There are very few 80’s-early 90’s cars that don’t suck. I mean, just to compare:
The Mustang of the same time period:
Dodge Charger:
Porsche 944:
E30 M3:
I would take a C4 over all of them. Looks and performance wise.
Porsche 944:
E30 M3:
I would take a C4 over all of them. Looks and performance wise.
EDIT: I fucked up
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAHHAHAH!!!
Again it is all relative. In the 80’s if you went to Lancaster’s 1/8th mile and ran a low 9, you had a pretty quick car. A Lamborghini Countach would run a low 14/high 13 in the 1/4 mile. Same with a Ferrari 328 (think Magnum PI), that ran low 14’s, Porsche 911’s all ran in the 14’s unless you stepped up to the Turbo ones which ran mid/high 13’s. The Corvette was right in the mix.
Not really feeling the black wheels on the gs but I don’t mind c4’s too much.
I assume you’re talking about the E30 M3? Lets see, a square shitbox with under 200hp and an ugly wing that ran 15’s, or a 2-seater with an LT1 and 100more hp that I think looks a lot better and ran a high 13- low 14.
last I checked, the mustang and that charger aren’t even NEARLY in the same league as the corvette was…cost/performance wise. Nobody in right mind would buy a fox body mustang and expect it to perform well in stock trim either. People buy them to turn them into fast drag cars.
The E30 ///M is badass, but a completely different car. The porsche 944 isn’t realy a good comparison either.
You are right, they both cost a lot more than the Corvette. Not a good comparison at all.
There wasn’t really a whole lot of competition for the C4. I wasnt saying those were direct competitors per se, I was saying that was what passed as high performance. The manufacturers only cared about gas mileage. The ZR1’s ran against supercars and the regular ones were priced above the pony cars and below the exotic imports. Maybe the 911 carrera even though it was more expensive.
Cease fire injection FTL
Have you moved from hooker and blow to just Crack for lunch?
The older c4’s didn’t have LT1s. They sucked. Even with the LT1’s they sucked.
I don’t think the M3 and the Vette are in the same league and in terms of performance, cost, reliability, or anything. Especially in the terms of panty dropping looks. I dont know any woman except someone who grew up in that era (which are now 45+ or some stupid poor broads) who think these look good.
Hell, I would take the SVO mustang (what you listed) over the vette any day as well. Shit, turbo nigga, crank the boost, bye bye vette. These things sucked. Having worked on them many times when working in a chevy dealership I can hands down say that these were the worst cars to work on and no one wanted to work on them because everything was broken or everything broke when you touched it. The interiors fell apart, god have mercy on your soul if you tried to do anything under the dash board, the door cill was a fucking wall!
These things were a GM abortion that lived.
I wouldn’t take any of those cars. Vette included. Short of a Ferrari/Lambo/high-end Porsche etc I wouldn’t take anything stock from 1980- ~1992. My point was missed which was that everything sucked compared to now and sucking less is OK when graded on a curve.
I mean, check out the suck on the Car and Driver 10 Best list from that era.
