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Valuation · Chevrolet · C8 · 2020-26

Chevrolet Corvette Stingray

6.2L NA OHV V8 (LT2) · 369 kW / 637 Nm · 8sp dual-clutch · RWD
CONSIDERRated within the over $100k band · 67 of 104 at this money
Model value
$145,000
Must gain each year to break even
+7.0%
The projection does not clear it, and nor does most of the library.
CarQuant score
59/100
Scored against the over $100k band, not the whole library
Evidence grade
Thin
One to three recorded Australian sales
$145,000
$101,562 lowhigh $184,332
Calibrated to a thin record
One Australian sale: a Japan-delivered 2021 2LT at 23,625km made $125,000 on Collecting Cars at Upper Coomera in September 2026. It is the first Australian result of any kind, because the car postdates the published Shannons archive, and GMSV has never published a delivery volume to size the local pool against.
Measured across this library, a value resting on a single Australian result runs high about six times in ten, by a median of five per cent.

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Price history

Today $145,000 · modelled median at five years $145,637
Solid line: the value this library has carriedDashed from 2026: modelled · even money $122,454 to $165,991
The green band is the even-money range and the one to plan on: half of outcomes land inside it. The pale band behind it bounds eight in ten ($101,562 to $184,332). The path is this model's own: it starts along the momentum of its recorded history and bends toward its projected median as the horizon lengthens, so no two cars share a future curve.

The verdict

A defensible case with reservations. Scores 59/100, ranking 67 of 104 in the over $100k band. Ownership economics is the strongest input, risk resilience the weakest.
Running it costs about $9,510 a year (6.6% of value), which is what the economics score measures. All in, including the projected value change, it is $11,297 a year.
The model's five year median is $145,637, a +0.4% move, with the tenth percentile at $101,562.
Value calibrated to a thin record. Treat the level as provisional.
Evidence
Thin1 recorded sale
Off its peak
-10%
Value band
wide
At least one recorded transaction plus a source. Direction is sound, the exact level less so.
Scored against every recent Australian sale this library holds, half its values land within 11.2 per cent of the price paid and the rest miss by more, in either direction. Projections are therefore damped toward flat in proportion to how little is known, and the plausible band is never narrower than the error the model is known to make.
Short term (1-5 years)$11,297 a year all in, +0.4% median value move
Long term (10-15 years)Scarcity case already formed
Negotiate from$145,000

Recorded sales

Every recorded observation, and when
1 row on record
Every row, with its price and note (1) ↓
Sep 2026Collecting Cars$125,000Sold
SOLD. On or before 27 Sep 2026, Upper Coomera QLD, 23,625km. 2021 Stingray 2LT, white over tan, VIN 1G1Y92D42N5100959, JAPAN-DELIVERED and now here, Japanese service books with a June 2026 service at 22,709km, auction grade 4.5 A as stated by the seller, transmission recall done and transmission serviced at 23,000km, no dashboard delamination. Aftermarket 20-inch Avant Garde wheels with red callipers, a suspension lift, and a carbon wrap lifting at one edge with a bubble in the roof wrap, both disclosed. THE FIRST AUSTRALIAN C8 RESULT THIS RECORD HOLDS. The sale date was cut off the results list it came from and is placed by that list's order. This desk called it $104,500
1 completed Australian sale of 1 rows. Rows marked asking, no sale, or context are shown for honesty but do not count toward the evidence grade: an ask is not a transaction, a pass-in is a refusal, and a provenance or overseas result does not price the ordinary local car. The badge on every row is computed by the same rule as the grade, so the two cannot drift apart.

Published calls on this car

1 call on this model has been published and settled, and graded against what the car actually made.

