daily driving fun cars

[turbotalon1g]

Originally Posted by Murlo26

A corvette is a solid car, I love my dads c6, still wouldn't consider it comfy though, better than any mitsu for comfort but still not comfy in conventional terms. They are relatively reliable though but not practical for winter, so still not a DD imo, not in MN.

FYI AWD isn't the end all for everything, i know some evo/dsm/suby guys have a hard time believing this.

[Goat Blower]

After our last trip to Slippery Falls, I realize I'd rock a CTS-V. Run low 11's and drive in comfort everyday.

[asshanson]

While I drive my fun car most of the time when it's not in storage, I also only have a 2 mile commute so it's not a chore to drive to work. I would consider the fun car my DD for 2/3 of the year, and the escort my DD in winter. Works for me, I was never really worried about the CTS-V, Corvette, and now the Lotus for reliability, but they are much newer cars than my DSM.

I agree with Murlo on the vette not being a year round vehicle. I had blizzaks on the Cadillac and that thing sucked to drive if there was snow on the road, I imagine the Vette would be worse. I stored the Cadillac the next winter and sold the snow tires.

[Murlo26]

Originally Posted by asshanson

While I drive my fun car most of the time when it's not in storage, I also only have a 2 mile commute so it's not a chore to drive to work. I would consider the fun car my DD for 2/3 of the year, and the escort my DD in winter. Works for me, I was never really worried about the CTS-V, Corvette, and now the Lotus for reliability, but they are much newer cars than my DSM.

I agree with Murlo on the vette not being a year round vehicle. I had blizzaks on the Cadillac and that thing sucked to drive if there was snow on the road, I imagine the Vette would be worse. I stored the Cadillac the next winter and sold the snow tires.

Yep, 1st hand experience. Even with snow tires, with snow on the ground they suck. v8 torque isn't good for getting traction.

[Halon]

I'd have to agree with Paul, I'd love a G35x or G37x as a DD. Hell part of me still wants to build a G35x coupe GTR killer

[turbotalon1g]

Today i drove it to work and well the drive in was ok, but drive home was boring all I could do was look at the C6 z06 and 600 rocket.

I guess a good daily would have enough getup to change lanes and merge into moving traffic but being comfy.

DSM is comfy though, I guess I'll just drive it when I know I'll go somewhere straight from work or something.

I did get to watch 1 accident and a couple of incidents where people almost got rear ended, makes me feel better about having a beater car for dd duties.