According to Kodak, the NC and VC were never very different (they were both introduced as wedding portrait films, after all), and they made them progressively more similar over the years as people stopped printing. The last revision of NC and VC were virtually identical. So if you were a fan of VC, I would imagine you would like the NC and the new Portra 160.

If you print photochemically and want the punchiest prints, Ektar 100 is fantastic.

If you scan, you can make any negative film look like anything you want, in terms of contrast and saturation. That's why there's a saturation slider in Photoshop! Ektar has even finer grain than 160NC, but that mostly matters for small formats. It's hard to imagine printing large enough to see that difference in LF.