Do you like yellow sports cars? You aren’t alone. I know Prince used a red Corvette as a euphemism, but if you’re under a certain age, yellow’s probably the iconic Corvette color for you. Well, good news — a classic shade of yellow is returning to the Corvette palette for 2025, and it rules.
Previously, the mid-engined Corvette was available in a color called Accelerate Yellow, which had a surprising amount of green to it. It was actually a chartreuse rather than what we’d normally think of as a yellow, and while that’s fine if that’s your sort of thing, it’s not quite the same as full-on yellow.
However, Competition Yellow is exactly what the people wanted. It’s a proper bright yellow that first appeared on the 1993 Corvette, replacing a color that was just called Yellow. Now though, it amps up the show-off factor of the C8’s mid-engined form, and even in Chevrolet’s shot-from-above teaser, it just looks epic.
It’s worth noting that Competition Yellow isn’t the ultra-iconic yellow from the C5 Corvette Z06. That would be Millennium Yellow, which has a little bit more orange to it than Competition Yellow but still whips ass. Millennium Yellow’s the best color available on a C5 Z06, because forget subtlety, you’re driving a damn sports car.
Millennium Yellow briefly continued on the C6 Corvette, but it was quickly replaced mid-year 2005 by Velocity Yellow, which removed a touch of orange and, you guessed it, also whipped ass. Sure, you could get a C6 in Atomic Orange or Jetstream Blue, but Velocity Yellow was really the poster color for anyone who latched onto the Z06. Booyah.
In fact, Velocity Yellow was so good that it was offered on the C7 Corvette until 2016, when it was replaced by Corvette Racing Yellow, which pulled even more orange out of the composition and went even brighter. Hell yeah. Sadly, this color was killed off after 2019, which makes us all the more thankful that a proper yellow is back.
Admittedly, Competition Yellow isn’t the only new addition to the 2025 Corvette option list. You’ll also be able to get Sebring Orange Tintcoat that launched on the 2019 Corvette, and Hysteria Purple, which is a deep blue with purple undertones. Add in a big ol’ wing for Z51 cars and new wheel options for the Z06, and it looks like Chevrolet’s got a nice round of options going to keep things fresh.
However, if you’re shopping for a new 2025 Corvette, I urge you to get your Gucci Mane on and tick the box for Competition Yellow. There’s just something awesome about a bright yellow sports car, and not only do the people love it, owning one means stashing a little ray of sunshine in your garage. On a rainy day, it makes a difference, right?
(Photo credits: Chevrolet)
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Lets fucking gooooooooo! Now I can not afford a C8 but at least in the correct shade of yellow.
I do wish Long Beach Red would make a return though.
Love these, and yeah being a certain age….have wanted a yellow C5 Z06 for some time and is my favorite vette color. For now I’ll settle for my yellow BRZ.
DALE FREAKIN’ EARNHARDT, SENIOR, PRAISE BE HIS NAME, DID NOT RACE A CHARTREUSE CORVETTE
ALL PRAISE THE ELIMINATOR!!!!
Raise Hell and praise Dale, amen.
Cruze is yellow, and is faster than Lightening McQueen who is red. Yellow is good.
what interior color would you pick? Would you take the blue interior with Torch Red? 😉
Yes, you can actually do that 😀
This is the way.
The problem is that I’d want a red interior and it would then look like you’re driving a 1970s McDonalds.
Anytime a car is made in more colors, including yellow, the world becomes a better place.
Yellow is the best Corvette color.
Does anyone else find the C8 a snoozefest? It’s entire cachet is around being like a 15 year old Ferrari and benchmarked against a 15 year old Ferrari. Nothing says exciting like being a knock off.
They built a multi-generational pedigree and threw it all away on making a Ferrari knock off that already looks 15 years old not 4.
Oh and no manual, no care.
You dont seem very smart.
Fuck off, cunt.
Do you want to discuss cars or be a wanker? Go back to jalopnik, fuck boy.
You dont seem very pleasant, either.
The last thing on earth I want is for someone named Dalton to think I’m pleasant. That’s an utter failure at life if you approve how I act. Approval from a retard is a negative not a positive.
Says the guy named Bjorn.
