the kid C6

Me, too. It only takes a few minutes, and it's worth it to me.

When it's clean, it looks like glass (other people have said that to me).

red62vette

I've owned two black cars. Never again. Not so much keeping it clean, but small defects and scratches show on black where they don't on other colors.

Baysider

After every black vehicle I've owned (3), is sold I swear I'll never have another one...Presently I have a black C6 Vert and love it, hard to do but I had to get used to washing only once a week as it was driving my wife crazy watching me wash it every other day. That being said whenever I'm going somewhere that will have other Vettes it gets a fresh washing!

fugly1

Well, OP, that's a lot of feedback. What have you decided?

23/C8Z

leasing? black. all day long. owning? no thanks.
Add another 4k to have car wrapped in ppf to save you sanity. paint is such a nightmare with the reflection of a mirror like black paint. unless stored in a bubble.

my black Sierra is beautiful. but swirled to death. i couldn't deal with my vette that way. too much guilt. i sold my modded Pontiac G8 which had everything you could want done including a 402 ultra light weight Stroker. because it was BLACK!!!!

Droop2313

dr4carz

Dont do it dude. In the end its your choice and if you get tired of the extremely high maintenance you can always trade it in. That is my opinion after owning 4 black vehicles. On the flip side its a sinister looking color so if thats what your looking for you won't be disappointed.

badass1g

I hated all of my black cars. I will never ever buy one again.

Tex Vette

I took ownership of my new 2018, 3LT, BLACK, FULL LENGHT MATT BLACK RACE STRIPS, Spice Red Interior, Black Wheels/Red Striped, Vert December 18. December 19 it had a full body EXPEL wrap. Now I windex, about 10 minutes, with a microfiber towel. Looks great every time I take it out of my garage.
No other colors gets the attention like Black.
If you want easy get white.

MMD

Well if I were the OP I think more opinions need to be expressed by forum members on this topic. It’s a complex decision you know. Once this thread gets as large as the infamous “Warble” thread he then should have enough input to be able to make an informed choice. What say you?

Bronsonf

Can someone post a picture of a dirty black C7 corvette?

RRvet

See post #35.

IAIA

Good choice! It's what I have, and while I do recognize how awesome a clean black Vette looks, the C7 is just too much Batmobile for me. The only thing I'm sad about is that I didn't get the Admiral Blue when it finally came out--a blue that I was waiting for after the previous C7 Stingray blue disappointed (you can see what blue I was waiting for, in my avatar, and Admiral Blue is almost identical to my previous two vettes). The 2017 Watkins Gray GS LT3 was just too good a deal when I bought it, and the AB wasn't available in my 300 mile search area at the end of December. And even though it's not black, and not blue, it's still an Awesome color esp. with black wheels.
Enjoy your car!!!!

Bill Dearborn

Black is a PIA to keep clean. White is probably the easiest to take care of. If you don't wash it it just gradually changes color. Black shows every little scratch (greasy fingers with some dirt mixed in will leave a nice fingerprint on the surface that takes a lot of polishing to get off. On a white car you wipe the grease off and that is it. Scratches have to be large on a white car and miniscule on a black car to be seen.

Wash the black car in the driveway and dry it off, pull into the garage, close the door and come back the next morning and it is dirty.

Bill

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MMD

Bill...you never mentioned the chronic battle with the ever-present water spots too.

Mcrider

Wife and I come out of the Harley world and damn near every bike you see is black. They look good but in a world of endless black bikes, you just look like every other one out there. I have always painted my scoots to stand out. Some were blue, the Roadglide I have now is pearl white. When we decided to buy a vette, we looked long and hard to find a white one and thats what we found. Now the customizing can begin and when we do go to an event full of vettes, ours will damn sure stand out in a sea of black.

fugly1

The most common C7 color is...white.

6spdC6

That was the first color offered for sale in the 50s and still on the menu after all those years!

sTz

OP is getting Watkins Glen Gray- Post#107. You win. You talked him out of getting black

Nice color choice. Congrats