[QUOTE]Originally posted by MShofner
[B]Just wandering what most of you guys on this board were a daily driver or a once a week driver?

What do you guys think about the s2k as a daily driver?

 

It is my daily driver and when winter comes, it will still be my daily driver, just need a hardtop and you can use it 24/7 365

 

Snow tires first, my good man. The hardtop is nice but it won't give you any traction.

 

OK, now I'm trying to track down some truths about all this.

Granted, it depends on the driver and their comfort/skill level, but even with the hardtop is the S2000 going to be drivable in snow?

I ask that because I've received private emails saying the rear end of the S2000 likes to get loose if the pavement is even wet, and we're talking normal turns here, not VTEC @ 8000 RPM and lift off the gas to shift in mid-curve.

I've been shopping the Boxster against the S2000 and more than anything else, Porsche Stability Management has me leaning towards the Boxster because I really don't want to end up off the side of the road just because I dared to brake because I screwed up and entered a turn at 30 MPH instead of 25...

So, if the S2000 is reasonably stable, please, reassure me that you have to be doing something extreme to lose it; if it's a matter of being in city traffic and mindlessly braking in mid-curve, let me know that too...

BTW, this isn't a flame on the S2000, just perhaps an inevitable truth about 50/50 weighted powerful front engine/rear drive cars...

 

I have driven this car through 2 Calgary winters. This is one of the best winter cars I have ever owned. You must have snow tires to drive this thing in cold and snow! You can easily learn how to control a power induced skid in this car. You cannot easily do so in a FWD car. The issue to do with this car being slippery in the wet is a myth generally promoted by people who have driven only FWD cars all their lives and who, on occasion, have driven beyond their own capabilities and that of their car combined with a dose of "inattentiveness" and over-exuberance.
(Here is my "tongue in cheek" thread from a little while ago on this very subject: https://www.s2ki.com/forums/showthread.php?...hlight=lobotomy)
Whether you buy a Porsche or an S2000 is purely your choice. I feel the stability control systems that are out these days are for keeping that sector of the driving population from "kicking themselves" in the ass when they are being inattentive or being dumb. I've been driving RWD cars for much of my life - cars that have massive HP and massively wide tires that is "perceived" as hydroplaning rubber. I have never spun any of these cars except on purpose. If you do not know your limitations and will not give yourself the time and experience to learn the limitations of this or any other car, get one with stability control. But you'll find that most owner's of such cars when in the "performance" mode, turn this feature off. It makes a car more "idiot proof" but it also makes it much less of a sports car by reducing its best performance capabilites.
(As Lily Tomlin used to say: "And that's the truth!")
ps. This is NOT your dad's Honda Accord!

 

IMO, it's OK as a daily driver.

However, it's tough as your only car!

If you do a "search", you can see that this topic has been discussed to death.

 

As Maveric said, it's a great daily driver, but it would be difficult having it as your ONLY car.

 

Do you mean that in terms of it's hard to live with, or the nature of the car (i.e.if it were your only car, you'd have to buy groceries one bag at a time...)

It would be my only car, but my wife has an Audi A4...

 

"I really don't want to end up off the side of the road just because I dared to brake because I screwed up and entered a turn at 30 MPH instead of 25..."

I believe there is no reason to brake for any turn at 30 mph in the S. Well maybe if you are in the snow. If you don't drive on over worn SO2s this car is very stable. If they are worn, the road is wet, and you want to test it, you can get into trouble, but I'd say given the same circumstances you would lose the Boxster too. Just my .02.

Joser
Silver/Red

 

Mine would be a daily driver if it wasn't for daily bad traffic, construction, and people who let crap fall out of their pickup beds.

I used to have a 15 mile back-road trip to and from work (choice of 5 twisty routes and never any cops)

Now I have about 10 miles of stop and go highway with 2 or 3 cops always along the way