Daily Drivers?

[fatz]

1.3 charade

you can do 2.20 around eastern creek in them as well( see avatar)

but if you want style

r31 number one

[scathing]

2 months ago I saw a N15 Pulsar SSS on sale for round $5K. It had around 300,000km on the clock though.

I was going to go and check it out, and if it was in decent nick offer them around $3K for it and use it as a daily....

[88silhouette]

morgs is on the money!!!

r31!!!

[Bunta]

feel sorry for the person who got it after u , wonder what the oil looked like after 40000

It looked alright after I changed it just before sale

One of my mates has it now he has done another 60000kms on it and it still hasnt ever screwed up!! must be up around 200000kms now

[Beer Baron]

spend the $2K on more fuel for the car you have. you wont save money by adding another car to your fleet.

$2K to buy

some where to park it

insurance?

$1K per annum extra in rego and greenslip

any extra servicing.

within 1 year you will have spent at least $3K if you buy a $2K car. and you will spend at least $1.5K each year. you would need to be saving a LOT of fuel to make it worthwhile from a cost point of view. if there are other reasons too it may make more sense, but just to save $$$ it wont work.

[D_I_F]

yep either corolla, mirage or pulsar

[N1GTR]

Spend the extra money on your current car.

I have 2 cars, and its a big dissapointment driving the one that ISNT'T the R32 most days

[evil_weevil]

gees lots of food for thought here !

thanks for all the input guys n gals !

i think i need to think this through wisely

oh, and motor bike is waaaay out of the equation! riding a trail bike on a golf course is hard enough for me - so in traffic - id be dead!

[Merli]

You've realised that you're going to be driving relatively long distances to and from work, and spend a lot of time in your car........... So you decide to buy a $2k crapper to spend all that time in and leave your nice car at home?!?

Incredible.

[Liz]

You've realised that you're going to be driving relatively long distances to and from work, and spend a lot of time in your car........... So you decide to buy a $2k crapper to spend all that time in and leave your nice car at home?!?

Incredible.

no need to be so rude about it.

for alot of people they'd prefer to have 2 cars, so not to rack up the K's on the good one.

[evil_weevil]

merli - thanks for the nice answer mate, tell me what you really think.

simple question that is all.

alot of people have 2 cars here, their 'line and a daily driver so I thought it would be good and helpful to find out what works best.

im guessing you do not have a daily driver then?

ok cool, thanks for your input.

Edited May 16, 2006 by evil_weevil

[Merli]

This topic has been done before. I typed out a longer reply, but I suspected it would fall on deaf ears, so I posted a more succinct reply instead

Let me illustrate my point with another example.

You own an Porsche 911 Turbo. It's your pride and joy. You absolutely LOOOOOOVE driving it and it puts a smile on your face every time you turn the key.

You get a new job and realise that you have to drive two hours a day to and from work. Instead of enjoying those 2 hours of driving everyday in your pride and joy and actually ENJOYING your car, you decide to buy a 1980 Volvo instead just so you don't "wear out your good car" and "put too many kms on it".

You end up driving the Porsche about 50kms each weekend and do 2500kms a year in it.

I hope you can see my point.

As for telling you what I really think........ isn't that what we're here for? Or would you rather us all to just hold hands and tell you what you want to hear?

[MaTBoY]

Charade 3banger!

[evil_weevil]

merli - hold hands and stuff?? hahaha

well, after a while of thinking, I prob wont get a daily, its just one of those questions that pops in my head sometimes, as I think keep the skyline in tip top condition and bring out thurs/fri night (old pac) and weekends.

I just like seeing what others have had for a daily and if it were an option, i mea, look at Liz, got the daewoo as a daily and doesnt use it!

morgs on the other hand, does use his daily every day.

just looking at options mate....

edit - oh, and what i want to hear? ive won a million dollars?

no - my choice wasnt made up then about this topic, it is now.

Edited May 17, 2006 by evil_weevil

[burnsie]

ive got a manual vl wagon for sale for my daily sometimes