C4 crap box kick around...

Father of a buddy of mine in college had a C4. We tooled around in it a lot. Great little cruiser. They don't accelerate hard, but they handle decent. Easy to overheat the brakes and then the dash lights up like a christmas tree and starts throwing errors and warnings - still drove fine though, even with the nannies going nuts. His was an auto trans, probably why it felt neutered - but in it's day, nothing else really pulled hard either. My shitbox 2.2 turbo'd Charger would hold it's own from a roll until about 95mph, then the 'vette would pull about a car length ahead as we reached ~130. Biggest pain in the *** is that every kid in a subaru wanted to race it, and every old-man-in-shorts wants to talk your ear off about the one he's about to buy (but never does).

I don't think they're hard to get in and out of. That rep comes from their target demographic: achy old men who need pills to get it up. They're no tougher to enter/exit than any other 80/90s car. The seat sits just a bit lower, but I'm missing a bunch of 'stuff' from my knee joints and still had no issues getting in and out. Another buddy had a '98 mustang and that thing was tougher to get in and out of due to the size of the door opening, and had less room once I was in it. The mustang seat sat a little higher than the 'vette', but the thicker seats put my head closer to the sill.

If I had to list downsides, they'd be: little to no storage space (mustang had more trunk). Two backpacks pretty much fill the 'trunk' area. Tires are expensive and short-lived. The rear bumper always fades at a different rate than the rest of the body and makes it look dated/aged in a hurry. I'd take one over a slow-maro any day though. The 'vette might not light anyone's hair on fire, but the camaros are far worse. Those smogger 305s made a Camry fun to drive in comparison.