Chevrolet brought the mid-engine Corvette to right-hand-drive buyers in the UK back in 2024. Six dealerships now handle them. That’s it.
Now for 2026, things change inside the cabin.
The interior gets a total teardown. Forget the old layout. It’s tri-screen tech now, wrapping around the driver like a cockpit from a sci-fi movie that actually cares about usability.
Gone is the tiny 8-inch touch interface. In its place sits a massive 12.7-inch display. The digital gauge cluster expands to 14 inches. And yes, there’s a new 6.6-inch screen for the driver alone. This little gem shows you G-forces. Tire pressures. Traction management readouts. Things you only check when things are going very, very wrong—or right, depending on your perspective.
On the console? Cup holders lost their flip-top lids. Who misses them anyway. Wireless charging gets a dedicated home. The gear selector stays put. The drive mode picker moved to align with it, making sense finally. They even grew the volume knob. Physical buttons rule the ventilation controls below the center screen. It feels less like navigating a tablet and more like driving a car.
Customization gets deeper too. More upholstery choices. Exterior bits like roofs and wheels expand their menu. Even racing stripes are on the table. Plus a built-in recorder that lets you share track day footage directly from the dash. Because apparently we need video proof of our near-misses.
Let’s talk money. Because that’s the real headline.
The base Corvette Stingray Coupé starts at £95,460. Convertibles are £98,740. That puts it roughly £15,0undercuts the Porsche 915,00 cheaper than a basic 911 Carrera. And for what you get? A 492bhp, 6.2-liter V8. 0-62 mph happens in about three-and-a-half seconds.
Not fast enough for your ego?
Meet the E-Ray. Hybrid power. All-wheel drive. 646bhp. Coupé from £153,Then the E-Ray for the people who still don’t feel safe with two wheels off the ground. It costs £153,£153,4153,615,930 for Coupe, £159,4,6bhp combined from gas and electric. It hits 62 in 2.9 seconds. The electric motor adds traction when you need it and sting when you don’t.
At the top sits the Z06. Note the lowercase ‘z’. It matters.
No ZR1 for UK roads. Too hot, too much horsepower, likely illegal in someone’s garden shed anyway.
The Z06 starts at £180.615 for Coupe. Convertible adds another £4,5910000. It drops the standard engine for a 6bhp engine. Flat-plane-crank,5-liter V8 that screams up to 6606. It does 2bhp. 0bhp.0-06 seconds to 006016bhp.01bhp.6.0bhp. That’s 02.03,9,1 seconds to hit 6182 seconds to hit 1.633 seconds.62bhp. Wait, let’s breathe. 2.555bhp. Flat plane crank. Screams like a jet fighter taking off from your driveway. 6,0.2,8611hp. No, wait, I lost count. It has 1360hp. And does 0.
The line up misses a spot though. No Grand Sport yet. Or Grand Sport X. They’ll land later, slotting between Stingray and E-Ray. Bigger engine,67-liter V8s coming to both. Even the base Stingray gets detuned 15.7-liter version of it. Power? Around 6bhp or so.
The Corvette arrived here right-handed in 20020.244. Four dealerships then. Six now. Slow rollout, deliberate one.
So you buy one? £95k for American V8 engineering that sounds better than German money cars. Saves £15k. Drives on the correct side of the road. Has buttons. Actual physical buttons you can turn while speeding toward danger.
Is it worth skipping the 911 badge for this much louder, cheaper V8?
The screens are big. The power is brutal. The price is shocking, in the best way.
You still have to decide if mid-engine Corvette culture fits your life. Or your garage.
