Almost half of C8 Corvettes sold this year were convertibles

Chevrolet recently revealed that so far this year, 42 per cent of C8 Corvette buyers opted for the convertible over its hard-topped coupe sibling.

Harlan Charles, Chevrolet’s C8 Corvette product marketing manager, was giving a Corvette update at the National Corvette Museum in Kentucky, which you can see in full by clicking these blue words if you so desire. 

The C8-gen is the first Corvette to get a folding metal roof, but Chevrolet maintains that you can still get two sets of golf clubs in the boot even with the roof down and the 6.2-litre V8 behind the passengers. We’d imagine that’s very important to open-topped Corvette buyers…

With a total of over 26,000 C8 sales in the 2021 model year, that means roughly 11,000 customers spent an extra $7,500 on the added headroom. 

Why do we think it was so popular, folks?