Regular Car Reviews: 2001 Chevrolet Corvette C5

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Oh look, Grandpa bought a C5 Corvette and he thinks it's an investment. Newsflash Pops, worms will eat your bone marrow before the C5's will be worth money.

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Why do I like the C5?
-First Vette with the LS
-Last gasp of popup headlights
-Starred in the first NFS I ever played.

twotailedavenger

I don't think it's fair to say that the C5 can never be rebellious. The C5 development team got the order from GM to pull the plug on the project. Instead, they pretended like they never got it and worked nights and weekends to make this thing a reality. The C5, C6, C7, and now C8 ONLY exist because of the rebellious spirit of a small team inside of GM

jamesdangora

"The V8 comes in many displacements, but they're all LARGE"

kobyharrison

"If you have an LS; YOU WIN." No truer words were ever spoken.

invertedpolarity

The first corvette I owned was a c5, and I wasn't even looking for one. When I was about 23, I was looking at an unmolested 2001 e46 M3 with an incredible 12, 000 original miles. I headed down to buy it, but also found on the lot a yellow C5. Now just like everyone else, I looked at it as a midlife crisis car with no real appeal, that was until I test drove it which completely changed my perception of Corvettes. They're genuinely fun cars, sound great, handle great, and get off the line pretty darn quick with torque to burn rubber even at highway speeds. My advice to anyone thinking about a corvette but reluctant because of the stigma that surrounds them would be to put yourself behind the wheel of one for a test drive - you will be pleasantly surprised.

Morphologis

At the end of the day a Corvette is the working man’s supercar.

Cykoid

I love C5s, they're cheap, simple, very fun, they look great and they will run forever

gordonramsay

I'm a baby faced 20 year old welder (not a lot of those) and since I'm finally making ok money I bought myself a 1999 corvette c5 6 speed with 75k and a ridiculous borla exhaust on it. these things are close to bottoming out on price (I think the c8 will be the deathblow) and I love it. nobody takes me seriously because I look like a kid, but when I show up in a corvette that sounds like a super car every guy that would've blown me off as some kid wants to know my life secrets as to how I got it, except when I stall it. It kinda demands respect from the middle class because it shows you know how to get what you want.

Arugmonster

As an Irishmen, I'd kill for a Corvette. Never even seen one over here,

ganners

wait wait wait wait

>Good looking (7.5/10)
>Manual
>350hp V8
>4.6sec 0-60mph and 13.3sec 1/4 mile
>Rear wheel drive
>Relatively Common
>pop up lights
>not that unreliable
>relatively cheap to repair
>$20, 000 or less for under 30k miles

Capitalism go home your drunk,
come back tomorrow and charge me more for this car.

thegadsdenguru

Will be 54 years of age next month. First Corvette in my life. I think I did good for my entry into the Corvette world. 👍🏾👍🏾

youngestson

I can't be the only one who laughed way harder than they should have at the "LS BUM DUN BUM DUN DUN

BladedAngel

15 years later and the C5 bodystyle is still beautiful

pontiacGXPfan

Don't care what anyone thinks. I love my C5. It is a great driver, fast, and fun...and not expensive to own and maintain.

clampetron

For $20k you better be getting a C5 Z06. Any base C5 for that much is listed by a dealer or an old man saying "No joyrides. No lowballers, I know what I got" like it isn't a run of the mill, mass produced sports car.

clutchthepearls