these exotics, it begs the question, if this isn’t a supercar then what would it have to do to be one? Who makes it isn’t a sufficient answer to that question. I can understand it being hard to admit, but it’s an objective truth about this machine. Take the chance to test drive one and give it the chance to change your mind. Thanks for watching, and hope you still enjoyed the video!
This isn’t a real Corvette. At all, it’s literally a Chevy grade Ferrari and I grew up loving Corvettes. But this is just not it. We was supposed to be a the American viper since viper is gone. Instead you get a Car that Ferrari used to make. Yes it’s fast. Nice interior no doubt. But the things you could do with the old Corvette you can’t with this one. Namely a manual.
Got my '24 C8Z just under a year ago. Put 5500 miles on this beast. Never gets old!
I love my 2023 Z06/07 70th Anniversary edition in Pearl white, your review was spot on, I had several cars in my lifetime, 911’s etc, but this Z06 is by far the best and more satisfying car I have ever owned.
I love the 911, but this is definitely more exciting than most 911 trims. Glad I was able to do this phenomenal car justice with this video! Thanks for watching
I own a 458 Spider and I’m buying a Z06 this year. Brilliant car!
It should be very interesting to see the difference and/or similarity between them. I can see it in your profile picture, beautiful color!
You’ll regret it. I’m a GT3 guy for 20 years. I bought a 23 Z06/z07 htc 3LT. I got rid of it in a month. No where near the Porsche. Got a new Lambo. The motor is awesome but everything else is just meh.
@ Wow! I've not seen a negative review yet, nor heard one from any of the locals I see at car shows.
@@jimsteinway695 is that why the z06 beat the gt3 on some tracks already?🥱 if it was mehh it would lose badly
@ straight line only. It still loses going around the track which is embarrassing, since it has almost 200 more horsepower. With that suspension and the same brakes with 200 more horsepower it SOULD DEMOLISH a gt3 yet it can’t. Another embarrassing GM product. With 200 more horsepower the GT3 should be WAY behind the Z06. The Z06 can’t even break 7 minutes on the Ring, The GT3 shouldn’t be able to beat the BASE Z06 much less the Z06 with that motor. Just like all corvettes the ONLY way it ever wins is if it has 2-3 more liters of motor size . What happened to no replacement for displacement. Instead of the 458 GM should have benchmarked the GT3. I had a Z06 23 htc 3LT Z07 htc. Kept it for a month. Brakes were mushy transmission hunted for gears, it tram lines , the interior is just terrible AND the prices are crashing. 23 and 24s with most options are already below 130k with less than 1000 miles on graham Rahals site. A used 23 GT3 is STILL OVER $250,000. There’s a reason why, because the market DOESNT Value this vette .
Had my z06 for over a year now. It's simply amazing people don't understand until they drive it. They just see random videos of it going against hypercars and 1000hp cars off a roll and wonder why they're losing lol. It's just not meant for that. I went to the ron fellows z06 owners school last summer and i tried to beat the hell out of the car i used for the 2 days and just when you think you're pushing the car hard, you're not even touching 10% of it's capabilities. We're talking about near GT3RS capabilities and we all know that car is the master when it comes to a complete track car.
Best Z06 video have seen yet. Great work!
I really appreciate that! Glad you enjoyed the video and thanks for watching!
So, I know to be that horse, I’m the guy who just traded a 2024 Lamborghini Huracan TECHNICA for a 2025 Z06 Z07 coupe. The Lambo was nicely loaded at $320K sticker. The Corvette is every option available at $191K.
I feel you should have kept that Lamborghini. I have the new c8 Z06 and it's a great car. Maybe you could have gotten a lesser trim 1lz for around 110k so that you could keep both the Z06 and also the Lamborghini alongside. The V10 in the Lamborghini is also incredible.
actually, I have three other V10 Lambo‘s. My favorite one is the STO. Comparing to Corvette, the STO is a much more focused and much less compromised car. It is very raw, direct and simple. The Corvette still has power seats, even with the track seat, set up, heated seats, ventilated seats, dual zone AC controls, higb end stereo and other luxury features. The STO has none of that. And, truthfully, I love that about that car. Needless to say, there is a price difference, unfortunately. The sticker on my STO was $452. STO CCMR Brakes are the best on any car I have e ever owned.
