Back in March, we reported on rumors that the 2021 Corvette was set to receive a number of new paint color and vinyl stripe options. Now, MotorTrend has confirmed the 2021 Corvette will indeed receive two new color options in the way of Red Mist Tintcoat Metallic and Silver Flare Metallic.
Long Beach Red Metallic 2020 Corvette Convertible
Red Mist Tintcoat Metallic and Silver Flare Metallic will replace Long Beach Red Metallic Tintcoat and Blade Silver Metallic in the eighth-generation Corvette’s color palette. The Red Mist color is expected to be slightly deeper and richer than Long Beach Red Metallic and may appear similar to the Magnetic Red Metallic and Crystal Red Metallic colors that were offered on previous Corvette models. Meanwhile, Silver Flare Metallic is expected to be a bit darker than the very light shade of silver that is Blade Silver Metallic.
Torch Red 2020 Corvette
As we reported previously, a long list of ‘Racing Stripe’ and ‘Stinger Stripe’ options will also be offered on the 2021 Corvette. These will include:
- Full Length Racing Stripe – Orange
- Full Length Racing Stripe – Red
- Full Length Racing Stripe – Yellow
- Full Length Racing Stripe – Carbon Flash
- Full Length Racing Stripe – Sterling Silver
- Full Length Racing Strip – Blue
- Full Length Racing Stripe – Midnight Silver
- Stinger Stripe – Carbon Flash / Edge Yellow
- Stinger Stripe – Carbon Flash / Midnight Silver
- Stinger Stripe – Carbon Flash / Edge Red
The rest of the 2021 Corvette color palette should be similar to the 2020 Corvette’s. That means customer favorites like Torch Red, Arctic White and Elkhart Lake Blue Metallic will stick around. As we reported previously, the 2020 Corvette order books from Kerbeck Chevrolet, America’s biggest Corvette dealer, indicate Torch Red is the most popular color for the 2020 model-year Vette, with Zeus Bronze and Accelerate Yellow Metallic being the least popular.
Zeus Bronze 2020 Corvette
As an interesting aside, Kerbeck’s order tracking page also provided some insight into the most popular trim levels for the 2020 model year Corvette. At the time we wrote that report, the dealership had received 249 orders for 2LT equipped cars and 209 orders for the 3LT trim cars. The entry-level 1LT model was the least popular at 78 orders. It will be interesting to see if the 2LT trim’s popularity remains for the 2021 model year.
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Zeus Bronze with silver racing stripes and a deeper richer silver. No matter what color one options the C8 Corvette, color me happy the Bowling Green Assembly plant is up and functioning and turning out the fantastic Corvette. It is really easy to develop racing stripes or hash marks, pin stripes and edges. What is difficult, is to keep up quality control while diagnosing what might not go as it should in the way of materials, workmanship and assembly. It is interesting to note that a Corvette Racing team member says that he has no problem with getting a first year Corvette as he knows all the man hours, productive ones, that went into this package. It is ever so close to being a super car right off the factory line. If people are not excited about an American true-mid-engine sports car that competes the heck out of all of the competition from Japan and Europe, then a pulse check should be done and perhaps a saliva test as well. This car can take two people to the ends of the earth and back and win races along the way; and…look exquisite and beautiful while doing it. AF
i think we should have the option to choose just about any color available (for a fair fee)
for example… some of us like Purple! some like Pink! some want Green! Im tired of white red an black!
that Blade Silver really was not that bad… my favorite silver is Atomic Silver painted on Lexus…
anyways.. thats the way it goes… stay safe everyone!
oh… just heard that the 2021 Vetts C8 will not raise price… same $59,995 entry which is nice…
Zeus Bronze is one my of fave new colors from GM.
i bet Zeus Bronze would look very nice with you driving and your matching hair <3
have a great weekend!
EVO69 9 – Z B is one of my fav new colors as well. It is just that I can’t pull the trigger on all the colors and in fact one of them is about it. Light Gray in this case but with lots of black accents.
Live to dream.. a 2022 Chevrolet C8 Corvette ZR1 Speedtail with active aerodynamics.
my grandfather had a bronze firebird in the 1970s. it reminded me of the rockford files.
the c8 in zeus bronze looks great.
They need to come up with some awesome wheels and let the damn colors alone. That wheel selection is awful. 99 out of 100 C8’s are going to be riding on aftermarket wheels.
A friend of mine has aftermarket wheels on his C8 with 20’s on the front, and 21’s on the rear. It looks absolutely amazing and it’s unbelievable how much better the C8 looks with the right wheels…
He had it wrapped in Accelerate Yellow, with the two tone Blue/Black interior (looks like rapid Blue) yellow seat belts and calipers, black wheels and striping, after market cf high wing, Soul cats, aftermarket exhaust, and next, twin turbos ….
The fuc**** thing is awesome and blinding fast. Can’t wait till he gets it sorted out, then I’ll buy it from him…….
Said the 12 yr. old LOL!
When you look at what people are writing today, it seems that the more that good looking wheels relay their importance to a car, the more emotional a decision of choice of wheels really are. The Texas school of wheels for example is that Bigger is better and better is badder. Certain low riders have different ideas and like gold spokes with chrome rim portions. Some want black in certain forms and others want alloy. Aluminum; steel; alloys, the choices are endless. I still have a 2001 Mustang Bullitt which having bought in November 2001, I still have. It currently has the stock 17″ wheels on it. For a couple of years, I bought rims that looked the same as stock but were 18″. Bigger looked better and, “filled the wheel well,” better. After struggling with inflation rates and balancing and alignment for a couple of years to get the handling under control and also installing a pan hard bar, I eventually put the stock wheels back on the car with fresh rubber. The original handling characteristics returned. People with their Porsche found the same thing. The factory sets up the suspension for the best all-round performance and if the exact same tolerances are not compensated for, one winds up with a vehicle that looks better to some, but doesn’t handle as well or worse yet, doesn’t hand worth a darn. I’ve thought about aftero-market wheels because I got a C8 out of factory allocation and the showroom. As a result, I did not pick the options on the car and there are a couple of options that I have that i don’t like. However, to solidify my choices I’m going to leave as much of the car stock until I test the combinations of things on the track and the road. Hopefully I’ll learn something. I still have mixed emotions about the racing stripe down the middle of the car, dual, carbon flash. As popular as stripes are, I’ve never really liked them as most often they did not come from the designer of the car and the overall look of the car is most often not enhanced. The very first Porsche was a Mid-engine all aluminum body car: No racing stripes. The first Corvette had no racing stripes. Ferrari who’s engines and chassis were race oriented from the beginning and stripes were on some of their cars and not on others. Concours winning cars must have original wheels or period correct or dealer installed options to vie for a top three finish. But there are others who buy a new car and can never leave it along. It is always under development. This includes wheels/tires. It includes colors as well. Individual taste is important, but also, what ever is hot at the moment seems to appear on quite a few cars. Others must have custom-made rims. Even an artist like Chip Foose runs out of rim designs after a surprisingly small number of his artistic renderings. Others simply must have light weight, handling and strength in the wheels/rims and special compounds on their tires. In some cases, a couple of sets of these costs about the same as a VW Beetle. But yes, there certainly could have been more imagination in wheels in a first generation mid-engine that is a platform basis for setting the automotive community on its ear. AF
What a beautiful version! I look forward to seeing this car!
zeus bronze with the tan interior is the way to go 3lt package
The new mist red reminds me of a rare candy apple red that I saw several years ago. Both seem to be real eye catchers. AF
How about lime green that would look awesome.