Read the name out loud, ding dong.
So, you’re going for actively unpleasant. Well, it’s a choice, I guess.
Ah yes, it’s MY fault for reacting to assholes on here. People don’t have a right to be an asshole and face no push back. I can be better asshole than they are anyways, I just choose not to unless provoked. Preparation H works wonders on keeping asshole flare ups to a minimum. It just tastes terrible.
I remember this argument with the crb1000. It’s boring, to which someone replied, how the fuck is a 1L sports bike boring.
I don’t see how a mid engine na v8 sports car is ever boring.
And well, they are coming out with a fast one soon enough.
It’s boring because it’s been going on for decades and Chevy missed the boat for me to care. A continuation of the FR layout punching way above its weight in terms
of physics and price? That’s more interesting than adhering to norms of the last 30 years and benchmarking a 15 year old car. But I don’t buy corvettes and the market changed. That’s life.
It has the same problem the modern Challengers have: It needs 4-6” of horizontal body removed along the midline of the car. If the hood, greenhouse and trunk of both of those cars were closer to the rockers they would look amazing. Instead they look puffy.
Agreed. Weird proportions I’m sure that we can attribute to cutting of costs to accommodate a new MR platform.
Now I need yo know, is Millenium Yellow the same color as Pratt Miller yellow? Because that’s the correct color for a Corvette.
There are many correct colors for a Corvette but yellow is especially correct because Corvettes that win LeMans races are yellow
Preach.
*looks at profile photo*
Yes.
Still waiting for Angelyne Pink.
https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/angelyne-chevy-c8-mid-engine-corvette-interview/
Great color. But I am partial to Porshe’s pink
The best part is that you can order the Corvette with any interior color too 🙂
Yellow-on-blue, yellow-on-red hell yeah 😀
Yellow will always be my favorite color for a sports car. I didn’t hate the highlighter color offered before but yeah, it’s hard to be a true yellow
My dad just picked up a new C8 to use as our dedicated track car, it’s their light grey with a bit of metallic to it which looks quite nice. But I wonder if he’s wishing he had held out just a little longer. One of his only real friends, who passed away 20 years ago, loved yellow cars so much that he had a yellow 911, Hummer H2, and F-150 all at the same time. Would have been fun to remember him with a yellow Corvette!
I do like a yellow sporty car! It’s a close call, but some Ferraris look better in yellow than they do in red or black.
Several years ago for grins I painted one project bike in Rustoleum Safety Yellow, which is just eye-searingly bright. When I rolled it out into the sunlight to get a picture, the glow from the yellow overbalanced (?) the rest of the shot.
A current project bike is getting a much more subdued treatment: the painted bits will be silver but the wheels have been powder-coated in a slightly less bright yellow (kind of a school bus yellow minus some orange).
I actually have an orange running jacket that is so damn bright that it was tough to get a good picture with a phone camera while running. I found it hilarious but my friend who documents everything was so annoyed. It’s not eye-searingly bright, I’d say it’s obnoxiously bright. In winter you’re not missing me though.
I wonder if at some point, ala Chrysler’s original ’70s color cheekiness, there will be a shade of yellow named something like “P-Mag”?
My biggest complaint about the C8 was the stupid looking “yellow”
Good on you GM.
Yellow is by far my favorite color on any car, and I think it looks good on anything.
But on that C7, man……SHEESH that thing jumps off the screen.
Preach. My 280Z went from boring white old car to awesome classic thanks to that lovely Safari Gold.
Electrical banana
Is gonna be a sudden craze
Electrical banana
Is bound to be the very next phase
They call it mellow yellow (Quite rightly)
They call me mellow yellow (Quite rightly)
They call me mellow yellow
Now I’ve ruined your day with that ear worm.
Ha! I’m too young and/or culturally uninformed to get this reference!
You need to head back to your van down by the river.
While I love the song and it will be in my head all day (thanks for that!) every time I hear Mellow Yellow I always think of the Mello Yello livery from Days of Thunder.
Popped into my head, too.
A lot of people thought Donovan was saying that you could smoke banana peels to get high. That’s not what “electrical banana” meant at all.
Momma’s little helper.