The Corvette C4 is the fourth generation of the popular General Motors sportscar, the Chevrolet Corvette. It was in production from 1984 to 1996. During its production run, it became the first American car with multi-link rear suspension and featured an early six-speed manual gearbox (starting in 1989); it had excellent roadholding, arrow-like styling with 180-degree-flip hidden headlights, and lightweight transverse springs. This generation also introduced the ZR-1 performance model, equipped with a 375-405 bhp quad-cam V8 engine co-developed with Lotus.

The C4 Corvette is the cheapest Corvette generation money can buy at the time of writing, with early and worn examples going for under $5k and powerful late model years available under $10k. This means that it is a good starting sports car bargain if Miatas aren’t your style. In particular, a ‘92-‘95 C4 has a 300 bhp 5.7-liter V8, a modern 6MT or 4AT gearbox with generous overdrive, a spacious rear luggage compartment, adjustable seats, cassette and CD - in other words, it’s quick as well as perfectly serviceable as a daily.

Like all Corvettes, the C4 is maligned for its association with slow grandpas. The only way to break this stigma is to get one and drive the pants off it.
Person 1: Is that a Corvette C4? Ugh, only boomers drive those.

Person 2: You sure? I’ve seen this guy around town. Crazy son of a bitch, they should bring him in for reckless driving.
by Interstate Enjoyer March 11, 2022
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The greatest model of car from America. Rumor has it that it’s power source is the wings of an angel.
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That won’t do shit against a c7 corvette
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A vehicle created by GM company Chevrolet, seen as it's flagship GT car it has been in production since 1953, the beginning was great but towards the C-3 the car gained a lot of criticism from its terrible design, and its massive gas consuming engine that could not beat a Smart car. Chevrolet fixed it but the corvette name was ruined, and it has been. The corvette has been boring up until the C-7, the ones before where not as fast as modified imports, or even stock ones from all over Europe and Japan, the ones before the C-7 and after the C-3 where made out of the worst quality ever, if one where to step inside the cabin of 2005 corvette it would feel like you are in a Chevy Cobalt (a cheap car made by chevy), the corvette also shared many interior and exterior parts from cheap cars from GM. The car was very plain and just proved to Europe how the U.S is unable to make a GT, but the C-7 is Chevrolets latest shot at the GT market, a new more exotic style that tries to compete with Italian cars, and technology made to take on the germans, yet Chevy had many problems that had not been fix but known for a year, GM recalled many in late 2014- 2015 and the Corvette is hard to find because of this. The vehicle holds a place in American culture but it's just another V-8 that is overhyped that gets beaten by a garage built 4-Cyl or 6-Cyl Japanese car, or the Nissan GT-R (any model) at big boy races
America: We have a new corvette
Japan: 我々は1994年にそのような何かを持っていました
Germany: oh nett, gesehen die neue porche 9-11?
GM: Kind of , it's been recalled
by Josh98 May 23, 2015
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The prototypical small penis compensation and lack of personality machine.

The car unattractive men buy or lease to make sure they are seen in said machine, in hopes of attracting a trophy wife. Usually owned by a completely self-important douchebag. Deserving a pinky, not a thumbs up...."way to go tiny"
"If I had to take one up the ass, I would choose a Corvette owner so I couldn't feel it"
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Corvette guy-“Get in baby.”
Hot girl-“Omg you have a corvette, totally!!”
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A 50s sports car that Chevy guys like to call a muscle car so they can compare to less expensive lower class vehicles. This is the car generally compared to the Mustang because Chevy guys often forget about their camaro and go to a car that's almost twice and expensive.

It comes with mediocre engines for the price when You can get a camaro with the same engines anyways. People usally go straight to the ZR1 for comparison but yet they forget it's as expensive as a porche 911.

They where good up until the 70s and then got good again in the 2000s when they finally got a decent suspension and engine. Anything corvette between 70-2000 cam usaly with less that 250 HP and usally automatic.

Mostly seen as the midlife crisis car.
Guy 1:Man my corvette will beat any Mustang
Guy 2: but it cost 25k while a Mustang cost 5k
by Samplebridge December 16, 2015
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