Like seriously who drives a vette in the winter?

[Dayclone]

So I pass 7-11 like everyday, and this guy always has his corevette parked outside all the time and it's dirty as hell... but I'm just thinkin what he would of thought when he bought this car, and decided to drive it in the winter because no one really drives vette's in the winter now do they?

but it's his decision, and I ain't flaming him cause of that. Just wanted to get my point across....

Steve

[dawinder]

i saw one lambo and a 3rd gen supra on 17th ave 2 weekz ago

[illeagle]

Maybe his wife left him and she took everything with her except for his Corvette, and now he works at 7-11 full time:dunno:

[illeagle]

Originally posted by dawinder
i saw one lambo and a 3rd gen supra on 17th ave 2 weekz ago

3rd gen supra's are common winter beaters:rofl:

[benyl]

a car is meant to be driven. Nobody wants a garage queen.

[dawinder]

haha osrry guyz i meant to say 4th gen

[adam c]

cars are meant to be driven..

[Hakkola]

Originally posted by dawinder
i saw one lambo and a 3rd gen supra on 17th ave 2 weekz ago

:werd: Corvette isn't even that expensive, so I don't see what the big deal is, I see $120 000 Benz's and BMW's on the roads everyday. Corvette starts at $68 000.

[brandon]

Originally posted by Dayclone
So I pass 7-11 like everyday, and this guy always has his corevette parked outside all the time and it's dirty as hell... but I'm just thinkin what he would of thought when he bought this car, and decided to drive it in the winter because no one really drives vette's in the winter now do they?

but it's his decision, and I ain't flaming him cause of that. Just wanted to get my point across....

Steve

hahaha you live in douglasdale don't you...

I see that same black corvette parked there yearround.

[benyl]

Originally posted by Hakkola


:werd: Corvette isn't even that expensive, so I don't see what the big deal is, I see $120 000 Benz's and BMW's on the roads everyday. Corvette starts at $68 000.

:werd:

I saw an 2006 M5 on Saturday. I thought the guy was cool. Why drive a beater in the winter? Enjoy the car you paid good money for.

[Accord_tunerx]

they drive it casue they just dont care...to much money

[Sharpie]

Originally posted by Accord_tunerx
they drive it casue they just dont care...to much money
Or they drive it because its all they can afford..:dunno:

Personally if I owned a corvette I would drive it during winter..

[sr20dets13]

i see tons of corvette's in winter..i dont see why it amazes you?

[Graham_A_M]

Originally posted by dawinder
i saw a 3rd gen supra on 17th ave 2 weekz ago
So ?

I've seen a Masterati in the snow a few years ago. And it was THICK snow, with tons of gravel being poured on the ground.. it was hurtful to see :thumbsdow

[Euro_Trash]

Originally posted by Sharpie

Or they drive it because its all they can afford..:dunno:


:werd:

[88CRX]

Originally posted by benyl
a car is meant to be driven. Nobody wants a garage queen.

:werd:

[2EFNFAST]

Have you ever tried to daily drive a Viper in the winter.....fun (if you don't mind being a snowplow and having no traction :rofl: )

[Euro_Trash]

Originally posted by 2EFNFAST
Have you ever tried to daily drive a Viper in the winter.....fun (if you don't mind being a snowplow and having no traction :rofl: )

Yessss sounds like fun...... :dunno:

[chris]

Originally posted by benyl


:werd:

I saw an 2006 M5 on Saturday. I thought the guy was cool. Why drive a beater in the winter? Enjoy the car you paid good money for.

was it black? if so, that guy is the president of jim pattison leasing company, the m5 is his family car.

[JAYMEZ]

Lol , ive driven my RX-7 and Supra in winter before ... Its fun lol

[SWX]

Originally posted by Hakkola


:werd: Corvette isn't even that expensive, so I don't see what the big deal is, I see $120 000 Benz's and BMW's on the roads everyday. Corvette starts at $68 000.
The BMW and Benz are higher off the ground though, un like the guy i seen driving his Ferrari back in Dec.

