What’s your daily driver?

[Efthreeoh]

Originally Posted by Lucky1

Agreed

I have four (4) BMWs. All are at a minimum over 100,000 miles. The oldest is 22, the youngest 11. Any one of them gets daily'd 80 miles and 1.5 hours from home when I commute to work. If a person is afraid to drive their modern car more than an hour away from home, they should either improve the servicing of it, or get rid of it.

[Run Silent]

I daily drive a MINI F56S with a tune and absolutely love it. It's a little rocket.

[Rmtt]

Originally Posted by Run Silent

I daily drive a MINI F56S with a tune and absolutely love it. It's a little rocket.

I bet that thing is a blast to drive...especially where you live at!

[Run Silent]

Originally Posted by Rmtt

I bet that thing is a blast to drive...especially where you live at!

It is - it has the Burger Tuning JB4 on it and some other mods, so about same hp as a 330i, only it weighs 2,400lbs.

[pennsiveguy]

When I'm home I daily my F15 50i. When I'm at the cabin I park the F15 and do all my running around, what little I do, in a 2004 Ford Excursion. It's got some fairly mild Gale Banks mods on a PowerStroke diesel. Very comfortable, since the seat has been formed to my ass for almost 200K miles. It sounds pretty nice and it's a great gear hauler for trips to the hardware store, the rifle range...pretty much any occasion when you need a cavernous and beefy SUV built on a 3/4-ton truck chassis. I used to plow snow with it until I got a tractor for that.

[Run Silent]

Originally Posted by pennsiveguy

When I'm home I daily my F15 50i. When I'm at the cabin I park the F15 and do all my running around, what little I do, in a 2004 Ford Excursion. It's got some fairly mild Gale Banks mods on a PowerStroke diesel. Very comfortable, since the seat has been formed to my ass for almost 200K miles. It sounds pretty nice and it's a great gear hauler for trips to the hardware store, the rifle range...pretty much any occasion when you need a cavernous and beefy SUV built on a 3/4-ton truck chassis. I used to plow snow with it until I got a tractor for that.

My snowplow for the driveway.

[pennsiveguy]

Originally Posted by Run Silent

My snowplow for the driveway.

I tried a blade mounted to our little Yamaha Grizzly 350 ATV, and it didn't work very well though it was really fun when it did. Hard to get the snow completely off the narrow driveway, so it kept getting narrower as winter went on. And when we got a 12" dump that was wet and sloppy on the bottom, it was useless as a second row of tits on a boar hog. The snow pushed the ATV, instead of the other way around.

[Lucky1]

Originally Posted by Efthreeoh

I have four (4) BMWs. All are at a minimum over 100,000 miles. The oldest is 22, the youngest 11. Any one of them gets daily'd 80 miles and 1.5 hours from home when I commute to work. If a person is afraid to drive their modern car more than an hour away from home, they should either improve the servicing of it, or get rid of it.

Pssst. Sometimes its a mental anxiety thing.

[Rmtt]

Originally Posted by Run Silent

It is - it has the Burger Tuning JB4 on it and some other mods, so about same hp as a 330i, only it weighs 2,400lbs.

That's all it needs. Weight is everything. I'd love If my little 128i weighed that amount. It feels pretty peppy now for what it is. Plenty for a daily that's fun.

[Run Silent]

Originally Posted by Rmtt

That's all it needs. Weight is everything. I'd love If my little 128i weighed that amount. It feels pretty peppy now for what it is. Plenty for a daily that's fun.

It honestly feels faster in day to day driving than the 360. I know it isn't, but with the torque, it feels that way and that's all that really matters.

Sound doesn't quite match that flat plane v8, though.

[Socal_R8]

Originally Posted by Lucky1

You're a man after my own heart. Although Latina is my next choice Asian is where I'm going with the life lady friend. But for cars - those two Bavarian Beauties are the way to go

Thanks....I blame getting the BMW for me getting the Porsche.

[Lucky1]

Originally Posted by SoCal_NSX

Thanks....I blame getting the BMW for me getting the Porsche.

Do expand on that

I will say for me it was a case of "one thing led to another"

[Socal_R8]

Originally Posted by Lucky1

Do expand on that

I will say for me it was a case of "one thing led to another"

Well, I had a 1992 NSX for the last 5 years or so, absolutely loved that car, but after I got the F32 a couple years ago, I started getting use to the luxury comfort fit and feel and the tech of the newer vehicles that the BMW gave me and I started wanting those things in a sports car....the Cayman was logical choice and the perfect fit, it is basically a modern day NA1 NSX (original NSX) with its mid engine naturally aspirated flat six.... Though not as cool as the NSX, it's on a completely different level of performance. Wish I could have kept the NSX and still got the Cayman, but after having three NSX's over the last 17 years it was time for a change..

[3002 tii]

2018 i3 Rex

[Glina]

Just picked up brand new 2019 Nissan GT-R Premium in Solid Red with premium interior to replace my 2017 M3 Competition. This is going to be my daily driver, all 4 seasons, except when is salt on the streets.

