“I just tore down a cancer research center...to build an Applebee’s.” Made my day

Manual. Rear wheel drive. 50/50 balance. 400 hp. Pop up headlights. What's not to love?!?!!

The dumps are to drown out the creaking plastic inside.

Just go to 5:26. Mark is going to win an Oscar for that one. For just a fleeting moment, I thought this review was momentarily a magnum opus of film making.

Ha! I drive a 4th gen Camaro, the Vette interior is an upgrade!

The greatness of the c5 is evident in the very fact that people look at it today and complain about some items (interior for example) then compare it to much newer vehicles. It was far ahead of its time and still today is a fantastic sports car. It will never please the anti-V8 crowd and I’ll never understand why. It gets better MPG than most chain saw engine powered “sports cars”, while performing better and sounding better. It’s a car from two decades ago that is a killer deal in today’s market.

13:14 I'm leaving this hear for myself cause that was a pure eargasm

My dad bought a used '04 Z06 about 12 years ago and has been using it as a daily ever since. He's around 100k miles, beats the hell out of it and has only had to do basic maintenance. Definitely a great value.

Picked up a C5 Z06 a few months ago. Gotta say, I'm impressed all the way around. Once I swapped out the stock seats for some Corbeau's, I'm honestly at a loss to find any complaints. Love it love it love it.

6:39.... 'straight up poverty spec'. Don't know why but I laughed so hard when he said that.

Tupperware built the interior of my 03 ZO6 but it was one of the most fun cars I've ever owned. That's including my "exotic" cars. It was reliable, fast, handled like a go cart and got almost 30 mpg on the highway. I sold it to a white New Balance and tube socks wearing older guy who promptly wrecked it.......dunno if he was an Applebees regular though.

Those snarls between the gear shifts are purely eargasmic...

People who buy this car do NOT care about the interior.

It was nice of GM to leave such enormous gaps between the interior trim pieces to make it easier to cover everything in alcantara.

The interior was built with recycled Happy meal toys...C5 Cavalier 😂

GM knows their target audience. The squeaks and rattles don't matter because they're drown out when the car is driven correctly. Todd's character exists all over this world. That's why it's hilarious and also explanatory.

Best intro. No need for me to make a snarky comment today, as I happy with Vettel's great win in Singapore.

Honestly, I think it’s a resounding “hell yeah,” to answer the title’s question. There are tons of cars you can get for $20K on the pre-owned market, but this hangs with the best in terms of pure driving fun!

That sound is worth the 20K, one Hell of a deal for an affordable fun car to play with.

the interior is crap enough to make even a 350Z interior look good?! Yikes. Luckily the interior really doesn't matter in a Corvette. Just change the seats to a better aftermarket alternative and you're golden.

This is some comedy gold! Mark has such a good freakout voice and Todd is a natural business mogul.

13:13 wow. What an awesome sound

Jack and Marc together in the driving segment just always makes me so happy. You are the perfect combo!

I really love the fact you guys put cars on a lift. It sets you apart from every other channel out there (that and the great filming/dialog/writing). Truly, thank you for all the undercarriage and suspension shots in all your videos.

Carp interior = strip everything out, add racing buckets, racing wheel, racing doorcards - job done!

NONSTOP INTERIOR CREAKING

After owning multiple C4's/C5's/C6's if I had to choose I'd take the C5 by far over the earlier and later generation vettes. The C4 was a knee bruising, leaky electrical mess and flex creak machine of a car. The C5 on the other hand was light years ahead of anything before it, in fact well ahead of it's time. With it's all aluminum torque tube to rear transaxle configuration, hydroformed aluminum frame, worlds first getrag differential and dual fuel tank design. Corvette's going forward retained basically the exact same configuration starting with the C5 in 1997 all the way to the C7 in 2019. Not to mention the C5 was the widest front engine Corvette ever made with the lowest drag co-efficiency and amazingly clean front end with hideaway headlights and no front grill. The C6 was actually a step back from the C5 as it released during the economic bailout period so it even reused C5 parts such as the differential and suspension while new parts were pulled from Cobalt, Saturn steering wheel with small hard to read and cheap looking HVAC modules, defective stereo headunits, fade prone headlights, fuel pumps that are impossible to access. Don't get me started on the C6's primitive keyless entry push start security system, rattling roof panels that delaminate and blow right off the car. To simply complain for 20 minutes straight about the interior's plastic is pretty myopic but I'll totally agree that the C5 seats totally suck.

