What is a "daily driver" a car you do drive every day, or a car you would drive every day? If a person owns 1 car- that is obviously a daily drive. If someone owns 2 cars and drives them both- then they do not own a daily driver.

My wife and I own 4 cars- no such thing as a year round daily driver in our household. Her Highlander is a daily driver during the winter months- our BMW 325ci a daily driver during the spring, summer and fall. Our '04 Corolla- I drive during the really bad winter days- my C5 Corvette I intend to drive year round (winter "weather permitting"). Today, for example, 25 degrees, some snow in the forecast, is a weather permitting day for me.

Ran my errands this morning, took this photo after uncovering my Corvette (a "driveway king").

 

IMO a daily driver means a car one drives essentially every day including to and from work etc. My Z is my DD except for winter (Grand Caravan). But as we have kids, my wife drives a Nissan Rogue, and when I'm driving / included (nights and weekends), then I drive our minivan.
I'm thus the opposite of many, as I very rarely drive my Z on weekends.

 

That makes a lot of sense! Dang lawyers

 

That’s pretty much me. I try to drive my Vette as much as possible, weather permitting of course

 

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I drive this every day of the year, My wife has a 2017 Sahara Unlimited so lack of space in my car isnt an issue also I'm 47 so ya dont have to be young to drive em daily! (I live on the Gulf Coast of MS so that helps)

 

have an 03 50th. anniv conv. was a garage queen until I got it a few months ago. cherry in and out. 31k on it. consider it my DD depending what I am doing, have a 09 kia suv also which is my DD. use both year round, fla. , fin

 

Mine was bought pretty much specifically to be a fun daily. It's just another run-of-the-mill C5, not an exotic. The only time I don't drive it is in heavy snow because the car simply isn't competent in that sort of weather. I have a Grand Cherokee for that.

These cars are meant to be driven. Let them sit around and the gremlins come out to play.

 

I've never used my 00 as a daily driver and as a results, she's a bit of a Garage Queen when it comes to a lot of use. A pure toy for the weekends. I have to say thought that even if I did drive her as my DD, I would find an alternative for the winter. Snow, salt and ice.....not a good thing.

 

My DD April-October 2001 Vert. I have a Yukon for rainy days but she gets driven a ton!

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The OP's question was when did people stop driving Corvettes as dd. Being age 65, I recall vividly being a young man back in the late 60's and 70's when C2s ruled the roads. Most people seemed to drive their Corvettes year around, it was common to see them with rear snows. I had two 327/365 roadsters with 336 rear end and posi, they went almost anywhere, I never bought snows. I also had a 427/435 roadster that I drove year around, but I was a student then. My last was a 66 427/425 roadster that I spent all summer doing a spectacular hugger orange paint job on, and finally bought a beater for winter and stored it. Keep in mind, those cars were only 1-3k, and nobody could have dreamed what they would be worth almost a lifetime later. There was no front wheel drive or SUVs to speak of, so everyone was slipping and sliding anyway, unless you had a VW or Corvair, both of which I later used as winter beaters. I think the change came when people began noticing "hey, my frame needs replacing!". Later I had a 1972 LT1 coupe that was so rusty underneath I was really afraid of it, so sold it. So, almost ashamed to admit driving C2s back in the day, but it WAS the norm. You'd also see 911 Porsches and Panteras, etc, all winter. I never recall seeing any muscle car stored for the winter. They did use less crap on the roads.

 

I cringe every time I read a post about someone who drives their C5 on salted roads...

 

You don't drive your C5 on salted roads?

 

I'm 69 and agree totally. back in the day most all vets were DD. why own one if you let it sit. MC's were never queens. yes, I understand winter snow and salt.

 

Never will...and isn't the whole "I don't have a C5 yet" thing getting a little old? I think everyone knows by now...

 

I'm retired now so nothing is a daily driver. Some days I don't even leave the house, because I don't have to leave the house.
With that said, I will often leave our Vette at home if the weather is bad just to save cleaning it, but when my wife and I were both working we had usually two vehicles - she drove one to work and I drove one to work.
Boy - If we could only go back and capture some of the cars that were daily drivers for one or the other of us which included Vettes as well as other of "today's collectibles."

 

I drive mine where every I need to go. No garage queen for me.

But here recently had to keep indoor as the convertible top is leaking and funds are kind of low.

 

I daily mine. It's a '99 hardtop full bolt-on car with 196k miles (just rolled 196,500 the other day). The days I have to commute into the office it's a 94 mile commute one way.