C6 or GT500??? 
C6 or GT500???
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From: Overland Park, KS
Are you kidding????? Hey, if you want to pay $10K+ over go ahead. But I would keep the GT500 in strorage for the day it will be worth $2M!!!
Buy the Corvette, you will get more looks, more attention and you will love it. I have owned all kinds of muscle cars. The Corvette is the only one that envokes the reaction from non-car enthusiasts like it does.
Plus, you will have all kinds of great performance parts you can add, right now! GM is coming out with some new heads, intake and cam that is unreal and the price is very reasonable!!! I can't wait.
There will be thousands of opinioins on both sides, Ford vs, Chevy, but 9 out of 10 little kids will stop to look at the Corvette over the Mustang any day.
My first reaction to a car, that I can remember is a friend of my Father's putting me in his 62 Corvette to let me "act like I was driving". I was only 7 and it lit a bug in me like no other! It is the reason I love cars today.
Every time I get a chance, I offer to let a little kid sit in my Corvette. Usually the Fathers about puke, they think "oh my God man, do you want your car ruined". But, I tell them the story about me being little and getting to sit in that red and white 1962 Corvette and I will NEVER forget it. Heck, I can even still smell the guys Old Spice and smell of his cigars.
Buy the Corvette, unless you can afford to put the Mustang into storage and only drive it once or twice a month. That would be a pure investment. Heck I would do that, IF I COULD FIND ONE for sticker, or slightly under.
I love my Corvette, it is like no other car I have ever been in!
Buy the Corvette, you will get more looks, more attention and you will love it. I have owned all kinds of muscle cars. The Corvette is the only one that envokes the reaction from non-car enthusiasts like it does.
Plus, you will have all kinds of great performance parts you can add, right now! GM is coming out with some new heads, intake and cam that is unreal and the price is very reasonable!!! I can't wait.
There will be thousands of opinioins on both sides, Ford vs, Chevy, but 9 out of 10 little kids will stop to look at the Corvette over the Mustang any day.
My first reaction to a car, that I can remember is a friend of my Father's putting me in his 62 Corvette to let me "act like I was driving". I was only 7 and it lit a bug in me like no other! It is the reason I love cars today.
Every time I get a chance, I offer to let a little kid sit in my Corvette. Usually the Fathers about puke, they think "oh my God man, do you want your car ruined". But, I tell them the story about me being little and getting to sit in that red and white 1962 Corvette and I will NEVER forget it. Heck, I can even still smell the guys Old Spice and smell of his cigars.
Buy the Corvette, unless you can afford to put the Mustang into storage and only drive it once or twice a month. That would be a pure investment. Heck I would do that, IF I COULD FIND ONE for sticker, or slightly under.
I love my Corvette, it is like no other car I have ever been in!
Tell a hot chick you just bought a GT500... and when she asks what that is and you tell her it's a $50,000 Ford Mustang she'll think you're an idiot.
Tell that same hot chick that you just bought a new Corvette and she'll ask for a ride in it.
Corvette > Mustang
Tell that same hot chick that you just bought a new Corvette and she'll ask for a ride in it.
Corvette > Mustang
no comparison. The Corvette is a much nicer car inside and out.
You can buy base model V6 Mustangs for $18K. That will tell you about the overall quality of the car. A Mustang that costs $50,000 is still just a Mustang. No exclusivity either, because you know they will sell the body kits and wheels for the Shelby, and every 16-yr old kid with a V6 or GT will have a car that looks exactly like your GT500, for about 1/3 the investment.
You can buy base model V6 Mustangs for $18K. That will tell you about the overall quality of the car. A Mustang that costs $50,000 is still just a Mustang. No exclusivity either, because you know they will sell the body kits and wheels for the Shelby, and every 16-yr old kid with a V6 or GT will have a car that looks exactly like your GT500, for about 1/3 the investment.
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If i get a GT500 it's gonna be intil they go for MSRP or lower and If i did get the vette I know i'd be happy just needed opinions on what u guys thought....if i do get the vette my mod goals were gonna be long tubes catted x and b&b bullets, cold air intake maybe the stealth II cam and sometime put a maggie or kenne-bell on her and run 6-7psi...i think i'd be set huh....both are very nice cars and I'm a ford guy myself but i love C5 and C6 vettes....anymore opinions? thanx!
Originally Posted by FIREHAWK#608
Even with a deal are you prepared for $750+ monthly payments? Not including insurance...
That's the real hold back from me getting a C6.
That's the real hold back from me getting a C6.
Ryan
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Well If everything works out for me right I'm be coming in to a large investment of money and I plan on payin cash for one of those cars and maybe get my own place and go to skool and save the rest. soooo with that being said no financing for me this time....so the only thing i really have to pay for are mods and car insureance which i can handle on my own...i was even thinking about a 06 GTO or maybe a 03/04 Cobra but I like the looks of vettes better and i can still kenne bell it too later down the road.
Originally Posted by Nine Ball
I wish my vette payment was only $750, lol. Try $948/month 
Even at $45K used, that would be a $900/mo payment for 60 mo.
Even at $45K used, that would be a $900/mo payment for 60 mo.
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No way I would trade my C6 for a Mustang of any flavor. Two very different animals. Now I have entertained the thought of owning both before. I would sooner rag out a Mustang that I would a Vette. I wouldn't buy a GT500, though. Too expensive for what you get. I've never paid MSRP or more for a car and never will. That's just throwing money away.
As far as M6 vs. A6, I am now torn. I am getting spoiled by the A6. Sometimes I miss the M6, but most of the time I am glad I don't have to mess with the stick anymore. Maybe I'm just getting old.
As far as M6 vs. A6, I am now torn. I am getting spoiled by the A6. Sometimes I miss the M6, but most of the time I am glad I don't have to mess with the stick anymore. Maybe I'm just getting old.
Yeah I was thinking $10k down so you have a 45k principle, at 72 mo (since I'd keep it 6 years anyway 'till the C7's come out) that leaves you in the ballpark of $750 per mo with a credit score over 730 allowing a decent interest rate.
$950 per month. ouch. The good part is that when you want to cash out you'll still have half of the price coming back into your pocket. Even at 6 years old with 80k miles you'll still get 23k minimum which will help with the next car.
$950 per month. ouch. The good part is that when you want to cash out you'll still have half of the price coming back into your pocket. Even at 6 years old with 80k miles you'll still get 23k minimum which will help with the next car.
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Would it be dumb of me to get a 02-04 Zo6 over a C6? it might be cheaper and its a lil faster then the C6 and still looks sexy.....ok ok in your guys opinion which is the better buy? and which is faster in the end? or just over whcih is better? C5 ZO6 or C6
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Originally Posted by Nine Ball
I wish my vette payment was only $750, lol. Try $948/month
Even at $45K used, that would be a $900/mo payment for 60 mo.
Even at $45K used, that would be a $900/mo payment for 60 mo.
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Originally Posted by Transgression
Would it be dumb of me to get a 02-04 Zo6 over a C6? it might be cheaper and its a lil faster then the C6 and still looks sexy.....ok ok in your guys opinion which is the better buy? and which is faster in the end? or just over whcih is better? C5 ZO6 or C6