I’m one of the few who actually likes the interior. Heck, I even like that little cup holder, it holds an iced coffee just fine. No tech, just basic, spartan interior. It’s about the driving experience and this car has it in spades.

Great video, I love the Corvette C5. Bought mine 4 years ago and it's amazing. Greetings from Germany 😊

I've probably watched the driving section of this video 100 times, it never gets old. The sound and reactions of you guys makes a bad day better. Goosebumps!

I’ve literally owned every single one of those cars he mentioned around 3:40 ... honestly, I never had a problem with the interiors of these. I didn’t think the others were much better. And *none* of those had the interior space of the C5; passenger compartment *or* storage space. Dual-zone climate control (with *amazing* a/c), HUD, MPH/KPH gauges (needle actually changes), tons of other tech/info adjustments, cool ass feature where if you lock your keys in the car, you can shake it to unlock, soft-touch dash (not even my late 90’s Porsche had that), Bose audio was actually better than any of the others, and got louder as speed increased, etc etc.

Full bolt ons, tune, E85, and your making crazy power. Great bang for the buck.

I checked out a c5 vette last week with only 78k miles on it in mint condition,(alot of these cars were well maintained because of the type of people that bought them) they were only asking $12 thousand for it. The interior actually appeals to me considering no car manufacturer has perfected a long lasting,premium,affordable interior.

I have always loved the Corvette especially the C5 One of my favorite American cars

Holy production value, batman. Your videos just keep getting better and better. Great group of guys with each their own comedic input.

The titanium exhaust more than makes up for the interior.

'the stigma of this car... for yelling at your wife at the applebee's parking lot.' I died.

I'd rock a C5 Z06. Rip that interior out and make it a awesome HPDE car.

You guys definitely deserve more views! Keep it up: fun and informative.

This is my favorite video from you guys so far. The comedy bits are gold and the informative nature of your channel is fantastic.

It would be cool if you can review a c4 Zr1. Not too many out there and you're humor is hilarious.

They are judging the interior, despite literally every car at this price point has a worse interior. Also, its more than 20 years old, and they expect it to not creak, and they act like it's the worst thing in the world when a 2018 S-class is more creaky and its only 3 years old.

What an amazing video - thanks guys, for making videos for us schmucks who actually have budgets. Side note, I was considering a C6 for Summer/Track - this helped, but if you wanted to make a video on the C6 I would't hate it!

This channel is so much more enjoyable since turbowski got his walking papers

i actually bought it because i like the interior, the layout overall to me personally is much better than the c6, I leather wrapped my dash, doors and center console and its just perfect.

C5 being my favorite Corvette "exterior wise", I've always wondered how much it would cost to put a C7 interior into a C5.

This is the best video you guys have ever done. Just hilarious, informative, and awesome.

Thanks a lot! I was waiting for the video on C5 for long time!

Owned 2 C5's and both had perfect seats when I sold them. Seats were great for me. The C6 in my driveway has a replacement seat at 20,000 miles that I am not even optimistic about. To add insult to injury, GM stopped making the C6 upper leathers. If I could have gotten 150 more hp/torq out of my C5 Z, I would still be driving it today. My favorite car of all time, except for how you have to work it to get to the power band.

13:15 whoa, thats a genuinely insane sounding and terrifyingly fast car! But "it feels like im sitting in a garbage bag!" dude, the comments were just cracking me up, loved this review!!!

Hay guys love your input and thoughts on the Corvette Z06. After watching the review, I may consider a Corvette as a possible weekend toy. I would love to see you do more reviews of the 90's and early 2000's sports cars. Way more interesting than another SUV/CUV review, which isn't your fault just the current market. While current cars are engineered better today thanks to modern computing and materials (including less cheap plastics), I think this era was so memorable because of the number and variety of sporty and sports cars available. Truly an awesome era in motor vehicles that will never be seen again. It would be interesting to have you both continue to review these sports cars including the fine high performance Japanese versions from this time. Thanks, love your more educated reviews and knowledgeable perspectives provided in your videos!!! Much more interesting than quirks and pulling on visors.

