Lets Talk Daily Drivers

[Dominic Toretto]

Originally Posted by Futwa I've been giving this some thought as well recently. It's more of me wanting to own more cars and enjoy them than keeping miles low on my mustang. What do you guys think about getting a wrx for a daily? I've always wanted to own one and since I have the mustang I SHOULD have a car up at all times....should....

Co-worker of mine dailys his STI. I don't much about them but, hasn't given him trouble from what I understand. It's one of the older one's before Subaru came out with that ghey hatchback.

-Alex

[fordplay]

And here I thought you were my friend dirtyd.. I thought you were my friend. .. yet you call my funny quip stupid...

[DirtyD]

Originally Posted by fordplay And here I thought you were my friend dirtyd.. I thought you were my friend. .. yet you call my funny quip stupid...

I know you were joking, but it still sounded dumb. Lol

[M3AN 1]

I picked this up for $1,000, its been a year now (12, 000miles) and knock on wood its still going.It really is a hit or miss with $1-2k beaters, most are lemons.

[ochoblanco]

I love my 11 Taurus...decent power, ridiculous gas mileage considering and I think it looks good. Keeps the miles off the Boss for sure

[DirtyD]

Originally Posted by M3AN 1 I picked this up for $1,000, its been a year now (12, 000miles) and knock on wood its still going.It really is a hit or miss with $1-2k beaters, most are lemons.

Kind of jealous about that. I know most people hate exploders, but if I could find something like that, I think it would be a steal, but not so much on gas.

[M3AN 1]

Yea I was never an explorer fan, even had secound thoughts about this one.But a/c and heat worked and it had 140k and was clean!

Cost about $50-55 to fill, and goes about 275 miles until the fuel light comes on It's averaging 16-17 mpg with mixed driving.

[M3AN 1]

Originally Posted by ochoblanco I love my 11 Taurus...decent power, ridiculous gas mileage considering and I think it looks good. Keeps the miles off the Boss for sure

Are they any better now?, the late 90s early 2000s were junk.Most I came across in a shop were falling apart.

[ochoblanco]

Yeah I love it. 265whp, avg 27-28 mpg, 490 miles to a tank, GIANT trunk, spacious interior. The Fusion is probably a better buy though $ wise.

[M3AN 1]

Originally Posted by ochoblanco Yeah I love it. 265whp, avg 27-28 mpg, 490 miles to a tank, GIANT trunk, spacious interior. The Fusion is probably a better buy though $ wise.

Wow that's great mpg for having 99-04 Gt horse power haha.
I wish I had a sedan over the explorer, sucks down gas like a v8 truck and makes less then 200hp :/

[ochoblanco]

Have to love the little ole 3.5L :-)

[garner]

If I was looking into newer cars for a daily, one choice would be the new optimas. Have one as a rental while my car is in the shop and it's a pretty fun car to drive for only having 200 hp, gas mileage is good too. Steering feel is almost nonexistent though which I hate while taking turns

[M3AN 1]

Yea an optima ain't a bad little car.The newer models I even mistake for a Mercedes or a higher end car at first glance with the new body lines.

[NAVAG]

I put on about 100 miles a day. Had my 5.0 a little over a year and just hit 40K. Most of those miles are from cruising at 2000 RPM up and down I30. Time to park it and find a DD. I've been shopping around myself.

It's not just the miles that I've been racking up that has me looking but the recent cold spell where they keep sanding the roads and all the bugs in the summer. Having a black car is a curse. I can wash the shit out of it on Sunday. Go to work and back and it looks like crap again. I'd rather it sit in the garage and only come out in perfect weather at this point.

Plus with another car as my DD I can have an excuse to buy more stuff to make my Stang go fast.

[fordplay]

Garner... A kia... seriously. . A kia... you go to your room and don't come back until you start talking sense..