What Would Make Your Daily Driver More Fun To Drive?

[JB400]

Unfortunately for some of us, we can't use our chargers as daily drivers, whether it be too rare, high gas prices or just impractical.  So what would make your daily driver more enjoyable to drive, yet still be practical to use everyday?

I have a 00 Cougar.  2.4 v6 auto.  It gets 28 mpg,35 highway.  Unfortunately, it's front wheel drive. I'd have to base it off the Mustang like it was to begin with in the 60's.  Bring back the Eliminator stripe package.  I'd still keep it V6 for economic reasons.  I'd bring back the sequential tail panel that goes all the way across.  Best thing is, it could easily built, but I'll put my money in the charger, lots more fun.   

[1974dodgecharger]

vague question as in you want practical, but yet you want fun.

Fun be a charger, but practial seriously it be a civic getting 40mpg nonhybrid or nonelectrical

[JB400]

vague question as in you want practical, but yet you want fun.

Fun be a charger, but practial seriously it be a civic getting 40mpg nonhybrid or nonelectrical

Nothing wrong with having your cake and eating it too.  But what I was getting at was, what would make your dd more appealing besides the fact it get gets you from point a to point b. and gets x amount mpg.

[tan top]

daily driver  ,  one that gets the best miles per gallon , 

[doctor4766]

I have an 03 Toyota 4x4 Hilux dual cab with a V6 as my DD.
A small block conversion would make it more fun 

[TK73]

Finished up the '73 in the Spring and started daily driving it. Other car is '08 Mustang GT.

Medical issues put me back in the 'Stang as it is more reliable...

SO,  either car is COOL to DD.

PS : my work commute is 6 miles round so gas mileage is no concern...

[Ghoste]

More fun?  Hmm, right now I wish the cruise worked all the time in the daily driver but Im not sure that would make it more fun just less annoying.  I suppose if I could sprinkle some magic dust on it one night and when I came out the next morning it was morphed from a rusty Caravan into a new Challenger THAT would make it more fun to drive.

[Road Dog]

My Daily is a 2011 Challenger. Getting all the numbnuts off the road would be a more enjoyable drive.

[Ghoste]

There you go!

[Cooter]

Mine is a 1994 Toyota Pick up. 22RE. Best little DD I've ever owned. Just installed a T-chain/guides/etc. 267K miles.
Still gets 25 MPG.

SO, I guess I would'nt change anything right now coming from a 1984 Subaru SW. Holy sh*t that thing was weak as rain water.

PS: Just wait till the trans goes out in tha V6 Mercury. Got any idea what it takes to install a trans in that thing?
Lemme put it this way...Ever seen an engine hanging from a wiring harness after removing the ENTIRE front end?

[Ghoste]

By the wiring harness?  Yeah that dont sound too fun.

[JB400]

Yeah, I know what your talking about.  It's bad enough just trying to change the inner tie rods.  You have to weld the factory ones solid before you can unscrew them.  There is no wrench available here to undo them. Replacements yes.  I plan on selling my car sometime next year before the trans goes out.  I'm at 165 now, I figure I'm good for another 10.  I go to car auctions on a regular basis, so I know all about them.

[Cooter]

PS, yes there is a wrench to unscrew them..It costs around $200.00 from Strap-On though.

[JB400]

PS, yes there is a wrench to unscrew them..It costs around $200.00 from Strap-On though.

Ok , but it wasn't available here in misery, excuse me Missouri. At least not in my hometown.

[Cooter]

here in misery, excuse me Missouri.

[Brads70]

I'd like to invent some electronic gismo that will make all the stop lights green when you get to them. Where I live I swear the city planners are all on crack! I can literally sit at one stop light and see 5 more! One would think in this day and age with all the computer stuff they could time them to keep traffic flowing. I feel like giving the city a bill for my waisted  fuel and brakes!  

[Ghoste]

They already have them but you have to have a vehicle with red flashing lights to qualify for ownership.

[Cooter]

Oh damn, a Soccer mom with 15 screamin' kids, on a cell phone texting, eating, trying to install make-up, screamin' at screamin' kids, AND she gets to make red go green???

Oh man, too much technology...Too much I tell ya'.

[JB400]

Oh damn, a Soccer mom with 15 screamin' kids, on a cell phone texting, eating, trying to install make-up, screamin' at screamin' kids, AND she gets to make red go green???

Oh man, too much technology...Too much I tell ya'.

Well yeah, she had gps on one menu and the climate controls and the radio on another menu on the screen on the dash, all while trying to get Barney on the dvd player.

[Ghoste]

Those ones don't need red to go green they just drive through it anyway.

[Brads70]

Oh damn, a Soccer mom with 15 screamin' kids, on a cell phone texting, eating, trying to install make-up, screamin' at screamin' kids, AND she gets to make red go green???

Oh man, too much technology...Too much I tell ya'.

Not for them.... just me! 

[Cooter]

Those ones don't need red to go green they just drive through it anyway.

This is true..

