• The Callaway C16 is Callaway's 16th and latest automobile. 
• A bespoke automobile, built to order, by what the Press has called "the best specialist engineers in the business". 
• The car is seriously fast, beautiful, and exclusive. 
• Backed by a company whose reputation for quality and owner satisfaction extends more than thirty years.
• What follows is a detailed look at how to configure a Callaway C16. 

We believe a Callaway C16 represents everything we know about how to make a great road car. We suggest that there is one configuration that makes this statement. Therefore, we offer the automobile in one configuration - fully, and correctly done. In other words, when an potential owner asks us, personally, how would we build a car for ourselves, here is the answer:

Choose a Coupe or Cabrio or Speedster.

Manual 6 speed gearbox (preferred) - Standard

Automatic 6 speed paddle shift - Optional

Supercharged to the 650 bhp level - Standard

Equipped with the Callaway C16 body, in your color choice - Standard

The complete 'Deutschleder' interior, again, in your leather choice - Standard

The Callaway Eibach Multi-Pro Suspension - Standard

The Le Mans Brakes - Standard

Callaway Short Throw Shifter - Standard

The Callaway Carbon Magnesium wheels. 19 x 10 front, 20 x 12 rear - Standard

Michelin Pilot Sport Cup II tires - Standard

This configuration costs $173K as a Coupe, $179K as a Cabrio, or $305K as a Speedster.

Once you have selected the above configuration, there are really only two options, if you take our suggestions:

Callaway Sport Seats (a snug, but great, seat for spirited driving)

Callaway Carbon Ceramic brakes. If 15K extra is no problem. The massive steel Callaway Le Mans brakes are more than you will ever need, but the new carbon ceramics save another 10 lbs per corner of unsprung weight

• Callaway C16s are either Cabrio or Coupe or Speedster, 6 speed manual. Alternatively you can specify the paddle-shift automatic transmission for an additional $1200
• The Callaway C16 is a direct competitor for the Porsche GT3, the Lamborghini Murcielago, the Ferrari 599 GTB.
• It is both faster and more capable than its competitors, at less cost.
• The easy way to make this decision is to visit our factories and test drive the Callaway C16. 
• A Callaway C16 is also part of the fleet at World Class Driving.  This driving experience lets you sample 6 great automobiles under road conditions.  Please see worldclassdriving.com for details. 
• Additionally, a Callaway Corvette is part of the Corvette Advanced Driving School at Spring Mountain Motorsports Ranch in Pahrump, Nevada near Las vegas.  Check out racespringmountain.com:  Super instruction, great facility, and a fully equipped Callaway Corvette in the school
• New Callaway C16s are ordered by calling Callaway directly. In California 949 497 6536

 

Whichever model you choose, you will be getting an exclusive, beautiful, and enormously capable 200+ mph automobile that is dependable, gets 30+ mpg at 70 mph, and has the best warranty in the business.

 

". . . 3.3 second 0-60; 10.9 second quarter mile; 206 mph top speed; EPA rating of 18 mpg city and 28 mpg highway.  Is this the perfect sports car?  We say: "yes".

-ign.com more

 

The Callaway C16 Body replaces every panel of the standard C6 body with the exception of the roof panel and the rear hatch. The Callaway approach uses the standard attachment points as its datum, preserving the standard cut lines of door, hood, and rear hatch openings.  The panels are made of high grade glass fiber with a class A gel-coat painting surface.  They are designed to be refinished with either the standard GM top coat materials or any of the Callaway specified paint colors from House of Kolor

Re-used from the standard car are the headlight projectors, the turn indicators, the side lights and one set of the tail lights.

New headlight lenses and inner reflectors are supplied.

Door handles and door handle cutouts are eliminated and a unique keyless entry system, the D Spot, is introduced. The GM fob is retained. However, the door pops open when you pass your hand over a particular area of the rear fender, just behind the door. A fail-safe mode is also retained in case of a flat battery.

A Soft flannel car cover is included - custom fitted to the C16 shape.

C16 Engine Package - 650 Supercharged bhp and 550 lb-ft torque (SAE)

• Roots-type Eaton supercharger, intercooled, with polished housing
• Upgraded fuel system with 46 # high flow injectors
• Callaway Honker Cold Air Inlet system
• Callaway Double D Exhaust system
• Callaway body-color injector covers
  
  

The Callaway C16 is powered by the Corvette's 6.2L LS3 engine, enhanced by Callaway's Magna Charger Supercharger system. The Roots-style supercharger provides substantial power increase (220 bhp), while internals manufactured by Eaton, the world's leading OEM supercharger supplier, ensure bulletproof reliability. Callaway's electronic engine management calibration provides perfect street manners, eliminating engine-damaging detonation and maintaining excellent fuel economy. Magna Charger's unique intercooler design, built into the manifold base, significantly lowers charge air temperature to increase power (patent pending). During low-load cruising conditions, the supercharger's internal bypass allows the rotors to spin freely, reducing parasitic drag to less than one-third of one horsepower.

 

• CNC-ported and machined cylinder heads with large diameter, stainless-steel intake and exhaust valves
• Callaway-proprietary valve springs, titanium spring retainers, chrome moly pushrods
• Callaway-proprietary hydraulic roller camshaft with high ratio rocker arms
• Advanced valve seat machining and expert cylinder head setup assembly

 

650 bhp elevates the C16 to another level of performance. No off-the-shelf "tuner" parts here, this package has been developed by Callaway engineers applying our established high power, sophisticated approach, extended durability combination. The LS3's cylinder head ports and combustion chambers are recontoured to increase inlet and exhaust flow as well as enhance swirl for improved combustion. The proprietary camshaft profile is specifically designed for abundant mid-range torque and excellent high RPM power without the radical idle and poor low-end torque of racing-only cams. Callaway-proprietary valve springs eliminate valve float and spring breakage at high RPM while avoiding excessive spring pressures that can sap power and reduce service life. The Magna Charger system included in the 650 HP Package is engineered to provide increased inlet air volume, matched to Callaway-specific cylinder head and camshaft performance characteristics.