Wrong2026-09-24
Sold $125,000 at Upper Coomera, Queensland, the first Australian C8 result, $500 inside the top of its band. The call was 16.4 per cent low.
Called
$104,500
made $125,000 (+16.4%)

Score breakdown

Against the over $100k band median
104 cars in band · ink tick marks the median
Ownership economics30% of total
74/100+5
Scarcity25% of total
43/100-22
Demand durability20% of total
64/100-14
Liquidity15% of total
71/100+39
Risk resilience10% of total
26/100-8
Sub-scores run 0-100 before weighting; the weighted total is 59/100. Medians are computed live from the 104 cars currently in the over $100k band, so this picture moves when the library does.
The working behind each factor: baseline and drivers ↓
Ownership economics30% weight
74/100
Baseline84 pts
− 6.6% of value a year to run-16 pts
+ Below its Australian list price+6 pts
Sub-score (baseline plus drivers, clamped 0-100)74 pts
Scarcity25% weight
43/100
Baseline20 pts
+ 3,200 survivors estimated in Australia+23 pts
Sub-score (baseline plus drivers, clamped 0-100)43 pts
Demand durability20% weight
64/100
Baseline52 pts
+ The first factory right-hand-drive Corvette in seventy years+14 pts
− Still on sale, so a showroom sets the ceiling over every used car-12 pts
+ The October 2025 list rise pulled the whole used band up behind it+10 pts
Sub-score (baseline plus drivers, clamped 0-100)64 pts
Liquidity15% weight
71/100
Baseline12 pts
+ 55 days on market+37 pts
+ 300 sales a year+22 pts
Sub-score (baseline plus drivers, clamped 0-100)71 pts
Risk resilience10% weight
26/100
Baseline62 pts
− Early GMSV cars can need $6,000 of panel fit and paint correction-8 pts
− A Corvette recall has been issued in Australia, so the VIN needs checking-6 pts
− A six-year-old $145,000 car still has depreciation ahead of it-10 pts
− A single Australian transaction behind the value-12 pts
Sub-score (baseline plus drivers, clamped 0-100)26 pts
Model output, not advice or a valuation. Verify independently before acting.

What it costs to own · about 10,000 km a year

Annual cost of access, excl. fuel
$9,510a year
Share of value per year
6.6%
Scheduled servicing$2,14023%
Tyres, annualised$1,46015%
Registration and CTP$1,14012%
Insurance$2,71028%
Sinking fund (failure table)$2,06022%
All-in annualised (a different number)
Purchase (model value plus duty)$150,800
Running costs × 5 years$47,550
Median exit, net of selling cost$141,867
All-in annualised over 5 years$11,297/yr
Share of value per year7.8%
Cost of access is what the car costs to run. All-in annualised adds depreciation, duty and selling costs across a five year hold. They answer different questions and are labelled separately for that reason.
Break-even appreciation, 5 year hold
7.0%a year, only to get the money back
This library projects
+0.1%a year
The projection falls 6.9 points a year short of the hurdle. On these assumptions this car is a cost, not an asset, which can be an entirely rational thing to buy but should be bought knowing it.
Purchase$145,000
Stamp duty$5,800
Running costs x 5 years$47,550
Selling cost at exit, 2.6% of the salescales with price
Sale price needed at +5 years$203,645
Storage
Bought at
No forecast is used to compute the hurdle. It is the purchase, the duty, any premium and 5 years of running cost, grossed up for the cost of selling and spread back over the hold. The projection it is measured against is the weakest number in this product and is drawn that way in the chart above. Transport, finance and any restoration spend sit outside it.

Specification

Engine6.2L NA OHV V8 (LT2)
Power / torque369 kW / 637 Nm
0-100 km/h2.9 s
Transmission8sp dual-clutch
DriveRWD
Kerb weight1,530 kg
Built worldwideNot established
Delivered to Australia3,250
Effective AU survivors3,200
Australian sales / year300
Typical days on market55 days
Launch price$160,500

What moves the price on this model

Colour hierarchy
Original paint, uncorrected and unresprayed+5%
A launch-period metallic rather than plain white+3%
Resprayed panels after a front-end repair-8%
Options
Delivery-distance early launch car+15%
Complete GMSV delivery and service history+8%
3LT specification rather than the entry trim+6%
Odometer sensitivity±1.8% per 10,000 km vs 30,000 km
Applied on top of these

Condition, history, originality, ownership, delivery and modification multipliers apply to every car in the library. They are applied automatically when an advertisement is analysed, and the schedule is set out once, on the analyser page.

