For the second year of the mid-engine Corvette, the Golden Bowtie has treated the Stingray to a number of goodies. Take, for instance, the $995 full-length dual racing stripe package in Carbon Flash Metallic on the hardtop convertible in the following video. Hood stinger stripes are also available at $500, along with Jake graphics that add $495 to the tally.
Two new exterior colors are available for the 2021 model year Corvette, namely Silver Flare Metallic and the $995 Red Mist Tintcoat Metallic. These two replace Blade Silver Metallic and Long Beach Red Metallic, which is reasonable given how few customers have opted for them in 2020.
As the headline implies, Chevrolet has also made a few “unpublished changes” that Rick Conti is much obliged to detail for us. Buckle to Drive is one of them, and it works in a rather simple fashion. If you try to select Drive without buckling up, it won’t allow you for 20 seconds after engine start-up. And of course, you can deactivate the system from the Vehicle tab.
Hitting the silver-painted Z Mode button on the left-hand side of the steering wheel twice fires up the Performance Traction Management menu, which offers many settings and two options for the Electronic Stability Control: on or off. Going into the Settings menu, the Vehicle tab differs from the 2020 model by merging Z Mode and MyMode into Drive Mode Customization. This submenu also includes a Visualization feature, which shows all your settings for each driving mode on the infotainment system's display.
More settings for FM and SiriusXM radio complement the wireless connectivity for Apple CarPlay and Android Auto. According to Rick Conti, the charging pad between the seats has “over 3,000 Corvette logos.”
For 2021, the starting price for the hardtop coupe remains unchanged at $59,995, while the convertible costs $7,500 more. The ever-popular Z51 now retails at $5,995 instead of $5,000, and Chevrolet has also hiked up the price of the E60 front lift from $1,495 to $1,995. Last but certainly not least, black trident-spoke wheels will set you back $200 more at $2,895.
After a 1:43 scale model of a Ferrari 250 GTO sparked Mircea's interest for cars when he was a kid, an early internship at Top Gear sealed his career path. He's most interested in muscle cars and American trucks, but he takes a passing interest in quirky kei cars as well. Full profile
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