Can't stand the thought of adding miles to my '94 touring (35K) unless it's just for fun on the weekend.

The car's too valuable to be driven daily in commuter traffic where it can be hit by some POS on the way to work.

That's why God made daily drivers.

Opinions?

 

i hear ya bro, thats really low miles for an fd!!!!! i envy u
my 94' has 75k but thats alrite i love my FD and its my daily driver, but thinkin about getting a truck for the daily driving duties.

if i was u i wud just keep the rex for the weekends or special occations, dont be like me!!!

 

My FD has 38K when I bought it March of 2002 and now 21 months later it has 56k. I just love to drive it.

 

I agree. Mine's happy in the garage most of the time. I appreciate driving it more that way.

Dave

 

drive it into the ground

then replace the engine

use it - it's a car.

 

Batman has 200k+ on his chassis. You don't see him stop.

 

i've got 115k on mine and drive it as often as i can. i don't drive it everyday, but i do drive a lot. i've put 15k on the new motor since march

 

I drive mine May to October. Stored for the winter.

Mostly just to work and back. Sometimes that is the best part of the day!

 

I might do that if I had a car that looked 10 years old...
This one's in showroom condition. I wish I could buy another one to mod, race, anmd drive the crap out of, but I don't have the $$$

 

Seriously. Have a second car for the times that the FD breaks, but it's a car, you bought it to drive it. So drive it.

 

Do you want to drive your car, or do you want to stare longingly at it while parked in your garage and massage it with a cloth diaper every once in a while?

 

obviously you love driving the car so drive it. Even if it is worth money, would you sell it? chances are you dont need the money anyway

 

Ive got over 180k on mine, but it is probably an 8 out of 10. I drive it usually on weekends, but ive got a dodge dakota truck that pulls daily duty.

 

it juz a car.. u not goin to bury it with u when u die.. enjoy life!!

 

Some of us have jobs so we don't worry about it. It's not that hard to restrict daily abuse to a beater car.

 

Have to admit I do that, but only after taking off the cover first!

I do drive it... about 2 to 3K a year. I appreciate it more by taking it out sparingly.

It does look awesome just parked in the garage, I don't think there have been too many cars produced with nicer lines.

I just can't see firing it up to go to the grocery store or work. These drives aren't fun anyway. I'd rather hit an occasional autocross or track event on the weekend.

If these cars become valuable in the future, say 10 years down the road, it will be nice to have a low mileage example completely stock...

 

I guess to me it depends on what the daily driver is. For example, I would not subject myself to driving a Neon to work in order to keep miles off an FD.

 

What kind of shape is your car in dgeesaman?

 

58k, engine 10k old (perfect compression), nearly stock R2 in VR.

 

Sesshoumaru hit that on the head! Ahhahaha
I have been doing a ton of reading and searching. The FD is not all that bad pending on your driving style. I will have mine all year with a set of snow tires for those days when I want to go sledding to work, the store, and hopefully no trees. F-it. Its a car, enjoy the damn thing.

 

I can't believe people who do that. I never understood why people buy good looking, fast, good handling cars and don't drive them. You bought it because its good looking, and drives like a dream. You can look at it all you want, but you're missing most of the reason you bought it if you're not behind the wheel at every opportunity.

Driving it sparingly might make it seem more special, but imagine all the fun times you're missing by not driving it all the time. It could be so much more fun.

I'm all about saving the FDs for the future, but if you're thinking of this car as an investment, you're dead wrong. No car is a sound investment, its an expensive toy. Cars depreciate, thats what they do. It's not going to be valuable in the future, so enjoy it while it works.

 

different stokes for different folks

by god i paid 7g for my FD i'm gonna drive it!

 

Agreed, except Duesenburg, Shelby cobra, Mercedes 300sl owners found that their cars did become valuable after time. I'm not putting the FD in this category, but I think that in 10 years a collector will spend decent $$$ to get a good example of a high performance rotary powered car that more than held its own with more expensive makes.

Because the car is everything you stated above, there will be buyers. The fewer the number of ad's in the paper the more the seller can ask.

I guess we will all have to wait to see what the future holds for FD prices. Even high production number cars that initially depriciated, turned around and increased in value...E.G. Ford Mustang.

 

I've put about 60k miles on my FD. She's got 90k before I finally decided to get a daily driver.

I've had to repaint the front bumper several times because of chips. I need to replace the windsheild because of thousands of tiny little road debris chips on it.

Sure it's a car, and you should drive it, but I don't like subjecting it to constant torture. I drive mine every few weekends or so, and everytime I do, I make sure to get her up to triple digits One long weekend drive in the FD more than makes up for stop and go driving in it over the week.

 

I got my car with 47K on it. That was about 2 years ago, I got a new Engine and Tranny and Turbos at 60k. The car was like that when i bought it. The guy before me was a rich guy that only used it for auto cross. So the body and interior was perfect. But the mechanical was a diffrent story. Thank god for extened warenty. Got it all replaced for free. Now its got 67k one it. It is my daily driver in the summer. 95' Geo Tracker takes care of me in the winter months.