Boy did you fu@k up. I traded my 18 GT3 for a 23 Z06/Z07 htc and cash. I was in love with the engine but the brakes were mushy . $165,00 MSRP. The transmission wasn’t any where near the PDK. It hunted. Shifted when I didn’t want to and didn’t shift when I wanted. The car tram lines like crazy. It’s dangerous in the hands of a beginner. The electronic limited slip is horrible cutting horsepower in turns. The interior was below standards of European standards. The panel gaps were awful. The second screen rattles horribly. The prices are tanking . You can get a 23 24 Z06/Z07 with every option for $130,000 with less than a 1000 miles.
I had it a month and traded it in on Huracan Technica. 300% better than the Z06.
Awesome motor. Much better interior with Italian flair. The brakes are the same brembo carbon ceramic but they WORK!. The tranny is obviously much like the PDK or perfect.
You traded a car that’s going to be one of the last normally aspirated super car V-10 classics for a car that’s going to be in the $90k range in no time.
Unless you needed out of the lambo financially I can’t imagine that trade
And by the way the Technica brakes are the same on the Technica
@@timmietzdamn bro what do u do for a living 😂
@@timmietz Good to know. I have 4 c8 z06s since I got too excited and felt they were a bargain compared to the 458 and Huracan which I've always lusted over. $115-120k a piece. That's like 4 of them for the price of one of your high end lambos. Still envious of your Lamborghini's but content with my z06s since they don't attract way too much attention at work and where I travel / park.
A Z07 as well, even more special! I love that GM casually dropped a bonafide race motor into this car, yet gave it more power and more revs over the one found in the C8.R, and Z06 GT3.R lol. The ZR1 is going to be a missile, but the Z06 will be my favorite still. Give me a ZL1 1LE, and a nicely specced C8 Z06 with Z07, and I’m a happy man lol.
About that 5th gear, it only really rears itself at the *very* top end, as shown in the longer tracks that the car has been run on. The ring time posted by Sport Auto was rather sloppy and timid, with a lot of mistakes made throughout. If you go to watch Misha Charoudin’s ring video, he all but negates the taller 5th gear by keeping the engine at a high RPM even when he *does* shift to fifth. Per his words, the Z06 is an easy sub-7 minute car.
Awesome review!
Same car and color minus the wing. Awesome video!!
Very nice, I’m sure it’s been a blast! Thanks for watching and glad you enjoyed the video!
So, I know to be beat that dead horse, but I’m the guy who just traded a 2024 Lamborghini Huracan TECHNICA for a 2025 Z06 Z07 coupe. The Lambo was nicely loaded at $320K sticker. The Corvette is every option available at $191K.
I just bought a 2025 and I'm in love with this car
Congrats, I’m sure it’s been loads of fun!
Nice Review! It is truly the best sports car for the money ever made.... I don't know who pissed Chevy off but they just keep dropping mic's.......
Much appreciated! This car absolutely blew me away
This reminds me of when the r35 GTR came out..
This car only looks good in black , gray, and red imo. Such a badass car
man with great taste
I have black, gray, and red and also White. Grateful. : )
Definitely black and I do actually like red. The only thing I don’t like about the Z is the black boomerang on the side. It looks like a fish mouth opening and the gas cap looks like the eye. Once you see it you can’t unsee it. That’s why I like the e ray… I like When they match the boomerang with the color of the car
It was between the Z06 and the Eray. Carbon Ceramic brakes standard (8.5k), 5K less, and no 3K Gas Guzzler Tax. Easy decision for me.
Rear wheel weight on non CF wheels/tires is 71lbs EACH vs C7Z06 OEM rear wheel/tire 57lb each 14lbs per corner of rotating mass is a BIG deal for braking, accelerating and cornering performance.
yes but how wide is the tire?
Stingray had only 7-8 as the long gears, driving the Z06 on track I don't think I even got to 5th gear before hitting 150 and needing to slow down for a turn
It will depend on the track to some extent. In the context of the Nurburgring, a lot of time was lost on the super long döttinger höhe straightaway as well as the run up to schwedenkreuz, where it sat in 5th gear for long periods of time.
