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Hello everyone. I made my debut post here earlier this year when I was contemplating moving from my C6 corvette to the GTR world, but since my wedding was late this summer, I wasn't in the position to make a car move, but now that I am happily married, I am ready to make a move. My plan is to sell the Corvette and my daily driven Acura and own just 1 car, a GTR. My other option was a 2014+ Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8 (I owned one a few years ago and absolutely LOVED it but sold it when I had the chance to pick up my third Corvette). The SRT8's are similar in price to the GTR's i've been looking at (well, GTR is a little more expensive, but its in ballpark).
So that brings me to the question i've been asking myself over the past 6+ months, where I live (with the crazy shifting climate) is a GTR worthy of daily driving? I live in western PA so its wet spring/summer/fall and snowy in the winter, plus the fact I go up the mountains a lot in the winter for cabin weekends and a lot of skiing and also take 400 mile road trips on occasion.
For those of you who ONLY own your GTR and drive it daily, how's that work for you? I'd put 10-15k miles per year on the vehicle the way I drive. I would obviously put snow tires on for the winter and have to keep up with maintenance quite often since it would get driven a lot.
A friend of mine has a 2014 GTR and tells me I'll love it but he isn't sure the car is made to be driven daily and says if I get one I should have a daily driver too, but I can't make that happen, and I refuse to buy a $4000 car as my 'daily' and drive the GTR when its nice out...if that is the case this idea is off the table for me because I visit clients too often to be showing up in a $4000 honda civic
If I do make this move, I will be hunting a 2012+ model in the spring of 2016 (when I can sell my corvette easier and for max $).
Thanks in advance guys!
So that brings me to the question i've been asking myself over the past 6+ months, where I live (with the crazy shifting climate) is a GTR worthy of daily driving? I live in western PA so its wet spring/summer/fall and snowy in the winter, plus the fact I go up the mountains a lot in the winter for cabin weekends and a lot of skiing and also take 400 mile road trips on occasion.
For those of you who ONLY own your GTR and drive it daily, how's that work for you? I'd put 10-15k miles per year on the vehicle the way I drive. I would obviously put snow tires on for the winter and have to keep up with maintenance quite often since it would get driven a lot.
A friend of mine has a 2014 GTR and tells me I'll love it but he isn't sure the car is made to be driven daily and says if I get one I should have a daily driver too, but I can't make that happen, and I refuse to buy a $4000 car as my 'daily' and drive the GTR when its nice out...if that is the case this idea is off the table for me because I visit clients too often to be showing up in a $4000 honda civic

If I do make this move, I will be hunting a 2012+ model in the spring of 2016 (when I can sell my corvette easier and for max $).
Thanks in advance guys!