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Depending on your level of perfection with a black car, if parked outside, a cover and the swirls/scratches the cover may induce maybe better than leaving uncovered.
My only helpful comment, if covering, watch out for wind.
Wind will lift the cover and batter the car's paint which could be the worst car cover situation.
I used a cover a lot more when I lived up north and with my C5 and later my Monterey Red C6. Down here in Florida for some reason there's just less need for it. Maybe because I have a white car now and it doesn't show the dirt as much and the other reason is you have to make sure your car is clean before you put a cover on it. Or maybe there's just less pollen and pollution in the air. Over the years I've gone thru about 7 covers all of which I would wash in a commercial washer, bring them home and dry them out on my covered patio. Just saying, they are good but I have a friend who just puts old sheets on his car and when he takes his car out his wife washes them and he uses them again. To each their own.
My 2017 Stingray is a daily driver but I find that being black that it is pretty much dirty every other day (live in Michigan- no garage). This time of year there seems to be a lot of dust/pollen that accumulates over night.
I am considering getting an outdoor cover to use at least sometimes, does anyone else do this (not including for storage)? I have to admit that it is something that I never considered for any other car that I have owned, but I never owned a Corvette before this one either...
Hey! I also live in Michigan and only have a carport, i purchased this cover and love it! Its 7 layers, waterproof, and the inside cotton layer is scratch proof. Also its only $100! It buckles under the car too so it cant fly off, highly recommend.
Hey! I also live in Michigan and only have a carport, i purchased this cover and love it! Its 7 layers, waterproof, and the inside cotton layer is scratch proof. Also its only $100! It buckles under the car too so it cant fly off, highly recommend.
I do have an interesting story regarding a cover on my C5. Years ago when my wife and I first moved in together we lived in an apartment duplex and I kept my Vette outside. The landlord, also a Vette owner, let me erect a tent to shelter my car and I also put a cover on it when it was not being used. I worked out of my house so one day I went down from our upstairs apartment to get some CD's out of the trunk. I lifted up the cover to open the hatch and there were gouges on the back if the top of the rear. I was really ticked off and thought maybe the neighborhood kids were the culprits. So when I'd hear them playing I'd look out my office window to see if they were near my car and guess what I saw? A big squirrel sitting on my Vette, chewing on the cover! Apparently it was after the flannel in the cover for it's nest. So I ran down to the car a got about 10 feet away and the squirrel looked at me with a look that said, "You're not gonna get me fatso!" Well, the bottom line is it cost me $300.00 to get the rear piece behind the hatch repainted. There were also some gouges on the glass roof but I couldn't afford to get a new one of those. So just a word to the wise, watch out for nasty squirrels. They are destructive little buggers.
Maybe because I have a white car now and it doesn't show the dirt as much and the other reason is you have to make sure your car is clean before you put a cover on it. Or maybe there's just less pollen and pollution in the air. Over the years I've gone thru about 7 covers all of which I would wash in a commercial washer, bring them home and dry them out on my covered patio. Just saying, they are good but I have a friend who just puts old sheets on his car and when he takes his car out his wife washes them and he uses them again. To each their own. 
I was really ticked off and thought maybe the neighborhood kids were the culprits. So when I'd hear them playing I'd look out my office window to see if they were near my car and guess what I saw? A big squirrel sitting on my Vette, chewing on the cover!
Apparently it was after the flannel in the cover for it's nest. So I ran down to the car a got about 10 feet away and the squirrel looked at me with a look that said, "You're not gonna get me fatso!"
Well, the bottom line is it cost me $300.00 to get the rear piece behind the hatch repainted. There were also some gouges on the glass roof but I couldn't afford to get a new one of those. So just a word to the wise, watch out for nasty squirrels. They are destructive little buggers. 
