Introducing the NEW Z06

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http://www.corvettesbyrickdaniel.com/C6Z06INFO.html

 

As much as I love the C5 Vettes, I can't overlook the performance of the C6. Drool...(where are those damn emoticons when you need them)

 

Pic of the interior: http://www.structuredchaos.net/images/Z06/seat.jpg Those seats would look great in a Z

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ive known about this for about a week now and each time i see a new website come up they aways get the weight wrong.

what i heard is it weights 2900lbs.. that was from GM, now im not so sure as each site i see on different forums has everything else perfect (well not all) and the weight wrong.

 

funny thing is GM wont put your name on a list for this car, for the C6 they did but it didnt really matter since they are going to sell so many of them, but for some reason they wont take orders yet for the Z06... father and I tried with no luck..

hmm prob the best thing to do anyways is to wait for the 2nd year models as theres always a problem with the 1st.

 

but soooooooooooooo sweet of a car!

 

mike

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just found this!

 

hahaha

 

http://www.autoweek.com/article.cms?articleId=101358

 

couple of paragraphs from the article

 

hat is exactly what Houston-based software consultant Paul K. (he asks that his full name not be used) thought to himself when, in his words, he stumbled across a short list of mechanical details and a reasonably clear photograph of the new Z06 on a website for Corvette enthusiasts (it’s the one we based our illustration on). To help address his doubts, Mr. K., a C5 Z06 owner and enthusiast, turned to his fellow Corvette crazies and web forum regulars at Z06Vette.com.

 

“I figured if anybody knows if this is real, these guys will,†he said. “I simply asked, ‘Hey, is this old or new info?’ Because at that point, [i figured] I’m probably going to have 10 people saying old news, welcome to last week, etc.â€

 

To the contrary, his forum post ignited debates over the photo’s validity, as other Z06 fans claimed it to be everything from dead-to-rights real to an early concept to an electronically manipulated image. Within hours the argument and photo spread across the web, surfacing at other Corvette enthusiast sites such as digitalcorvettes.com, vette-net.com, corvetteforum.com and gminsidenews.com .

 

The arguments did not last long. Approximately 24 hours after Mr. K.’s original post (he claims not to remember where he first discovered the pic), General Motors contacted several website administrators to demand removal of its “property†from their cyberspace. Mr. K. had, it appeared, unearthed the real deal. “You get this e-mail from GM saying take it down, it’s our picture, right there... it’s real. Done.â€

 

GM, however, considered the matter far from over. On a Sunday evening five days after his original web posting, Mr. K. says he answered a knock on his door to discover two unfamiliar men standing outside his Texas home. The duo identified themselves as representatives of GM and its contracted security firm, Securitas Security Services, and according to Mr. K., demanded to know how he had come by GM’s copyrighted Z06 photo. His claim of part of the conversation: “[One of them] said, ‘GM has millions of dollars at its disposal, and we will not be afraid to use it to prove a point.’†Our call to Nick T. Chiros, one of the Securitas investigators, yielded a terse “No comment.â€

 

GM’s concern stemmed from the premature dispersal of an image it presented to journalists on Nov. 9, the day our Corvette fan discovered the photo online. (In researching this story we found one site even had this photo up for the world to see on Nov. 8.) Roughly 50 media representatives, including one from this magazine, attended an event where they were given official Z06 pictures and specifications only after agreeing to an embargo of its publication.