What else for a daily drive?

[Mark2008]

Hi all,

I currently use my V8V Roadster as a daily drive and have put 14k miles on it from new (around 18 months). Not too bad, but I can't help thinking that I should also have a much lower value vehicle for the odd 100 mile run here and there that I have to do. I only have to drive 4 miles to and from the office so thats not too bad, but increasingly I'm having to do 1 hour drives for business so really feel I ought to have something that mileage doesn't matter so much on. So..... what should I have as a 2nd car for running around and doing boring business drives in?

Cheers

[Jay_Davis]

A Rapide?

I've done about 14000 in 18 months with my car two. I picked up a second car for bad weather and bad neighborhoods. For anything else I have a tough time not taking the Vantage. Since you want it for longer drives and are apparently in the UK (I'm in the US) your choice of second cars will differ.

[Vantage man]

The Aston is a great daily drive but for the summer try a bike as well. I have to travel a lot for work and in summer months make site visits on the Harley or in the Morgan

[bogie]

my daily drive is the Vantage...sometimes for a 400 mile round trip *


for 4 miles ...errmmm....Id use my push bike and keep fit

• I do have a Rangey too for those early cold morning airport runs though

[AMD1]

Same here, I have a FFRR which complements the Aston perfectly. You can pick them up relatively cheap for what you get. The best of both worlds!

[whoami]

FFRR makes a great companion for the DBS.

[AMD1]

...has to be Supercharged though.....;-)

[lime1]

With 5 kids it's the V8V for work (12 mile return) and a Disco 3 for most other things unless I can get away by myself or with just one other family member (if I'm lucky my better half)!

[Captain Beaky]

A4 Avant Quattro 2.0T is a great stablemate - quickish, plenty of doors, grippy and room for the bikes. Mrs CB prefers it to the 330i which I have for daily use.

I still miss my Citroen ZX 1.9TDi though...

[michael gould]

I have a VW Toureg 3.0 diesel........love it

[Basher]

RR with the kids adn a Cooper S for the station...its great fun

[f328nvl]

Captain Beaky said:

A4 Avant Quattro 2.0T is a great stablemate - quickish, plenty of doors, grippy and room for the bikes.

Same. Just swapped my 3.0TDi Avant for an S4 Avant (my 5th A4 variant in 13 Years): Transports dogs, children, rubbish to the tip, does 0-60 in some seconds and goes smartly in all weathers. Really looked very hard at Range Rovers, but just couldn't justify the price for the 5.0ltr and the 3.6/3.0 just wasn't brisk enough for my tastes. But then my AMV8 is the '89 original which is certainly no daily driver...

[sjr-997]

I use a Cooper S.

[Merlin V8V]

Audi A3 3.2L Quattro for me. Easy to park. Great in all weathers and silly quick! Such fun!!
Volvo XC90 as a family truck which is perfect for carting the kids and dogs around.

Jason

[jonamv8]

I run an E53 X5 as my 'work' car. It's a chipped 3.0D with bundles of torque and about 265 BHP - I love driving it! Loads of toys and tele for those quiet moments! Gives me 34mpg which compared to my V8s 16mpg is more than enough!

[Cipo]

At the mo a standard Mk5 golf with 42mpg (petrol) very sensible, but waiting on my black Q5 SLine that will be with me in readiness for March 1st.........