[Canadian 2.5RS]

Originally posted by benyl


:werd:

I saw an 2006 M5 on Saturday. I thought the guy was cool. Why drive a beater in the winter? Enjoy the car you paid good money for.

My boss drives his '06 M5 everyday. He bought it so he wouldnt have to have a summer (911 turbo) and winter car (BMW 330xi). He sold them both and bought an M5 (he rolls on dubs in the summer :rofl: )

[soupey]

ive seen one driving around the hamptons, it was insanely dirty too...if i personally had a car like that i'd definitely park it for the winter.

[T-Dubbs]

Originally posted by benyl


:werd:

I saw an 2006 M5 on Saturday. I thought the guy was cool. Why drive a beater in the winter? Enjoy the car you paid good money for.



Originally posted by Canadian 2.5RS


My boss drives his '06 M5 everyday. He bought it so he wouldnt have to have a summer (911 turbo) and winter car (BMW 330xi). He sold them both and bought an M5 (he rolls on dubs in the summer :rofl: )

my pops drives his '06 M5 in the winter, and its even lowered.
It has probly the most advanced traction control system on the market, but hes also got 19' winter tires :bigpimp:

[DonJuan]

The reason I keep my car garaged and nice and warm in the winter time is not cuz of the rocks on the road, or the salt, or the cozt of winter tires. It's cuz of the people who cant drive in the conditions, the ones that are still doing well over the speed limit in very bad conditions and expecting their car to stop/handle the same as a regular summer day. Thats why I have a beater.

Case and point: BMW 330i on Shagannapi North by Northland mall. Slight snow fall in late December, and the snow is sticking on the ground; It's stuck blocking 2 lanes in barely an inch of snow.

[modded46]

I've seen many porsches & even a few Z5's running around, I can't believe that crap either.. DUDE, PARK IT!

[hjr]

as long as he gives it a cleaning regularly then should be fine. props to people who drive their shit. lots a bitches be all parkin that shit cause it might get a scratch. you miss out on life if your afraid of everything

[magicmario]

I saw a Bentley and a M5 driving around the past week... they were really dirty but still looked ballin!!!!!!

[riceeater]

considering that so many people garage their neons and civics over the winter i'm not surprised to see a thread like this...


calgary is great in the winter, coz eventhough the side streets are still icy, and there's snow on the ground, the main roads are dry withing a day or two of the last snowstorm... so really, you can go crusing year round... at our old house we had a neighbour with an old ass car (50s or 60s, i dont know) and he'd drive it almost every weekend for a cruise

we are spoiled... i dont park my srt, coz i can still get my speed fix on the highways no problem. I live right at the edge of the city so there are a lot of rich acreage neighbourhoods by me, so i see corvettes and porsches on nice days throughout winter... a lot of times it's an older guy with his wife going for a cruise, so thats always good to see. There's even a 911 carrera at the end of my street, and the dude pretty much drives it year round

[redline]

Originally posted by benyl
a car is meant to be driven. Nobody wants a garage queen.

:werd:

[Orbie]

I have a lot of respect for people that drive nice cars in the winter, slap on a set of snow tires, leave the lead foot at home and most any car can be driven in a Calgary winter. Cars are meant to be driven and enjoyed. I saw a guy driving his Flying Spur the other day in some really bad road conditions and he was getting along fine :thumbsup: the AWD does help though. What bugs me is people who take these nice cars and don't prep them for winter driving thinking it will be the same as summer. A few weeks back, I drove by this guy in an M3 with summers on who was holding everyone up because he couldn't get traction at a light :thumbsdow

[turbotrip]

there are ferraris and lambos driving around in january and february so why would a corvette surprise you? the people who park their cars in the winter need to realize that its just a car and its not going to melt if it sees a little bit of snow or rain, etc.

[Killa_Kam]

Originally posted by Dayclone
So I pass 7-11 like everyday, and this guy always has his corevette parked outside all the time and it's dirty as hell... but I'm just thinkin what he would of thought when he bought this car, and decided to drive it in the winter because no one really drives vette's in the winter now do they?

but it's his decision, and I ain't flaming him cause of that. Just wanted to get my point across....

