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Old 12-27-2014, 02:04 PM
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This Z06 showed up at the Franklin TN Cars & Coffee today. Its a GM fleet test car. Has painted vents and the A8.....










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Old 12-27-2014, 02:10 PM
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Interesting. I think I'm partial to the black accents personally.
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The side looks fine....but the back needs the mascara to look menacing.
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They should have done the lower rear vent (behind the door) in red too.
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Huge improvement, but they should have left the black stripe off the hood, since they painted the hood vent.

Still need to do something about that NASCAR spoiler.

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Originally Posted by Steven Bell
They should have done the lower rear vent (behind the door) in red too.
Probably have to have it in black plastic on the leading edge as on the C6 wide body's or it would have tons of rock chips in just a few days.

On the early C6 Z06's, even with the black plastic insert, the painted outer edge of the bake scoop got chipped very easy, so GM redesigned the black plastic insert so it extended further out over the painted edge of the brake scoop in order to protect the paint.
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oh hell no
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Derek,

Your reply would be much easier to read if you added some commas and break it down into several paragraphs, instead of one l-o-n-g sentence.
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Originally Posted by JoesC5
Derek,

Your reply would be much easier to read if you added some commas and break it down into several paragraphs, instead of one l-o-n-g sentence.
lol yuuuuuuuuckk
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Thanks for posting, Not for me. It also has the A8 trans? Hope to have one soon.
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...now I know what I won't be ordering
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Tragic, just tragic.
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I want to see one with contrasted painted vents; i.e., black vette with shark grey vents, or silver vette with red guts and red vents (that would be a BOLD order!).
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Originally Posted by DRLC5
Thanks for posting, Not for me. It also has the A8 trans? Hope to have one soon.
Yep, A8....

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I don't like that at all. Maybe color matched vents in a different color, but in the red it is too much IMO.
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Old 12-28-2014, 04:17 PM
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I agree with the crowd that says ""

Admittedly, there are a lot of black accents around the Z.
However, most of us seem to like the overall effect.
OTOH, for those that don't, they can be painted the body color at a modest cost by your local Paint Shop.
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only color matched vents that good are on a black Z
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Default No contrast

Too much of one color, not my taste but some out there love it. That's ok. I personally like the contrast of the body color and the black vents, side and rear, breaks up the color nicely.

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