Henry Rifle Forums

just curious ..... how long do you usually keep a vehicle that serves as your daily driver ? what is your oldest current vehicle that serves as a daily driver ? how many miles does it have on it ? how long have you owned it ?

historically we buy a new car, we keep and use it for as long as possible .... our current one is a 2005 Chevy Trailblazer .... we bought it as a dealership demo vehicle in 2005 .... it has 156,000 miles on it .... its still ours and our daughter drives it just under 50 miles a day to and from her work ....we took it to a repair shop this morning to have its AC repaired .... we've spent some money on it over the years with the biggest expense being to replace is transmission a few years ago ....our plan is the same as it has been for almost 20 years .... keep it, fix it when needed and drive it

Mustang Mach E, 8 months old with 1,929 on the odometer...

how do you upload photos

I usually keep my cars about 10 years.

My daily driver is a '99 Blazer with 230,000 + miles. Not sure how long we owned it. I also have a '87 Silverado with a little over 300,000 that gets used quitea bit, bought in '92 with a littleover 65,000. And a '99 Harley Road King with a bit over 50,000 that gets rode a good bit in the warmer weather.
I also have a '72 Vette, but it isn't drove that much and is need of a good restoration.

RP

Here's a pic. from last summer of the oldest ones.

RP

I’ve driven older high mileage cars most of my life. Now that I’m retired I drive newer vehicles. I currently own a 2017 Subaru Outback Touring with 55K miles and a 2020 Ford Transit Limousine Conversion with 48K miles.

We have a 2010 Titan Pro4x with about 100,000 miles on it and a Frontier Pro4x with about 70,000 miles on the clock. The Frontier is our main daily driver, we haul the heavier feed, building supplies in the Titan. The old 80 Ford Camper's Special F150 had 450,000 on it when we finally sold it cheap to a friend back around 2012 for his high school aged son. The boy still drives it.

2006 Dodge Ram 3500 dually. 104500 miles on it. It pulls our winter house to Texas USA. Its a great truck and I get alot of compliments on it. Love my truck

2008 Mercury Milan, 119K miles, bought new in 2009. So far, so good.

Currently my 2006 Miata with about 60k miles and my 1997 Ranger with around 110k miles. I don't do that much driving anymore so they may be the last vehicles I will ever have. If there comes a time when I can no longer drive the Miata I will probably trade it for a used AWD, probably a Subaru. My Ranger is only driven when there's snow or fresh de-icer on the roads or when I need to haul something that won't fit in the Miata.

2000 Tundra. 122K miles. Last vehicle bought new. Other vehicles are newer, but 2nd hand.

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.