Great review as always and definitely one of the best budget track cars

As a C5 vette owner, the intro made my day.

i had a 02 Z06 and I loved that car. The handling was awesome and it put the power down really well. I hated the stock shifter on it and thought the steering wheel was a tad to big plus the seats didn't do great to hold you in place. If you can pick these up for cheap and swap out that stuff its really a great car. The interior never bothered me because in those days with GM you know what your getting with the interior.

It’s so crazy to see you driving on all of the same roads that I do. Love the videos.

i have that same jacket, i love my captains hats and hawaiian shirts. a c5 or c6 Corvette is my next bigger purchase in 2020. You guys are so on point, it's sublime. THANK YOU.

it came down to this or the S2000 for me. I went with the S2000 because it's just more fun to drive on the street. You really need a track to let the Z06 loose without getting arrested Nice to see that you guys had the same thoughts on the car I did. Those seats are a fucking joke! I've never driven a car so fast with so little bolstering Also thanks for making this video. Old sports cars people can afford are so much cooler to see videos on than the newest audi etc. I hope you do more.

Mid 2022 and looking for a cheap track beast/weekend toy. This car is currently #1 on my list. Also @Savagegeese this is arguably the best video you’ve ever made! So much silly shit only car people would get. @savagegeese is the Kurt Vonnegut of auto journalists. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

😀 the intro to this is so funny! Great vid as always guys

Great post, takes me back to the 90's when a colleague had one of those point and shoot machines.

5:36 I love how you added bleeps yet it bleep any of his swear words out XD.

Magnificent driving by the Asian guy. Superb. Long live Corvette,

The intro and 5:20-5:40 are the best parts. As always a great review, keep them coming ^ _ ^

Great review. Hysterical reactions during the driving segment.

Opens up the exhaust dumps and suddenly: ¿What creaks … what rattles? Great onscreen chemistry, guys! …and who knows - with Jack’s size 13 feet. Maybe offscreen too. 🤫

Finally a proper reviewer.... at 14:45 that's why we subscribed to your channel, no filters and not affraid to tell like it's. I'm waiting in the shop with Scott turbowski. 20k nah bro i'm good,

Lol this is my favorite c5 z06 review. Love the honesty. Currently I own a 2013 Camaro SS but the C5 Z06 despite it's flaws is one of my all-time favorite cars and plan on picking one up after my Camaro project is done. I just love this car.

Everyone likes to say leaf spring like it is a stack of steel rusty springs on a 3/4 ton pickup. It is a light composite that works quite well IMO.

I've watched the "oh so tell me about it what's so great about this? part like a 100 times now

You guys are absolutely fantastic. Jack that's a great 1/4 zip.

Hilarious! Thanks Mark & gang. I'll be picking up some merch to show my support.

Everyone forgets the truth about this car, the power, the handling, the rear drive, manual, v8. GM didnt care about the interior this car was made to go fast and beat cars alot more expensive.

Legit great review touched on alot of key points, that z06 sounds so good! I make alot of the same points when telling people why they should get a c5 I love my track prepped c5z favorite car I owned. Personally I love how simple the interior is, with a racing bucket and steering wheel, its perfect for me. Oh and the big miata reference is spot on ive had three 😂

Absolutely brilliant video and review! No one does it better!

My C5Z is bone stock and I have no plans to change anything. it's perfect and I'm happy with it as is. I'll probably just go on a diet to add lightness, and pickup some new balances to wear with my jorts.

