With the 2015 Corvette Z06 now out in the open, Chevy engineers are already busy on a more extreme Vette. Corvette product manager Harlan Charles told us at this year’s Detroit auto show that his team wants to put the Corvette Z06X, a concept shown at SEMA in 2010, to production.
“The idea was a non-street-legal, factory-built track car, and that is something that we are considering would be a great thing to apply to the new Corvette Z06,” Charles said. “I mean that’s something we could see in the future. We’ve got a lot of ideas, but nothing to show today, unfortunately.”
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The Z06X concept was a stripped-out C6 Z06 with the Z07 and Carbon-Fiber packages, plus racing wheels, adjustable suspension, roll cage, and lots of other race-spec goodies. With the latest Z07 aero package and the C7 Z06’s 625 horsepower, a new Z06X could quickly become a rival for the C7.R racer. Nothing is official, but if Chevy added back the three-point seat belts and other federally approved items, a potential Z06X could easily be sold alongside the track-enhanced Camaro Z/28—and for a lot more than that car’s $75,000 sticker.
