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Originally Posted by 00 Z/28
They're not fast by today's standards what so ever. That said, they are light and handle fairly well. My dad has a clean low mile 1984 with the Crossfire injection and the somewhat rare 4+3 manual transmission. It's a surprisingly fun car; sort of in the way that a Miata is fun; you can push the car to it's limits without killing yourself. The dash with the digital gauges and the switchable digital readouts was way ahead of it's time and pretty cool.
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True they aren't fast, but that's progress. The comparison between the 400 hp C3 and the fastest TBI C4 shows that. Even though the C4 has half the horsepower it's only 3 mph slower on top speed and only 0.5 seconds slower to sixty, but with much better handling, a/c, pollution controls etc. Similarly, today's Corvette has taken things to a new level.
The early C4s were very easy cars to drive, a newbie could go to the track and drive comfortably fast easily. You couldn't say that about a Porsche 911 or Ferrari 308 GTS. With the C4 it was very neutral handling, lots of grip, torquey engine, very easy for a beginner. Also, although the TBI car gets criticized for being slow, in 1983 it had the same performance as the stick shift Ferrari 308 Quattrovalvole, at under a 1/3 of the price.