The Chevy Corvette continues a multi-year winning streak by taking first place in the Kelley Blue Book 2025 Best Resale Value Awards, as the winner in the Sports Car category of the 23rd annual awards.
The Chevy Corvette was also one of the “2025 Best Resale Value: Top 10 Cars” category of the awards, alongside the Ford Bronco, Honda CR-V, Mercedes-Benz G-Class, Porsche 911, and five different Toyota models, coming in ahead of hundreds of other automotive nameplates.
Placement in the Top 10 Cars list means that the Chevy Corvette is one of a handful of models that outperform 95 percent of all available 2025 model-year vehicles in keeping the maximum amount of resale value after five years of ownership, according to KBBÂ analysis. Detailed number-crunching based on past and projected data indicates the 2025 Chevy Corvette is likely to have a 5-year resale value of 61 percent of its original sticker price (a higher amount than MSRP).
Keeping 61 percent of its sticker price after half a decade puts the Chevy Corvette in second place among the top ten cars, beaten only by the 64.1 percent the 2025 Toyota Tacoma is projected to retain. The average five-year resale value for the top 10 cars is 58 percent, while the resale value for the average 2025 model-year car across the entire industry will be just 44.6 percent. This means the Corvette will retain almost 37 percent more of its original value than a typical car.
Value retention is based on 5 years of ownership and a distance of 75,000 miles driven during that period. Multiple factors are used to determine likely resale value, backed by data from millions of previous vehicles and transactions. These include the vehicle’s quality and build, the level of likely interest from buyers in the future, past performance of similar models and the general trends currently revealed by the auto market. Value retention is important because, as KBB points out, “many new-car buyers do not realize that depreciation often is the greatest expense incurred by drivers during the first five years of vehicle ownership.”
The success of the 2025 Chevy Corvette in the Awards is not an isolated one, either. The Bow Tie sports car also won the best resale value award for its category in 2024, in 2023, in 2022, in 2021, and in 2020. Notably, the Corvette C7 did not achieve this result in 2019. What this data reveals, however, is that the Chevy Corvette C8 specifically has been a winner for high 5-year residual value in every model year since it first debuted.
The Chevy Corvette’s achievement of reaching second place in the Top 10 Cars list is underlined by the fact KBB notes of this select group of vehicles that it “represents the best of the best, and the threshold for this honor is high.”
Comments
Nice try GM, but the marketplace will determine its longevity concerning value. Self proclaimed article awards will not be enough to sway the marketplace. My opinion is that c8 corvette prices will drop like dead flies as production numbers rise, dealerships fill up, economy worsens, other sport car options continue, owners grow older, MSRP costs overreach the projected buyer, prospective client base continues to grow older and retirement costs increase. Should I continue….
When is the 2025 CORVETTE SUV GOING INTO PRODUCTION AND RELEASE D TO THE PUBLIC????? RON