Tall owners

[Halb]

Anyone over 6'3 who has issues getting in and out of their 'Vette? Someone told me recently I should forget the 'Vette since I would find it too irritating on a regular basis. I have not sat in one before and don't have one close by to test.

[chimtvr]

i have a mate who is 6 foot 4
and hes driven my c5 with no complaints over 200 miles in 1 go!

[SeeFive]

I've had some tall passengers in my C5 with no problems. If you are talking about a C5 or C6, as you are in Cheshire, it might be worth a trip to Chris Graham in Nantwich for a trial fitting - although I notice on his website that he is now in "view by appointment" mode.

[JimexPL]

I remeber having one customer who was 6 ft 6 and he specifically bought Corvettes instead of ferraris as it was the only high performance car that he could get comfortable in.
The only thing that might be irritating is the footrest, which could be removed (on a C6 at least, don't know about the C5) anyway.

[G4HKS]

Chris Graham also happens to have a very nice selection of used C6's too...

[abobk]

I am 6.4" had a c4 and c5 coupe found there was plenty of leg and headroom.

[555ST]

JimexPL said:

I remeber having one customer who was 6 ft 6 and he specifically bought Corvettes instead of ferraris as it was the only high performance car that he could get comfortable in.
The only thing that might be irritating is the footrest, which could be removed (on a C6 at least, don't know about the C5) anyway.

James, if you are talking about our Dutch customer, I believe he is 6'8"!

Bit of a squeeze in there for him, but he had a C5 Convertible for 8 years which he replaced with a C6 Convertible in 2007.

Still cheesed off that Mark didn't let me drive the car to his house in the Algarve!

[Kneetrembler]

Hi,

I have a C5 and I am 6-2 and have stacks of leg room, can virtually be laying down in the car.

The first long drive for me was from Bilbao to Malaga in one hit, I never got out of the car once my wife fuelled the car each time we needed juice.

In my opinion one of the most comfortable cars that I have ever owned.

[C6NL]

I'm 6-4 with a long upper body, I can barely fit in my C6. A solution to lowering the seat would be first on my to buy list, if it existed.

[vetteheadracer]

C6NL said:

I'm 6-4 with a long upper body, I can barely fit in my C6. A solution to lowering the seat would be first on my to buy list, if it existed.

you need to buy a convertible then you will have all the headroom you could ever need!

[C6NL]

vetteheadracer said:

C6NL said:

I'm 6-4 with a long upper body, I can barely fit in my C6. A solution to lowering the seat would be first on my to buy list, if it existed.

you need to buy a convertible then you will have all the headroom you could ever need!

So there's more room in a convertible with the roof closed ?

[roughrider]

Kneetrembler said:

Hi,

I have a C5 and I am 6-2 and have stacks of leg room, can virtually be laying down in the car.

The first long drive for me was from Bilbao to Malaga in one hit, I never got out of the car once my wife fuelled the car each time we needed juice.

In my opinion one of the most comfortable cars that I have ever owned.

Ditto! Drove 830 miles in 13 hours on Sunday in a Z06, and couldn't believe i had no aches & pains [as i'm getting on a bit!].

[JimexPL]

roughrider said:

Ditto! Drove 830 miles in 13 hours on Sunday in a Z06, and couldn't believe i had no aches & pains [as i'm getting on a bit!].

What speed did you get up to 'running the car in'?

[roughrider]

As a mark of respect to the new Greek owner, i didn't exceed 120mph! Just over 2000rpm in sixth, returning 32mpg average, what a car!!

[G4HKS]

This may answer your question, check out post from hooliganZKS - he's 6'9" !!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhPlr5DLKdQ&fea...

Edited by G4HKS on Thursday 19th March 21:43