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Old 06-20-2004, 04:36 PM   #11
RC45
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Daily driver for some is not "daily driver" from the factories perspective.

Many of these cars will break down after repeated exposure to extreme traffic conditions.

By extreme traffic conditions, I mean bumper to bumper 110 degree heat, stop and go for 30 or 40 miles, with the car never reaching more than 25 miles per hour - and idling for a long time.

Many "sever duty" purpose built cars, such as taxius, police cars and limosines even have to have foreshortened maintenance periods to change over worked oil, filters and coolant fluids etc.

Ironically, hours of grid-lock traffic is sometimes harder on a car than "track driving and racing" - as before, during and after a race event, the car will be pampered with no-costs spared continued maintenance - while "daily drivers" tend to be used and abused and drivers simply jump in and go.

With this in mind - very few, if any true supercars could stand up to this kind of automotive abuse without suffering greatly.

And of course - these cars are not made for this - and it would be rare that such a car owner did not have a fleet of luxo-sedans for daily duty...
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