Steve
you think thats fucked, have you seen the 2000 ferrari rollin around in the ne:dunno:

[Sorath]

Originally posted by benyl
a car is meant to be driven. Nobody wants a garage queen.


exactly my skyline is daily driven and its making 400+hp

[403Gemini]

Wheres that video of that guy in England who drove his brand new maserati in the snow? :D

man that guy is pimp.

Seriously though if a person can afford a car like that im pretty sure a few rock chips isnt going to piss them off too bad.

as said above, a car is meant to be driven, if i wanted to look at a car id buy a car and driver magazine

[max_boost]

You only keep a car for a few years anyway, so why not drive the hell out of it, enjoy it to the max and just move along to something better.

[R!zz0]

Don't vettes come with traction control? i've seen few LS1's around couple weeks ago and they have traction control. :dunno:

[asp integra]

Originally posted by JAYMEZ_STi
Lol , ive driven my RX-7 and Supra in winter before ... Its fun lol

hahah i was just gonna say that james drove the supra all last winter

[403Gemini]

Originally posted by max_boost
You only keep a car for a few years anyway, so why not drive the hell out of it, enjoy it to the max and just move along to something better.

my thoughts exactally.

1 word: warranty ;)

[QuasarCav]

Originally posted by 403Gemini


my thoughts exactally.

1 word: warranty ;)


For rock chips?

[Graham_A_M]

Originally posted by magicmario
I saw a Bentley driving around the past week... really dirty but still looked ballin!!!!!!

:nut: WOW, I now have no reason to park anything I own over the winter :eek:

[TNation]

Originally posted by DonJuan
The reason I keep my car garaged and nice and warm in the winter time is not cuz of the rocks on the road, or the salt, or the cozt of winter tires. It's cuz of the people who cant drive in the conditions, the ones that are still doing well over the speed limit in very bad conditions and expecting their car to stop/handle the same as a regular summer day. Thats why I have a beater.

Case and point: BMW 330i on Shagannapi North by Northland mall. Slight snow fall in late December, and the snow is sticking on the ground; It's stuck blocking 2 lanes in barely an inch of snow.

AMEN
nuff sed

[n1zm0]

Originally posted by brandon


hahaha you live in douglasdale don't you...

I see that same black corvette parked there yearround.

it belongs to that dentist on the corner of the plaza i believe, i'm sure he can afford to drive it in the winter :thumbsup:

[l8braker]

Originally posted by turbotrip
there are ferraris and lambos driving around in january and february so why would a corvette surprise you? the people who park their cars in the winter need to realize that its just a car and its not going to melt if it sees a little bit of snow or rain, etc.

Good on the Vette driver! He could be a true vette lover or that could be his only car.... We don't know his situation.....

I saw a silver 360 Modena on 8th and 11th in the bentline going under the bridge into downtown a few weeks ago. Granted, it was a little warmer and much less snow, there was still shit all over the roads... Serious props to that guy. (no pics)

Also seen 2 60 M5's (Maroon and blueish silver) the maroon car was absolutely covered in salt at 7:30AM in -25C weather. SL65, CL600, silver 997, numerous "other" newer Porsches, some with roof racks, Maserati Quattroporte, Bentley CGT, etc, etc.

When it comes down to it, they're just cars. Some nice, some not so nice, but they're just cars.

[Annoyingrob]

I drive my Supra in the winter. I'm a firm believer that I bought the car to drive, not to watch it hide in my garage.


Plus, RWD + Lots of power = great winter car.....






....No, it doesn't, but it's fun.

[E36M3]

Why not drive a Bentley in the winter? I bought one as a winter car. AWD is ideal for a winter car really.


Originally posted by Graham_A_M


:nut: WOW, I now have no reason to park anything I own over the winter :eek:

[R!zz0]

Originally posted by Killa_Kam

you think thats fucked, have you seen the 2000 ferrari rollin around in the ne:dunno:

I saw that today heading north on 68street. The grey one right?
:drool:

[Dayclone]

Wow lots of posts but I guess yeh if you have a car it's good to drive it... instead of let it sit there and depreciate in value...

