The 2024 Corvette Story
Five model years into the mid-engine Corvette, 2024 was the year the C8 became a range: three cars where there had been one, with the E-Ray slotted between the Stingray and the Z06 — and 42,934 of them built, the second-biggest C8 year after 2023. Whether you’re a track regular, a weekend cruiser, or just someone who loves a loud V8, there’s a version of the Corvette that’ll probably speak to you.
The Stingray and Z06 changed little — three new colors, an interior color, a bronze accent package, standard driver-assistance features and a $2,100 price rise in October — and the news was the E-Ray: the first hybrid in Corvette history and the first with all-wheel drive, revealed on the car’s seventieth birthday and built from December 2023, 1,417 of them in the model year.
Three cars in the fifth year
Since its debut, the C8 Corvette has redefined the American sports car formula. Moving the engine behind the driver wasn’t just a design choice; it transformed how the car drives, handles, and competes. The value is still there — a 1LT coupe was $69,995 after the October increase — but the Z06 and the E-Ray put the car in Porsche and McLaren company at $110,000 to $150,000.
For 2024, the core lineup remains: the Stingray continues as the gateway into Corvette ownership, the Z06 pushes naturally aspirated engineering to its limits, and the all-new E-Ray introduces electrified performance without ditching the beloved V8. The ZR1 came in 2025; the 2024 lineup was Stingray (30,942 built), Z06 (10,575) and E-Ray (1,417).
The Stingray
The Stingray was still seven cars in ten — 18,139 coupes and 12,803 convertibles, 16,968 of them with Z51 — and unchanged under the skin. Behind the seats sits a 6.2-liter LT2 V8 making 490 horsepower and 465 lb-ft of torque. Add the optional performance exhaust (included in the Z51 package), and those figures climb to 495 hp and 470 lb-ft.
Power is routed through an eight-speed dual-clutch automatic transmission, and with the Z51 Performance Package GM quotes 2.9 seconds to 60 mph. Z51 was $6,345 and went on 55 percent of Stingrays, down from 65 percent in 2023 as the Z06 and E-Ray took the buyers who wanted more.
What was new for 2024
Three new colors — Riptide Blue Metallic (no charge, 2,869 cars), Sea Wolf Gray Tricoat ($995, 3,194) and Cacti Green (no charge, 1,179) — replaced Elkhart Lake Blue, White Pearl and Caffeine, and Carbon Flash Metallic, the 70th Anniversary color of 2023, was opened to every trim (1,984); a new Artemis Dipped interior in deep green, for 2024 only, joined the 3LT and 3LZ palettes (210 cars); the Tech Bronze accent package, Jake graphics, a visible-carbon two-stanchion spoiler and new wheel finishes arrived; Lane Keep Assist, Forward Collision Alert, Following Distance Indicator and automatic high beams became standard; and every price rose $2,100 for orders placed from October 2, 2023.
What the Stingray cost
The Stingray opened in July 2023 at $67,895 for a 1LT coupe, $74,995 for a 2LT and $79,645 for a 3LT, $74,895, $81,995 and $86,645 as a convertible, including a $1,595 destination charge — $2,300 over the 2023 prices for the coupes, $1,800 to $2,100 for the convertibles. For orders placed from October 2, 2023 every Corvette went up another $2,100 — $2,000 on the car and $100 on destination — to $69,995, $77,095 and $81,745 for the coupe and $76,995, $84,095 and $88,745 for the convertible, where it stayed for the rest of the model year.
The Z51 Performance Package was $6,345 (FE3 suspension, larger Brembo brakes, extra cooling, the electronic limited-slip with a 5.17 axle, the NPP exhaust and 495 horsepower, splitter and spoiler, Pilot Sport 4S tires), with Magnetic Ride another $1,895; FE4 (Z51 plus Magnetic Ride) went on 8,316 cars and FE3 on 8,652, and 2,808 non-Z51 cars took Magnetic Ride alone.
The Z06 in its second year
The Z06 had its first full model year and built 10,575 — 5,327 coupes and 5,248 convertibles, 2,715 with Z07 — against 6,413 in the sixteen-month 2023. Its 5.5-liter flat-plane crank LT6 V8 screams to 8,600 rpm and makes 670 horsepower and 460 lb-ft of torque, without a turbo or supercharger in sight.
