With very few exceptions, Yellow has never climbed very high on this Blogger’s personal Corvette wish list. Because of this, I was shocked at how thrilled I was to see 2025 ‘Vettes trickling into dealer inventory wearing the bright new Competition Yellow Tintcoat.
Ferrari and Lamborghini make a strong case that mid-engine performance machines are best when they have a Yellow and an exotic Green in their color palette. Since the debut of the C8, America’s Sports Car has been without a true representative of either color, instead stuck somewhere in the middle with the tennis ball tones of Accelerate Yellow.
Seeing the new Yellow on high-rez Chevrolet-sanctioned photos of the upcoming Hyper ZR1 was one thing, but when a recent Cars.com search yielded dealership photos of Z06s, E-Rays, and Stingrays in Comp-Yellow, the reemergence of this Corvette staple really hit me. And I must admit, I’m no Steelers guy, but it looks absolutely fantastic on mid-mounted cars optioned with as many black accents as possible!
The most striking of these real-world photos come courtesy of Monroeville, PA’s Bowser Chevrolet. The “Power of Bowser” brings ‘Vette fans the opportunity to plant a “sold” flag on their hotly-specified 2025 E-Ray Convertible. Along with Competition Yellow, it features complementary Carbon Flash roof and nacelles, Ebony 3LZ interior with Yellow contrast stitching and matching seat belts, and Yellow calipers hiding behind the wide-body C8’s party trick five-spoke carbon fiber wheels. It’s being offered at its $158,160 MSRP, and the gallery is excellent because of the comparison offered by the other cars on Bowser’s showroom. Early angles show a 2009 ALMS GT1 Championship Special Edition C6 in its tell-tale Velocity Yellow Tintcoat, which looks like a dead-ringer for the new 655-horse hybrid. Continue to click around the car, and you’ll see a highly-optioned Z51 Stingray Convertible dressed in Accelerate for a perfect apples-to-oranges look at the outgoing vs. the incoming Corvette Yellow.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but we think the new car just looks “right” in a way that the neon off-yellow never did. That’s not to say that Accelerate won’t be the more interesting tone in the long run. The only version of the hue the C8 has ever known was phased out early in the ’24 run, cementing it as the rarest exterior paint option of ’24 – even beating out the incredibly scarce Cacti. This was after finishing 11th out of 12 in popularity in ’20 and ’21, climbing to 10th out of 12 in ’22, and earning 12th place out of 14 in ’23.
Now, Competition Yellow is here to let Corvette Racing fans spec their cars to look like the highly successful “.R” endurance racers of the past quarter century once more, but to be fair to Accelerate, the last year of true yellow, the aptly-named Corvette Racing shade from 2019, also landed near the bottom of the popularity chart with an 11th place finish out of 12 possible choices in the C7’s final year on sale. With the likelihood of a low take-rate in mind, perhaps the most exciting part of Comp stepping into Accelerate’s shoes (while Cacti also conveniently finds itself pushing daisies) is that it opens the door for the kind of Green we’ve been clamoring for since we first laid eyes on the C8! Now that GM finally answered our calls for Purple, “Verde Ithaca” has firmly taken the top spot on the previously mentioned wish list!
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Bowser Chevrolet Monroeville
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CY will never be special. It’s just another yellow, just like every other yellow that has ever been offered on any car since the beginning of history. Schoolbuses, fire hydrants, traffic lights, taxicabs, etc–all the same as CY with the exception of perhaps gloss and metallic bits. AYM, on the other hand, is distinct.
AYM is not green. Anyone without colorblindness can easily identify how YELLOW it is when parked next to Shock Yellow (Camaro) or Grabber Yellow (Mustang). Corvette owners are just used to yellows that are TOO red.
There are at least 4 blues that have graced the C8 (including blurple). I’m not against another yellow–but it shouldn’t come at the cost of AYM any more than RMT should come at the expense of TR or Rapid should come at the expense of Riptide. If it has to be only 1 yellow on offer–CY should have been the launch color and AYM the 2025 refresh offering.
Corvettes are one of the few cars that look good in yellow.
IMO yellow has always been a great looking color on Corvettes unless it’s too pale like the C2 Sunflower Yellow. To expand on what klw said, Corvette, Camaro, Mustang, Ferrari, Porsche and Lamborghini are the only cars that can pull off looking good in yellow.
Once again the Corvette paint team can’t get away from it’s standard color pallet. For the price GM is charging for the C8 these days you think the choice of colors would be getting better and have a larger variety. McLaren offers around 37 different colors choices at 3 price levels.
I went to the Bowser website and looked this E-Ray over & it is really a nicely spec’d car.
I have owned 2015 VYT Z06/7, a 2016 CRY Z06/7, a 2021 C8 Z51 Coupe in AYM, & a 2022 C8 #63 GTLM Coupe in AYM.
Of all the old school yellows I have seen I like & wish Chevy would have used for 2025 if they just had to change yellows is VYT as it is brighter / shinner.
But like IPD stated above after owning 2 cars in AYM which continued to grow on me as I owned a AYM car convinced my minds eye that it was the best yellow. I also discovered the longer I owned that color the less it registered as having a greenish tint. To me it is just a more vibrant yellow than the old school yellows.
How can you like Verde Ithaca and not like Accelerate Yellow? Both strike me as safety vest colors – which is not a bad thing if you need to be noticed. 😊
Verde Ithica is a great color. Which means that GM will instead be offering Lime Rock Green or Polo Green–instead of something actually befitting a loud and attention grabbing sports car. Same as we wanted a legit purple, and we got the blurple that is Hysteria. Just like a dark tan/brown interior was desired–and we got Artemis.
GM needs to fire the woman responsible for picking these things.
Sorry fellas but Accelerate Yellow is one of the best looking Vets. It makes it look like a super car and exotic.
We can apparently get any color seat belts with any color interior. Why can’t we have a wide choice of stitching colors? Why not red with natural interior…or orange with a black interior? Charge for it. Give us options. Of course I believe that a few $1000’s for a list of exotic colors along the lines of what McLaren offers would be real smart and elevate the status of Corvette. Why do they feel they have to be restrained about colors but go all out on performance…makes no sense to me.
The German charges nearly $4000 for deviated stitching and $1,000 to $13,000 for most custom colors while one is over $100,000. Is that what you want? 😒
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