@ stingray is def better for daily driving and getting to speed from stops is much quicker than the Z06. Only thing I love more about the z06 is the amazing sound and wider body. Z06 def better for track though 1000%
I love my 2024 z07 HTC. There is no car that gets the job done like the z06+z07
Without a manual transmission it's nothing more than a fancy sedan.
Like nearly every other super/hyper car?
It’s a coupe rather than a sedan, and nearly every Ferrari, McLaren, and Lamborghini doesn’t have a manual. I’m a diehard manual enthusiast as well, but they knocked this DCT out of the park imo. Thanks for watching!
Agree! People flip out when I tell them I chose a z06 over a Huracan or 720s. So much more enjoyable car than those
It really is a nearly unbeatable option, I’m sure you’re plenty happy with the car!
What an amazing beautiful machine wish black wheels died out though they make cars look dull.
This color with bronze or gold wheels would look crazy
I just hit the 500 mile mark last night
Me too!
First pull after break in will blow your mind, it’s unbelievable!
@@running2redline I have to say this. I traded in a 2023 ZL1 to get into this car. I bought it new and I had only put 9500 miles on it. I'm not gonna lie. There is not much drop off in performance at all between the two. I'm kinda having a hard time noticing much difference in power. Maybe it's gonna take a minute to realize it. I don't know..Don't get me wrong, the z06 feels good. At high speed it handles so well that you feel like you are driving slow 🤣 But that ZL1 is just brute power. And when you ask for it, it's instant. It doesn't bs. And driving this Z06 makes me realize just how good that camaro is. That camaro is a damn animal in its own right
So I have a 2019 ZO7 package in Admiral blue carbon brakes and all that. I am trying to convince my wife to trade up. Should she let me???? Her excuse is my car is paid off and more than I can handle already. Oh mine is a manual and i do love the crap out of it but I hate it when she makes sense but…..😅
Yea keep that bud and just buy the c8 and have both
I would definitely test drive one to see if you can do without the manual. A 19 Z06 should hold value nicely as the final year with the manual and is a great car. As for your decision, I can’t give you financial advice haha. Best of luck with what you decide to do!
$120k USED C8Z06 with 460tq (C8 TQ number is the lowest all C8) vs $70k USED C7Z06 with 650tq (which is the 2nd highest not incl the ZR1 not yet for sale)
Are you okay?
widen your perspective. its not comparable.
The C7 struggles to put it down in 1-3 gear, this Z06 has very little wheel spin in my experience. I can appreciate the manual in the C7 though. Thanks for watching
Beautiful town !
Just buy a soler throttle controller. It will pull like crazy for $200 lol. Come back and thank me though
What does that controller do? I have a Z07 and now you have me curious? Lol
They copied a true exotic.. it’s a regular sports car, not supercar, still far too many corners cut by American manufacturer, folks need to stop trying to put this car against true exotics.. it’s also putting out more than stated HP, meaning the engineering is not as impressive as people want you to believe.. they copied a 458, that’s why it’s not celebrated by exotic owners .. American engineers always cheat engineering but pounding a ton of Horses as if that’s enough
LOL you obviously do not know what you are talking about but you are entitled to your opinion even if you are way off. A true car enthusiast NEVER puts a type of car down based on YOUR comment. May ur education and opinion in cars grow in positivity.
Here’s a piece of information that will blow your mind. GM didn’t copy the exotics, it’s the other way around. Cadillac (GM) was the inventor of the flat-plane crank engine over a century ago. You can make these statements, but when the Z06 is faster in both a straight line and around a track than many of these exotics, it begs the question, if this isn’t a supercar then what would it have to do to be one? Who makes it isn’t a sufficient answer to that question. I can understand it being hard to admit, but it’s an objective truth about this machine. Take the chance to test drive one and give it the chance to change your mind. Thanks for watching, and hope you still enjoyed the video!
The guy who drives a Honda. 😂
This isn’t a real Corvette. At all, it’s literally a Chevy grade Ferrari and I grew up loving Corvettes. But this is just not it. We was supposed to be a the American viper since viper is gone. Instead you get a Car that Ferrari used to make. Yes it’s fast. Nice interior no doubt. But the things you could do with the old Corvette you can’t with this one. Namely a manual.
times change.
@ the 911 still rear engined. Times change means nothing