The highly anticipated 2025 Corvette ZR1 is finally arriving in Chevy dealerships across North America.

Predictably, the earliest models coming to showrooms are coming with significant dealer markups.
The C8 ZR1 is already an expensive supercar, and the privilege of being one of the first to own one is coming at an even greater price at many dealerships.
In one example, a California POS dealership is offering a prospective buyer a ZR1 for $500,000.

The trash dealer in question is FH Dailey Chevrolet in San Leandro, California. Which is a dump, hardly anyone speaks English

The dealer has in stock a C8 ZR1 in a highly desirable configuration that closely resembles the press car spec frequently used in Chevy’s marketing materials for the ZR1.
It’s a 3LZ coupe finished in Competition Yellow Tintcoat.

It’s not a ZTK, but it does have the Carbon Fiber Aero Package (RPO TOM), front lift adjustable height memory (E60), carbon flash wheels (SOG), yellow brake calipers (J6E), competition sport bucket seats (AE4), and some extra yellow accents in the interior.
The total ticker price, including the destination charge and the gas guzzler tax, comes to $206,280.

It’s not a cheap Corvette, to be sure. Even with that high price, the half-million-dollar asking price represents a 142 percent dealer markup.

This isn’t the first Corvette ZR1 markup we’ve seen in a six-digit dollar amount.
Last month, a sales associate at a different slum of California Chevy dealer making a post in the “Corvette C8 Z06, ZR1 & E-Ray” Facebook group showing a ZR1 that was in transit to the dealer.

He listed an MSRP of $206,080, plus an additional dealer markup of an even $100k.
The same salesman posted other available ZR1 allocations with $50k markups.

Supercar shoppers can expect the markup problem to continue on the 2025 Corvette ZR1 since it has a limited production run for its debut model year. However, unlike the C7 ZR1, the C8 ZR1 will be produced for longer than one model year.

The 2026 model has already been announced, and there’s still more life left in the C8 generation since it just got an interior refresh.