Daily driver?
 

Does everyone use their Z as a daily car? I am thinking of getting a cheap second car to burn around in just to keep the K's down.


Suggestions?



I can't help looking at S13 and 180sx drift pigs. :tup:

Yup, use my Z as my daily driver. Don't see why i should drive another car unless i need to pick up large goods that obviously don't fit. Have been the same for more than 5 months now.

get an altima, maybe a coupe

i DD my Z, but if i had a garage for it and the money for another car i'd try to avoid it.

What! Miss my daily dose of adrenalin?! No way, dude!

yeah, mine is my daily drive....and loving it!

I was totally sick of having my garage full of cars (2) and motorbikes (1) and no space for even a beer fridge....now that really sucks - an aussie garage w/out a beer fridge....my friends are like "dude, no bar fridge...FAIL"...

so out with the RX 7 , out with the Ford Shopping Trolley (Fiesta) , out with the Hog,,, nah - keep the Hog, and in with the Z. ...got the 2nd biggest effin bar fridge now..ha ha

I drive 80k (half freeway, half city) each way to get to the office 3 times a week and no way would I drive a pile of junk just to keep the K's down. The Z is my daily adrenalin fix.

F*%k the kilometres, you have to live baby! , the Z is your servant not the other way around. It gets me so mad to hear ppl saying "oh I can't drive it on that day, it looks like it might rain" - for F*%k's sake just wash it if it gets dirty.

Gee

I could use my wife's Mazda 2 and cut down half my 500 weekly Km's but I enjoy driving my car too much!
13,500kms and counting...argh!
The pain and the joy :)

thanks for the comments

Everyone needs a beer fridge! :)

i'll take one! does it come with beer? :rofl2:

HAHA... I daily drive both my cars. :D

So, the adrenalin rush it is! DD time!

Well, seriously, the way I figure it is that on your death-bed you ain't gonna be saying

"Geez, I should have driven my Z a lot less to keep the K's down"

get a grip - Life is *not* a rehearsal for some airy fairy afterlife according to the creation myths from a bunch of bronze age desert tribesmen (aka the abrahamic religions - judaism, christianity, islam).

Why waste your time driving anything else if you have the good fortune to drive a Z?

Oh, BTW I don't have any strong opionions on this... ;-)



Gee

Dude, what are you talking about???? Don't you know you'll have your z in heaven or hell?? (whichever way your life dictates), I'm gonna be cruising around with Jesus picking up chicks at maccas!!.... haha nah but spot on, you only live once and if you have something you enjoy use it as much as possible.... after all in a few years when you sell it or write it off, it's not gonna make a difference how many k's were on it to you (except for resale but meh)

If I didn't have to catch the bus every day to work in the city, I'd be driving my Z... although I'ver already got 4200km on it in 2 months because I drive it everywhere else...

stop being a girl Darren....... :P or if it worries you so much get the k's up to where Ronnie is now and all three of us can drive through the same intersection at the same time in different directions...

I've done 5400K's in 6 weeks.

When I picked it up from the dealer I tossed my swag in the back and went for a 5 day round trip outback. C.Coast-Dubbo-Parkes-Temora-Bathurst-Sydney-C.Coast, 2000klicks just to ease the motor in.

Best thing I've done in a while. Its good to get to know the car, ease the motor in doing no more than 3000rpm and 100kph winding up and down through the gears on good roads with little stop-start traffic.

The biggest thing that annoyed me was all the "100kph limited" trucks flashing me and cramping me out along the roads outback, especially between Dubbo and Temora. Ended up pulling over more than few times to let them hurtle by at 130kph.

Look, its not the absolute number of K's . You'll get a lot more engine wear doing start-stop city congested driving with a poor run-in regime than open freeway klicks with a careful engine run in time.

I know most ppl just look at the odometer when at the dealers yard, but its a lot like just looking at just the total number of watts of a hi-fi rather than the quality of the amp (A, B ...) , the efficiency rating of the spkrs, the type of cables and so forth...

Gee

Springvale Rd and Princes Hwy Intersection can cater for 4!
I'm thoroughly enjoying my car cause I will hit 14,000km this week! :( :)

:iagree:

Comment of the day!

Why have a bad-arse car if you're not going to drive it? Then you're just hurting yourself seeing it sit. Drive it like you want to. It's just a car in the end, anyway.

i bought mine as a daily driver...

i bought it to drive it...:driving:

Thanks for all of the comments...

I guess I should have been more specific and not just mentioned the Kms. Basically I have a need for a larger car with storage sometimes and I was hoping to get a second car that would do that and also keep the Ks down as a bonus.

Don't get me wrong, I drive the Z everywhere and love it. I only want a second car for practicality reasons sometimes.

So I can't belive people don't have second/spouse cars? What about when you go to the hardware store to buy stuff that simple wont fit into the Z? I do a bit of that sort of work around the house so thats where my question came from.

Yeah, I know where u r coming from GTRFAN. Its a valid point - who wants to load up their Z with pavers, bark mulch, that extra long box with the new whipper snipper you have been dying/forced (sorry missus!) to get for the garden.

On the other hand thats one of the strengths of the hatch - it looks cool and can pop open to take that crap (within limits). I have to say that the space in the hatch of the Z is less than what I am used to.

It was amazing what you could stuff into the cargo bay of the Ford Shopping Trolley or even the old RX 7, given that they are both pretty small cars.

A lot of my friends who have an interest in sportscars have a differrent car for toting stuff and to enable the ferrying of the kids around and so forth.

Be realistic - a Z is not a family car unless you decide not to have kids, even then its a pain when u need to ferry friends around.

I hope to build a car port out the back to hold a big run-around car, look a cheap Magna or any number of drones is good for that...just for what you speak of, not as a general daily drive..

Otherwise tell them to deliver...

kdo2milger - your ride looks nice in red. love your cat w/machine gun avatar...it kills me ;-)

Don't you see, posters here have taken out a 2nd mortgage to pay for track mods. jk jk

My current fleet:

1997 Ford Expedition 4WD - 145k miles on the odo (for those hardware store runs as well as small furniture delivery for the wifey's biz) as well as New England snow days.

1996 Toyota Camry - 70k miles on the odo (for trips to NYC, park on the street yo, as well as a station car, daily driver and beater)

1999 Mercedes ML320 - 135k on the odo

2009 370Z on the way

Plus two motorcycles with a combined 40k on the odos..........damn I drive a lot.

I'm not driving my girlfriends 97 Barina no matter how much I want to keep the kms down