C8 Corvette Stingray (2020–2027): The Complete Guide

The Overview

The C8 Corvette Stingray was built 2020–2027, 180,003 cars by GM’s counts. The mid-engine Corvette: a 6.2-liter LT2 behind the seats, an eight-speed dual-clutch, 0–60 in 2.9 seconds with the Z51 package and a base price that started at $59,995.

This page has every model year of the C8 Corvette Stingray in its own section with the year page’s account, the specs, the numbers and the posts; the figures by year; the colors; how it compares to its siblings; the site’s guides, videos and news; and a buyer’s guide: which year to buy, what to pay, how to verify one, what goes wrong and the site’s market reports. The C8 hub has the whole line across every generation.

The C8 Corvette Stingray Story

The eighth-generation Corvette moved the engine behind the driver after sixty-six years and six prototypes, and the Stingray is the car that did it: the 6.2-liter LT2 small-block, the first dual-clutch gearbox in a Corvette, a removable-panel coupe and a retractable-hardtop convertible, and a $59,995 base price that no other mid-engine car approached. It was named North American Car of the Year and MotorTrend’s Car of the Year for 2020 and sold out its first year before the plant had built it.

Every C8 that is not a Z06, E-Ray, ZR1, ZR1X or Grand Sport is a Stingray, and it is still the majority of production: about three in four C8s through 2024. This page follows it year by year — the 2020 launch, the 2021 refinements, the 2023 70th Anniversary package and the interior and price changes since — with the base car’s figures, its colors and its share of each year.

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2020 C8 Corvette Stingray

The 2020 Corvette was the car Zora Arkus-Duntov had wanted since the 1960 CERV I: a production Corvette with its engine behind the driver. Chevrolet revealed it in a hangar at Tustin, California on July 18, 2019 as a Stingray coupe with a removable roof panel, then the retractable-hardtop convertible and the C8.R race car at the Kennedy Space Center on October 2, 2019. The 6.2-liter LT2, a dry-sump development of the C7’s LT1, made 490 horsepower (495 with the NPP exhaust that 18,174 of the cars had) and drove the rear wheels through the Corvette’s first dual-clutch gearbox, an eight-speed Tremec; there was no manual, and the Z51 package that 76 percent of buyers took brought bigger brakes, a 5.17 axle, an electronic limited-slip differential, the exhaust and Michelin Pilot Sport 4S tires for 2.9 seconds to 60 mph and 11.2-second quarter miles.

The model year was the strangest the plant had seen. The 40-day UAW strike of the fall of 2019 pushed the start of production to February 3, 2020; Chevrolet closed 2020 ordering on March 18 with far more orders than it could build; the plant shut for the pandemic from March 20 to May 26 with about 230 cars wrapped in plastic on the line; convertible production began on August 7; a second shift came on in September; and the last 2020 Corvette, a Sebring Orange convertible, was built on December 7, 2020 with the 2021 run starting behind it. GM’s count was 20,368 cars — 16,787 coupes and 3,581 convertibles, 9,456 of them 3LTs — at $59,995 for the coupe and $67,495 for the convertible including the $1,095 destination charge, prices that stayed flat for the 2021.

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2021 C8 Corvette Stingray

The 2021 Corvette was the 2020 car with a full year to be built. Production began on December 8, 2020, the day after the last 2020 left Bowling Green, and the plant turned out 26,216 cars — 15,112 coupes and 11,104 convertibles, 42 percent of the year now that the hardtop convertible was on sale from the start — before the model year closed in the first week of September 2021 and the 2022 began on September 8. Demand still ran ahead of supply: Chevrolet stopped taking 2021 orders on March 25, 2021, the semiconductor shortage cost the plant six weeks of downtime between May and July, and orders that had not been scheduled by the summer were carried over to the 2022. 18,223 cars (69.5 percent) had the $5,995 Z51 package, 10,720 were 3LTs and 1,274 were delivered at the National Corvette Museum.

What changed was small and visible: Red Mist Metallic Tintcoat and Silver Flare Metallic replaced Long Beach Red and Blade Silver (Red Mist was the third most popular color in its first year, 3,476 cars); a Sky Cool Gray and Strike Yellow interior came to the 3LT; full-length stripes in blue, orange, red and yellow and three Stinger stripe packages joined the list; Magnetic Selective Ride Control could be ordered without Z51 for the first time (FE2, 2,022 cars); wireless Apple CarPlay and Android Auto and Buckle to Drive arrived. The 495-horsepower LT2, the eight-speed dual-clutch and the prices were carried over — until March 1, 2021, when every 2021 rose $1,000, the C8’s first increase, to $60,995 for a 1LT coupe and $68,495 for the convertible.

