jrose7004

I think that you should take your Dads advice and wait until you're out of school. Buying a car can wait.

corvettezman

There is not going to be a day where you can buy a C5 cheaper than you can buy a C4.
Some C4s are still fetching close to 10k now, so one would assume that C5s have reached a level that will plateau a bit reagardless of what GM puts out for a C7.

If you think because of the C7 coming out, you will be able to buy a C5 for $5995, then you would be mistaken.I am pretty sure they have bottomed out for a while at $10k to $20k depending on year model, mileage, and features.

fendermender

I was seriously shopping C4s last summer before I came upon my 99. If I was doing a C4 I wanted a 94-96 and a Vert. I couldn't find anything really nice for under 10K. As stated, C5s will always bring more.

Arnie Chamberlain

Here in Wisconsin, you can't even get into a C5 for under $13k, and thats gonna be a high mileage early car with an auto and some problems. Desirably optioned cars (nice colors, manual trans, Z51, HUD, etc) are still the high end of $15, usually closer to $20k. What recession?

Harry Marsh

Not my experience

There are deals, if you want to call them that...

http://charlotte.craigslist.org/cto/2833127055.html
Current search in my area, and that car has been on the market a while

I paid 8800 for my Nassau blue coupe, 6,000 for my Sebring convertible with just a few issues

aTeam

I also wear a baseball hat backwards, pants low enough to show my ***, and blast rap music.

To everyone else, I appreciate the input. I will sit back, enjoy college, and try not to think too hard about that vette. The whole point of this thread was to try and figure out how much money I need to have saved when I graduate. I currently have plenty, enough even for a few mods when the time comes. I plan on eventually building a h/c/i car. I'd prefer buying <50,000 mile car

fendermender

I'm rethinking my previous post after reading yet another thread about another electronic component discontinued. Maybe C4s will pass the C5 when it becomes the equivalant of an old TV or stereo that you can't fix? Obsolesence may drive the value down more than the new model arriving. Just food for thought.

Wait a couple years and get done with school. One sure thing is they aren't goin to go up and owners are getting older. Time is on your side...yes it is.

Harry Marsh

Who, again....will want to buy a c4???

Your run of the mill 6 cylinder pink moostang will spank it in every way

And gas mileage worse than a c5 with 50 or more LESS horsepower?
New civics might perform better!

A crappy, worn interior...

If I had a c4, I would beg the nearest redneck to buy it for whatever I could get out of it

Ridiculous, in my opinion, to be deluded to think a c4 will eclipse a c5



In reality, c4 will be far cheaper. No reason to own one with c5 prices dropping a bit

cor28vettes

I would for the right one. In a heartbeat.

tripleblackvert

Im in my last months of undergrad.. Starting grad school... I paid 10,000 for a 97 Auto Stock with an aftermarket CD player, and Borla cat back. Was looking at other C5s up to 2002 with 80,000-115,000 Miles Auto and 6spd Coupes and FRCs all under $13,000 all over the country. Scour all the major (warm) cities CL's like Vegas, Miami, Orlando, Tuscon, LA, SD, Dallas, NO, ATL. Theyre out there.

Mecinoid

I agree, the only exception I can see to that would be a C4 ZR1 those might hold their value to the levels of a stockish C5. Maybe a little better.

corvettezman

That car in the CL ad has 180K miles. No wonder it has been on the market for a while.
I would also like to see pictures and some details of a $6000 C5 convertible. Nothing personal, but unless the car is salvaged, stolen, or wrecked, I call BS on that price.

RetiredSFC 97

Why would anyone want to buy a C3 then? Or a C1 or C2 if we measure these cars by how fast they go.

An LT4 will run all day long with a C5. There's not that much difference in the LT1 and LS1. About the same difference of the LS1 and the LS6. So by using your logic we should go find us a redneck to take these LS1's off our hands.

People shouldn't disrespect and talk down other people's cars. We have a community we belong to. There are many people who only wish they could be a vette owner and be part of this community. And those who disrespect it should go buy family sedan.

Every generation of vette lead to the next generation. The circle hasn't been broken and each generation became better in some respects and we lost something in other respects.