I own a 2002 c5 zo6 ( 6 year ownership) and also own a 2003 Bmw M3 The 2002 c5 zo6 has been a awesome reliable car , lol I love how clean and basic the interior is M3 is way nicer obviously 🙄🤣 ( Zo6 )Guys please drive the car it’s awesome Just please save up to get Valve springs replaced Only around $900 to have shop install them , because the stock yellow Valve springs would crack , retailer keepers would fall out and the fucking Valve would drop in the cylinder 😕😱 Other then that ,the valve train geometry, block , pistons, bearings and oiling on Ls6 was all good 👍

Personally I love the c5 interior

Great vid, entertaining AND informative, loved it, cant wait to buy mine :)

This channel has such good production and educational value, but it's also so funny

I’m a weird dude, I always liked the interior. I’ll admit I’ve got a lot of nostalgia for 90’s GM though. I hated the C6 interior and exterior, then again I hated early 00s GM. Go figure! C7 is great, they really did well with it. C8 looks amazing too since they really pushed it in the techie way they used to in the 80s/90’s.

goddamn what a masterpiece! I just recently sold my turbo miata and bought an ls400 so naturally I've been researching a proper big boy replacement for the fun car while I daily this land yacht. the Z05 C5 is such an incredible value. I've seen multiple track ready cars for sale well under 20.

This was a hilarious vid while still conveying the technicals and dynamics of the car. I always enjoy Mr. Goose’s vids.

You should read the book, "All Corvettes are Red" You will understand that is a miracle that this car was ever made, and the effort from the people on the Corvette team to put out the best product with the limited resources GM was giving them. It is actually a pretty fantastic car for all the road blocks that Corvette team dealt with.

The C5 Z06 LS6's "Batwing" oil pan is generally considered better for track use than the LS2 and early LS3 setups (before they went dry sump). Just read the complaints from the SCCA guys before GM gave up and just went dry-sump for all.

Corvette chief engineer at the time (Dave Hill) took some inspiration from Miata to make the C5 more enjoyable to drive....and it shows.

As a 27-year I bought my first Corvette, a C5 convertible with Z06 wheels on it. Was pretty much like the intro. The chicks working the McDonald's drive-thru were always impressed. Since the early 2000s however, it's become common for people in fancy cars to go through McDonald's drive thrus, but back then, it was still a big deal.

Stumbled here in the Z06 abyss that is apparently rampant on YT. Guess it is cause I am picking one up this week, yup! This was a good vid! Don't know you guys but will follow now. Out of the myriad of these same videos you guys kept me tuned in. Yes, the acting was cute and I enjoyed the hell out of the stereotypes. But, the meat was there next to the potatoes. You called out what is wrong, but you also called out was is so right. This car is designed for one purpose and that is why I am going out of my way to get one instead of a C6 or newer Vette. Cheers to a great vid!

Driving down the road, and the person in the passengers seat starts ragging on the interior of my Corvette. Initial thought, who is this in my car? 1.) Stand on the brakes. 2.) Peel their face off the inside of the windshield. 3.) Look squarely at them and say, "you drive a Miata ...... you couldn't even dream of having the performance this car offers". 4.) Boot their butt out of the car. 5.) In 4 seconds +/- , I'm cruising happily down the road at 60 mph and never give the incident another thought. Good review, even though it was littered with obligatory criticisms even though that car is awesome.

Absolutely yes. It's the best car for 20K, IMHO.

This was the best review ever!

I come back to this video every now and again to enjoy the sound of the beautiful V8

You can hear the interior squeaks as they’re driving and talking. There has to be a way to eliminate that or at least minimize it, besides totally gutting the interior. The rest of it seems like a great deal. I bet the cooling and oil problems can be easily fixed.

Jack that was a thrill to watch you drive that and listen to it breathe, I never really had respect for the vettes cuz I never knew too many who could really drive one, opening the dumps was cool as hell, never knew about those, nice footwork too!

What a great video! Love it!

your vids are great, love em, keep it real

Intro was great, but the rage machine pure Savage Geese mode was so hilarious!

I'll take a '16 Nd1 Miata over this but just my personal preference. Great vid sg!

Forgot to mention... Leaky door sills when it rains. Differential belleville spring washers that always break giving you only 'one wheel peel'. Heater control head that craps out. But honestly your right about it being the performance car bargain.

Loved the comment on the C5Z is a big fast Miata. Another great vid with a honest review of the C5Z. I hated the seats on my C5Z; however, maybe should have mentioned the seats sometimes break on acceleration and you fall backwards (which is always real fun on course).

I don’t know why but my favorite Corvette is the C5 Z06 even though that interior is horrible