Get worse. We only add to the fun. Besides someone needs to be a neutral party here.



BTW - when are you changing your AVATAR - are you still living in the past???

 

You think about it.... since you decided to take this out of context. This is what you wrote:

"Well I traded my Z06 for a C6 and couldn't be happier. To each his own I guess.
I would say that unless you plan on consistently taking your car to a road course get to C6. No need to live in the past."

Now... since you seem so insecure with your replies, have a look at where you are advising him on the C6. You are not refering to yourself, you are advising him. So quit trying to lie your way out of it...

 

Let it go already, sorry I hurt your feelings. Buying a car that is no longer manufactured is not living in the past, there, feel better? In fact, I'm already planning on a 71 Grand Torino in a year or two. Anyone have an 80's computer I can buy?

 

Dave - nice avatar

 

How many do you want?

 

Haha.. you didn't hurt my feelings.. but you seem to have fun trying. I like your style of covreing up the facts and passing the blame... good stuff! You're very good at it
The C5 is not manufactured anymore as you so wisely pointed out. Yes, it is outdated and a POS. Thanks for pointing this out.
Glad you have a C6 now.. Let's hope you spend more time on the C6 forums..

 

Actually I thought this was the C6 forum, I must have hit the wrong link, habit, I guess.....
Outta here.....

 

Cm'on, Dave...just put a sunset orange C6-Z06 in your avatar and I'll let you stay here.

 

C'mon Don, I don't have time I'm watching Dirty Dancing, I still think Baby is hot! Whats wrong with me??

 

Well, Patrick Swazy felt that way, and so did Charlie Sheen in 'Ferris Bueller'...you're not alone.

 

LOL! ??? The C6 is part-Cadillac??
Aw Jeez! Glad I bought the C5! <<<phew>>>
I agree that the Corvette shouldn't stand for being cross-bred with any other car. The New Caddy is nice...but really!
Good call, VetteZ16!! Thanks for the info.
My car-buddies will groan when they hear this.

 

Jdub...I talked to a new C6 owner in a Starbucks in Ocean City, MD this past summer. The car was beautiful. He said this C6 is as much better than the C5, as the C5 is better than the C4. That's a HELL OF ALOT BETTER! lol Still...it's a classic Vette, and I love it. I love my 2003 Z06, but still find space in my heart for the C6.
"Can't we all just get along?" Dixon Yarmouth-1998

 

The c6 is a nice evolution of the C5 but (and its just my opinion so no flames) its not worth selling a perfectly clean low mileage C5 for)

Near equal performance with a slight advantage to the C5 Z06.

 

I posted the above note over on the C6 Z06 Forum. The C6 owners came back in a very defensive manner. The Corvette Program Manager thanked me for my observations and told me that he has read and been told by other Corvette owners the same things I related to him, and that Corvette is working to improve-correct all of them, but the rear storage compartment loss.


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C5's just look better.

 

Well said

I have since spoken with CYA-Vett and there are no hard feelings on either side...

Peace.. out

 

Some of the responses you received are similar to others I have read. GM wanted to modify the Corvette to build a larger European market. I have seen photos of the C6 next to a Ferrari and the C6 resembles the Ferrari more than it does the C5. I would prefer the C6 to a C5 only if there were no C5 Z. I get all of the performance of the C6 and keep traditional Corvette styling. A stock C6 will soon out-perform the C5 Z, but as someone noted, I would be unlikely to see differences in my daily driving. The 400 hp is sufficient for me.
A while back I purchased a 1963 split window coupe. Call it living in the past if you want, but to me it was closer to 'died and gone to heaven'. Each generation was hard to accept at first, but eventually was accepted. The same is not happening with the C6 for me and it won't until the appeal of a European sports car is greater than that of a Corvette. Maybe the C7 will revert more to a Corvette, but until then I will drive a pure Corvette and not a compromise to appeal to the Europeans.

 

Look at all of my posts on this Forum as they relate to the C5Z, the last true Masculine American Corvette Sports Car Icon. I believe you will agree with each.

 

I had a Z51 6-speed C6 for 10 months, after selling a 2001 BMW M3. I missed the BMW for daily driving, sold the Vette and bought a 2005 M3. Then, you guessed it, I missed the Vette, and recently bought a 2002 ZO6 with 12K miles. Fortunately, I am able to keep the M3 too, so I am indeed lucky. Although not cheap, a good used C5 ZO6 is, IMO, the performance bargain of the decade. I do 5 or 6 track events a year, and I plan to do those with the Vette next year, starting in February.

That's more than you wanted to know, so I will answer your question now. The C6 is a great car. If I were going to drive a Vette every day, I would get it over the C5 ZO6, just because of the additional creature comforts. But, for track or spirited road driving, the ZO6 is, IMO, a bit crisper in it's handling, and its whole personality is just a little extreme. The sound of the exhaust on a stock ZO6 is, to my ear almost perfect for a car in which you are going to spend much time without earplugs. The Z51 C6 is just a little over-civilized (for a second car that is a fun car). And, just my opinion, but they went too far with the darn gadgetry. I could hardly get out of the thing without the horn blowing to warn me of some social grace I had omitted. I like things simple. The ZO6 might not be simple, but it hides a lot of complex stuff under a pretty simple operating system.

I should recognize the warts too. Yes, the seats are very poor, and the interior is dated and features a lot of cheap plastic. But put it on the right kind of road or track, where the suspension and motor can have their way, and who cares? You have to spend almost twice as much to find even close performance and better materials, fit and finish. I drove two used 911 Carreras in making my decision. They are very nice, but for me, the ZO6 is more fun, and I'm too old to learn rear engine handling dynamics. So, it depends on your need. Driving a ZO6 everyday in city traffic is a waste of machinery, and driving it cross country would not be my favorite vacation. But two hours in the country, or on a track, and life doesn't get much better.

 

You are all wrong!!!!! Neither the C5 or the C6 are real performance oriented cars.

True aficionados know that there has not been a real American performance car since the Corvair!