Personally I think the C4 interior on the 90 to 96 C4 was the best interior they ever put in a vette. It was unique and screamed Corvette, especially for it's day. The C5 interior is nothing more than any other interior you find on any 1990's car.

The build quality is better on the C4 as well. I know, just like many others I have had both. Sometimes I regret selling my 90.

Unless you're tracking your vette there is absolutely no difference in the performance of these two cars driven within the limits the law allows us to drive on public streets. And that's about 90 percent of us.

You can have your opinions. I personally don't care for the C5 coupe much, but I'm not going to tell people to give it to a redneck either, because I appreciate what it is.

People who talk down other people's cars don't deserve to be part of the vette community. They are car owners, not car guys.

RetiredSFC 97

Harry Marsh

I deserve some hell about the c4 comments
But, you'll notice 'in my opinion' in every post in this thread. And this isn't a thread about the Corvette community, this is a thread about C5 prices, which are affected by c4 availability and c5 prices.
I'm an economist. Who will want a c4? Comparing a c4 to a C1 or C2? Really???

..... What is the demand for a c4? The local redneck down the road? I don't see many businessmen or young kids begging for a c4
And are you assuming every c4 has the LT4 or is a ZR1? Far from the truth.


A c5 does everything better, if you have money. If you don't have money and appreciate the: c4. Fine. but with dropping c5 prices, the c4 will drop even further.
No disrespect to the c4. That's just how it is (in my opinion, which I'm trying to keep neutral and backed by the market conditions)

A few people may have love for the c4, for whatever reason. Not very common, for the rest of the market. 18 year olds would rather have a Scion XB or something silly, than a 90's gas guzzling, under performing car with tons of squeeks and problems

A lot of C5's are going to become available with people moving to C6's. A narrow demographic of 39 year old males that wanted a c4 when they were younger might still appreciate the c4, but many with a C4 are going to move to a C5 as prices drop. More c4's on the market. More c4 price drop.

Your post is more akin to a personal attack, or far too emotional, at least.
I can appreciate you like the c4. But, that has little value as to its price in a few years. You're in a minority demographic


PS.
$5,000 c5 convertible
http://forums.corvetteforum.com/c5-c...e-love-5k.html

Less than $6,000 shipped. There's your proof. Now quit hijacking this thead.



Most of the $11,000 - $13,000 cars on autotrader will sell for $9,000
I bought my 100k mile nassau blue coup from autotrader. Advertised for $10,900. Sold for $8,800. Only thing wrong with the car is one burnt motor on the driver seat

Advertised prices differ far from actual sale prices.

Harry Marsh

PS. Post #36 and noone has offered a suggestion on pricing, per the OP (except me)

The rest of you want to dwell on attacking other posts and making petty fights.

Typical forum activity...but that, in my opinion...does not help to this 'corvette community'

mikes1hog

Opinions , opinions, everyone has an opinion. Here's an ad in today's Harrisburg Newspaper: 2002 convertible with 46K miles for sale at $26K.
Will he sell or is he overpriced? Who knows...who cares. If you are looking to buy and have the cash, you can always make an offer. The most that can happen is that it is rejected. So you move on. At the end of the day, "can't we all just get along?"

Harry Marsh

I try, more than others (I think I do, at least)

But why are we nearing post #40 and noone is trying to help this young fellow? Or respond, as requested?

Instead, we're already in pissing matches back and forth
With most people giving him no advice, or posing petty arguments

Or worse: wrong advice (alluding, for example...that C4's come with an LT4 and can rival a LS1)...without adding in that very few c4's came with the LT4


Off topic to hell...because people take an opinion about a c4 personally and feel compelled to add in their .03 cents
...or because people feel compelled to tell him what to do (army, father, whatever)

Brackneyc

This was my experience here in Illinois (Rock Island) as well. There are deals to be had several hundred miles away, but I decided to spend a few thousand more and find one locally. Any C5 I found here under 14000 was imo, a problem waiting to happen, had a salvage title, or a bad carfax.

I did go look at a c4 (1988) the day "after" I bought my c5. Big mistake. This c4 (vert) looked (and drove) like it should have been in a museum. It was truly a showroom condition car. I am very happy with the c5, but this c4 was nothing short of perfect.

Bluefire

Geezer Alert! BTW, you forgot to remind him to stay the hell off of your front lawn.