What's your Daily Driver?
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During the fall/winter/spring rainy season, it's my 1998 Honda Civic ES....GREAT car, ultrareliable, 30+ MPG and great street manners.
During the warmer half of the year, when it's dry, it's my Cobra. I bought one that wasn't a trailer queen b/c I wanted to drive it, not look at it in my garage. I do so every day, it has a few rock chips in the paint to prove it, but man, what a ride to the grocery store!!
Hoping to add a GT40 sometime.......
Cheers from Doug!!
During the warmer half of the year, when it's dry, it's my Cobra. I bought one that wasn't a trailer queen b/c I wanted to drive it, not look at it in my garage. I do so every day, it has a few rock chips in the paint to prove it, but man, what a ride to the grocery store!!
Hoping to add a GT40 sometime.......
Cheers from Doug!!
Jim Rosenthal
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My daily driver in the winter is either a 2008 Toyota Tacoma pickup truck (my third Toyota pickup- I'd still have the first if someone hadn't smashed it all to s--tby running into me).. or a 1980 Mercedes 280GE. This is a German spec Gwagen which was brought in years ago and Federalized for a man in Oregon. Manual shift, 6-cylinder engines, and the most amazing 4wd I've ever seen. I use it to get to the hospital in the snow and ice- it has never gotten even close to stuck. If you like 4wd vehicles, Gwagens are really astonishing in what they can do- far more than I would attempt.
In the summer, in nice weather, my daily driver is my Kirkham Cobra. Or my old Hatteras 36, which does something none of the cars do- it floats.
In the summer, in nice weather, my daily driver is my Kirkham Cobra. Or my old Hatteras 36, which does something none of the cars do- it floats.
I would like to have your daily driver (Nissan GTR) please...
2005 Rousch F150 crew 4x4 5.4. Gets 15-16 mpg farten around. 17.9 @ 70 mph, 21.5 @ 60 mph. Best truck I ever owned! 73k on it now and NO problems EVER! Only one recall for a vacuum hose replacement on the brake booster. Tows a 20 Ft enclosed car trailer great, getting about 11-12 mpg not driving crazy. Trailer is 4,200 lbs with 2,400 or 2,800 lb car in it, plus some goods. Would buy another one in a second!!! Just found a 06 Mustang GT 5 speed on Sunday with 38k on it. Super clean with new tires on the Bullet style wheels. Darn thing runs on regular !.............FOREVER FORD
Brett James-McCall
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Alternate between 2.0 EcoBoost SMAX and 2.0 EcoBoost Mondeo. SMAX soon to be replaced with the new 200PS diesel, and I'll probably change to the new 240PS Mondeo. Also have access to a Kuga and Fiesta.
Then again I do work for the company and have to change them quite frequently...
Then again I do work for the company and have to change them quite frequently...
Ron,
I have thought about getting a GTR for a bit of fun.... However, I've heard that running costs (tyres, servicing etc) are astronomical. I'd value your opinion on the matter.
Cheers,
Graham.
No, I went looking for an old beater truck and I came across this and I couldn't say no-the hardest thing was explaining it when I got home (another toy!) "honest Honey, it's just an old beater Truck!"
Darnel
I have 10K miles on mine and the tires look like their good for another 10k miles at least (I haven't tracked the car). The car is all wheel drive, so tire wear has been remarkably even. New tires are about $1,200, but I want to put a different tire on when they're worn out. When cold the OEM tires are "darty".
The base engine is essentially from a Maxima, so oil changes/filters etc are very cheap (I do that work myself).
The transmission service (every 15,000 miles) is expensive because the fluids are expensive. That runs about $1,100 or so I think (haven't done it yet).
If anything breaks, then "Katy bar the door" because there are some really expensive bits on the car (carbon fiber drive shafts), turbo chargers, titanium gears, etc.
Overall, I think on whole the car is cheaper to maintain than a similar performance Porsche or Mercedes and much cheaper than a Ferrari or Lambo. It gets the expensive moniker because the guy that buys the car stretches from a Maxima or a 350Z and isn't used to that kind of expense.
The car is a blast to drive, but its limits are so far beyond mine that exciting events become somewhat mundane. In my Ferrari 328 a corner at 65mph is exciting because you can feel the car rotate on its axis, etc. In the GT-R that same corner is uneventful, as it is so planted it just goes around the corner.
Ashamedly I know that at 150 it feels like you're running 100.
From stop light to stop light the Launch control is a wizard. I can get 3.6-3.7 to 60 over and over. Just toggle the 3 switches to R, stomp the brake, stomp the gas, release the brake and steer. The AWD makes the car nearly unbeatable to 60mph.
I alternate , was the VW but now my wife is driving 150m round trip , and the TDI gets 40mpg an her Trailblazer gets 17mpg so for now she has it . So now its mostly Big Blue , also a diesel . But the older truck needs love too . Its up for adoption if anyones interested in the The Dragon Truck .
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In few years will be 100% historical and will get the golden plate from "archivio storico italiano", the greatest autority in certification of pure genuine and original cars in italy.
E36 power, oldtimer bmw's.The ones they are unable to do nowadays for quality
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