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2022 C8 Corvette Stingray

The 2022 Corvette was the 2021 car with a fuel-system update, three new colors and a race-car tribute, built in the eight months between the last 2021 on September 8, 2021 and the first 2023 Stingray on May 23, 2022. Bowling Green built 25,831 of them: 13,451 coupes and 12,380 convertibles — 47.9 percent, the most the convertible has ever taken — 3,982 1LTs, 11,060 2LTs and 10,789 3LTs, 17,727 with the $6,345 Z51 package, 11,757 of those with Magnetic Ride and 1,945 cars with Magnetic Ride alone, 1,146 delivered at the National Corvette Museum and, for the first time, 442 right-hand-drive cars for Europe, Australia, New Zealand and Japan. Prices rose $1,200 to $62,195 for a 1LT coupe and $69,695 for the convertible, the destination charge now $1,295.

The IMSA GTLM Championship Edition (RPO ZCR, $6,595) celebrated the C8.R’s 2020 titles on a 3LT Z51 in the No. 3’s Accelerate Yellow or the No. 4’s Hypersonic Gray with the other color’s graphics, the Carbon Flash high wing and mirrors, yellow calipers and belts, black Trident wheels, a Strike Yellow and Sky Cool Gray interior, a numbered plaque and a car cover printed with the matching race car; Chevrolet announced 1,000 and GM’s sheet counts 1,007 — 470 coupes and 537 convertibles, about two-thirds of them gray. The new colors were Hypersonic Gray (3,291, third in its first year), Amplify Orange Tintcoat (1,375) and Caffeine Metallic (385, the rarest 2022), replacing Shadow Gray, Sebring Orange and Zeus Bronze; a $595 low rear spoiler and splitter and a $695 Stingray R appearance package joined the list, and the LT2 got new injectors, a higher-pressure fuel pump and a recalibration without a change in its 490 / 495 horsepower.

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2023 C8 Corvette Stingray

The 2023 model year gave the mid-engine Corvette its Z06. Revealed on October 26, 2021 and built from September 2022, it carried the 5.5-liter LT6 — a flat-plane-crank, dual-overhead-cam, hand-built V-8 that made 670 horsepower at 8,400 rpm and revved to 8,600, the most powerful naturally aspirated production V-8 there had been, derived from the C8.R’s race engine — in a body 3.6 inches wider on 20- and 21-inch wheels, with a 5.56 axle, Magnetic Ride standard, 14.6 and 15-inch Brembos with six-piston fronts, and the $8,995 Z07 package’s carbon aero, Cup 2 R tires, carbon-ceramic brakes and optional carbon-fiber wheels for 734 pounds of downforce and 1.22 g. It cost $106,395 as a 1LZ coupe and $113,895 as a convertible, and Bowling Green built 6,413 — 3,109 coupes and 3,304 convertibles, the first Corvette since 1968 to sell more open cars than closed, 1,845 with Z07, 5,252 of them 3LZs.

The Stingray carried on beneath it, 47,372 strong — 24,834 coupes and 22,538 convertibles, 30,927 with Z51 — at a price that rose from $62,295 at the May 2022 launch to $65,595 for orders from June 13, 2022 after two increases, and both cars could be had as a 70th Anniversary Edition: $5,995 on a 3LT or 3LZ for White Pearl Metallic Tri-Coat or Carbon Flash Metallic paint, red stripes and calipers, a Ceramic-and-black interior with red stitching and belts, and a build plaque. Chevrolet built 5,601 of those — 1,569 Stingray coupes, 3,010 Stingray convertibles, 389 Z06 coupes and 633 Z06 convertibles — and one, a White Pearl Z06 with Z07, paced the Indianapolis 500 on May 29, 2022 with Sarah Fisher driving, while the first retail Z06, VIN 001, had already brought $3.6 million for Operation Homefront from Rick Hendrick at Barrett-Jackson that January.

