Current age group
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Intermediate
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Current age group
So I know c5s were owned by a lot of older generation people. And are now being bought up by people in my generation (millennials) and younger. What’s the gap looking like now. More younger or older.
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Aug 16, 2025, 01:26 AM
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Please don't paint all of us boomers with the same brush. I'll be 72 soon and am perfectly happy with my C5.
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Intermediate
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Best way to put it is. What’s the percentage of people that wash it on Friday and garage it for the car show on Sunday. Compared to the people that just bought a 13k car and beat the ***** off if it ?
Running Guns & Moonshine
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It's an even split on ownership IMO. Though the boomers with the retirement money, no mortgages, and value in their homes keep rolling on to the next newer generations and are all on C8s and now competing for C8 Z06 and ZR1 slots.
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Please don't paint all of us boomers with the same brush. I'll be 72 soon and am perfectly happy with my C5.
Running Guns & Moonshine
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You are, and remain, a glorious exception and a standout. 
Though as a rule I don't see so many older owners in C5s anymore vs 7s and 8s. Those are also more refined cars with smoother power, better seats and amenities, and easier to get in and out of.
Though as a rule I don't see so many older owners in C5s anymore vs 7s and 8s. Those are also more refined cars with smoother power, better seats and amenities, and easier to get in and out of.
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I was 20 when I bought my 98. I'm 41 now and I still have it. No plan to sell it. It's not running right now and it's in rough shape, but the plan us to get it running and fix up the interior and exterior.
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The age has dropped.
The C7 is the old people car now. I looked to join several clubs and they were mostly c7 owners that never work on their cars.
I would ask how did you fix this and they would give me the number to their mechanic.
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I would ask how did you fix this and they would give me the number to their mechanic.
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Lots of C1's, C2's, C3's, C4's and two C5's have made life more enjoyable, for sure. The longest I've ever owned one was 5yrs and that was my highly modified 90 ZR-1.
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Owned my 2001 C5 for ~12 years? Bought it from someone late 30s at 99K miles.
He owned it from ~20K miles, and it was his only car that whole time. I have/had a bunch of other cars to drive, including a built 2006 Z06... so the C5 didn't get much use.
I started to daily it again... in rotation, of course!
Handles well, fast enough to be entertaining, and gets good mileage. No plans to sell it, ever.
Just sold the Z to a 27 year old young man. It was so stupidly fast as to be unusable on the street. Hope he doesn't crash it!
Owned my 2001 C5 for ~12 years? Bought it from someone late 30s at 99K miles.
He owned it from ~20K miles, and it was his only car that whole time. I have/had a bunch of other cars to drive, including a built 2006 Z06... so the C5 didn't get much use.
I started to daily it again... in rotation, of course!
Handles well, fast enough to be entertaining, and gets good mileage. No plans to sell it, ever.
Just sold the Z to a 27 year old young man. It was so stupidly fast as to be unusable on the street. Hope he doesn't crash it!
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