The Cheapest Real Sports Car Is Still a Corvette.
A manual C5 coupe measures $21,400 at 31,000 miles, $2,000 more than the automatic, and rose 3.5% in a year. Two of this week's deals are C5s.
Deep dives on the enthusiast cars worth your attention: market analysis, buying guides, and the stories behind the numbers.
A manual C5 coupe measures $21,400 at 31,000 miles, $2,000 more than the automatic, and rose 3.5% in a year. Two of this week's deals are C5s.
A 2004 coupe is worth $40,350 at 30,000 miles and $21,614 at 130,000. Same car, same engine, half the money. The odometer is the price.
It sells for 23 percent less than the car that replaced it. The two are nearly identical. The entire gap comes down to one bearing.
Every modern exotic falls the same way. The trick isn't spotting a cheap one — it's knowing which have stopped falling and which are still on the way down.
The third pedal stopped being a preference and quietly became a price tier. The auction data is no longer subtle about it.
For twenty years it was the car you bought to drive, not to keep. The auction data is saying something different now.
YouTube found it. The smart money already owns one. Here's why the window is closing.