Daily Driver
Drifting
Joined: Jun 2006
Posts: 1,294
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From: Chicago Illinois
St. Jude Donor '12
mine is a daily driver. bought new with 13 miles on odo in may 2010. have 18k miles now. have a second set of wheels with winter tires. unless the snow is over three inches, i drive the vette.
enjoy your vette.
enjoy your vette.
Melting Slicks
Joined: Mar 2007
Posts: 2,485
Likes: 3
From: Central NJ
I drove my Z51 2008 every day, even in winter. Loved it, couldn't understand why people would choose to drive a second car when they have a Vette... I swore I would do the same with my 2010 GS, but, as you, I'm finding myself sort of leaning towards using the car on nice days only. I don't really want to baby the car, but I want to avoid getting tires, brakes or major service as long as I can. I just hate the idea of having the rocker panels screwed up, or the rims scratched up by the service garage/dealer. Anyway, mine so far is a 3 days per week car, and probably won't see winter use....
Last edited by ohmy; Aug 26, 2011 at 10:46 AM.
Lifetime NCM Member #2482
Joined: Jul 2008
Posts: 2,996
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From: West of Houston Texas
St. Jude Donor '11
If you aren't going to drive it then why have it? Something will always come up on a weekend or the weather will be crappy or there'll be that game on tv. If you don't enjoy it now, you won't. I drove my coupe almost every day 150 miles round trip to work for 2.5 years. Then I retired so it doesn't see the miles it used to. But, it goes EVERYWHERE. Walmart, doctor, bank, cleaners, restaurants. I treat it like gold and it still looks great for an '08 with 65K.
The car was meant to be driven.
The car was meant to be driven.
Racer
Joined: Dec 2010
Posts: 314
Likes: 1
From: Vegas
Daily driver here to. Purchased 2010 Coupe on Dec 7, 2010. Today I have 11,200 miles. 99% highway mailes. North of L.A. I can put all travel bags in her, full blown supermarket shopping, and of course all my party goods. I had three vehicles. Now just my Vette. The weather here is prime 365 days a year. Sunny Southern California.
Melting Slicks
Joined: May 2010
Posts: 2,142
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From: Rancho Santa Margarita California
13K on my DD 2011 GS. I actually bought the Vette specifically for the work commute....I drive the kid hauler mini-van and/or the bigger full-size van conversion on the weekend with the family.
When I first set my sights on the Vette, my wife shared her thoughts that it was impractical (I've got elementary school aged kids). So I surveyed my driving habits for a month....95% of the time I was alone in my mini-van....we typically took her bigger full sized van for the family driving.
In addition to being a great daily driver car (especially here in Southern California), the Vette is also great "unwind from work" therapy. Doesn't matter how tough work is, by the time I get home, the Vette has done it's job in melting the stress away!
When I first set my sights on the Vette, my wife shared her thoughts that it was impractical (I've got elementary school aged kids). So I surveyed my driving habits for a month....95% of the time I was alone in my mini-van....we typically took her bigger full sized van for the family driving.
In addition to being a great daily driver car (especially here in Southern California), the Vette is also great "unwind from work" therapy. Doesn't matter how tough work is, by the time I get home, the Vette has done it's job in melting the stress away!
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Drifting
Joined: Dec 2010
Posts: 1,939
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From: Danielsville Georgia
Bought mine in Novermer 2010. 19,000 miles on it. Now 30,000. Use it as my primary driver. I have 2 other vehicles. Like driving the vette more. After drivjing the vette other vehicles I own feel like pigs. Plus I bought for the top down and just plain WOW factor.
Drifting
Joined: Apr 2011
Posts: 1,755
Likes: 198
From: Southington CT
If you are the kind of person that doesn't mind rock chips on your hood or scratches on your door, then drive it everyday and everywhere. Don't get me wrong, garage queens also get chips and scratches, just not as many in a short period of time.
Mine is a fair weather car. I bought it for THAT purpose since I have other cars to drive in the winter and bad summer days.
If you will get **** about chips and scratches then keep the charger, if not, then drive your Vette daily.
Bottom line, Its YOUR car and do whatever you want with it.
Mine is a fair weather car. I bought it for THAT purpose since I have other cars to drive in the winter and bad summer days.
If you will get **** about chips and scratches then keep the charger, if not, then drive your Vette daily.
Bottom line, Its YOUR car and do whatever you want with it.
My '08 is my 6th 'Vette. First 5 went over 100K miles each. Don't plan on getting another one until the '08 goes over the 100K marker
Instructor
Joined: Jan 2006
Posts: 143
Likes: 1
From: Greenwood IN
Definitely just bought my C5 about a month ago as a daily driver. I was driving a beat up old '90 Accord for years as a DD (shown in the background of the 1st pic), swore that I would buy myself a nice, quick car for my next normal driver and the C5 won (not that I haven't ALWAYS been a vette guy, I owned a '76 C3 for awhile, but sold it due to the amount of work it needed and the UTTER lack of performance out of the 350 for that year) and I was carried in and brought home from the hospital after being born in a yellow '63 split window. That was my mom's DD back in the late 70's, early 80's! Dad drove a '65. My '98 had '77K on it when I bought it and it now has over 80K. Like the old Honda, I'll drive it till it quits. (And the Honda DID quit.... finally dropped a valve in the #3 and #4 cylinders while on the interstate. The thing actually made it 160 more miles to home on two cylinders! Unbelieveable!) I plan on buying a stock set of the "wagon wheel" wheels cheap for it for a set of snow tires and off I go in the winter.
Daily Driver
Weekend Toy
Spark Plugs out of the old Honda, if anyone cares....
Daily Driver
Weekend Toy
Spark Plugs out of the old Honda, if anyone cares....
Pro
Joined: Dec 2009
Posts: 572
Likes: 0
From: Seattle Wa
I'll go ahead and take the abuse...so here goes.
I never bought nor intended my Z06 to be a dd. It is my weekend toy. I'm not **** about anything, I do take it on long vacation trips and don't worry about this or that. I simply enjoy the fact that I very much look forward to simply driving it in on the weekends.
I just replaced my G35 Coupe as my driver with a brand new CTS Coupe from Cadillac. I enjoy using that as my dd.
Okay..I'm ready, go ahead and kick my azz over my post.
I never bought nor intended my Z06 to be a dd. It is my weekend toy. I'm not **** about anything, I do take it on long vacation trips and don't worry about this or that. I simply enjoy the fact that I very much look forward to simply driving it in on the weekends.
I just replaced my G35 Coupe as my driver with a brand new CTS Coupe from Cadillac. I enjoy using that as my dd.
Okay..I'm ready, go ahead and kick my azz over my post.
Cruising
Joined: Aug 2011
Posts: 14
Likes: 0
From: Kernersville North Carolina
I think the C6 is waaay too fun to NOT drive it everyday. I just wish I lived further from work. 0.9 miles is not far enough
EDIT: Oh yeah, when it snows I walk to work...heh
EDIT: Oh yeah, when it snows I walk to work...heh
Last edited by mikevankuiken; Aug 26, 2011 at 04:30 PM.