[JB400]

Those ones don't need red to go green they just drive through it anyway.

This is true..

Yeah, and it would be my luck to be the one that got pulled over.

[Old Moparz]

What Would Make Your Daily Driver More Fun To Drive?

A chauffeur.

[Ghoste]

You know, a chauffeur isn't a bad idea.     You could arrive at your destination more rested and stress free.  My problem is being able to afford both a wife and the chauffeur company you so wisely recommend there.

[Dino]

That's a tough one.  My daily is a 2010 Honda Accord EXL which I drive whenever I have class after work as I really don't want to park the Charger in the campus parking lot, those numbnuts can't park to save their lives.

So I drive the Charger to work and everywhere else on Tuesday, Friday, and the weekend.  The only non fun thing when I go back to the Accord is that it doesn't have that low end torque making it much more tricky to pass cars safely on the country roads here.  Funny thing is, I bought the 4 banger instead of the V6 because I really did not have a need for the latter but once I had the Charger and the 440 that changed.  I still don't need a V6 but it would be a bit more fun.   

Then again the 4 banger will need less maintenance, has better mpg and with near 200 hp is still peppy enough.  I'm not sure what else I would want to make that car more fun, it has all I want and more.

[Old Moparz]

You know, a chauffeur isn't a bad idea.     You could arrive at your destination more rested and stress free.  My problem is being able to afford both a wife and the chauffeur company you so wisely recommend there.

Once your wife gets used to being driven around she'll go along with it & not worry about the expense. 

[Cooter]

Gimme the cars, less problems....

[JB400]

Gimme the cars, less problems....

Just less drama and nagging.

[Fred]

Hey stroker400 wedge, I was just going to say............
NO ONE NAGGING IN THE PASSENGER SEAT.  but you more or less beat me to it. 

[JB400]

Hey stroker400 wedge, I was just going to say............
NO ONE NAGGING IN THE PASSENGER SEAT.  but you more or less beat me to it.  

[bill440rt]

My daily driver is fun enough by itself. It's all the other f**kheads on the roads around here that make it miserable.   

[ChgrSteve67]

My daily driver is fun enough by itself. It's all the other f**kheads on the roads around here that make it miserable.   

I'll second that.

[elanmars]

Put in a sound system and get it back on the road already...

my 1969 Dodge Charger is my daily...all of my Chargers have been-except this one is kinder with gas, since it has a 318. 

[Ghoste]

my 1969 Dodge Charger is my daily...all of my Chargers have been-except this one is kinder with gas, since it has a 318. 

I pplaud you. 

[67tbird]

Fixing the leaking,howling sunroof on my 97 Monte should be a priority but I never seem to get to it. 100000 less miles on odo would be nice, love the 27 MPG after getting 15 in my 97 F-150.

[Tilar]

My daily driver is my old Ram 1500. Not a lot that can make that fun unless NASA plans to sell a couple of the solid rocket boosters from the retired Shuttle fleet really cheap.

[Fred]

My daily driver is fun enough by itself. It's all the other f**kheads on the roads around here that make it miserable.   

I'll second that.

Way too many of them about. You can't blink for fear of running into one! Driving used to be fun.

[c00nhunterjoe]

Change daily driver to daily flyer. Give me a helicopter andi will be happy.

[Trulyvintage]

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Jim

[JB400]

Nice hood ornament

[Tilar]

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Jim

Sweet ride, Oh and the truck is pretty cool too. 

[69bronzeT5]

Mine is pretty damn fun. It's my 2005 Dodge Magnum R/T. 5.7L HEMI, cold air intake, Predator tuner, SRT8 exhaust w/ resonators deleted, SRT8 wheels, NAV, sunroof, heated seats, power everything, 6 CD changer, BOSE audio system.....it's super fun. It's about 400hp and 410 ft lbs of torque right now.



Although I do REALLY want a SRT8 6 speed Challenger....

[GOTWING]

one of our daily drivers is a stock 2005 Chrysler 300C with the 5.7 hemi, 20-25 mpg runs 14:10 @ 100mph. nuff said.

[myk]

If my '98 Mustang GT had 300hp/300 ft. lbs. and about a 2 inch drop in ride height I would be happier than a pig in s**t...

[rt green]

would'nt mind getting one of those  race car engine noise makers that you plug into the cig lighter. gets the rpm through the alt. can't remember what there called though.

[hatersaurusrex]

A bed-mounted rocket launcher and a cattle catcher on the front would be perfect for when I'm stuck in traffic.    Kind of like Airwolf but shaped like an F150.

[Fred]

I've got a truck horn in my Bronco. Frightens the shit out of the unsuspecting.

[Finn]

Manual transmission and/or better gas mileage in my truck...

[1970Moparmann]

Manual transmission and/or better gas mileage in my truck...

Me too!

[1974dodgecharger]

If my '98 Mustang GT had 300hp/300 ft. lbs. and about a 2 inch drop in ride height I would be happier than a pig in s**t...

seems you have too many cars???