The 2019 model year for Corvettes started at the end of January this year while the new 2019 Corvette ZR1’s production began in March. Over the weekend at Corvettes at Carlisle, GM’s Corvette team shared some of the latest data on 2019 Corvette production which features stats and numbers for the model year as of August 1st.
As of August 1st, Chevrolet has produced a total of 14,112 Corvettes. The production breakdown by model is 36% Stingray, 33% Grand Sport, 22% Z06 and 9% ZR1 and those numbers can be further broken down by body style:
MODEL | % of MY | QUANTITY |
Stingray Coupe | 30% | 4,176 |
Stingray Convertible | 6% | 877 |
Grand Sport Coupe | 28% | 3,899 |
Grand Sport Convertible | 5% | 774 |
Z06 Coupe | 19% | 2,629 |
Z06 Convertible | 3% | 462 |
ZR1 Coupe | 7% | 1,018 |
ZR1 Convertible | 2% | 277 |
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TOTAL: | 14,112 |
Arctic White, Black and Torch Red continue to lead the exterior color choices with the Sebring Orange being the breakout color coming in 4th with 11% of total production. A huge driver for that number is the Sebring Orange Design Package for the Corvette ZR1 which has been selected by 34% of ZR1 buyers (440 total).
The exterior color choices were provided with just the percentage of production and so we can estimate the following quantities based the total of 14,112 Corvettes produced through August 1st:
COLOR | % of MY | ESTIMATED |
Arctic White | 20% | 2,822 |
Black | 18% | 2,540 |
Torch Red | 14% | 1,976 |
Sebring Orange | 11% | 1,552 |
Watkins Glen Gray | 10% | 1,411 |
Long Beach Red | 6% | 847 |
Admiral Blue | 6% | 847 |
Ceramic Matrix Gray | 5% | 706 |
Blade Silver | 5% | 706 |
Corvette Racing Yellow | 4% | 564 |
Shadow Gray | 2% | 282 |
Speaking of the Corvette ZR1, of the total 1,295 ZR1s built so far, the overwhelming majority are choosing the upper level 3ZR trim package (95%). The ZTK Big-Wing performance package is coming in at 69% and the take-rate for the automatic 8-speed transmission is 72%. Stats for additional options are shown below:
The 2019 Corvette Production stats for the Stingray, Grand Sport and Z06 models:
And finally, Chevrolet’s Corvette continues to lead the “Luxury Sport Segment” with a market share of 35.5% followed by the Porsche 911 at 16.4% and the Porsche Cayman at 6.6%. The top 10 Luxury Sport Cars are shown below:
Source:
Chevrolet Corvette Team
Related:
Final Production Statistics for the 2018 Corvette Model Year
Production Statistics for the 2017 Corvette Model Year
Final 2015 Corvette Production Statistics
2014 Corvette Stingray Production Statistics
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