We have discovered an extreme high-velocity bipolar CO outÑow in the vicinity of NGC 2023, with total outÑow velocities of D200 km s~1. At very high velocities this outÑow is jetlike with an opening angle ¹4¡, while it shows a separate outÑow lobe at low velocities. The outÑow is bipolar and exhibits a clear mirror symmetry, which suggests that the source powering the outÑow is episodic or precessing. The dynamical timescales for the outÑow are ¹3000 yr. We identify the source driving the CO

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... with a deeply embedded low-luminosity submillimeter double source (separation D23A), where the primary component lies on the symmetry axis of the outÑow and has all the signatures of a "" class 0 ÏÏ protostellar object. Analysis of molecular data and (sub)millimeter photometry suggests that the driving source is cold and compact, with a luminosity of and a total mass of 1.8È4.6 It has no near-IR [10 L _ M _ . counterpart, it drives an extremely young outÑow, and it emits a large fraction of its luminosity in the submillimeter regime. Both millimeter sources have low dust emissivity, b D 0.8È1.3, similar to what is found for other class 0 objects, while the surrounding molecular cloud core appears to have a b D 2.0, the canonical value for "" normal ÏÏ interstellar dust in the submillimeter regime.