 

101.60.0052 CALLAWAY 650 HP ENGINE PACKAGE

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"Brake hard—repeatedly—and you get carrier-landing deceleration accompanied by whiff of pad, but not one iota of fade or pedal softness. "

-Doug Kott,Road & Track, May '07

Front/rear: Callaway 6-piston (front) and 4-piston (rear) calipers

with 355 x 32 mm diameter rotors (front & rear). 

Extreme performance needs extreme braking ability.  In keeping with enviable acceleration and top speed,  braking ability is enhanced with the same package that the Callaway cars use at Le Mans.  Only the brake pad material spec differs for road use.

 

130.60.6902 CALLAWAY LE MANS BRAKE PACKAGE

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"On the road, the C16 immediately feels even tighter, stronger and faster than a Z06 Corvette. It’s everything buyers love about that car and more. While roll, dive and squat are mighty hard to sense in a standard Vette, they’re almost entirely absent in a Callaway"

-Mark Vaughn, AutoWeek, March 16, 2007

"Seriously good Eibach aluminum-body shocks, separately adjustable for both jounce and rebound control, probably make the biggest difference....The suspension gives the C16 a positively planted, though not overly firm, ride, and the shocks keep the contact patches stuck to the pavement even through mid-corner bumps that would momentarily unsettle a stock Corvette."

-Doug Kott,Road & Track, May '07

 

Callaway/Eibach Multi-Pro coil-over suspension with double adjustable dampers, external reservoir with 10-position compression control; companion helper and tender springs supplementing composite leaf springs; front and rear Callaway anti-roll bars, tubular steel.

Callaway and Eibach have jointly developed the ultimate suspension upgrade for the C5/C6 platform.  Our objectives were as follows:

Give the driver a tool to transform the ride of the automobile to his/her taste.

The elements that are now adjustable with the Callaway Eibach system are: ride height, pitch attitude, cross- weighting of the entire car, and of course ride frequency in both rebound and compression.  With all these adjustment options we look to satisfy the driver who will tailor his ride and handling to their local conditions whether that be road or track, high speed or around town, autocross or cross country. Of course, we have good starting point suggestions for each of those uses. Once in place, you are encouraged to experiment.

120.60.6312 CALLAWAY/EIBACH MULTI-PRO SUSPENSION PACKAGE

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"...the wheels themselves, which are featherweight works of art. Manufactured by U. K.-based Dymag with Callaway’s input, they utilize forged center sections of magnesium alloy, bolted to carbon-fiber rims."

-Doug Kott,Road & Track, May '07

The Dymag CarbonMag Wheels are a remarkable piece of technology. A full carbon fiber rim joined mechanically to a forged magnesium spider makes this combination the lightest road wheels available. e.g. 20" diameter x 12" wide weighs 18.2 lbs.  This unsprung weight is approximately 60% of the equivalent aluminum wheel. Accommodates tire pressure warning system transmitter .

Front: 19 x 10 Callaway/Dymag forged magnesium spider w/carbon fiber rims, 285/30ZR19 Michelin PS2 sport tires

Rear: 20 x 12 Callaway/Dymag forged magnesium spider w/carbon fiber rims, 325/25ZR20 Michelin PS2 sport tires

 

 

140.67.7550 CALLAWAY DYMAG WHEEL/TIRE PACKAGE

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"...and the craftsmanship of the stitching and fitment wouldn't look out of place on a Maybach ."
-Jason Kavanagh, Edmunds InsideLine, March 07

“The smell alone is worth about $30,000!"

-Doug Kott, Road & Track, May '07

The interiors are a work of art. 

Done to Callaway standards by the world's best trimmers, the C16 interiors are full German leather appointments for the look, feel and smell of a car crafted to the highest standards.  The client chooses the color palette to complement or contrast the exterior color. Detail embellishment may be specified at this point.

160.60.8700 DEUTSCHLEDER INTERIOR PACKAGE

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"Our car had the optional sport seat, awkward to get into but one of the most comfortable and secure buckets we’ve ever sat in."

-Mark Vaughn, Autoweek, March 16, 2007

Single shell sport seat for road use

Choice of matching interior leather, blind embossed

with or without Alcantara accents

6 way, power adjustable

 

160.60.8850 SPORTSEAT PACKAGE

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Matched travel luggage is generally specified using

the same hides as the interior. Luggage is marked

with the VIN.  The design of the 5 piece set is customized

so that all pieces fit the available boot space in a nested

fashion.

The luggage is supplied by Schedoni, S.r.L. 

Supplier to Ferrari, Maserati, Bentley and Maybach.

180.61.9550 SCHEDONI LUGGAGE PACKAGE

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In 20 years of selecting, developing and manufacturing a highly specialized set of components for Corvette platforms  we have come to appreciate what works, what doesn't, what's a liability down the road, and what gives lasting satisfaction.  That knowledge is condensed into a series of coordinated modifications, manufactured from the best materials, and offered to the enthusiast in packages that treat the car as a well-tuned, systems-engineered entity.

That is how we make Powerfully Engineered Automobiles.

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