Blue Chevrolet Corvette from a front three-quarter on a residential street

Rapid Blue

Blue Chevrolet Corvette

Four hundred and ninety-five horsepower behind the seats, and a colour that makes the shape look like it is already moving.

Rental in Los Angeles · from $349

Chevrolet spent sixty years putting the engine in the front. Then it stopped, and everything changed at once.

The C8 is the Corvette that moved the V8 behind the seats — 495 horsepower, sixty in under three seconds, a nose that drops away out of sight and a price that still undercuts everything it now resembles. In blue, which is what this shape was drawn for.

Specification

Horsepower
490
0–60 mph
2.9s
Top speed
194mph
Seats
2

6.2L V8 · RWD

Blue Chevrolet Corvette in profile on a residential street
01In profile the cab sits so far forward it looks like a concept car that escaped. Everything behind the doors is engine and air.

Moving the engine backwards changed the whole car. The driver sits almost over the front axle, the bonnet falls away out of sight, and it turns in with a precision no front-engined Corvette ever managed. The boot moved under the bonnet, and a second one appeared behind the engine.

What did not change is the sound. Six point two litres, naturally aspirated, pushrods and all — the deep flat noise Americans have been making since 1955, now from a foot behind your shoulders on Mulholland.

Sixty years with the engine in front.
Then one model changed everything.

Rear three-quarter of the blue Chevrolet Corvette showing the vents behind the doors
Rear of the blue Chevrolet Corvette with its four tail lights and quad exhausts

02Everything behind the doors is intake. Four lights, four pipes and a diffuser — this is the view the rest of the road is given.

Cockpit of the blue Chevrolet Corvette with its squared wheel and screens
03A squared-off wheel, two screens, and a ridge of switches down the middle that walls the driver off from the passenger. The cockpit is built around whoever drives.

The particulars

Queries

Where can I rent a Chevrolet Corvette in Los Angeles?
Nizo Luxury rents the Chevrolet Corvette in Los Angeles — +1 (424) 303-6496. It is $349 a day; we bring it to your hotel or your home, or you collect it at no charge from our office on Robertson Boulevard.
How much does it cost to rent a Corvette in Los Angeles?
The blue Corvette is $349 a day. Five days is priced as a block rather than as five separate days, and twenty-one as another; the quote takes whichever combination is cheaper for your dates, and neither has to be asked for. Delivery to our Beverly Hills partner hotels is complimentary.
What is the difference from the red convertible?
The same mid-engined V8 underneath. This one is the coupé with the roof panel in place, which makes it the quieter of the two to look at and the tidier one on a canyon road.
How far ahead should I book it?
There is one blue Corvette in the fleet and it is the car people book for a specific weekend. Name the date early and it is held for you.

The diary

When you can have it

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Find out what moving the engine did.

Tell us the dates and we confirm the car straight away — delivered hand-detailed to the address and the hour you name.

Check dates & reserve or call +1 (424) 303-6496

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The terms, before you commit

Refundable deposit
$750
A hold, not a charge, and released 5–7 business days after a clean return, longer only if there is damage to price.
Protection plan
$100 a day
Priced off the deposit rather than the rate. Your own qualifying full-coverage policy takes this line out of the quote entirely.
Driver, 21–24
$50 a day
Twenty-one is the floor, with a licence held two years. The higher band applies at or above a $1,500 deposit; this car is below it.
Shortest booking
24 hours
No maximum. Delivery is complimentary at our Robertson Boulevard lot and our four Beverly Hills partner hotels; LAX is $150 both ways with the car in the airport parking structure or $300 both ways to the terminal, half that for one direction.

Where keeping it longer actually costs less:

LengthTotalPer day
5 days$1,374$275
7 days$2,072$296
21 days$3,149$150

Renting the Chevrolet Corvette: the short answers

Can I book the Chevrolet Corvette with a driver?
Yes. A chauffeur is from $100 an hour on a two-hour minimum, added to the car at its day rate — $749 for a four-hour evening in this car. No security deposit is taken on a chauffeured booking. The same car can be driven to the event and yours with the keys the morning after; the chauffeur service page has the runs and the hours.
What do I need to rent the Chevrolet Corvette, and can international guests book?
A driver of 21 or over with a licence held at least two years — between 21 and 24 a young-driver fee of $50 a day applies on this car, and under 21 is considered case by case. A major credit card in the primary renter's name for the refundable hold, and cover for the car: your own full-coverage policy if it extends to a rental, or our Protection plan arranged with the booking. International guests rent on a passport and a home-country licence; no International Driving Permit is needed. The hold is released 5–7 business days after a clean return, longer only if there is damage to price. If the age floor or the cover is the thing in the way, the same car goes out with a driver instead — that booking asks neither of you.
Can the Chevrolet Corvette be delivered to my hotel, my home or LAX?
Yes. Delivery is complimentary to the Beverly Wilshire, the Four Seasons at Doheny, L’Ermitage and the Maybourne, and collection from our Robertson Boulevard office costs nothing. LAX is $150 both ways with the car in the airport parking structure or $300 both ways to the terminal, half that for one direction. Any other address is priced by distance from the office, $75 one way inside 10 miles, and itemised on the quote before you pay.
How many miles are included, and can I take the Chevrolet Corvette out of California?
Every car carries its own daily mileage allowance, and yours arrives in writing with the booking confirmation, together with the per-mile rate for anything over it. The car may leave the state — Las Vegas, Arizona, up the coast — as long as you tell us the plan in advance and keep the allowance in mind; it comes home to Los Angeles, since there is no one-way drop in another city.
What does a weekend in the Chevrolet Corvette cost, and can I rent it by the hour?
$698 for two days and $1,047 for three, before the Protection plan, tax and any delivery — there is no separate weekend rate, and one day is the minimum on a Saturday too. The day is the shortest self-drive booking; by the hour, the car goes out with a driver, from $100 an hour on a two-hour minimum.

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