Projected value in five years

Projected value at five years
$145,637
+0.4% on today
The model's figure. Today it is $145,000.
Even odds it lands between $122,454 and $165,991.
$101,562 lowhigh $184,332
The shaded range is even money and 36% wide; the outer figures bound eight outcomes in ten. Band width follows the evidence - a model with a tight measured record carries a tight band.
A weaker five year outlook than 62% of the library.
-26.6% weakest projected move in the librarystrongest +73.1%
Five-year cost of ownership
Value change alone: +$637 across five years.
Running costs over the same period: $47,550.
Duty and expected selling costs: $9,570.
Net cost of five years of ownership: $56,485, or $11,297 a year.
The projected value rise offsets part of the running cost. It does not make the car free to own.

The case for and against

The case for

Factory right-hand drive built for this market, the first in seventy years, so none of the conversion discount that drags on every other American car in this library applies to it. GMSV lifted list prices by $12,000 to $26,000 in October 2025, which pulled the ceiling up over every used car underneath it.

The case against

It is still on sale, so the thing setting the price is a showroom rather than a market, and a car listed at $160,500 in 2022 is a $145,000 car now. One car has transacted in public in Australia, a Japan-delivered import at $125,000, and GMSV has never published a delivery figure to size the local pool against.

Known faults and risks

Risk 1No Australian result exists at any price; the value is placed, not measured
Risk 2Panel fit and paint correction on early GMSV-delivered cars
Risk 3Check the specific VIN against the Australian recall register
Panel fit and paint correction on early GMSV-delivered cars$6,000
Low-speed dual-clutch shunt; a driveability complaint, no repair cost establisheddocumentation
Check the Australian recall register by VIN; a local Corvette Z06 recall has been issueddocumentation

Similar cars, and what they cost to run

Evidence behind this valueThin · 1 recorded sale
Carried value
$145,000
Historical price
2020 · $160,5002026 · $145,000
Thin
At least one recorded transaction plus a source. Direction is sound, the exact level less so.
The first Australian C8 result landed in September 2026 and it leaves the value where it is

A 2021 Stingray 2LT, white over tan, 23,625 kilometres, Japan-delivered with Japanese service books, a 4.5 A auction grade and the transmission recall done, on aftermarket 20-inch wheels with a suspension lift and a wrap lifting at one edge, made $125,000 at Upper Coomera. Back-solved through the rows the call used, it says a standard car is $155,900. Corrected for the ten per cent this library measured no-evidence values running high, the research figure says $130,500. Weighted by width the two give $147,400, but that rests on the call's minus 12 for the import, and the same row has just overcharged on an E39 M5 and an imported R35. At an import penalty of six the weighted answer is $140,800. $145,000 sits between the two and does not move on one sale.

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The call was $104,500 and 16.4 per cent low

It was the model shifted down ten per cent for having no evidence under it; the model itself, at $116,258, would have been seven per cent low and a line ball, and without the import row it would have been six per cent high. The no-evidence band of minus 45 and plus 20 contained the hammer with $500 to spare.

The question that dominates this segment does not arise here, and that is worth money

The C8 is factory right-hand drive, the first right-hand-drive Corvette in seventy years, sold new in Australia by GMSV from late 2021. None of the left-hand-drive versus converted discount that sets the price of the C3, the first-generation Mustang and most of the American cars in this library applies to it, which is why no conversion premium appears in the options below.

Until September 2026 this figure was research with nothing local under it

Not a thin record, an empty one. The model postdates the published Shannons archive, which for this segment stops in March 2022, and nothing public has replaced it as a record of what these settle at.

What the value is anchored on is a list price, and the page should be read that way

The launch field carries $160,500, which is the verified 2022 3LT price rather than the 2021 launch recommended price, because the launch figure could not be verified and this library will not print an unverified number in a field that looks like a fact. In October 2025 GMSV raised list prices by $12,000 to $26,000 across the range. That is the whole valuation mechanism: modest depreciation off launch money, with the used band propped up from above by a dearer new car.

The supporting numbers are estimates and should be read as one

GMSV has not published delivery volumes; roughly 2,500 to 4,000 cars in the country is an estimate, and the survivor and turnover figures on this page are built on top of it. No worldwide production figure appears because none was found.

What would change it

Four or five Australian transactions with distance and specification attached. One now exists, and until there are more the figure here is still mostly research.

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This model, today$145,000
Half of sales are further out than$16,210
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