[VIDEO] Here’s How Many 2025 Corvette ZR1 Orders Were Bumped to the 2026 Model Year (So Far)

Jul 16, 2025

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[VIDEO] Here's How Many 2025 Corvette ZR1 Orders Were Bumped to the 2026 Model Year (So Far)

Photo Credit: Keith Cornett

We all know about the production woes of the 2025 Corvette ZR1. As a quick recap, Chevrolet took approximately 310 orders for the 2025 Corvette ZR1 and they started production on the week of April 28th. However, the ramp-up has been extremely slow and as of the latest count, there were just 65 units produced before workers took off two weeks for the annual summer shutdown. Now that operations have resumed once again, there are just 15 days left in the production calendar for Chevrolet to produce those orders.

GM eventually came to the conclusion that there is no way they can build all those orders. At the end of June, they began notifying select customers that their orders wouldn’t be built for 2025 and would automatically roll over as a 2026 model year order. We didn’t know how many orders got bumped to the 2026 model year until just now thanks to our friend Rick ‘Corvette” Conti.

Rick was able to go into the GM Workbench and as there have been no order allocations for the 2026 ZR1 yet, the only ZR1 orders existing in the system for 2026 are those 2025 orders that were rolled over. Rick pulls out his white board to go through the numbers.

According to Rick, a total of 101 orders were transferred from 2025 to 2026, and those orders are already at 3000 Accepted Status. That leaves 209 orders for the 2025 ZR1. As they have already built 65 units, that leaves another 144 still remaining to be completed. Rick says that with an average build of 3 ZR1s per day (the plant has never built more than three in a day) that’s only another 45 cars to be completed which means there could still be the potential of another 99 orders that may be forced to rollover.

Check out some of these stats Rick pulled from the 101 ZR1 orders accepted for 2026 production, of which a whopping 73% of these orders are equipped with the High Wing:

2026 ZR1 Coupes
• 50 Coupes
• 11 are Dealer Stock Orders
• 39 are Customer Sold Orders
• 38 have the High Wing

2026 ZR1 Convertibles
• 51 Convertibles
• 27 are Dealer Stock Orders
• 24 are Customer Sold Orders
• 36 have the High Wing

So the big thing we’ll be watching over the next three weeks is Roger Kiel’s C8 Production tracker to see how many cars are being built daily. As of yesterday’s report for Monday, July 14, that number was zero, but that could be because it takes multiple shifts to complete a full car. Will Chevy be able to build all 209 orders for 2025 or will even more get bumped to 2026? Stay tuned!

Source:
Rick ‘Corvette’ Conti / YouTube

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4 COMMENTS

Milo Jul 17, 2025 At 5:37 am

Just in time for the price increase.
FLY8182 Jul 17, 2025 At 8:02 am

Why are there ‘Dealer Stock” orders? Shouldn’t ALL orders be for Customer Orders? Am I being paranoid to think that those are the ones dealers will try to sell way above MSRP? That’s the kind of thing GM should be looking at to curb those unscrupulous dealers.
Jeff Thomas Jul 17, 2025 At 5:21 pm

What a damn shame that 99 Corvette buyers are now forced to pay higher MSRP plus their additional costs for these new option packages to purchase their desired ZR1 SuperCorvette.
If Mary and Mark had any compassion left for new Corvette Buyers that pay their multi-million dollar salaries, each of these 99 Buyers, on sold 2025 ZR1 Corvettes, not the dealer stock units would only buy the new 2026 ZR1 at the original ordered 2025 MSRP and option costs. Then let the dealers battle it out for themselves with Chevrolet.
Be responsible and fair to all new Corvette buyers!
Just an unique idea for once.
Bob in FL Jul 25, 2025 At 6:24 am

I wouldn’t worry about the 44/45 mistake. The assumption is that they will build 3 per day. Perhaps that will change one way or the other.