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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