Whats your Daily Driver ?

[Frenchy]

Hats off to those of you that use your 944's as daily cars. I walk to the road end and catch a coach to and from work occasionally the train.
My daily is an 06 BMW X3 2.0 D M Sport, hobby cars are my 944 of course, A Mini Cooper S R53 electric blue with white roof mirror caps and wheels(Supercharged) and a beautiful Imola Red BMW 330i M Sport touring in a very rare manual form I am the 3rd local owner, low miles and the original bill of sale you will not find a better one anywhere !

 

[scam75]

I use my turbo as a daily. Put 60k miles on her in 10 years. Never bought it to save on petrol and it gets used, well, daily!

Got a 13 plate Golf for family duties or when the turbo is undergoing work. That was bought for economy after the mrs decided the v6 mk4 golf 4motion was too thirsty. We dont see eye to eye on cars.......it had 5 doors, 4wd and a v6 ffs, what more family friendly do you need []

Stuart

 

[Dan944t]

 

[John Sims]

Terry The Tangerine Truck. Just the job for around the lanes of Wales (which Beaky is completely useless for) and up and down the M4 which again Beaky isn't as good.

 

[PSH]

not sure why beaky isn't good on the M4 or country lanes other than a height disadvantage but one thing is certain.. beaky is a thousand times prettier....

 

[Ewan]

Depends on the weather. If it's dry I tend to use my Maserati MC-Stradale (which, for any Porsche fans not familiar with the Italian brands offerings, is the road racer version of their GranTurismo coupe, so think of it as a stripped-out 2 seater, comparable to a 911 GT3). But when the weather is not playing ball, it's the Range Rover.

 

[John Sims]

not sure why beaky isn't good on the M4 or country lanes other than a height disadvantage but one thing is certain.. beaky is a thousand times prettier....

By comparison Beaky is heavy to manoeuvre, difficult to establish the corners, doesn't have the ground clearance so can't use verges as a last resort to avoid things and, not being big and orange, isn't as easily spotted by road users coming the other way when they need to stop. On the M4, bastion of the speed camera, Beaky doesn't have cruise control, hands free phone or an interface for my audio books, or sat nav, or heated seats or a heated windscreen or automatic wipers or automatic lights. Terry is pretty much oblivious to it being wet, dry raining or anything else.

I accept that, in the right conditions, Beaky is faster but I don't frequent those conditions these days so Terry is generally better. And Mostyn hates Beaky.

And as for prettier, why should I care? I'm inside.

 

[Tizzy]

Lucky enough to have 2018 Range Rover SVR as my main daily and recently added a 991 as an alternate as I wanted one of the last naturally aspirated flat 6 911’s before they all became 3.0 turbos??

 

[John Sims]

Lucky enough to have 2018 Range Rover SVR....

Very sweet. That is a proper tool for converting petrol into noise while demonstrating that tarmac is a complete irrelevance.

 

[al]

My daily fun bus for the school run/ grocery getter and work is a remapped diesel jag xtype. Great on fuel and with the remap quite pokey in the torque stakes. The other car to tinker with (other than my cab) is a 3.0 e85 bmw z4.

 

[DavidL]

944 comes out frequently but failing that we have a brace of silver amg estates, a c55 and an e55. And the caterham comes out tomorrow.

 

[Eldavo]

A very weird selection in the Eldavo household at the moment.

The 944 Twbo is due back from the rebuild imminently (I must update the thread) so the 996 will get pushed out of the garage. There’s a 1966 Triumph Tiger 90 in there as well.

Daily is a hire car from work (Volvo V40) as my lease car went back and the Lexus ES F-Sport Hybrid I’ve ordered has been delayed. Mrs has an A-class Mercedes that goes back in October even though I’m picking up it’s replacement on Friday - an Audi S3 Cab.

Hoping by October that we’ll only have the 3 cars again, 4wd hot hatch, big family barge and the Twbo . . . unless I buy an old G Wagon to do up as my 12 year old daughter is begging me to do.

 

[g944s2]

Just got a brand new Audi A4 Avant 3 weeks ago, nice big family car with space for the dog.

It‘s not as quick as the Golf r estate that it replaced but I found that acceleration was just so addictive and I was speeding just a bit too much!

Also have a little Suzuki 650 bike for my commute to work, don’t really use it much at any other time.

 

[Robbiemeister]

2004 Audi A2, 1.4TDI re-mapped to 112BHP. Weighs about 980kg. All the Audi stuff like cruise, auto air con etc in a small but comfortable package. 152k miles. £30 tax ULEZ, not that I ever drive in London.

 

[Robbiemeister]

John,
After all these years I saw that Freelander and thought "I know whose post this is".
Have you still got a Westfield too?
Robbie

 

[Ewan]

Ooooh - is there another Westfield owner on here?! I have a Westfield SEiGHT in BRG. Another sunny-day-only car.

And taking of sunny days, last week I used my Ferrari 400i for my (thankfully short) daily commute. It's not an economical way to travel. It has more cylinders than it does MPG. But of course, as Martin Buckley said, that is the mark of a truly great car.

 

[Frenchy]

Update !
sold my E46 330i touring to a friend who also has a lovely 944 turbo and a 964 Jubilee, I have first dibs if he decides to sell, replaced with another " hobby car" an Italian ????
Alfa Romeo 159 ti 2.0 Sportwagen in Alfa Red of course, clunky old diesel but it looks stunning and believe it or not it is well built !
Not too fussed about economy but this thing is ridiculously frugal, came back from Lincoln where I bought it, on £25 which was near enough 300 miles.