gsvette

An Illinois dealer listed this 23 Z06 3LZ for sale: 1G1YF2D33P5300199

https://www.lemanchevy.com/inventory...f2d33p5300199/

VIN has no history on CarFax and over 6K miles. Anybody know what this is?

bradc6

The 3 in the 12th position means it is a Z06 pilot(CTF) car. 5300001 through 5300216 is the range of Z06 pilots.

Vetteman Jack

So what are the risks, if any, with a CTF car?

StayinStock

Correct me if im wrong but I thought CTF cars couldn't be sold to the public?

mortelec

They are sold. There are a couple hundred of the 2020 CTF C8's out in the wild.

BPHORSEGUY

You may be thinking of experimental cars or prototypes which come before CTF and are eventually crushed !

Revmanii

Like any other used car, just how used/thrashed it is, is hard to know. I bought a '22 CTF Stingray last spring. No regrets ... so far. I bought it with about 5100 miles on it and have just under 10k currently.

Slare

You’re getting a car that was daily driven by a GM employee and not babied in any way. However that car was also scrutinized for every single issue big and small and got every one of them fixed by people with the best available info and latest parts.

My .02 if the car is cosmetically where you want it, under warranty and priced fair, it’s a safer gamble than a private party car that could look pretty but may have been beaten on and neglected. I wouldn’t hesitate to buy one as such, but I wouldn’t give it any particular priority either. Just no reason to avoid it if everything adds up.

24RiptideBlue

Considering the impact of video and the abuse some private owned performance cars are subject to…. I would consider these cars a much better used car risk. The people who drove these cars were aware that every thing the car does is being transmitted to HQ and analyzed. They may have done some spirited driving but they weren’t abused and if brakes for example got a bit over cooked they would be swapped for new.

To me it’s a safer than average used car bet…. And a potentially excellent way into a Z06 which for some reason I’m not looking at with more than passing interest. 🤣

Vega$Vette

$150k price

probably $10-15k over MSRP.

Greg00Coupe

What does cft stand for? Are these cars used in testing or just gm expect cars? Are these the cars you see in bowling green with manufacturers plates on them or in Detroit?

gsvette

CTF = Captured Test Fleet. As I understand it, they can be anything from an executive driven car to a monitored engineering/QC/development car. Unique vin# and no window sticker.

Revmanii

I was able to pull up a window sticker on mine when I researching it before buying.

lococanes5

CTF cars vehicles are eventually sold at the GM auction to any GM dealer. There's a bunch of this ZO6 for sale thru out the country. This particular car has not been titled. But is has been punched in for warranty and is sold as a used car. On regular CTF regular stingrays you can see the window sticker under a carFax report but this CTF ZO6 you cant and a GM dealer cant either for some unknown reason. This CTF ZO6 were early builds June/July 2022 before the regular productions vehicles were produced for sale.

23/C8Z

EX in the vin are the ones that will be crushed after use i believe?

With as many examples put there I would pass om a CTF car. It's like buying a rental car used by a company. Sure one or two drivers but they didn't baby the thing.

It was a ctf to be driven and used regularly and hard.

Warp Ten

Were any of thers Z06's CTF cars used at Spring Valley? As I recall they said they sell there C8's around 6K miles ..