The Z06 carried over unchanged mechanically from its 2023 debut; with the Z07 Performance Package GM quotes 2.6 seconds to 60 mph. Brembo carbon-ceramic brakes, a more aggressive aero kit, and Michelin Pilot Sport Cup 2 R tires sharpen the car for circuit use.
What was new for 2024
The three new colors and Carbon Flash on every trim; the 70th Anniversary visible-carbon wheels with the red stripe, previously reserved for the Y70 cars, became a regular option; a visible-carbon-fiber LT6 engine cover, spoiler extensions with the Jake logo and Jake C8.R hash graphics were added; and the Z07’s carbon-ceramic brakes could be had alone — 4,253 Z06s had them against 2,715 Z07 packages.
What the Z06 cost
The Z06 opened in July 2023 at $109,695 for a 1LZ coupe, $118,595 for a 2LZ and $123,245 for a 3LZ — $116,695, $125,595 and $130,245 as a convertible — $2,500 to $3,300 over 2023, and rose with everything else on October 2 to $111,795, $120,695 and $125,345 for the coupe and $118,795, $127,695 and $132,345 for the convertible, including $1,695 destination. 8,640 of the 10,575 were 3LZs.
The Z07 package was $8,995 and required a carbon aero package at $8,495 in Carbon Flash or $10,495 in visible carbon fiber; the carbon-fiber wheels were $9,995 to $13,995. The markups of 2023 were gone by the end of the model year, and a 3LZ Z07 convertible with every box ticked listed near $165,000.
The E-Ray
The news for 2024 was the E-Ray, revealed on January 17, 2023 — seventy years to the day after the 1953 Corvette’s Motorama debut — as the first hybrid and the first all-wheel-drive Corvette. It is not an economy car: the Stingray’s 495-horsepower LT2 drives the rear wheels through the eight-speed dual-clutch, and a 160-horsepower, 125-lb-ft electric motor over the front axle drives the fronts, for 655 horsepower combined.
The motor drives only the front wheels and the V-8 only the rears — there is no mechanical link between them — and the traction made the E-Ray the quickest Corvette there had been: 2.5 seconds to 60 mph and 10.5 seconds at 130 mph in the quarter by GM’s figures, a tenth ahead of the Z06, from a 3,774-pound coupe (3,856 convertible) in the Z06’s wide body on its 20 and 21-inch wheels with carbon-ceramic brakes and Magnetic Ride standard.
How the E-Ray works
A 1.9-kWh lithium-ion battery in the center tunnel between the seats, charged by the engine and by regenerative braking — there is no plug; Stealth Mode, selected at start-up, drives on the motor alone to 45 mph until the battery is spent; Charge+ holds the battery at its fullest for a track session; six drive modes; the Z06’s 3.6-inch-wider body, 15.7 and 15.4-inch carbon-ceramic Brembos and 20 x 10 / 21 x 13 wheels; FE5 Magnetic Ride 4.0 standard, FED with the $500 ZER package; Michelin Pilot Sport All Season 4 ZP tires — the first all-seasons on a Corvette — or Pilot Sport 4S with ZER; an E-Ray Performance App on the touchscreen showing the two power sources.
What the E-Ray cost
Chevrolet announced the E-Ray at $104,295 for a 1LZ coupe and $111,295 for a convertible in January 2023 including $1,395 destination, confirmed those in July at $104,495 and $111,495 with the $1,595 charge, and raised them on October 2 — before the first car was built — to $106,595, $112,095 and $117,545 for the 1LZ, 2LZ and 3LZ coupe and $113,595, $119,095 and $124,545 for the convertible. The ZER performance package was $500; the carbon-fiber wheels $9,995 to $13,500; 977 of the 1,417 were 3LZs, and the first one, VIN 001, brought $1.1 million for DonorsChoose from Rick Hendrick at Barrett-Jackson Palm Beach in April 2023.
The E-Ray had its own four wheel finishes, an Electric Blue stripe package, bright or black E-Ray badges, and — for 2024 only — the Artemis Dipped green interior, which 210 buyers across all three cars took.
Options across the three
Most of the order guide was shared across the three cars, and the 2024 additions were a Tech Bronze accent package for the Stingray and Z06 (Tech Bronze wheels, dark crossflags, a Jake hood graphic and hash stripes), Jake C8.R hash graphics for the Z06, visible-carbon sill plates, a convertible engine-appearance package with a windowed tonneau, a two-stanchion visible-carbon spoiler and two new wheel designs for the Stingray, the 70th Anniversary red-stripe carbon wheels and a visible-carbon LT6 cover for the Z06, and Carbon Flash Metallic paint on every car instead of the 70th package only.
