So How Many Cars do you Guys Have?

Going by that theory kitcars/replicas are exotic too


Nice collection

 

Commuter: Scion tC
Cruiser: XJ8 L

 

I try not to own more than two at a time (one toy & one daily). I trade them for something else just about once a year.

Life is too short to drive the same car over & over, yet I don't have the funds to keep them all (nor the space).

 

I have 5.

modded BMW 335i coupe for summer daily
BMW 528i for wife
Ford Ranger for hauling crap and winter daily
Ferrari 328 for fancy days
1967 Pontiac GTO for scaring the natives

 

Hummer H2 for the messy stuff, Bentley GTC for everyday and "73 Daytona for special occasions.

 

DD: BMW E60 M5
Wknd: F430
Racecar: Lotus 211
Racecar hauler (when I steal it from my wife): LR4
(soon for sure another Lotus)

 

Nine for me,

S550 Daily driver (me)
E350 Daily Driver (wife)
328is Daily driver (19 year old)
328is Daily driver (21 year old)
Chevy Cruse daily driver (same 21 year old, had to have it ??)
C300 Daily driver (23 year old)
Honda Fit Daily Driver (27 year old)
360 Modena (weekend, go fast)
DB9 Volante (weekend, sunny, go slower, travel further)

MB

 

We have three; two DDs:

2009 BMW, X3 (Wifey's DD)
2001 VW Polo (My DD)
1981 GTSi (Still in the air in my "shop")

 

Three'ish
88 Ford Ranger (turbocharged, lowered and whatnot)
02 BMW Z3
(had both of these for going on a decade now, the BMW is reliable and the Ranger satisfies my tinkering urges)
85 308QV Euro
All currently in storage.

Here in Japan I have an 01 Subaru WRX and an old Honda CB400 motorcycle.

Sometime I think it's too many, but mostly not enough. I still need something to haul the other ones to the track.

 

It really depends on where you live like I stated in an earlier post I decided to commute with one of my weekend cars this week, and yesterday after running some errands and putting the car away I noticed a hole in the back bumper, due to the bumpy roads the cover over the tow hook had come loose and fallen off. I spent an hour and a half retracing everywhere I had driven yesterday trying to find it and had no luck. Sure I can buy another part but it is going to drive me nuts not having the car perfect in the meantime. Then this morning I woke up to snow.

 

I have about just short of a dozen to choose from - and I do choose on nearly a daily basis. Rotating them out of necessity according to what I am doing that day. I find that I drive each one of them when I catch them smiling at me out of the corner of my eye.

Yesterday I started the day in my S-Class, then went for my Hemi pickup, then bolted around in my Stradale, and ended the day at dinner with one of the Boxsters.

My point is that I think of them all as daily use cars. None of them are stricken for special events only, or weekends only.

I had that situation not long ago tho' - and changed it. To just let a car sit gnawed at me a little too much.

 

The list of 19-27 year olds reminds me of Shamile

I'm assuming kids? Are they all still at home?


I have too many cars.

 

Jedi and I are close. Our 328s and E 350s are the same color.
Me: 87 328 GTS
Wife: 08 E350
Dog: 97 Camry

 

I hope not. I take employees to lunch in those cars all the time and a collegue who parks right next to me also drives a different car every day including that BMW M-X5 (the superfast SUV with 550hp), Ferrari California, and other exotics. Another collegue a few spaces down also has an R8 and collects Porsches and another one drives his Ferrari 550 and also has a stable of Porsches he drives to work.

As for my clients. Several of them have "much" larger stables of exotics.

 

It's good to have wealthy clients.

 

Damn I miss my H2! My wife hated it so I got her a Q7 and she now has a Cadillac Escalade that is the opposite of a hummer.

 

To answer your inquiry more directly, it sounds like you need a more reliable daily driver. Then having an exotic car as a second vehicle is likely fine in the rare occasions that the daily driver is at the shop for service.

For me, even though my baseline is three cars (daily driver, topless car, race car), I could see reducing mine to two cars: GT daily driver and a historic Barchetta/Spyder race car. Ironically, this two-car setup is not necessarily less expensive.

It's all relative, but go for quality not quantity...

 

08 Silverado
97 E350 van 7.3psd im building into an "Expedition" rig with www.Ujointoffroad.com 4x4 conversion
02 A6 2.7tt fairly built 400hp big brakes, etc(recently sold)
04 Escape (wife)
04 KTM 950adventure
06 KTM 525, 540 kit, plated
78 BMW R100/s
96 Suzuki DR200 (wife)

Shopping for a new(er) KTM 300 race bike for me, and a KTM 105 for the spousal unit

 

Five Vehicles...

2012 BMW 750xi...DD
2006 Land Rover LR3...Bulky Items, weather, etc..
2007 Porsche TT...nice weather
2005 Ferrari 575 Maranello...nice weather

My wife has the right idea...use a sporty car as the DD...2011 Maserati GTS.

 

I can hardly wait for Hawkeye on this site to chime in. He'll need two additional pages just for his effing F-cars alone.

 

4 Cars.

-Jaguar XF (my favorite daily driver, LOVE it)
-BMW M3 (thinking about selling, just collecting dust now)
-Ferrari 360
-Range Rover (hauling the dogs, boat, snow)-but trading it in for Yukon Denali in 2 months

 

MGA
MGB
Ford Ranger 4X4
Land Rover
Audi S4 Avant
Mini Cooper S
BMW 330Cic
BMW 530xi
Lotus Esprit
Lotus Elan
Delorean
Citroen 2CV
Ferrari 355 - 1/2 ownership

Michael B takes care of them!

 

Seriously?

 

A 308 doesn't really qualify as an "exotic" round these parts, but at my last job when I drove it to the office it still created quite a stir.

These days I work from home or am on the road so it's a non-issue.

The stable, which is maxed out unlesss I get a car-stacker:
'12 Mazda 5 (wife's DD, our road-trip van)
'98 528i (doesn't get much use these days, but can't bear to let it go for the <$10k market value)
'86 CRX Si (~1500mi/year. Stock, cherry. I take more pride in it's appearance and originality than the Ferrari :/ )
'85 308GTS (~2500miles/year)
'06 Sachs MadAss 49cc scooter (got a lot more use when we lived downtown)

Put winter tires on the Mazda and BMW (with a 50# bag of sand in the trunk) and covers on the Honda, Ferrari and MadAss from Nov-March,

 

9 right now (plus a couple of bikes)

12 VW R
12 Mustang Boss 302 LS
07 SLK350
06 Lexus GS430
97 VW GTI VR6
85 Testarossa
83 RX7 racecar
77 Coachman motorhome/tow vehicle
29 Model A coupe