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Sales of the Chevrolet Corvette have been flagging slightly through the first half of 2025, and although it continues to be the most popular premium sports car on the market today, its rivals are catching up. Porsche in particular enjoyed a significant sales bump for the 718 Boxster and 718 Cayman through the first six months of the year, and the German automaker’s combined 718 and 911 sales are within striking distance of the heavy Chevy. The Bow Tie’s sales crown remains undisturbed, but if the C8 Corvette continues on this path, there might be a new king of the hill by the end of the year.

Porsche Is Crowding The Vette

Through the first half of 2025, Porsche moved a total of 3,679 members of the 718 family (up more than 1,500 compared to last year) and 5,424 versions of the 911 (down about 1,300). Still, total H1 2025 sales of Porsche sports cars, which are priced similarly to the rather broad Corvette lineup, totaled 9,103 units – a 3 percent increase from the same time period last year. And although not germane to the sports car conversation, Porsche’s American sales arm also enjoyed greater demand for the Taycan, Panamera, Cayenne, and Macan so far this year than last year.

The story is a lot less rosy for the Corvette. Although the first half of 2025 still saw it outsell Porsche’s sports cars, the 12,595 units represents a massive 29.7% drop in sales compared to H1 2024. The slower sales are a bit confusing at first blush, considering there are more variants of the Corvette than any other time in recent history. The base Stingray coupe and convertible hold down the lower end of the market, while Snow Belt enthusiasts have a four-season Corvette in the all-wheel-drive, hybrid E-Ray. Then there are the increasingly more exotic Z06 and ZR1 examples, whose flat-plane-crank V8 and prodigious grip put them on similar turf as the Ferrari 296 and McLaren 750S.

It’s possible, however, that the slowdown could be related to the impending release of the 2026 Corvette, which has a redesigned interior that some Bow Tie fans would rather wait for. We do wonder, however, if a new dashboard will be enough to stem such a worrisome sales dip.

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Other Sports Cars Are Doing Pretty Well

The Chevrolet Corvette still maintains a rather big slice of the sports car pie, but it’s far from the only game in town. The two-seat Nissan Z enjoyed a 160.1% sales bump between the first half of 2024 and the same period in 2025, with a total of 3,789 sales. Its lame-duck GT-R sibling, which was discontinued after the ’24 model year, has found a total of 37 new homes this year, compared to 151 for the first half of 2024. That brings total Nissan sports car sales to 3,826 units in total for H1 2025.

The Toyota GR Supra, however, joins the Corvette in a slight sales slump. From January to June, the Japanese automaker found just 1,231 customers for its German-assembled sports car, a 16.6% decline compared to the previous year. Even the far cheaper GR86 is facing a 26.4% decline year over year, with first-half 2025 sales falling to 5,427. Toyota sports car sales totaled 6,658 units in that period.

Considering those rivals – of which we’ll concede the GR86 is a big stretch – the Corvette still represents a dominating 39.1% market share. But using last year’s data, that number is a much more impressive 48%, meaning the American sports car’s take rate has fallen nearly 9 points among the most popular sports car brands in America. Eliminate the cheap-and-cheerful Toyota 86 and the story is a lot more dire for Chevrolet. Here’s hoping that new dash – and the forthcoming ZR1X hypercar-killer – will be enough to reignite interest in the Corvette.

Source: Chevrolet, Porsche, Nissan, and Toyota