Richard S

Bet you wish you still had the G-ride...

Keep the Saturn.

Rich

Erling G-P

Brian, bought my own 928 with the intention of (almost) using it as my daily driver, but if I was in your situation, I don't think I would do it. Gather from previous posts that you must work as a police officer, and personally I'd be worried sick about someone taking revenge on the car.

Killer though IMHO is the very short distance. I really wouldn't want to subject a 928 to such short daily trips where it never gets properly warm.

I'll go with the advice about using the bike as much as possible and then keep a cheap banger for the times when you need a car for the trip.

Cheers,
Erling

Alan

I agree 3 miles is not far enough to get everything warmed up - youd have to go the long way...

I don't find this to be the case at all... I do find the things wrong with the car annoy me a little more - because I get to experience them more... But there aren't so many and some of them are getting fixed... But the fine points of the car continue to impress - probably more so because you are much more in tune with the car. You can feel the weissach axle doing its thing, feel when the PSD kicks in - and knowing you got it 'just perfect' around a tight corner only comes from practicing doing it every day (and screwing it up a lot...).

It also helps you to know whats going on with the car - preventative maintenance works much better to keep you on the road if you can tell early that its not quite driving right...

Alan

dr bob

Options--

Hold on to the Saturn until you:

1) Ride a bike to work for a month and see if that's an OK solution. 12 min ride each way?

2) Walk the three miles to work for a month and see if that's an OK solution. 40 min walk each way?

3) Ride the bus to work for a month and see if that's an OK solution. 6 hour bus ride each way?

4) Have your buddy pick you up while you walk. Use a box of donuts as bait (sorry...)

5) Get a scooter for the short commute. Honda Metrpolitan or the like.

6) Motor officers get to take their vehicles home, right?

7) Find a replacement for the Saturn.

Or:

8) Keep the Saturn.

9) Drive the 928 every day, and endure all the sun, blistering heat, dirt, vandalism, casual door dings, extra wear, etc that goes with parking a car out in the open in Stockton. Give up on the car show hobby. Plan on a repaint every five years. Drive through the car wash a lot. Get a case of Turtle Wax, or some of the New Finish protectatnt to help keep the paint from peeling off.

Bill Ball

A 928 can't be too high on the theft list except for joyriding. It isn't a Honda or an Oldsmobile Cutlass!

But your other point is a serious problem. I would NOT drive my car everyday for just 3 miles each way to work. That is about as bad as driving 6500 RPM around a long high-G sweeper.

That just nailed it - YOU NEED A BICYCLE!

IcemanG17

I do regret giving away the G-ride....that was the best car ever.....total bucket...couldn't care less if I even locked it, never even considered washing it....never got tune ups, but still passed smog...just annual oil changes....ran great with 30-40mpg....that 53hp was just brutal.....on a good day it could pull about .1G acceleration....

Charley
Yet another nice one.......

I do think I am going to keep the Saturn for at least a while, since the lady that was gonna buy it never called......I guess everything works out in the end!!

Okay I'm gonna start riding the bike to work....one of my bikes or works bike, since we have a whole bunch that we rarely use.....if I hit the lights right I could make it in 10 minutes or so....vs 5-8minutes in the car....

Most of this started because my wife and I just bought our 1st house....I coulda used the $$$ from the Saturn to pay closing costs...but don't have too really....but wifey did say I can start building my 928 race car next year!

Ron_H

I say to keep the Saturn. No question about it. If the guy hadn't made an offer you would have never given this matter any thought and made it through life as it is now.

I bought my car 5 years ago and also have two other cars, one of which is running. My VW was intended to be my DD. The P car was intended for inter city driving at "reasonably spirited speeds" only. And I go to San Francisco monthly to buy food so I take the P car. But since then I have put about 65,000 miles on the 928 and been across this country the equivalent of 3 1/2 times!
I constantly find excuses to drive it instead of my Rabbit. And as it is driven more, it tends to be pampered less and less. As it is pampered less, you will care less about small to-do things and let them slide. Soon you will not care at all; after all it is running isn't it? I don't even wash it anymore than twice a month because it has paint issues. (I can't figure out why, since it only has 194,000 miles on it and is only 21 years old ) I say to myself that the issues are minor so I can fix them any time, and then ignore them. And no matter how hard you try to keep it pristine, if it is a DD you WILL GET dings and scratches in it and sh*t will happen in parking lots and from trees. It WILL HAPPEN. And then you have a car that needs attention. Hey it is a DD after all isn't it?

Keep the Saturn. You will not believe how rapidly your car will deteriorate if you make it a DD. No way will it stay the way it is now. NO WAY.