2002 Z06 Corvette

[Rob]

Here it is, in Electron Blue paint:

A C5 owner sent us this snap shot. This car, spotted during the week of
5/7 in a parking lot at the Los Angeles County Fairgrounds in California,
is, appearently, a 2002 Z06 in the new, blue paint.

[BBB454]

Great, Rob, now I have drool all over my keyboard... :J

Thanks for sharing!
Barb :w

[Tanzanite3]

I wonder where it came from?

http://www.pixhost.com/pixy/ydoj/dcp03377.jpg

[JT ZR-Won]

OK.....that's wicked:eek

Jay

[Tom Bryant]

Cool color and I like the wheels. Went by a dealer in Gas City IN Tuesday eve that had a '01 red Z06 in the showroom.

Tom

[VPRKLLR]

I have seen this picture numerous times. It doesn't have the 405 HP badges on it nor does it have the new wheels.

[Rob]

Well, since you seem to know more about it....what 405hp badges and new wheels are you talking about? According to my source, this picture is only about 1 - 1 1/2 weeks old.

[Hib Halverson]

The car in the photo has the Z06 405hp badges, you just can't see the badge clearly because of the crappy quality of the image. The world will be a better place if cheap digital cameras were outlawed

There ain't any new wheels for Z06 in 02.

[VPRKLLR]

Where exactly are they?!?!?!?!?! I don't see them, even after looking at the picture for along time, even zooming in on it. I have seen people order the exact color combination for electron blue from PPG and they have painted their car to look like the one in the picture. The cars are not even built yet, not enev the cars for GM brass, i.e. GM execs and engineers. You need more proof to back up that shady picture.

[Hib Halverson]

How 'bout this proof:

The day after someone snapped that spy shot, I drove that car.

[Her 92]

Hib,

Sounds good to me! :) How did it drive? How's the color? Is it as nice as it looks in the picture?:w

[brooks]

needs a white strip down the middle

[Lenny Angello]

On Memorial Day, May 28, the River City Corvette Club of Sacramento, California, held a car show at its sponcer John L. Sullivan Chevrolet. John L. Sullivan provided a color sample of the new 2K2 Electron Blue Metallic set to replace Navy Blue Metallic.

Here is a photo of that color sample in the sun. The photo is very accurate to the actual color. Although, it is NOT as nice as Navy!!!

[Rob]

Very cool. Thanks for sharing that with us Lenny. Out of curiosity, how do you feel it compares to the C4's Admiral Blue Metallic? Darker? Lighter? Less purple?

[Lenny Angello]

Rob,

To be honest, I wasn't too impressed with the color. It was VERY MUCH like the 1998/1999 Blue! Yes, if you added more silver metallic metal flake to Admiral Blue you would be very close; but ever so lighter in color.

Personally, I was hoping Corvette would continue with it's metamorphoasis in paint types/colors. For instance Navy Blue Metallic (OK, I'm prejudice!) will change color from dark blue- to purple(!)- to black depending on the light angle. We saw this same effect with the short production Black Cherry Metallic in the C-4's. No such change was visible in the paint sample we saw.

Attached, is another photo showing Electron Blue Metallic against my car. Certainly it is lighter.

The general consensus of club members was, "It's OK!"

Beautiy is in the eye of the beholder . . . Heck, some people think Mustangs are beautiful!

Lenny

[Rob]

Personally, I'd like to see them re-introduce the Copper color from 1994. I thought that was one of the best colors I have ever seen on a Corvette. I remember seeing a coupe in a showroom dressed in Copper Metallic. It had incredible depth and looked like you could put your hand through it like water. :)

[Her 92]

You might ask Bev about that Copper 94 color and how it held up.:s I'm sure she loved hers! It was a BEAUTY! :W:

[twiget]

From what I heard, the '94 Copper color was discontinued due to problems in the application. But I agree, it is definatly a beautiful color.

From the pic's I think the Electron Blue is a little lighter and less purple than Admrial Blue.

Jason

[Lambinator]

This is supposedly EB...

http://members.home.net/mail2todd/ebz06.jpg

[J.T. Marlin]

So, the new Z06 will have 405 HP? Are there any other changes? Where are the badges at?

[CorvetteArchives]

Originally posted by Lenny Angello

Attached, is another photo showing Electron Blue Metallic against my car. Certainly it is lighter.



Lenny...thanks for the comparison pic........BIG difference!!!!! We agree your Navy is MUCH MUCH MUCH better!!!!!!

[J.T. Marlin]

I kinda like the new blue, though I love the Magnetic red, a color which seems les popular even though I find it 10x better looking than torch...

[Ken]

Originally posted by J.T. Marlin
So, the new Z06 will have 405 HP? Are there any other changes? Where are the badges at?

:L Here we go again! :L

[J.T. Marlin]

Can someone tell me why there is no auto, nor availability of all colors, for the hardtop? Is it just supposed to be a bare bones version?

[Rob]

J.T. The answer to your question is "yes". The Fixed Roof Coupe or "FRC" is supposed to be the high performance, "bare bones" version of the Corvette.

[J.T. Marlin]

Why are so many cars sold in Torch Red and not Magnetic?

[Rob]

The law of supply and demand and probably because the Magnetic Red paint is an additional $600 option.

[J.T. Marlin]

I thought it was $500. Anywho, I saw quite a few in Florida, but nowhere else. $500 (or $600) isn't much considering the car is $45,000 and that is a paint job that probably costs $3,000. I guess it's like the magnesium wheels. They look nice, but I don't know if they are worth $2,000. You can get some damn nice aftermarket wheels for that much.

[Rob]

It was $500 in 2000, but jumped up $100 in 2001. :)

[Hib Halverson]

Originally posted by Her 92
Hib,

Sounds good to me! :) How did it drive? How's the color? Is it as nice as it looks in the picture?:w


Well, you're just going to have to wait until June 20. That's the release date for the full story on the 02 Z06. The C5 Registry site will post a full road test on the 20th or shortly after.

[Hib Halverson]

Originally posted by twiget
From what I heard, the '94 Copper color was discontinued due to problems in the application. But I agree, it is definatly a beautiful color.

From the pic's I think the Electron Blue is a little lighter and less purple than Admrial Blue.

Jason

Jason is correct. The Copper Metallic was discontinued just before the start of the 1994 model year and the problem was the Bowling Green paint shop, with the technology in it at the time, couldn't apply the copper metallic paint with consistency of appearance. As I recall 200 or so Copper cars were built and most of them had visible flaws in the paint mostly splotchy metallic and panels that didn't match. Nevertheless, 94 Copper is also one of my favorite colors and I hope, someday, they bring it back. Looking at the quality of the pewter, the 1998 Gold and the Magnetic Red, I'd think they'd be able to shoot Copper these days.

[Lambinator]

The pic I posted above (3 cars) is indeed EBlue - I just saw some of the press photos that confirm it.

It looks nothing like the pic of the car in the parking lot in Cali - that pic is a LOT darker than EBlue.

The badges from a distance won't look much different either - the shape is the same, they just added some really small 405 HP lettering.

I'm actually going to change my order to Yellow, I don't like the new blue much. :(

[sleepyhead]

Good choice on the color change, Lambinator. Maybe you can take me for a ride when the Z06 comes in. :)


-J.

[J.T. Marlin]

What's wrong with the new blue? I think it looks awesome! As for Copper, they had the same problems on Saturns with Copper in like 1997.

[VPRKLLR]

The HP ratingis done very tastefully,
it is under the O6 of ZO6 and it is in small but good looking letters.