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Old 03-25-2015, 09:38 AM
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Many folks have a C6 garage queen, weekend only car, occasional play toy, and so forth. Is your C6 primary transportation and a daily driver?

I'm on my 4th Corvette and every one has been the main machine. Personally, I don't want to drive anything else.
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my C6 is my daily driver. It's ~60 miles a day round trip to/from work and then weekend fun.
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My commute is 60 miles round trip each day through congested stop and go traffic. Each 30 mile trip takes me over an hour. It's pure misery. I bought my Corvette to enjoy......my commute sucks, so the 15 year old POS VW Jetta gets that chore, and I take the Vette on drives that I enjoy!
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Daily Driver, although it doesn't actually get driven every day. Mostly just gets driven in town about 4 or 5 times a week.
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Daily driver here. Have daily driven Corvettes since 2004.
Had a 2000, 2005 , 2006, 2007 and 1985. The 07 and 85 are my daily drivers (85 is for bad weather days).

I'm with you, I don't want to drive anything else.
Old 03-25-2015, 10:23 AM
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Daily driver here also. Although it' s only from the end of March to around the end of November. 35 miles each way most of it Interstate going against traffic so I really get to enjoy the car.
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Daily driver here, although drive not nearly as long as it used to be. Plus I have a twisty turney drive up the Mt Bonnell hillside daily which never stops being cool. 139,000 on my 08.
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Daily driver here. Unless the rain is ridiculous and the puddles get to deep on the roads. Then I'll take the truck.
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My Z06 is a fair weather, weekend/evening/holiday toy, and it shares some of that time with my older, but very well kept Mercedes SL500 roadster.

I would drive the Z to work nice days sometimes, except:
1) Our office has a ridiculously steep entrance to the parking lot. I can barely get enough angle to get my other cars in and out without scraping the front dam. The Vette would be impossible.
2) I'm concerned about appearing ostentatious. My employees already see me alternating between the Cadillac, the Benz, and sometimes my truck or my wife's Lexus.

And although I can usually avoid rush hour traffic, that would be a tiresome chore with the big engine and manual transmission.
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Wife is a house queen, C6 is a garage queen. Sometimes the two fight over territory.
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My 2009 is a daily driver...I do have a classic ..ahem...mustang that I drive quite a bit in the summer which helps keep some miles off but I'm just about to crank over 90k miles on the vette...
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Daily driver here, just installed an ECS kit to make it more fun! 104 miles round trip every day, gotta love Houston...
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Nope, my C6 is like a boat. It sits in the garage until I go to a car show, club function or road trip.
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Drive mine 4-5 days a week.
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Daily driver, it gets washed once or twice a week, whether she wants it or not. Been my only vehicle that I own since new (2011).



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Mine is a daily driver too!
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Primarily weekend toy. Looking forward to the Power Tour.

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Daily driver...I put about 30k miles per year on my car, and that's on top of all the other cars I rent / borrow from friends lawl, love driving
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DD mine as well...only time it stays home is in the snow/ice/heavy rain....then ill take the truck out
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100% for fun. I never use it to run errands etc. And "work", that's a four letter word. I'm done with the man.


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