[DonJuan]

^ Depreciation only matters if your going to sell it, I have no plans to sell mine; plus it's already appreciated alot from F and F 3

[inline6turbo]

i had to help my neighbor push his early nineties whale tail 911 outta the snow the other day, the snow removers cleared the streets and piled it all up around the parked cars, we all got stuck, he got stuck coming outta his garage... why would you drive that???

[E36M3]

I wouldn't want to drive any older car on a regular basis. If I did, I probably wouldn't park it outside while it was snowing if it didn't have decent ground clearance.. seems pretty obvious.


Originally posted by inline6turbo
i had to help my neighbor push his early nineties whale tail 911 outta the snow the other day, the snow removers cleared the streets and piled it all up around the parked cars, we all got stuck, he got stuck coming outta his garage... why would you drive that???

[Lexxan]

Kind of like people laughing at driving with rims in the winter.. If you can afford new ones when they fucked.. who cares

[Killa_Kam]

Originally posted by R!zz0


I saw that today heading north on 68street. The grey one right?
:drool:

thats the one :eek: nice ride

[Boost Infested]

If i can affort it, I will put my Ferrari in winter tires too. :)

[3clips3]

Originally posted by chris


was it black? if so, that guy is the president of jim pattison leasing company, the m5 is his family car.

That car is so pimp, the interior is ivory leather! I just hope that he got new rubber for the winter, when it came in early last year it had summer tires on it and there was snow on the ground here! Impossible to move!

[Mitsu3000gt]

Alot of people drive their Carrera 4's in the winter, and I've read in magazines they are actually very capable. The rock chips are an unforunate side effect though. Also, as others have said, what scares me are other drivers hitting my $150,000 car (if I had one), not salt or my own driving. I still definately respect those who drive year around though, they actually get use of all the electronics they pay for.

[LilDrunkenSmurf]

Originally posted by E36M3
Why not drive a Bentley in the winter? I bought one as a winter car. AWD is ideal for a winter car really.



Yeah hold on, I have the spare change to pick one up in my wallet :nut:

You baller you :thumbsup:

[TeH_Becks101]

fuck it, if i had the money my winter beater would be a vette too

[C4S]

:confused: :confused:

I don't get it .. what's wrong?? and sometimes .. it is so warm in Calgary's winter!!!


Just like .. seeing SUV in summer .. nothing wrong with it!!
:dunno:

[ashee]

At the 7-11 by my house there was a Z3 sitting there for about a week covered in snow, it was strange.

[TNation]

Originally posted by ashee
At the 7-11 by my house there was a Z3 sitting there for about a week covered in snow, it was strange.

yeah i saw that too

[CTSV]

Driving a high powered standard car in the snow just isn't fun. I bought my V to drive for fun therefore I only drive it when the streets are dry. Even at that on cold pavement it still has little traction but at least it doesn't get slush all over it.

[inline6turbo]

i love my car in the snow!

4WD, 5spd, twin turbo and brand new blizzaks! Soooo much fun!

[smokeshow]

Hey, if you have got enough money then all the power to you. Drive whatever you want in the winter. But if you have any power and a rwd vehicle it isn't a great driving experience (when its slick). Sure you can drift everywhere but you can do that with 100hp so no big deal.

Now awd + power in the winter rules.

[Lexxan]

Originally posted by Dayclone
So I pass 7-11 like everyday, and this guy always has his corevette parked outside all the time and it's dirty as hell... but I'm just thinkin what he would of thought when he bought this car, and decided to drive it in the winter because no one really drives vette's in the winter now do they?

but it's his decision, and I ain't flaming him cause of that. Just wanted to get my point across....

Steve

answer to your title.. someone who has more money than you and doesn't give a shit. I'm not rich but I have enough money to leave my rims on year round. Let's create a thread about that!!! hahaha