This Chevrolet Corvette C8 Stingray in black with a white interior is based in Orange County, the pricier of our two black Stingrays. The white cabin turns bright and graphic against the dark body the moment the doors go up, which is why this is the one to book for a doors-open photo.
Mid-engine changes everything about how a Corvette drives, and the Stingray is the clearest demonstration of it. The 6.2 liter V8 sits behind your shoulder instead of ahead of your knees, which makes the front of the car feel light and eager and the rear feel planted under power. 490 horsepower and a torque curve that means you almost never need to downshift to make something happen out of a corner or off a light. Run it along the harbour at Newport and out toward Dana Point and the white cabin catches the light the whole way.
Black outside with a white interior is the combination people notice from inside the car rather than outside it, and it is the reason to shoot this one with the doors open. The cabin reads as bright and graphic against the dark body, a much stronger frame than a dark interior gives you. On the outside, the black paint hides detail in flat light and sharpens up at golden hour along the Newport harbour or under streetlights near Fashion Island, so time the shoot rather than fighting it.
The only Stingray we run with a white interior, and against a black body it is the hardest contrast in the group. Our other black Stingray has a dark cabin and rents for a hundred dollars less, so you are paying specifically for the interior on this one. That is worth it if the car is being photographed with the doors up, and worth nothing if it is not. The white and grey cars are the alternatives if you want a lighter exterior instead.
This is a Corvette C8 Stingray, the mid-engine 6.2 liter V8 model at 490 horsepower, sending drive to the rear wheels through an eight-speed dual-clutch automatic. This particular car runs a black exterior with a white interior, the only Stingray in our fleet with a light-coloured cabin, priced a hundred dollars above its black-with-red-accents sibling for that reason. Luggage splits between a front trunk and a rear trunk behind the engine, as on every C8.