Someone Just Flipped a 2026 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 for $290,000
The new Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 is already proving itself to be an excellent investment.
A barely driven 2006 example of the high-performance C8 recently sold for $290,000 over on Bring a Trailer. That gavel price, which was first flagged by Autoblog, means that the seller made close to $70,000 flipping the in-demand sports car.
If you pay attention to the secondary auto market, you know that buzzy vehicles are being flipped all the time. Earlier this decade, people were selling the sixth-generation Ford Bronco for double its sticker price close to launch. It even happened with the Tesla Cybertruck, as hard as that may now be to believe.
There are few cars as ripe for flipping right now as the ZR1. Unveiled last year, before launching as part of the brand’s 2025 lineup, the two-door is basically the Corvette reimagined as a supercar. It is the first series production model of the car to feature a twin-turbocharged engine. That mill, a mid-mounted, 5.5-liter LT7 DOHC V-8, produces 1,064 hp and 828 ft lbs of torque, making it the most powerful eight-cylinder the company had produced at the time of launch. When equipped with the optional ZTK performance package, the car is capable of rocketing from zero to 60 mph in just 2.3 seconds and hitting a top speed of 233 mph. It’s also still rare, due to some unexpected difficulties during its first year of production.
Of course, a car like the ZR1 doesn’t come cheap, especially when it has just five miles on the odometer. The vehicle starts at $191,400, but the Jet Black example that just sold had a sticker price of $220,745 thanks to a whole slew of performance upgrades. Those include the ZTK performance package, the ZR1 carbon-fiber aero kit, and a front-axle lift system. The final sales price of $290,000 means they turned a profit of $69,255, not including fees (Bring a Trailer takes a 5-percent fee, but that figure tops out at $7,500).
Inside the ZR1
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Not a bad bit of business, right? Of course, this sale makes you wonder what the even more powerful version of the car will fetch when it eventually hits the auction market. The ZR1X, which was unveiled earlier this year, adds a front-axle electric motor to the mix, which boosts output to 1,250 hp. That added oomph allowed the vehicle to become the fastest American-made car in Nürburgring history earlier this year.
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