What do you drive, besides the 370Z? Winter vehicle
 

This is more towards the cold regions crowd, and more as a daily driver vehicle to drive during the winter months or just to keep the Z for the "special occasion"
Winter here in Chicago is pretty harsh, so no need to drive it on summer tires with freezing rain or snow.
I'll start.
I have a 2005 Nissan Altima that I bought brand new. Perfect FWD.

I switch between a 1998 Maxima and a 1998 Toyota Camry

2015 Pathfinder. Family hauler.

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see my sig.

2012 Ford Edge Sport and 2001 RAV4 LTD.

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2010 Maxima

Well here in SC,,,we have some Winter morning's w/Spring dayz & Fall nite's....so the ~Z~stay's in rotation w/92'K1500(326k) Blazer & 96'C1500(238k)

My other car.... Hmmm, I'd rather not say so I dont have to suffer any jokes and humiliation...

But 250,000 miles on it and 52mpg.... Haven't I suffered enough?

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I'm all about that daily life.

Ford Ranger... though its more of a rain vehicle here in central FL than a winter one.

2016 Tacoma TRD AC 6spd and a 2006 Ducati Monster
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The Z, an '11 model year Touring Sport, is one of the winter beaters in my household; my wife loves her Z, so she drives it year round. My winter beater varies from one winter to another, but nowadays it's an '85 Corvette with 67k miles, it has Z51 package, a Doug Nash 4+3, and a set of winter tires. Usually, mine is a full-size GM pickup, the past two winters they were a Short Crew '15 GMC Sierra 1500 SLE Z71 2WD (5.3l, 6-speed) and a Standard Crew '16 GMC Sierra 1500 SLT 4WD (5.3l, 8-speed).

Actually, this winter it could be the '17 (Short Crew SLT 4WD with 6.2l and 8-speed), but I committed the '85 and I'm enjoying it.

Gentlemen,

2012 Subaru OutBack LTD Wagon, with AWD and Michelin X-Ice winter tires.

2013 Fiat 500 Abarth. With winter tires it does amazingly well, even here in Colorado.

2014 Subaru Legacy 2.5i. It comes off lease in June with well under the allotted miles. I'll be buying it out, because winter is my bitch in that thing.

2006 Xterra SE 4x4

05 mountaineer as the daily / work car and my wife has a 08 town and country minivan with all the options for baby hauling and road trips.

I love the minivan, it's perfect for road trips and doing a guys night out and on the way back from a fun night we put on Lion King or some disney movie on the 2 tvs that drop down, and no sane cop would want to pull us over!

any issue with ur abarth? i hear its a hit or miss.. usually a miss.

been wanting one for a while.. no place to put it though..

Fj

2003 Acura MDX with Blizzak tires.

Sadly, the model year JUST BEFORE they had SH-AWD. Mine only does the "lock all diffs in 1st/2nd/R" for when you're stuck or FWD. Still, good ground clearance.

2014 Juke Nismo AWD. Surprisingly fun and very good in the snow once you ditch the summer only Conti's.

My winter car and general DD is a 2010 Mustang V6 (Pony package). The V6 version is perfectly suited to driving in snow. Always starts on the coldest of mornings and gets up and goes on snow covered roads.

2014 RAM 1500 Limited

2014 Jeep Cherokee Trail Hawk...

We rarely get frozen precip here but for those days and heavy rain days I drive a 2010 XTerra 4x4.

Unfortunately I don't have a winter car yet. I traded in my truck recently for my Z recently. Luckily it has not snowed since I bought it...lets hope February and March are nice to us here in Chicago!

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My winter beater/daily driver started out as a $1500 salvage WJ. Since then I've enhanced it quite a bit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsVf...ature=youtu.be

Mods:
RC 4" long arm lift (includes adjustable trackbar and front swaybar disconnect)
dropped Pitman arm
32" tires
1.5" hubcentric spacers
RC dual stabilizers
3.73
505 Performance stage II head
0.030" overbore
Comp cam
Racetech 9.5:1 forged pistons
Rugged Ridge header
CAI, 2.5" custom stainless shorty exhaust
Flowmaster 40
auxiliary LEDs
custom paint
truck bed liner on the wheels, bumpers, and rockers

Here's an old pic without the lights and new front dampers. It may not look like much but it really did start out as junk. It's now a Frankenstein comprised of 3 different WJs and a ton of aftermarket bits.

2016 Civic EX-L Turbo when not driving the Z

2012 370Z with Blizzaks during the winter months.

2013 was the last of the 'good ones' I gather. Apparently Abarth was skirting the emissions rules with the sport button, but then CARB caught on and they could no longer use the Magneti Marelli sourced ECU. So tuning a 2014+ is hellish.

Mine is lightly modified with an ATP 3 downpipe and high-flow 200-cell cat, EC V4.1 intake, Forge FMIC, GFB DV+, 4C coils and Brisk silver racing plugs, ported TB, an E+D phase 2 tune, wilwood brakes, and a full Bilstein B14 coilover set. There's also the rear seat delete and a strict weight loss plan which bring it to roughly 2100lbs.

It makes north of 200hp, which is good for mugging other cars you'd never expect - and that's always good for a laugh. :)

I flog the hell out of the thing and it's been flawless, and it's about as close as you can get to a sportbike and still have doors... And still be cheap enough to essentially be disposable.

Overall I'm of the opinion that if you've got $18k laying around, it's hard to go wrong with an Italian Shelby. ;)

We have been kinda lucky this winter.
They calling for some accumulation on Saturday.

Mazda CX5.

2014 Scion TC 6-Speed :: gets the job done

2015 GTI It's probably quicker than my Z too... sadly

My DD is Germarican.

2011 Ford Focus Titanium Hatch with the 1.6 EcoBoost good for 182hp

Very nimble and already good power.

I keep getting told my priorities are mixed up? My 370 is the daily driver, and sits outside. It does have snow tires on spare set of Rays works fine for me. My only complaint is having to spray all the window rubbers every single day with silicone spray to keep them from freezing if there will be any precipitation.

In the Garage sits my Jeep (Build up here):

http://www.cdmfabrication.com/odclear40.jpg

Which I actually just spent the summer finally restoring, as she was finally showing her age, so it's actually red now, and these are my "small" street tires (and a picture taken before everything was fully assembled):

http://www.cdmfabrication.com/bbpics...terpaint11.jpg

The Jeep is sharing the garage with a few other warm weather toys too:

http://www.cdmfabrication.com/bbpics/bike/bupr610.jpg

My R6 build pictures here.

And my kart track toy:

http://www.cdmfabrication.com/bbpics/bike/rs2mod5.jpg

My DRZ build pictures here.

Outstanding Fleet !!