This Chevrolet Corvette C8 Stingray in black with a black and red interior is based in Orange County. From outside it reads as anonymous and low, then the red stitching turns the cabin into its own subject once a door opens, and it is the more affordable of our two black Stingrays.
The whole point of the C8 is where the engine sits. Put the 6.2 liter V8 behind the cabin and the car stops behaving like a muscle car and starts behaving like something from Europe. It turns in cleanly, it puts power down out of a corner without drama, and the noise reaches you from over your shoulder rather than out front. 490 horsepower is the number, but the reason people book it twice is the way it changes direction. Run the coast road through Laguna Beach as the sun drops and the black paint does the rest.
Black paint with a black and red interior is the spec that gives you two completely different photographs from the same car. Closed up it is anonymous and low along the coast road through Laguna Beach, and the shape carries everything. Doors open, the red stitching and inserts become the focal point and the frame gets an accent line that no all-black cabin can give you. Shoot both. Outside, this car wants late light rather than flat midday sun, where the black paint loses its detail.
Two of our four Stingrays are black. This is the more affordable of the pair by a hundred dollars a day, and the difference is inside. This car runs black with red accents, the other runs a full white cabin. If you want the dark exterior and the interior is not going in the frame, take this one and keep the hundred dollars in your pocket. If the doors-open shot matters more than the rate, the white-interior car earns its price 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 black and red interior, the more affordable of our two black Stingrays, priced level with the grey car in the group. Luggage splits between a front trunk and a rear trunk behind the engine, as on every C8 we run.