The long version

Where the Z06 got eaten alive by markup speculation, the base Stingray mostly avoided that fate — it's still bought by the same generation of buyers who've owned three or four previous Corvette generations and plan to put real miles on this one too. Road-trip culture around the Corvette is older than most of this list and the C8 slots right in, mid-engine layout notwithstanding; the caravan to a car show is still the default use case, not a photo op. Depreciation here tracks like a normal performance car rather than a speculative asset, which fits a buyer base more interested in driving than flipping.