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2024 C8 Corvette Stingray

The 2024 model year made the mid-engine Corvette a range. Chevrolet revealed the E-Ray 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: the Stingray’s 495-horsepower LT2 driving the rear wheels, a 160-horsepower electric motor over the front axle driving the fronts with no mechanical link between them, a 1.9-kWh battery in the tunnel charged by the engine and by braking, 655 horsepower together and, by GM’s figures, 2.5 seconds to 60 mph and 10.5 at 130 in the quarter — a tenth quicker than the Z06 — in the Z06’s wide body with its 20 and 21-inch wheels, carbon-ceramic brakes and Magnetic Ride standard, on the first all-season tires fitted to a Corvette. It cost $104,495 as a 1LZ coupe when prices were confirmed in July 2023 and $106,595 after the October increase, $7,000 more as a convertible; production began on the night of December 11, 2023, two months late, and 1,417 were built in the model year — 599 coupes and 818 convertibles, 977 of them 3LZs, 874 with the $500 ZER package.

The Stingray and Z06 changed little. Three colors came in — Riptide Blue Metallic, Sea Wolf Gray Tricoat and Cacti Green — for Elkhart Lake Blue, White Pearl and Caffeine, Carbon Flash Metallic was opened to every trim, a deep-green Artemis Dipped interior was offered for the one year, a Tech Bronze accent package and Jake graphics arrived, and forward-collision alert, lane-keep assist, following-distance indicator and automatic high beams became standard. Prices rose twice before the first car: $1,800 to $3,300 over 2023 in July 2023 and another $2,100 on every Corvette for orders from October 2, to $69,995 for a Stingray 1LT coupe, $111,795 for a Z06 1LZ and $106,595 for an E-Ray 1LZ, including a $1,695 destination charge. Bowling Green built 30,942 Stingrays (18,139 coupes, 12,803 convertibles, 55 percent with Z51) and 10,575 Z06s (5,327 and 5,248, 2,715 with Z07) — 42,934 cars in all between September 18, 2023 and early September 2024, the second-biggest C8 year.

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2025 C8 Corvette Stingray

The 2025 model year completed the mid-engine lineup. Chevrolet revealed the ZR1 on July 25, 2024: the Z06’s 5.5-liter flat-plane LT6 rebuilt as the twin-turbocharged LT7 — 1,064 horsepower at 7,000 rpm and 828 lb-ft, the first turbocharged engine in a production Corvette and the most powerful V-8 an American manufacturer had built — in the Z06’s wide body with a flow-through hood, carbon brake ducts in the wishbone bezels, turbo intakes on the hatch, the largest brakes ever fitted to a Corvette and, on the coupe, the first split rear window since 1963. GM’s figures: 2.3 seconds to 60 mph, 9.6 seconds at 150 mph in the quarter and 233 mph, run at 233.5 at Papenburg in October 2024 — the highest speed of any car made in America. It was priced on January 9, 2025 at $174,995 for a 1LZ coupe and $184,995 for the convertible including destination, $185,995 and $195,995 as 3LZs, with the $1,500 ZTK package (carbon aero at $8,495 required, FEJ suspension, Cup 2 R tires, 1,200 pounds of downforce) for the track cars; VIN 001 brought $3.7 million for the American Red Cross from Rick Hendrick at Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale that month.

Chevrolet took about 310 orders for the first year and built 180 in it — the first customer cars from April 28, 2025 after weeks of plant shutdowns for the wide-body tooling, 115 coupes and 65 convertibles counting the captured test fleet, 173 of them 3LZs, 83 with ZTK, 132 with the carbon aero — and carried 101 unbuilt orders into 2026; the rest of the lineup was a carry-over with three new colors (Competition Yellow Tintcoat, Hysteria Purple Metallic, Sebring Orange Tintcoat, for seven dropped), a Jet Black interior with blue stitching, a new Z51 spoiler, a black Stingray wheel and gloss-black Z06 wheels, $2,000 more on the Z06 ($113,795) and E-Ray ($108,595) and the Stingray unchanged at $69,995. The model year ran from September 9, 2024 to July 30, 2025 — the first 2026s were built the next day — and Bowling Green built 25,835 cars in it: 13,640 Stingrays (6,485 with Z51), 8,862 Z06s (1,805 with Z07), 3,153 E-Rays (1,079 with ZER, more than twice 2024’s count) and the 180 ZR1s, with Black the top color on a C8 for the first time.