What the order guide offered
Three seating styles (GT1, GT2, Competition Sport); Dozens of wheel options, from bright silver to carbon fiber; Color-matched or contrast brake calipers in red, yellow, edge red, and more; Carbon flash or body-colored mirrors, spoilers, and trim kits; Front lift system with GPS memory (optional); Performance Data Recorder and track telemetry tools; carbon-fiber interior trim and sueded-microfiber steering wheels and inserts.
Forward Collision Alert, Lane Keep Assist with Lane Departure Warning, Following Distance Indicator and IntelliBeam high beams became standard on every 2024, and the 2LT/2LZ and 3LT/3LZ groups added Side Blind Zone Alert, Rear Cross Traffic Alert and Rear Park Assist. Convertibles were 44 percent of the year — 12,803 Stingrays, 5,248 Z06s and 818 E-Rays — with the retractable hardtop unchanged.
Three cars, 42,934 of them
The 2024 model year began on Monday, September 18, 2023 — a week later than planned and three days after the last 2023 — with the Stingray and Z06, and the first E-Ray came off the Bowling Green line on the night of December 11, 2023, two months behind the schedule GM had set in the summer. Through the winter the E-Ray and Z06 lines ran erratically (three E-Rays by December 21; whole days with none) while the Stingray ran at 200 cars a day, and the year ended in the first week of September 2024 with the 2025s starting on September 9. GM’s year-end sheet counts 42,934 cars: 30,942 Stingrays (18,139 coupes, 12,803 convertibles), 10,575 Z06s (5,327 and 5,248 — almost even after the convertible had outsold the coupe in 2023) and 1,417 E-Rays (599 coupes, 818 convertibles, 874 with the ZER package). 37,234 stayed in the United States, 3,344 went to Canada, 1,072 to Europe, 662 to Australia and New Zealand, 411 to Japan, 111 to the Middle East, 99 to Mexico and one to Israel; 1,231 were right-hand drive, 1,252 were delivered at the National Corvette Museum, and Arctic White (6,493) beat Torch Red (6,013) for the first time on a C8.
The E-Ray paces Indianapolis
The 2024 Corvette E-Ray paced the 108th Indianapolis 500 on May 26, 2024 — an Arctic White 3LZ coupe with a Natural interior, visible-carbon-fiber wheels and the standard all-season tires, with Indy 500 door graphics and a red-and-white E-RAY hood graphic — driven by Ken Griffey Jr., the twenty-first Corvette pace car and the eighth year in a row. (The 2023 race had been paced by a Red Mist 2023 Z06 convertible, the 2022 race by a 2023 Z06 70th Anniversary coupe.) No pace-car edition was sold, and the first E-Ray a customer could buy had already gone to Rick Hendrick at Barrett-Jackson Palm Beach on April 15, 2023, for $1.1 million to DonorsChoose, with the car built to his order when production began.
Racing: the Z06 GT3.R’s first season
The C8.R was gone, and with it the factory program: from 2024 Corvette Racing was Corvette Racing by Pratt Miller Motorsports, running two Z06 GT3.Rs — the first Corvette race car built to the international GT3 rules and sold to customers, with a 5.5-liter LT6.R, an Xtrac six-speed sequential and more production parts than any Corvette racer before it — in IMSA’s GTD Pro class with Chevrolet’s support, while AWA ran the first customer cars in GTD, TF Sport took two to the World Endurance Championship’s LMGT3 class, and more went to GT World Challenge America. The No. 3 of Antonio Garcia and Alexander Sims finished fifth in the car’s debut at the Rolex 24 after leading 118 laps, took the first podium at Laguna Seca (the No. 4 of Tommy Milner and Nicky Catsburg, third), another at Watkins Glen, and on July 14 at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park won the Z06 GT3.R’s first race from pole, leading 109 of 113 laps, with the No. 4 second for a Corvette one-two; a third at Indianapolis followed, and the two cars finished fifth and sixth in the GTD Pro points with Corvette third among the manufacturers. TF Sport’s Nos. 81 and 82 both finished the car’s first 24 Hours of Le Mans (eleventh and fifteenth in LMGT3) and took second and third at Bahrain to close the year; the customer cars won eleven races across the series, and in 2025 Pratt Miller would win the GTD Pro drivers’, team and manufacturer titles.
