Can a Cerbera be a daily driver?

[work-shy-wanabe]

I just wondered how many, if any use there Cerbaras everyday? Is it your only car?

Also if you go and visit somebody who doesnt have a drive do you feel happy to park it on the street overnight?

[TVRWhoa]

Yes, use it every day

Parking - depends on where you leave it but that's probably true of most cars, I've not had any issues other thank kids having a good look at it, but never any vandalism, if anything they just seem in awe of it really.

[work-shy-wanabe]

Thanks TVRwhoa, I work from home mostly so don’t really need to worry about the daily commute. So even if I had a second car I cant see myself using it. I think I’d just walk past it all the time and get in the Cerb!

So on street parking doesn’t worry anyone too much?

The other thing I was wondering with using one everyday is what’s it like to pop to the shop in a car that attracts so much attention? Not sure if I would want to stick out so much all the time.

[redleicester]

Attention...... you're worried about gettign attention when popping to the shops. Erm.... may I humbly suggest a Ferrari if Sir wishes to be anonymous - with a Cerb, everyone will hear you coming, the dead will walk again, geriatrics will kark it on the strett, and women will throw themselves, their underwear and their soon-to-be Ex-husbands at you....

I ran mine everyday, and as long as you think carefully what you're doing, there's nothing wrong with it. It is a special, handbuilt supercar, so if popping to the shops is a 2 minutre drive, then no, you'll break something. If however you are prepared to drive 40 miles to get a pint of milk, then yes it's just fine.

The most fun I had popping to the shops was parking in the Mother and Child spaces, watching security and several concerned bystanders start to head my way to whinge that it wasnt on, then seeing the looks on their faces when I got my six month old daughter out of her babyseat in the passenger side!

Also consider that the service intervals are 12 months / 6000 miles, so if you're driving it everyday, you're liable to be servicing it fairly regularly and those costs can rapidly mount up.

Having said that, if you're game, and anyone with an ounce of petrol in their veins should be then DO IT, you only live once!

[whatever]

I use mine every day, but you do have to do a bit of advanced planning on routes sometimes (some multi-storey car parks are not cerb friendly, due to the steep ramps and sharp turns). Other than the general wear-and-tear of short journeys, and the 6K service interval it is do-able.

However: you are limited in what you can get into it, i.e. trips to B+Q, or giving lifts to friends and family. I have the benefit of access to a larger car when the need arises, so never have to deal with those sorts of frustrations.

[mad mark]

Mines a daily driver.
The only problem I have is in sub zero temps when the starter motor sounds like its well and truly knackered. (Its fine at a;; other times)
Its also used as a family car, as much as possible.

[Wilder]

Used every day --never misses a beat & seems to like being used every day as opposed to once or twice a week.

[BCA]

Blimey, theres more here than there used to be!

Another for dad, six/seven? years now 65k miles ish over those years, so relatively average miles.

Daily driver, trackday car, sprint/hillclimb car/ relatively practical family car all in one (family of six, the most seats in any of our cars is four!)

For short trips/ pretty crap weather the Smart is taken out, or the Audi - though this is more because it would be unfair/awkward at times with the Cerb.

[Timmy2TARs]

Another daily driver here, although I am a bit worried that it's becoming too familiar i.e. it's in danger of losing its appeal when those little but neccessary trips become too much of a hassle. Having said that, it's so awesome that those little trips do become general hoons.

3.5k miles since mid-November and £800 worth of petrol.

It's not missed a beat in that time although there have been one or two very minor niggles. I am currently looking at getting a daily driver that I don't care about sitting in traffic jams with or taking to various arse-ends of the country for work.

[Jasper Gilder]

Mine is - until someone buys it....

[Scrooloose]

Mine's a daily driver

[ubernoober]

I'm an almost daily driver with my Chim, could be more but that would be 2500 a month plus pleasure drives so I use it together with a euro-box and a van just to share out the miles.

Trouble is, I always have 2 passengers that want to go out in the Chim, so I'm looking into getting a Cerbie (as well, not giving up the Chim and yes, I am certifiable, but who gives a sh!t)

So my question is slightly different. The Cerb would be an every-other-day driver or so. As I've done about 5,500 miles in the Chim since October so, logically the Cerb would be doing half this, which is the better Cerb to go for bearing in mind fuel, comfort, 'refinement' daily usability???

V8 or Sp6??

[work-shy-wanabe]

redleicester,

Quite of few do then! Id like a second car as a run about but I can just see myself siting in it wishing I was in the Cerb all the time.

[jensena]

ubernoober said:

.........Trouble is, I always have 2 passengers that want to go out in the Chim, so I'm looking into getting a Cerbie (as well, not giving up the Chim and yes, I am certifiable, but who gives a sh!t)

You'll be fine with 2 passengers, al lons as one is under 3 ft tall and has no legs

[redleicester]

work-shy-wanabe said:

redleicester,

Quite of few do then! Id like a second car as a run about but I can just see myself siting in it wishing I was in the Cerb all the time.

Glad to keep you amused To be fair, I ran my first two TVRs as only cars, it's only recently I have had a third, mainly as I decided for long motorway jaunts into the West End and the aforementioned B&Q I could do with a hack car. Likewise I was worried some of the sheen would rub off, but to be honest it's mostly the other way - there were more times I wished I was in something hotter / cooler / quieter / comfier than anything else, yet even on those journeys there were a fair share of "god it's good to be alive" moments!

To put it into perspective, not long after my first child arrived (and the supermarket incident) I decided that perhaps I had better grow up a bit, so chopped the Cerb in for an M5. What could go wrong I told myself - it may have four doors and five seats, but it still has a 400bhp V8 and is silly quick. What went wrong was the onset of total and utter boredom. I had to apologise to my wife for trying to grow up, stick two fingers up at the kids and ditch it. God it was fast and an impressive piece of engineering, but even £70k's worth of Munichwagen couldn't put a smile on my face at 155mph the way the Cerb or even the Chim could at 5mph. Thus I compromised and replaced it with a Chim450 and a Saab Aero Estate - best of both worlds as I missed getting the top down on the Cerbera (as you couldnt!) yet I have the hack for days when I just haven't the energy to do the TVR justice.

My mileage split? 8000mpa TVR, 4000 Saab - yep, I still take it to London, drive it in the winter, go out and drive it just for the hell of it and all that jazz. You'd have to lose your Mojo before the Cerbera would lose it's shine :biggrin:

[thegreengoblet]

Use mine as a daily driver. A little careful with parking - like taking 2 spaces when there's lots of free ones about, or parking in the quiet end. Otherwise not really worried. It seems that most people respect the car. Although I did lose my dust caps on several occasions. As another Cerb owner pointed out, a slight knowledge of the road is useful to, so that you avoid flooded areas, speed bumps, and multi-storey car parks. As far as popping out to the shops, well that usually involves a slight detour as 1) it gets her warmed up, and 2) gives me an excuse to drive it!