Headed back to C5 from C6 again!
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Congrats on the C5 - looks like a very nice car. 
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I'm in your camp on this one. I'd love a C6, but the C5 is all the vette I need given price of toy/performance. With my toy budget, C5 is all the vette I need right now. Wracking my brain on the insurance side. Paying $1,000 per year for a toy per year eats away at me. Got a quote from the museum for just under $400, BUT, not sure I can live with the restrictions. I'm happy for you that you made up your mind. I love to drive mine whenever I feel like and wherever I want to take it. Some may laugh at me, but I swear the streets of Manhattan were made for vette, never a dull moment.
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Many of our club memebers have gone back to a C5 from their new C6's,and more say they wish they could but are upside down in them.Most say they get far more compliments with their C5's!
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C5 or C6......both please
When I buy a C6, it will be to keep the C5 in my garage company at night because I will be driving one or the other every day.
The C6 will have to really impress me to make me get rid of my C5
I rode in a 2011 C6 Z06/Z07 at the funfest (Launch control is awesome
) but could never afford a new one, so it will be a few years before I buy a base C6 Z51, and only after the C7 has driven the prices down below 20 for a decent C6, not a ratbag for 25K that is all I find so far.
The C6 will have to really impress me to make me get rid of my C5
I rode in a 2011 C6 Z06/Z07 at the funfest (Launch control is awesome
) but could never afford a new one, so it will be a few years before I buy a base C6 Z51, and only after the C7 has driven the prices down below 20 for a decent C6, not a ratbag for 25K that is all I find so far.
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I would love to have a C6, but I just cant justify the cost of owning one because I got myself back in college, and paying my tuition is far more important at the moment. I hopefully will own a C6 along with my C5 in the near future.
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Love the C5Z over all the other body styles released! But the C6Z is just pure sex on wheels! The ZR1...Speechless, but I am a C5Z guy!
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No doubt that the C6 is a more refined car in many ways,,,,,but the C5 is not far behind and was a Quantum Leap when introduced.
I would love to add a C6Z to the stable someday but if that never happens,,,,I am OK with my C5! It will never be for sale.
I would love to add a C6Z to the stable someday but if that never happens,,,,I am OK with my C5! It will never be for sale.
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Either way they're all cool cars. Personally, I plan on keeping mine but have been peaking at a Callaway :look:
Something about the new ones that are finally starting to really tweak my interests.
Something about the new ones that are finally starting to really tweak my interests.
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I'm a huge fan of the C5 as well....like the C6 just still a little too much for me to spend on them...few more years. I can't imagine going through six of them...I find it hard to sell them off I like keeping them and letting the group grow.
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