State Of The C7 Corvette Market: The True Price Floor Revealed

Beginning September 2024, CorvSport’s exclusive Bargain Hunting Series has chased one question through the used market: how much Corvette can you really buy right now? Nearly nineteen installments later, that question keeps circling back to one generation—the C7. As the last front-engine Corvette and the final manual-equipped era, the seventh-generation has quietly become the market’s measuring stick, where performance, heritage, and price collide. Today’s episode isn’t just another hunt—it’s the payoff of months of tracking how low the C7 can really go on one of the most popular online sales sites.

Why Autotrader Helps Define The Battlefield

Every C7 bargain we’ve analyzed has started in the same place: Autotrader. Long before filters, digital alerts, and instant price drops, Autotrader was a thick, ink-smudged magazine sitting next to the cash register at convenience stores, dog-eared by dreamers and deal hunters alike. Decades later, it remains the most established and dealer-driven sales platform in the industry, making it the ideal environment for CorvSport’s exclusive nationwide market analysis. If the C7 market is shifting, Autotrader is where those shifts first show up.

Nineteen Episodes Of Chasing Value

This series began with sub-$10,000 Corvettes and quickly escalated into deeper questions—what $8,000 buys today, how cheap a C5 Z06 can get, whether a C6 Z06 exists under $35K, and if the C8 has finally reached its market floor. Along the way, the C7 has remained a constant temptation, offering modern tech, massive performance, and undeniable front-engine nostalgia. Each Bargain Hunting episode has narrowed the gap between dream and driveway, and none has done so more consistently than the C7. If you want to explore further and dial into one episode, we have our full Bargain Hunting archives below today’s full C7 market analysis.

Bonus Content: The Bigger Picture

After we dive into today’s individual listings, it’s worth zooming out. When you stack all 30 C7 Corvettes we’ve analyzed since September 6, 2024—and remove the ZR1 outlier—the market tells a very specific story. The average C7 bargain we’ve featured trades hands in the low-to-mid $30,000 range, carries right around 90,000–100,000 miles, has roughly three to four prior owners, and almost always comes with at least one reported accident. That’s the real-world baseline for entry into the seventh-generation Corvette today. Everything below that price point demands compromises, and everything above it starts to separate by rarity, condition, and collectibility. Today’s episode zeroes in on that divide—showing exactly where the C7 price floor lives, and why only one variant refuses to touch it.

What We Already Know About C7 Bargains

Here’s just a touch of how CorvSport has already dissected the C7 from multiple angles: Stingrays under $30,000, Z06s below $48K, hard-to-find manual Stingrays, outright cheapest Stingrays, and bargain Grand Sports. Each study revealed a piece of the puzzle—but not the whole picture. Some trims fall fast, others resist gravity, and mileage, history, and desirability tug prices in different directions. Until now, those insights have lived in separate chapters of the same story.

The Cheapest C7 From Every Variant

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The CorvSport Takeaway

The Real Cost Of “Cheapest”

What today’s five cars make painfully clear is that the bottom of the C7 market is rarely clean-cut. High miles are the rule, not the exception, and accident history often becomes the trade-off that unlocks entry-level pricing. Both Stingrays crest past 115,000 miles with multiple reported accidents, while even the Grand Sport and Z06—still wearing their performance halos—show the scars of real-world use. These are dealer-listed Corvettes priced to move, not preserve, and they perfectly illustrate how far buyers must stretch the definition of “bargain” when chasing the cheapest example of a given trim.

Why The C7 ZR1 Lives In A Different Universe

Then there’s the ZR1—clean, low-mileage, accident-free, and priced accordingly. Its one-year-only production and near instant collectibility insulate it from the depreciation gravity pulling down the rest of the C7 lineup, even at the lowest end of the market. That contrast is the takeaway: when rarity and provenance enter the equation, the rules change. Autotrader’s dealer-dominated landscape puts this reality front and center, where volume cars absorb mileage and history while halo models hold the line. Together, these five Corvettes complete the story we’ve been building since September 2024—and set the stage for the full C7 big-picture analysis still to come.

The Bigger Picture

When we step back and stack every C7 Bargain Hunting result since September 6, 2024, a clear pattern emerges. The true price floor of the C7 market isn’t defined by a single trim or moment—it’s shaped by mileage, history, and how willing buyers are to compromise. Stingrays reach affordability first and hardest, absorbing miles and accidents to unlock sub-$30K pricing. Grand Sports hover stubbornly in the low-to-mid $40Ks, Z06s flirt with the high-$40K ceiling only when mileage climbs, and the ZR1 remains untouched by the gravity pulling everything else down. Together, these 30 Corvettes tell the full story: depreciation is real, but it isn’t evenly distributed—and the C7 still knows exactly which versions deserve to hold the line.

Price	YR	Variant	Trim	Miles	Owners/Accidents	Date Featured
$134,995	’19	ZR1	3ZR Coupe	36k	1 / 0	12/15/25
$47,995	’15	Z06	3LZ Coupe	77k	6 / 0	3/21/25
$47,995	’15	Z06	2LZ Convertible	57k	4 / 1	3/21/25
$47,762	’16	Z06	3LZ Coupe	72k	5 / 0	3/21/25
$46,800	’16	Z06	2LZ Convertible	119k	2 / 1	12/15/25
$44,999	’17	Grand Sport	1LT Coupe	60k	4 / 0	9/18/25
$44,595	’19	Grand Sport	2LT Coupe	77k	2 / 4	9/18/25
$43,966	’19	Z06	1LZ Coupe	120k	2 / 0	3/21/25
$43,930	’17	Grand Sport	2LT Coupe	79k	2 / 2	9/18/25
$43,499	’16	Z06	2LZ Convertible	118k	1 / 1	3/21/25
$42,000	’17	Grand Sport	2LT Coupe	91k	2 / 1	9/18/25
$37,585	’18	Grand Sport	1LT Convertible	81k	5 / 1	9/18/25
$36,988	’17	Grand Sport	2LT Coupe	97k	2 / 1	12/15/25
$30,987	’15	Stingray	2LT Convertible	89k	2 / 1	5/30/25
$30,749	’15	Stingray	1LT Coupe	111k	1 / 0	5/30/25
$30,330	’14	Stingray	2LT Coupe	105k	1 / 1	5/30/25
$29,999	’14	Stingray	Z51 2LT Convertible	100k	5 / 0	5/30/25
$29,995	’14	Stingray	3LT Convertible	73k	2 / 2	11/14/24
$29,500	’16	Stingray	1LT Coupe	99k	— / —	11/14/24
$29,500	’14	Stingray	Z51 2LT Coupe	95k	1 / 0	5/30/25
$29,395	’14	Stingray	2LT Convertible	75k	3 / 1	11/14/24
$28,994	’14	Stingray	1LT Coupe	71k	2 / 0	11/14/24
$28,784	’14	Stingray	Z51 3LT Coupe	166k	4 / 1	7/25/25
$27,988	’14	Stingray	1LT Coupe	142k	3 / 6	7/25/25
$27,980	’14	Stingray	3LT Coupe	58k	2 / 0	11/14/24
$27,900	’15	Stingray	2LT Coupe	126k	3 / 1	7/25/25
$26,999	’14	Stingray	3LT Convertible	124k	5 / 0	7/25/25
$26,994	’14	Stingray	3LT Coupe	116k	4 / 2	12/15/25
$26,900	’14	Stingray	2LT Coupe	76k	4 / 2	7/25/25
$23,900	’15	Stingray	2LT Convertible	117k	3 / 3	12/15/25