More than 20 years after its debut, it's easy to think of the C5 Corvette as simply a used car. That does it a disservice. Yes, it's a hell of a performance bargain today, but it's also one of the ...

Most Corvette owners treat their cars like fine china: wiped down obsessively on weekends, garage-kept, and driven roughly ...

When it debuted for '97, the new-generation C5 addressed a long list of the previous Corvette's shortcomings. Chief Engineer David Hill undertook the task of improving the new Vette's ride quality and ...

Forced induction and the Corvette-seemingly a match made in heaven. When Chevrolet introduced the LS1 between the fenders of the new C5 in 1997, members of the automotive aftermarket and enthusiast ...

The 1997 C5 Corvette was the first redesign of a Corvette since 1984. That means designers had two options: They could be conservative or they could be radical. They erred more towards the ...

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Welcome back to another installment of Corvette Week, this time looking at the fifth generation Corvette, in production from 1997 to 2004. We start off neck-deep in the 1990s, a time when tech was ...

Keeping the Corvette convertible legacy alive, the C5 ‘Vette ‘vert was just as sporty as its coupe counterpart, but with the open-air fun, you want with a drop top. In his test drive of the new ‘Vette ...

Produced between the 1997 and 2004 model years, the fifth-generation C5 Corvette is something of a performance bargain, offering impressive power and grip that still holds up today, assuming you find ...

We tend to mark the beginning of Corvette generations from the moment we first saw the car. However, preliminary designs are developed years before the finished new car hits the streets. Final designs ...