c4 advantages
Drifting
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I't took me almost a year of looking to buy my C4.I could not get a C5 in my price range with under 150K on the clock.
Just look and drive till you find the one that you think is right for you.
Then get ready to do some repairs on it C4 or C5.Parts for the C4 are harder to find.I like the coil packs on the LS engine (NO OPTI).
Make sure you get one with good paint
Just look and drive till you find the one that you think is right for you.
Then get ready to do some repairs on it C4 or C5.Parts for the C4 are harder to find.I like the coil packs on the LS engine (NO OPTI).
Make sure you get one with good paint
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Dammmit....I gotta quit working so much. I'm starting to miss out on troll threads until it's too late to get my usual .02 worth of sarcastic doggy wit in.
To the original poster....Sweetsie had it right. You're never gonna get an honest answer in here, and I apologize for how my online colleagues have treated you. I humbly suggest you start another thread in our lauded "Off Topic" section. The regular members there will give you a more visceral answer to your query, and respond in a more dignified manner than you've been unduly subjected to here.
Again, my apologies.
To the original poster....Sweetsie had it right. You're never gonna get an honest answer in here, and I apologize for how my online colleagues have treated you. I humbly suggest you start another thread in our lauded "Off Topic" section. The regular members there will give you a more visceral answer to your query, and respond in a more dignified manner than you've been unduly subjected to here.
Again, my apologies.
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I just have a REAL hard time getting into the C5's looks. I think I'd learn to have love for the C5 FRC Z06 (i.e. lowered on the right set of wheels), but aside from that I'd stay C4 all day long.
The C5 is a superior car in many ways and I think that fact is pretty apparent. To me if your a stock guy, then get the better stock car. If you mod....I just really like the C4.
The C5 is a superior car in many ways and I think that fact is pretty apparent. To me if your a stock guy, then get the better stock car. If you mod....I just really like the C4.
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Dammmit....I gotta quit working so much. I'm starting to miss out on troll threads until it's too late to get my usual .02 worth of sarcastic doggy wit in.
To the original poster....Sweetsie had it right. You're never gonna get an honest answer in here, and I apologize for how my online colleagues have treated you. I humbly suggest you start another thread in our lauded "Off Topic" section. The regular members there will give you a more visceral answer to your query, and respond in a more dignified manner than you've been unduly subjected to here.
Again, my apologies.
To the original poster....Sweetsie had it right. You're never gonna get an honest answer in here, and I apologize for how my online colleagues have treated you. I humbly suggest you start another thread in our lauded "Off Topic" section. The regular members there will give you a more visceral answer to your query, and respond in a more dignified manner than you've been unduly subjected to here.
Again, my apologies.
I'm sure OT will give more "visceral" answers..
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And as they are getting older, they are breaking quite a bit more often, and the repair costs are multiples of what they are on a C4. The C4 is pretty much at the bottom of the depreciation cycle, where the C5's will probably depreciate over 100% of current prices, in the not to distant future (once the banks stop making loans on them, stand by). One of the problems is that people think of the 80's C4's when they think of C4's, the late 90'S C4's (94-96) are not so far removed from the early C5's as far as comfort, reliability, and power, for about half the price. And, I don't think history will be so kind to the C5's style (think, 72 Chevelle vs. 73 Chevelle).
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The C4 is a good car and a phenominal car for the money right now. Why can't you leave it at that instead of trying to convince people that it is better than the C5+ when it simply isn't?
You might like the styling better or other things based on opinion but in every single measurable way C5>C4. The C5 is more reliable, better performing, more comfortable, more cargo room, better gas mileage, safer in a crash, basically better everything.
You might like the styling better or other things based on opinion but in every single measurable way C5>C4. The C5 is more reliable, better performing, more comfortable, more cargo room, better gas mileage, safer in a crash, basically better everything.
Last edited by RedLS1GTO; Aug 12, 2010 at 12:34 PM.
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The C4 is a good car and a phenominal car for the money right now. Why can't you leave it at that instead of trying to convince people that it is better than the C5+ when it simply isn't?
You might like the styling better or other things based on opinion but in every single measurable way C5>C4. The C5 is more reliable, better performing, more comfortable, more cargo room, better gas mileage, safer in a crash, basically better everything.
You might like the styling better or other things based on opinion but in every single measurable way C5>C4. The C5 is more reliable, better performing, more comfortable, more cargo room, better gas mileage, safer in a crash, basically better everything.
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As for your cost/benefit ratio argument... that is as far from measurable as it gets. That depends 100% on what is important to you. To you a C4 might give you all that you want for less price. Great. Buy a C4. To me, not so much. If a C4 doesn't give me the benefits that I want it doesn't matter what it costs. My cost/benefit says C5.
Last edited by RedLS1GTO; Aug 12, 2010 at 01:12 PM.