The two new 2021 Corvette exterior colors have been spotted parked side-by-side near the National Corvette Museum in Kentucky.
General Motors added two new colors to the 2021 Corvette color palette: Red Mist Tintcoat and Silver Flare Metallic. We’ve already seen a 2021 Corvette pictured in both of these new exterior colors separately, but this is the first time that two cars with the new colors have been pictured together.
Red Mist Tintcoat replaced Long Beach Red Metallic on the Corvette’s list of available colors. Compared to Long Beach Red, the new color is lighter and a bit shinier. Corvette chief engineer Tadge Juechter previously proclaimed his love for this color, calling it one of the most exciting exterior colors ever offered on the American sports car. Juechter likes Red Mist Tintcoat. so much, in fact, that he even ordered his own personal 2021 Corvette in it. Now that’s a good endorsement.
Silver Flare Metallic, meanwhile, replaces Blade Silver Metallic. While Silver Flare Metallic looks very, very similar to Blade Silver Metallic, the new color is a bit darker than Blade Silver and a tad more radiant.
Both of these new colors are more exciting and eye-catching than the ones they replace, in our opinion, so it will be interesting to see how 2021 Corvette buyers respond to them. Neither Long Beach Red nor Blade Silver Metallic were very popular among 2020 Corvette buyers, accounting for just 5% and 6% of sales, respectively. The most popular color on the 2020 Corvette was Torch Red, which accounted for 25% of the 20,368 unit production run.
In addition to Red Mist Tintcoat and Silver Flare Metallic, the 2021 Corvette will be offered in Torch Red, Arctic White, Black, Sebring Orange, Elkhart Lake Blue, Rapid Blue, Ceramic Matrix Grey, Shadow Gray, Accelerate Yellow and Zeus Bronze.
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a few days ago, i finally got a chance to see the c8 up close during a visit to my mechanic.
i was thinking this car is basically brand new and already at the shop!!!! but nothing was wrong.
they were draining most of the gas before shipping it to japan. unfortunately, he didn’t know how much the japanese buyer paid for it.
Photo Credit: National Corvette Museum
M Barra – gimme the shiny new red one before I leave office please! Thanks, Donnie
does the c8 come with an extra small steering wheel option for tiny hands?
Two new colors for the 2021 C8’s eh? I bet that was a years worth of “brain drain” for someone on the Corvette Team!
Come on guys….seriously, that’s it? What is needed here is “something special” (but attached to every Base C8 Corvette every year new year of production) to denote a quick visible ident of that particular car’s model year.
Really quite simple, Corvette’s in the past have had certain items added or subtracted to denote each year…except for a few years where nothing really was done, and that, to me wasn’t a good thing. Point in question…if a 2020 Corvette and 2021 Corvette were parked side by side, and say in basic white, maybe with a red interior (base or Z-51) could you tell the difference between them as you walked up to them both? Even “close up”…could you differentiate any differences between them?
I bet you couldn’t….heck, even with the “two new colors” (sic) I still defy anyone to walk up and point out the differences!
Point made here…I’ve owned many different years of Corvettes, hardly ever had anyone ask “what year is your ‘Vette”?
My C2’s were different enough so anyone (especially those who know their Corvette’s) could walk up to or spot a ’63 (really simple) or a ’64 from a ’65…or a ’67, there were enough changes every year, and not just outside, but inside too!
I bet you’re thinking in your head (right now) I could point out the differences from year to year, those differences were ingrained into your memory, right? C3’s….nice rides, could you point out a ’68 from a ’69? Yep, easy you say, just look for the door handle area, how about the steering column ignition key placement, the different sized 15 inch Rally Wheels?
I could go on and on here….but to me, someone is, I guess so satisfied with the current C8 Corvette that they’ve totally not even thought about making some small but obvious changes that will denote each new year of the C8 Stingrays!
It could be something as simple as the Corvette Script, or the base wheels that come on the car, minor changes to the seat materials, or maybe the steering wheel design, door panels, tail panel design…tail light design, almost “ANYTHING” could be implemented to make that small but important difference between each model year. Simple, and fairly effective.
Then again, there will be those who could care less…makes no difference, to them “making them all look exactly the same each year gives them great joy knowing that no one can tell what year Corvette they are driving”. BORING!!!
I guess because there just isn’t that many C8’s running around (yet) and they are an amazing vehicle in every way possible, a major upgrade from the C7’s on down, people could care less, they’re just happy to be an owner after waiting so very long for this incredible new Corvette to arrive on the scene….and I “get it”, I understand their joy and to them, no need to change anything from year to year. But wait…just wait a few years, or wait until the Z06 arrives on the scene, and you park next to one of those beastly things! See what a big difference that’ll make….the addition of obvious ident body panels and wheels and tires, exhaust placement, some important front and rear changes, ect. ect. Oh yeah, you’ll see the difference!
Change can be a good thing on the “Base” C8, even subtle but noticeable changes can do wonders, and yes, there are those who’ll add their own changes in time, and in fact already have, from “body widening kits” to wild exhaust placement changes, spoilers, air dams and of course the easiest change of all…WHEELS! Maybe the “powers that be” at GM decided to just furnish a “clean slate”…and the new C8 owner can finish their new slate any way they see fit, saving GM the added cost of making those new changes each model year. Okay, fine….but what would be the harm in making some small but interesting changes each model year? Don’t ever rely on just one external design as being “perfect”…there is always room for improvement no matter how subtle that might be. We’ve seen it work for Corvette’s in years past, maybe it’s time to reimplement some of the more creative but small changes again for each new year of Corvette…couldn’t hurt, right?
Waiting patiently for the one I ordered in the new Red mist, hopefully the production continues with no delays and set backs, that way everyone that ordered one will get it.