[Z4M_Coupe]

2019 GTI Manual....FBO, some suspension mods, bits here and there, nothing crazy. It is my second FBO GTI since 2016 and I couldn't be happier with it as a daily driver....minus the factory clutch that cannot support any power gains hahaha

[1MOREMOD]

Hey PM me what you did to the GTI trying to decide on modding my 19 rabbit

[Luc@Speed&Tech]

Traded in my M4 for a Model X which I'm dailying at the moment. Still have my Fiat 500 Abarth that I daily'd when I had the M4 but planning to replace it with a new weekender once I decide what I want.

[fastboatster]

I'm dailying my e90, of course) still get excited almost every time I need to drive it.

[FuriouslyFast]

Originally Posted by Glina

Just picked up brand new 2019 Nissan GT-R Premium in Solid Red with premium interior to replace my 2017 M3 Competition. This is going to be my daily driver, all 4 seasons, except when is salt on the streets.

Then it's a 3 season daily for you

[Feddersen]

I am in between BMWs at the moment. Until recently I drove a fully loaded F30 335i as my daily but currently my daily goes under the name "the car of shame".



Now the daily is a 2002 Seat Ibiza 1.2 with 64hp. We bought it for my wife when she was in between BMWs. We just kept it after she got her new car because it costs next to nothing to have it. Now it became my turn to be in between BMWs so of course I would take what we aready had to drive. We are the 8th or 9th owner of the car. It has driven 285000km/178125mi and has several defects. Long light is having its own random generator so that is never used. The driver side seat cannot fold, the gear box has five gears. The third gear is there somewhere but really difficult to find together with the fifth gear. It had a stereo USB/MP3 radio but only one speaker in the whole car is working. The tailgate can’t be opened. It has scratches all over the right side and there is rust all over the place and of course the engine light is on all the time. At one point we thought the light had given up or burnt out but it returned.

The good thing is that the car drives stable. The brakes work well and the clutch is still working well. So I really, really look forward for getting my new BMW X1 in April.

[flybigjet]

Originally Posted by Feddersen

Until recently I drove a fully loaded F30 335i as my daily but currently my daily goes under the name "the car of shame".

Hold my beer.

My "daily driver" for work is a 2001 Ford Focus ZX3 hatchback. NO clearcoat (and barely any paint) on any horizontal surface, with a lot of rust on the bottom of the back hatch as a bonus. The remaining clearcoat is slowly oxidizing and flaking off-- the car looks like it has mange. The only way to tell what the true color of the car used to be is to look at the bumpers or where the remains of what used to be a clear bra (that's fossilized onto the hood) was.

The Bad: Driver's window doesn't work and is speed-taped into position. Turn signals only work manually. Radio is intermittent (some days it works, other days-- not so much). Hatch won't stay latched which either a) drains the battery or b) triggers a door light at highway speeds. Hatch struts are completely blown so there's a good chance of decapitation if you open the hatch and forget about that little tidbit. It has an intermittent electrical gremlin that triggers the Electric "idiot light" randomly. I pretty much troubleshot and replaced everything in the electrical system except the ECU and finally gave up-- it runs, so I just ignore the light. The blower fan sounds like a family of talkative squirrels moved in (which isn't beyond the realm of possiblity), which means for heat/cold, you have two settings: Off or Full Blast-- anything between is Fingernails On A Chalkboard. The rear wiper is completely erratic-- you have to coax it to take a swipe at the rain on the back hatch. The suspension has a LOT of creaks and noises in it from the front strut perches; I changed them twice, the noise came back and I gave up because Ford's build quality is right up there with Yugo's. I'd turn up the radio to help ignore the din, but that's a hit or miss proposition. And finally-- the wiring that was installed by the Ford employee's in Mexico? Terrifying. Just..... terrifying. I've had to splice/patch/replace a good chunk of it just to keep from going up in flames like a buddhist monk. I literally fear plugging an amp meter into the circuit box as I'm afraid of what I'll read.

The Good: It's a manual transmission and has stiffer roll bars than stock-- it's actually sort of a hoot to drive. It has new light housings since the old ones were so hazy that on/off was more or less the same thing, I finally broke down and bought some cheap Chinese knock-off housings and they work great.

And? NOBODY in their right mind is going to break in to it or steal it from the Employee Lot, so I don't need to worry about security when I'm on a trip.

Part of the deal with my wife for me getting a new M2C was that the Focus had to Go Far Away. In its defense, it lived out in Cali for 15 years in the blasting sun with minimal care and feeding-- I would use it a few days a month when I commuted out to play with the AF Reserve, so for how often it got abused and neglected, it did a good job for longer than I would have expected.

Now, I just need to figure out how to get rid of it. My buddy is seriously considering giving it to his girlfriend's two kids-- they're recently of driving age, and he figures the humiliation of driving this around would do them a world of good. It's not like they can hurt it, and it might teach them that "No you do NOT get a nice, new car for free, just because you want one."

I'm all for it.

R.