battsup

There is no way you could make me pay a premium for an ugly purple base model car that has the number 50 on it. I'd rather spend the money on a nice Z06 of my choice and then buy $100 worth of 50th badges and make my own damn 50th

LAvetteman

I agree with you MNJack on that one. OK, so the dealer asking $1k for the CD player marked it up a little more. As mentioned the option did cost around $600. Now, go and buy that same unit through a Chevrolet parts department and see what they charge. I know an am/fm cassette for a Grand Am is around $600 over the counter. :eek:

And I agree that when you compare todays dollar against yesterdays(69,70) vettes now are costing about where they did back then. As someone mentioned when you factor inflation a 69 or 70 cost about $25k of todays dollars. IMO, that is overpriced comparing what you get in a C3 verses a C5.(Ride, features, economy, performance) I would spend $40k on a C5 before $25k on a brand new C3.

1Asterisk

It looks to me like the radio in the new vettes, is the exact same radio thats in the full size trucks.....Or at least I havent noticed any differences (I havent looked to hard either).

page62

The stock radio is just begging to be replaced with a decent aftermarket unit. Can you say Alpine???

(Even my C3 has a half-decent Blaupunkt...)

joeveto

Depreciation is huge. Especially now, with all the zero finance deals, etc. The cheaper they sell the new ones, the cheaper you can have the used ones. The cheaper the used ones, the more competition there is for the new ones. Do I really need the new car smell, if I can pick up a low mileage C5 in the 20's? Here we have a dealership with a handful of really nice C5's all low mileage, all in the 20's.

Is deflation far off?

:eek:

Crash Dummy

What do you mean *brand new C3*? Some have got used one's with that much in 'em just in parts! :p:

I gotta agree with Munday....

You don't see the Chevy Dealers in the Houston area discounting the vettes like the rest of their cars. Every ad on the radio ends with the same disclaimer.... "except for Corvettes".

RJR99SS

yeah, deapriciation is definatly your friend. I'd never just buy a brand new car, when i could buy one just like it that has maybe 30k miles on it (c'mon....whats 30k miles? thats nothing) for about 1/3 the sticker price.

I knew this one guy who worked next door the chevy dealership i work at. He bought a brand new suburban from us for 50k. For one, he lived about 2 miles from work. So he drives this massive expensive car 2 miles from and back to work every day. I asked him if he gots kids or something, he said he's single. I asked if he gots any stuff to haul in it, he never really does. I ask why drive such an impractical car, he said he just likes it look. Then i find out this guy only makes about 30k a year. So he's willing to sacrifice about a year and a half of wages for a "look".

THEN. When gm started selling hummers, this guy comes in wanting to trade his suburban in. It only had like 15k miles on it, and it was like 3 years old. He only got about 23k trade in value for it.

But now you see him every morning driving to work in his hummer. Which is about 3 years wages for him. It's people like that that keep our economy going i guess.

WA 2 FST

That has got to be one of the stupidist stories I've ever read. That guy is a complete MORON... but yeah, if he's willing to mortgage his life to have a $50k+ vehicle, so be it.

And who pays near $50k for a Suburban? I guess that one had the map pockets filled with gold bars?! :lol:

killain

What dealership, Can I go take a look and talk to them?

Hobbes Blk '80

Haha...those anniversary cars have got to be some of the Ugliest cars, let alone C5's I have ever seen.

That colour combination just looks terrible. Im sure we could all agree that the 50th Anniversary should be something like... Red Metallic/Black Trim/Black Leather

Aluminum 427 that yields 500 HP....6spd.

There ya go, all of a sudden, the 15-25K difference is justified :lol: :lol:

I'll take my C3 and still have enough money to pay my taxes, thanks. :withstupid: