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From a automobile point of view, I have a 1993 Jeep Wrangler that I use around town and for short trips (50-100 miles). For motorcycles, I have a 1992 BMW R100GS that is a regular rider. I also have a 1979 Harley FXR, but that only comes out once or twice a year. My regular Harley is a 2017 Road Glide Ultra. My wife has a 2001 Harley Heritage Softail which is her regular rider.

Paul

My 2003 Tundra is my oldest daily driver. 215,000 miles and still rust free. 3.4 V-6, 4 cams, 24 valves and manual 5 speed transmission. Most trouble free truck I have ever owned. My oldest car I still have but not daily driven except in the nice weather months is my 40 year old Chrysler 5th Avenue. 147,000 miles and all original paint and fantastic condition leather interior. I have never been able to kill a Mopar 318 engine or a slant 6.

Hey Bandit, my dad use to swear by the old 318. Myself I've never much cared for Chrysler products.

RP

Had a 69 Dodge Dart Gt convertible with a 318 in it. Great car and engine. Got over 20mpg on the highway.

I had a 1984 Ramcharger with a 318. It was really gutless until I put on a Edelbrock manifold, a 4 barrel, got rid of the cat and opened up the exhaust. It still got lousy mileage but at least had decent power. We never had emission testing in E. Washington so there were a lot of rigs running around without cats. Taking the restrictive cat off made the biggest power increase but it sure was loud taking it to the exhaust place. The guy said he had no problem putting on a new exhaust without a cat but he wouldn't remove the cat himself.

Mine is a 2017 Tacoma bought it while I was still working and driving a company car. She was a garage queen for three years and only went out on nice days or for short hauls for things that wouldn’t fit in a sedan. Drove it daily for 2 1/2 years after retiring from Kodak while working to have something to do as a school custodian. Now she is my daily short trip run around. Total mileage 53,000. My wife has our comfortable, quiet road trip wheels. 2021 Lexus RX 450 hybrid. It is a much sweeter ride than the truck. She is just short of 49,000. I drove company cars for 27 years went through 8 turned them in on mileage ranging from 70,000 to 110,000. We keep her cars for ever. Last one was a 2008 Ford Edge gave it to our Granddaughter when we got the Lexus. Had over 150,000 on it and still in great shape.

I have a 2000 Ford Taurus. I would call it my daily driver, but I only drive a couple days a week anymore.

Currently, my daily drivers are two fold. I love my 1998 Toyota 4Runner Ltd. Has about 198k miles on it. I do also drive my newer 2016 Toyota 4Runnet SR5 equally as much. I'm pretty sure I won't ever buy another vehicle. These should out live me.

I've got a 2002 Chevy Silverado that currently has just over 257K on it. Not my daily driver anymore, it was for 20 years, but I use it once or twice a week. Daily driver was a 2001 Toyota Echo that had 186K when I hit my second deer with it going to work one day. Both deer were within 200 yards of where I hit them, four months apart, and while I fixed the car after the first one (insurance totaled it) I haven't after the second. I really like that little car, and 38 mpg ain't tough to take, but it may be time to say goodbye. It's at my house, drove it home both times, and having a hard time letting it go, but might just junk it. Driving a 2005 Toyota Matrix AWD now, with about 87K on it. It's an amazing little vehicle, tons of room and the back seats lay completely flat. Handles well, but my AWD model is only getting about 23-25 mpg. I can get a lot of other bigger vehicles to give that or better fuel economy.
I'm currently looking at a 2016 Scion iA as the new daily. Actually made by Mazda and sold by Toyota as the Yaris after 2016, and it gets upper 30s for mpg. Plus it has all the new features that my other two Toyotas done, like cruise and intermittent wipers.....LOL. Plus it has NAV and collision avoidance, rare on a base economy sedan.
I still like that Echo though!

I have a 2011 F250 gas I bought in 2010 with 55,000 miles on it. In 2010 my wife and I decided to retire in 2015 and at the time I was driving a 1997 F250. We didn’t want a big truck payment going into retirement so we bought this 2011 but kept the 1997. I kept the 2011 in the garage and only drove it once a week or so. In 2015 we sold the 1997 and the 2011 became the truck in use. Mostly it pulled our travel trailer plus dump runs, etc so that kept the miles down. Longest trip in it was to western South Dakota.