2005 Chevrolet Corvette | Retro Review 

I know!!! I was 16 when this came out 😢

C5 is still new to me 😬

To be fair, this was retro when it came out. Love that push rod.

Welcome to the club. 05 seems like a few years ago to me. Lol

The c5 is now old enough to vote.

Nice

@@patcurrie9888 I do love the c7, it’s actually my current corvette! Found it with only 2000 miles on it. Has 12k now

@@husky2423 hows the c8?

Must be nice

I have a C4 and C6. Third gear in the C4 is not be believed, LT4 motor.

The C8 looks cool and imma let you finish, but the C6 Z is the best looking Corvette of all time.

@@androiduberalles Did you just not understand what I said?

@@MercOneBro he was doing a kanye joke on C8 owners at a car meet

@@AcewingOFFICIAL Means nothing to me obviously.

@@MercOne Yeah because you can’t understand a joke. Don’t try to back track just admit you didn’t get it and move on.

Need For Speed Most Wanted looked so crazy in that year. Didn’t think graphics could get much better

Ep date is Aug 2004, not 2005. These came out in the summer of 2004.

Yeah Since They Have The C8 Corvette

Don't feel too old! You're still young at heart!

Either the hat or polo must say Corvette.

@@ChaseBond11 Truth.

Golf clubs are a must even if they don't golf :v

OP shorts

iv'e had 4 convertible vetts and i didn't get those accessories

I drove my buddy’s 11 GS and it was quick for sure

MPGs were one of Corvettes strong suits, at least going back to the C5, maybe even the C4. It all deepened on your own restraint however, lol.

I averaged about 28 mpg over about 45k miles with the 2013 Grand Sport. Most fuel efficient vehicle I've owned.

Yep, a tall top gear with lots of power basically at idle meant it can turn 1500 RPM at like 80 mph. Hitting a lot of red lights will drag the MPG down, but if you can keep a steady highway cruise it will match most economy cars, which is crazy considering how fast it is. Compare that to a Ferrari that gets like 12 mpg highway.

@@BurtSampson Can confirm. My C4 gets 25+ mpg on the highway all the time, and that's in a cruise that's closer to 90 mph than 75. The tall top gears are to thank for that; I don't know if the Hydramatics were any good at it, but on manual Corvettes the first such gearing setup was the ZF6 box they added in 1989.

My C5 convertible gets 29.5 mpg all day at 70mph. It is amazing....

Nah, most of it was minor tweaks like the C4 got from the 80's into the 90's. The C6 was more of a C5.5 than a true new car. The extra power is always welcome, but the C5 aged better IMO whereas the C6 looks like a rental car interior nowadays. In most cases, a C5 vs. a C6 on equal tires is a driver's race, be it drag or circuit driving.

@@nunyabusiness896 that is at odds with the entire refresh of the interior that placed the car on a much higher level than it had been. When you combine a necessary interior upgrade, more power, and restyle that is a dramatic improvement.

@@413TomaccoRoadI highly disagree that the C5 is better looking. The C6 is a cleaner, beautiful design

@@tkewrestler2662 I don't like the C6's interior. The C5 looked like a 90's exotic like an XJ220 inside, the C6 looked like a Malibu. IMO the C6 aged far worse than the C5.

@@turbojetpowered8299 Few things: 1) automatics are trash from this era and not even worth discussing, obviously I'm talking about manual vs. manual 2) the stock runflats on a C5 were straight trash and a simple tire upgrade could drop 0-60 and 1/4 mile by easily half a second alone. The main reason for the Z06's drastic acceleration improvement wasn't from power, it was from tires. The extra 40 some odd whp, most of which was only for the last few hundred RPM before redline, barely makes a difference in the 1/4 mile. Even with fairly soft tires, I can still spin through 2nd gear in my C5 and 2nd goes up to 75 mph. With good tires and good driving, the difference wouldn't really show unless you were highway racing at 100+ mph and even then it would not be something you'd feel in the seat, you'd only ever see it on a stop watch or by seeing the other car squeak ahead. 3) Some of the C6's upgrades could be retrofitted, I have C6 Z06 shocks on my C5, for example. 4) I greatly prefer the C5's pop up headlights, more timeless interior (the C6 just looks like a tryhard rental car, blech), mechanical door latches over electric poppers that lock you in if the battery dies, and a mechanical key to start the car vs. a keyfob that likes to drain the battery if you forget to put it in reverse to actually turn ignition off. The FRC, which is the body style I have, wasn't available on the C6 and I don't want a removable roof that starts to leak in a short time. I believe the FRC C5 was also more rigid than the targa C6 as well.

Same, other than the soft suspension and crappy plastic. It’s perfect

That's a dumb calculation borne from a rather lazy observation, seeing as the episode aired on August 31, *2004* and was shot before that. Seems that a lot of you just lazily see a model year and neglect to remember that next year's models come out the year before. Model Years are not a literal interpretation of release date/year. August 2004 $44,000 = November 2022 (latest date) $69,126

@@jmin8400 get lost

@@jmin8400 AMONG US!!!!