1985
Price cap: $30,000
Model Times on List
Audi 5000 S/Turbo 5
Chevrolet Camaro IROC-Z 1
Chevrolet Corvette 14
Dodge Caravan 3
Honda CRX 2
Honda Civic 6
Honda Prelude 10
Honda Accord 23
Merkur XR4Ti 1
Plymouth Voyager 3
Pontiac 6000 STE 3
Porsche 944 4
Fastest car tested: Chevrolet Corvette, 150 mph
Top-selling cars:
Chevrolet Cavalier
Ford Escort
Chevrolet Celebrity
1986
Price cap: $30,000
Model Times on List
Audi 5000 CS Turbo Quattro 5
Chevrolet Corvette 14
Ford Taurus 7
Honda Prelude 10
Honda Accord 23
Lincoln Mark VII LSC 1
Mercury Sable 3
Porsche 944 Turbo 4
Saab 9000 Turbo 4
Toyota MR2 2
Volkswagen GTI 6
Fastest car tested: Porsche 944 Turbo, 157 mph
Top-selling cars:
Chevrolet Celebrity
Ford Escort
Chevrolet Cavalier
1987
Price cap: $30,000
Model Times on List
Acura Integra 6
Audi 5000 CS Turbo 5
Chevrolet Corvette 14
Ford Mustang GT 5
Ford Taurus 7
Honda Accord 23
Mazda RX-7 Turbo 5
Pontiac Bonneville SE 1
Saab 9000 Turbo 4
Toyota MR2 2
Volvo 740
Fastest car tested: Ferrari Testarossa, 176 mph
Top-selling cars:
Ford Escort
Ford Taurus
Chevrolet Cavalier
1988
Price cap: $35,000
Model Times on List
Acura Legend Coupe 3
Acura Integra 6
Audi 5000 5
Chevrolet Corvette 14
Ford Mustang 5 5
Ford Taurus 7
Honda CRX 2
Honda Civic 6
Honda Accord 23
Saab 9000 Turbo 4
Fastest car tested: Ferrari Testarossa, 173 mph
Top-selling cars:
Ford Escort
Chevrolet Corsica/Beretta
Ford Taurus
1989
Price cap: $35,000
Model Times on List
Acura Legend Coupe 3
Chevrolet Corvette 14
Dodge Colt Turbo 1
Ford Probe GT 3
Ford Taurus 7
Honda Civic 6
Honda Accord 23
Lincoln Continental 1
Mitsubishi Mirage Turbo 1
Mitsubishi Eclipse Turbo 4
Plymouth Laser Turbo 4
Saab 9000 Turbo 4
Fastest car tested: 750iL V12, 158 mph
Top-selling cars:
Honda Accord
Ford Taurus
Ford Escort
1990
Price cap: $35,000
Model Times on List
Acura Legend Coupe 3
Eagle Talon Turbo 3
Ford Taurus 7
Honda Civic 6
Honda Accord 23
Lexus LS 1
Mazda MPV 2
Mazda Miata 10
Mercury Sable 3
Mitsubishi Eclipse Turbo 4
Nissan Maxima SE 3
Nissan 300ZX Turbo 7
Plymouth Laser Turbo 4
Fastest car tested: Chevrolet Corvette ZR-1, 175 mph
Top-selling cars:
Honda Accord
Ford Taurus
Chevrolet Cavalier
1991
New rule: No more than two places per marque.
Price cap: $35,000
Model Times on List
Eagle Talon Turbo 3
Ford Taurus 7
Honda Civic 6
Honda Accord 23
Mazda MPV V6 2
Mazda Miata 10
Mercury Tracer LTS 1
Mercury Sable 3
Mitsubishi Eclipse Turbo 4
Nissan Sentra SE-R 4
Nissan 300ZX Turbo 7
Plymouth Laser Turbo 4
Toyota Previa 1
Fastest car tested: Chevrolet Corvette ZR-1, 176 mph
Top-selling cars:
Honda Accord
Ford Taurus
Toyota Camry
^ like most of the population on here…OH SNAP!
this one does look good:
but it just looks very strange to see an asian guy driving a C4 vette…
has anybody on here ever seen an asian man driving a C4 vette in person before?
a C4 no…but a C5 yes. no one wnats a C4.
My buddy sold his C4 2yrs ago and started talking about picking up another vette.
He mentioned a C4 and not a C5 due to his lack of funds.
I reminded him how shity his C4 was and that he should just save up a liiiiiitle more and pick up a C5.
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“remember how crapy that car was”
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.“yea your right, ill wait”
Joe, understandable.
Id still take the M3 any day.
GNX
I couldnt see newman running a GNX…too many people like them :lol:
If I recall they were faster in a straight then the vette of the same year.
A real GNX is serious cash, dont forget about the 3.8L Turbo Trans Am also…
I’ve got an irrational hardon for G bodies, but otherwise the 80’s into the early 90’s pretty much sucked. Digital electronics were in their awkward teenage years. 5.0 V8’s made 140hp. Sedans were RWD and sports cars were FWD. GM tried shit like the Cadillac Allante and Saturn. It was just the automotive lost decade. The only cool cars that came out of it are the bastard children that we selectively like for no good reason other than a fond childhood memory.