C8: Top 5 Colors

JCWP · May 13, 2020

Top 5 Most Popular Colors Chosen By 2020 Corvette Buyers

The least popular colors may surprise you.

gmauthority.com

gone · May 13, 2020

No surprise on the Zeus Bronze but I was expecting more Accelerate Yellows. The number of black cars seems low. I don't know if the author of the article is correct when he states that 536 orders of the C8 make this a safe bet statistically-speaking, that it will be representative of the entire run of ~30,000. Who knows how many 2020 C8's will be made now, but presumably there are about 30,000 ordered and 536 is less than 1.8% of the hoped for run of 30,000, which means it's not statistically significant and can be skewed by many factors such as buyer preferences in the area where the dealer is located or the fact that these were the early buyers. Depending upon how many 2020 C8's are ultimately made, we may have to wait for the 2021 C8 stats, to truly know how the buying market views the C8 colors.

For 2019, the most popular colors for the C7 were white then black then red. For 2018, it was the same. I suspect more black C8's will happen and it might result in the same red/white/black color preferences, but time will tell since it's a different looking car than the C7.

JCWP · May 13, 2020

netsinah said:
No surprise on the Zeus Bronze but I was expecting more Accelerate Yellows. The number of black cars seems low. I don't know if the author of the article is correct when he states that 536 orders of the C8 make this a safe bet statistically-speaking, that it will be representative of the entire run of ~30,000. Who knows how many 2020 C8's will be made now, but presumably there are about 30,000 ordered and 536 is less than 1.8% of the hoped for run of 30,000, which means it's not statistically significant and can be skewed by many factors such as buyer preferences in the area where the dealer is located or the fact that these were the early buyers. Depending upon how many 2020 C8's are ultimately made, we may have to wait for the 2021 C8 stats, to truly know how the buying market views the C8 colors.

For 2019, the most popular colors for the C7 were white then black then red. For 2018, it was the same. I suspect more black C8's will happen and it might result in the same red/white/black color preferences, but time will tell since it's a different looking car than the C7.

Don't get carried away with the math: 30K have not been produced; so, calculate using what you know. Whether it is statistically significant or not, would be another question ?and perhaps, irrelevant? The post was not meant to use the data for anything other than a pure numbers comparison: of all the cars ordered, which were the most popular colors - period. You must be an analytical/analytical (social styles classification used in marketing). I worked in a field were you had to understand statistics: "lies, damn lies and statics" - basically you take the numbers selectively and add powder to a weak result and, conversely make a weak result look good. Then, if you want to go further , using your hypothesis, you inject the concept of probability to make predictions to substantiate your statement of facts used in your calculations. Okay: I am being facetious!! :blackalien:

gone · May 13, 2020

Whoa. Sorry for my post/perspective. It wasn't a personal dig at you but rather a commentary on the article. If you took it otherwise, I'll apologize but I thought this was a Forum where we could express our views hopefully for the benefit of others. I appreciated your reference to an on-topic C8 article (thanks). Perhaps I've taken your post incorrectly but your mention of "irrelevant" "take the numbers selectively" "making a weak result look good", all before your "facetious" end line, lead me to that conclusion.

JCWP · May 13, 2020

netsinah said:
Whoa. Sorry for my post/perspective. It wasn't a personal dig at you but rather a commentary on the article. If you took it otherwise, I'll apologize but I thought this was a Forum where we could express our views hopefully for the benefit of others. I appreciated your reference to an on-topic C8 article (thanks). Perhaps I've taken your post incorrectly but your mention of "irrelevant" "take the numbers selectively" "making a weak result look good", all before your "facetious" end line, lead me to that conclusion.

No problem man! I did not mean to be so flippant at all. I got carried away because your commentary was so serious for such a mundane topic. Hey, no apology required - I was trying to be humorous; but, obviously, I failed. Have a great day!! :Cheers2:

Murray20c8 · May 13, 2020

Color	Count

Torch Red	131
Arctic White	70
Elkhart Lake Blue Metallic	57
Long Beach Red Metallic Tintcoat (+$995)	44
Blade Silver Metallic	39
Rapid Blue (+$500)	35
Ceramic Matrix Gray Metallic	33
Black	31
Sebring Orange Tintcoat (+$995)	30
Shadow Gray Metallic	29
Accelerate Yellow Metallic (+$500)	19
Zeus Bronze	18
Total	536

Murray20c8 · May 13, 2020

I think Torch red is the Ferrari influence. Also the demographic for the C8 has been skewed somewhat to the younger side which may be colouring the statistics also.
Above commentary was all in fun!

JCWP · May 13, 2020

Murray20c8 said:
I think Torch red is the Ferrari influence. Also the demographic for the C8 has been skewed somewhat to the younger side which may be colouring the statistics also.
Above commentary was all in fun!

Good points! Yes, all in fun. I need to work on my humor though; so, it is more obvious - LOL!! Definitely a lot of first time corvette buyers are younger.

Jamie140 · May 13, 2020

Bring back steel cities grey!

Gilles27 · May 13, 2020

Biggest problem with this list was not all colours were available at the beginning so people opted out of Rapid Blue, Accelerate Yellow etc.. for Red and White due to early deliveries.