I had a c6 z06 and it was an awesome car.

@@robp.1995 yea 427cc 505hp

@@robp.1995 what year

@@kgthegreatone943 mine was a 2007.

Everything at that time were slushboxes, only a handful of cars had started adding more gears with select-shift modes. Zoomers that only recently started driving have no idea how miserable automatic transmissions used to be, it didn't used to be "do you want to shift or not', it was "do you want to shift or do you want to go 0-60 in 10 minutes".

The car in high school for me in vettes was the c4 and that ended in 96 after I was out 8yrs… I remember seeing that c5 in late 96-early 97’ and thought damn what a major improvement..then I seen that big ass rear end underwrap and went yuk…(the c4 was way smaller and I was used to that).then when I was finally getting used to it around 2000…the c6 drops in late 04’ and I remember saying…that rear end looks way better even though similar it wasn’t so big and gaudy….c6’s are definitely my fave ..the c7 looks ok outside,😮 but too computery on the inside (things were changing for all vehicles)..and the c8 looks hideous inside…c6 for the win 2012-13’ grand sport

@@toddprater14 What can I say except, "I like big butts, and I cannot lie."

@@thehomer5913 some otha brothas can’t deny..

@@toddprater14 Even white boys gotta shout...

@@thehomer5913 Baby got back..

Old? I was born the same year as the first production Corvette - 1953. Don't worry - the older you get, the older "old" gets.

I wish I was as "old" as you LOL.

In 2005 I was 26 Get in the Corvette Training Class for C6

@@pmafterdark how old are you?

@@sannissansanjuan5074 oh

For trashy people of course, it is.

@@jmin8400 boy are you wrong

you are correct. MW drivers never launch well

My thoughts exactly. 13.2 is a C5 time, but 112 is alright

Yeah, 0-60 in 4.8 seconds is just wrong, lol

I have a 60th anniversary grand sport and love the car. The styling is timeless...

"The reality is, safety regulations somewhat killed off the Pop-up headlight. This was mainly down to pedestrian safety regulations being tightened up and having a 'sharp' surface area was deemed too dangerous for most manufacturers to bother continuing with pop-ups." -Sourced from the internet

Cost was also a factor, was simply easier to design a molded headlamp rather than the complex rotating one

Hard to use pop ups as headlight flashers.

Man, you're old 🧓 😂😂😂

Ya want the grand sport ..looks like a zo6 but not with that nitemare valve dropping 7.0l…got the whole hood scoop inlet, got the wide body rear fenders and rear wing…you can grab a convertible or a targa top and it’s got the ls3…and not the z06 price tag…major win when introduced in 2010…the base looks kinda bland after the gs came out….z06/zr1’s are sweet but hardtop only…

Late C5s also has HUD. A friend of mine has a 2004 equiped with it.

@@jonathancharest9168 Yea I think that was at least an option after 2002

@@YTdelsCmts4NoRsn My 2000 had the HUD as well

I think, but could be wrong, that retroactive is a reference to the review/air date of the Motorweek program.

They changed that in 2006.

@@pedrobenson still though, that’s your flagship sports car. My 2002 Volkswagen Passat has a 5 speed Tiptronic.

Covered headlights came from motorsport. Less aerodynamic drag.

@@jareknowak8712 The 'invention' of covered headlights did comefrom motorsports due to less drag coefficient. However, cars such as the 'Vette which previously had pop-up headlights had to go that way because, as said pop-ups were banned due to their risk in collisions with pedestrians, so instead of redesigning their cars and perhaps costing and getting a worse drag coefficient, many companies opted to cover them with clear covers.

@@KenanTurkiye The Ferrari 360 was the reference benchmark vehicle in 2001, as styling was dialed in on this car. I know the development story behind this, even if I hate the C6. This decision was set back in 2000, when many cars still had these lights.

@@jmin8400 Yes the 360 was a reference for many different cars. In 1999 pop-up headlights was deemed dangerous in UK which spread worldwide, and 2004 was the last year they were available with the C5 'Vette in the US and Lotus Espirit in the UK. However, as far as I know pop-up mechanism it self isn't ''illegal'' and manufacturers can still use them but to make them ''pedestrian safe'' is costly and weight adding which is why they became obsolete.

@@KenanTurkiye I recall the C5 having amber rear turn signals, on a trip to UK in 2003 and was surprised it was available there. Ironically during prototype testing of C6. I still get a kick out of seeing that red 2001 C6 design mockup with cheap little cones or the like in the headlights and no glass over them yet, trying to mimic the 360 LOL. Honda I think hadn't revealed the '02 NSX IIRC and with XLR packaging already being the base, that was the best choice. It was really special. It's the desperate measures we take during development to propose a new design, when proper prototype components and tooling has yet to be designed. Really liked your comment, as it's very well informed. Worked for Jaguar in Coventry several years ago and often miss the UK in fact. Am enjoying Michigan thankfully.

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