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2026 C8 Corvette Stingray

The 2026 model year put the fifth car on the platform. Chevrolet revealed the ZR1X on June 17, 2025 as a model of its own, not a package: the ZR1’s 1,064-horsepower, 828-lb-ft twin-turbo LT7 driving the rear wheels and the E-Ray’s electric front axle driving the fronts, the motor uprated to 186 horsepower and 145 lb-ft by raising the 1.9-kWh battery’s usable energy and peak voltage, for 1,250 horsepower and 973 lb-ft combined — the most powerful car General Motors has built — with a new brake package of Alcon ten-piston front and six-piston rear calipers on 16.5-inch carbon-ceramic rotors, the largest on a Corvette, and GM’s figures of under two seconds to 60 mph, under nine seconds in the quarter at more than 150 mph, 233 mph and 1.0 g of braking and cornering at once. It was priced in August 2025 at $207,395 for a 1LZ coupe and $217,395 for the convertible including the $1,995 destination charge, $218,395 and $228,395 as 3LZs, plus a $2,600 gas-guzzler tax, with the Quail Silver Limited Edition convertible in Blade Silver Matte at $241,395; about 270 were built in the model year, the one-of-one Stars & Steel ZR1X brought $2,605,000 for charity at Barrett-Jackson in January 2026, and a Quail Silver sold for $452,000 on Bring a Trailer in May.

Every 2026 Corvette got the new interior: the C8’s spine of buttons between the seats was replaced by a 12.7-inch center touchscreen, a 14-inch instrument display and a 6.6-inch auxiliary touchscreen left of the wheel, with the climate controls under the center screen, a drive-mode toggle, a relocated wireless charger, Google built in, a standard Performance App, a PTM Pro track mode, an electrochromic roof option and five new colorways including the first asymmetrical cabin (Jet Black and Adrenaline Red) and Habanero. Outside: Roswell Green Metallic and Blade Silver Metallic for Rapid Blue and Sea Wolf Gray, an asymmetrical stripe package, body-color rockers, blue calipers on the three wide-body cars. Prices rose with a $1,995 destination charge — the Stingray to $71,995, the E-Ray to $110,595, the Z06 to $119,695 with a new $3,000 gas-guzzler tax, the ZR1 to $182,395 — and the ZR1 had the year its 180-car 2025 could not: about 1,553 built, 97 percent of them 3LZs, with a twenty-five-car Stars & Steel Limited Edition for America’s 250th.

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2027 C8 Corvette Stingray

The 2027 model year retired the engine the C8 launched with. The 6.2-liter LT2 gave way to the LS6 — 409 cubic inches, 6.7 liters, a 100-mm stroke on the LT2’s 103.25-mm bore, 13.0:1 compression, a 95-mm throttle body, a tunnel-ram intake, direct and port injection, forged pistons and rods, 535 horsepower and 520 lb-ft, the most torque of any naturally aspirated production V-8 and the first of General Motors’ sixth generation of small-blocks, built in Flint, Michigan where the first Corvette V-8s were made in 1955 — and it went into three cars: the Stingray, now $73,495 and the most powerful base Corvette there has been; the Grand Sport, the name revived after 2019 for the car between Stingray and Z06 — the Z06’s wide body and wheels, Magnetic Ride standard, hash marks on the rear haunches, Admiral Blue Metallic revived for it, $88,495, with the $3,500 Z52 Sport package (summer tires, the Z06’s iron brakes) or the Z52 Track package (carbon-ceramic brakes, Cup 2 R tires, the carbon aero, a quad center-exit exhaust) from $109,190; and the Grand Sport X, the E-Ray’s replacement, with the ZR1X’s 186-horsepower front motor for 721 horsepower and eAWD at $112,195.

Chevrolet showed the Grand Sport at the 12 Hours of Sebring and revealed it on March 26, 2026, priced the range on April 13 with the destination charge up to $2,495 — the Z06 $121,395, the ZR1 $197,195 (up $12,700), the ZR1X $227,395 (up $17,800), all three mechanically unchanged with the 2026 interior — and began 2027 production on June 8, 2026, ten days after the last domestic 2026; the Grand Sport X followed in August. In the first three weeks the plant built 1,689 cars: 719 Stingrays, 590 Grand Sports, 241 Z06s, 91 ZR1s and 48 ZR1Xs — the Grand Sport at 35 percent against the Stingray’s 43, and the three supercars nearly a quarter. Ten colors, with Admiral Blue Metallic and Pitch Gray Metallic new and Hysteria Purple and Riptide Blue gone.

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