Toys4RJill

The MB 500SL shelf @AJT123 posted fits these type of cars better, especially a convertible

Margate330

I'd rather have the package shelf in nice carpet or leather.

Seats are too small.

Carfan94

Yep! That’s exactly what it did when I was trying to adjust the seat. This was in the coupe, not the convertible. I’m 6’5 so the Seat was all the way down. The first thing I do when I get inside of any car is adjust the seat down as low as it will go.

I fit fine in a Porsche Boxster though! You gotta love zee Germans!

AJT123

I just think a 2 seater is special. Though useless seats wouldn't ruin anything.

SW17LS

Totally depends on how your body is built more than it does height. How long are your legs etc. My one BIL he literally try’s on cars, he’s really
long in the torso and he just doesn’t fit well in a lot of cars. He also likes to sit really upright.

AJT123

Right but talk to me when you can take a trip or go off road in that, thanks. Wanna race to a city hundreds and hundreds of miles away?

Big deal, in the 90s you could get a standard C5 Corvette that went 3.9 seconds to 60 with this thing called a stick shift!!! It was cheap compared to the competition back then too. EVs, I'll give you that but lots of us don't want to buy one so they're irrelevant. You can also rip a Tesla apart with your bare hands, pass.

So why do you own an LC500 with a NA V8?

You honestly don't enjoy a great V8 engine?

It's like that SL43, I could not care less that it would dust me. It sounds horrendous. Beyond horrendous. I may be way slower with my V8 R129 but it's a lot more fun to get there. 4 cylinder engines sound and feel like ***.

For once we whole heartedly agree. I don't get why people don't use auto.

People aren't freaks if they don't use it, though. And we're not whining because the best engines have been ripped from us, we're outraged.

SW17LS

“Remember when” is the lowest form of communication lol

Seriously, you have to just accept that the past is the past and the future is going to look different. There are a lot of great cars out there today and there are going to be a lot of great cars in the future. All the cars you love there were people out of touch and attached to the part who hated them compared to what was made years before too

bitkahuna

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goalposts moved. well done.

you were referring to 'dusting' an accord.

always back 20-30 years.
enjoyed my cars back then, but don't want them now!

more because of how the car looks and materials than the engine, but i obviously now the lexus v8 is very solid and reliable and in the 5L form it's more than powerful and sounds good (although imo a bit too loud in the LC but that's more exhaust than engine).

oh it's fun! it also feels archaic compared to my ev. what is this downshifting delay? sports modes are good in the car though which makes transmission much quicker/responsive.

i guess if youre going to be 'outraged' by something, this is pretty harmless.

i don't get it, but not important.

SW17LS

I don’t understand being outraged by the loss of something I would never buy. When Lexus botched the LS500 I was outraged but that’s something that I would have bought and it was frustrating. But, you are happy driving 20+ year old cars and always buy used, there are plenty of V8 powered cars you will be able to buy for the rest of your life.

geko29

The only C5 in the '90s that got anywhere close to that time was the Lingenfelter, which did it in 4.0. Just the modifications alone cost as much as a base Camry. The base C5 manual ran it in 4.5-4.7,depending on your source, about the same as a base 911 Carrera. But of course, 0-60 is not what the 911 is about.

SW17LS

Another vital component with being obsessed with the past is an entirely inflated idea of how great things were lol

That C5 was also total garbage

geko29

The interior had squeaks and rattles, and the rubber on some of the controls wore off over time, but it drove amazingly.

SW17LS

I mean from a build quality perspective

AJT123

Yeah but how good was the Lexus LS400 in the late 90s? 7 series? It can go both ways.

LS400 contender for finest luxury sedan in the world then, even lacking many features competitors had. It was built and just performed just that well.

Now? LS is on chopping block I bet, I called that one 5 years ago. We'll see. Nobody gives a rat's *** about it. Back then any LS400 was lustworthy, hell I was 16-18 and drooled over them. More than the GS400 which was targeted for younger people.

Oh no it was faster, I recently read an old printed legit magazine article, they got a base C5 with the 345hp 0-60 in under 4 seconds.

The C5 didn't have the best build quality, Steve isn't wrong... but it was a hell of a Corvette in general and drove great, as others mentioned.

You also got 200hp in the top line Accord but it was from a sweet VTEC V6 engine.

Bit, I'm not moving goal posts.. I'm not playing games. I just don't care about EVs, not really. Nothing personal, it's just like food. I don't care that you can beat me on this street. You can't beat me to other cities in an urgent and very dire situation, that's 100% guaranteed. I just went through it with an ICE vehicle, stopped once to get gas and was even flustered with that. Charging I couldn't imagine.

TangoRed

I became a true interior snob the minute my brother bought a C5 Corvette when we were teens. That car was truly the plastic fantastic.

He is still an American muscle guy but thank goodness they’re built to higher standards nowadays. Great car on the track though despite the numb steering.