How many daily drivers out there?
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10-19-2011 | 01:28 AM
#79
Pro
Joined: Jan 2005
Posts: 612
Likes: 0
From: Centennial, WY
Purchased the car new in 1987 in Stutgart. Used it to have a ski vacation in Austria. Upon taking possession in Connecticut, used the car as a daily driver for ten years. We retired in 1997 to Wyoming. Here, the car is a summer driver only; not because it is such a poor car in the snow but our home is around 1/2 mile from a plowed road and our old GMC Sierra 4x4 just makes more sense.
I noticed some folks saying that they don't use theirs under snow or salt conditions. We did and Connecticut uses salt like crazy. We did run the car through a car wash that had underneath spray. The body is as sound as the day we bought it.
With the front engine - rear transmission layout, I find the car to have as good traction as many front wheel drive vehicles. Not a 4 x 4 but still OK as long as the snow is not so deep that the car gets high centered. One year we were skiing in Vermont and decided to go to a movie. When we came out we found ourselves in a huge snow storm. On the way back to Sugarbush we passed many cars having big problems. If anybody is familiar with the Sugarbush ski area they will tell you that there is a steep hill for about five miles leading up to the hotel. The car not only climbed the hill with no slipping or sliding but we passed more than a few front wheel drive cars in the ditch. Of course, as mentioned above, you have to be careful about high-center.
Here in Wyoming the wind is also a problem. The wind packs the snow so hard that it is easy to make a mistake and try to drive over the crust which results in a big high-center.
I noticed some folks saying that they don't use theirs under snow or salt conditions. We did and Connecticut uses salt like crazy. We did run the car through a car wash that had underneath spray. The body is as sound as the day we bought it.
With the front engine - rear transmission layout, I find the car to have as good traction as many front wheel drive vehicles. Not a 4 x 4 but still OK as long as the snow is not so deep that the car gets high centered. One year we were skiing in Vermont and decided to go to a movie. When we came out we found ourselves in a huge snow storm. On the way back to Sugarbush we passed many cars having big problems. If anybody is familiar with the Sugarbush ski area they will tell you that there is a steep hill for about five miles leading up to the hotel. The car not only climbed the hill with no slipping or sliding but we passed more than a few front wheel drive cars in the ditch. Of course, as mentioned above, you have to be careful about high-center.
Here in Wyoming the wind is also a problem. The wind packs the snow so hard that it is easy to make a mistake and try to drive over the crust which results in a big high-center.
10-21-2011 | 12:11 PM
#81
Burning Brakes
Joined: Nov 2010
Posts: 901
Likes: 1
From: Alpine - Southern CA.
Could be a daily driver but why waste the mileage on the boring freeway going 75. I use motorcycles as daily drivers and the 928 on the weekends - all weekend - every weekend......yahoo...................
10-21-2011 | 01:29 PM
#82
Intermediate
Joined: May 2011
Posts: 41
Likes: 0
From: Kansas City
I have driven mine every day since I bought it last month. And I will do so until the salt hits the ground, then it is into the garage until salt is safely washed away in spring.
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91 S4 Cobalt Blue
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91 S4 Cobalt Blue
