Have you ever wondered what it would be like to drive an exotic sports car as your daily driver? Emotionally speaking, it would be an incredible experience for sure. However the logical (and yes, boring) side most of us possess screams things like exorbitant cost of entry coinciding with proportionately high maintenance costs, severely reduced overall practicality, the higher likelihood of speeding tickets, potholes, and such.
Well let me make it easier for you then. You have the chance to drive an exotic sports car or any other ultra high-end vehicle of your dreams for one year, entirely paid for down to the gas (or electricity because this is 2019). What would you choose?
My own choice may seem a little out of left field, but I’d have to say the Aston Martin DB11 Volante. I’ve always been captivated by Aston Martin since childhood. There’s a certain heightened level of sophistication about Astons when compared to many other sports car brands. Much like the Porsche 911, the Aston is known for being more of a sports car you can daily than a track-only car. Aston Martin reliability is well… British, so one year for free can’t be all that bad… or can it? In any event, why not go for glamorous top-down touring if given the opportunity to drive something spectacular? This DB11 Volante caught me completely off guard this past summer, and it was love at first sight!
So, if given the chance, what would you choose?
If I have to carry on living my everyday life during this fantasy year, I’ll have the most highly specified, best performing E-class estate (wagon) that AMG can provide.
If I don’t have to worry about the daily grind, I’ll take a Blower Bentley, with a full-time mechanic living above the coach house. Oh yes, and I’ll need a coach house.
Lamborghini Miura, Ferrari Testarossa and in the name of practicality, Bentley Flying Spur.
Exotic. Meaning not ordinarily available to those with out means and low production.
I can’t get what I want, one of the few road going F1 Longtail GTR’s thus would settle for the newest.
I already called out my agreement with Darren above. Defintely, an orange, fabric sunroof-equipped LeCar as my impractical choice.. but since I’m addicted to remote clickers and better radios now, I’ll pick a Polestar 1. I’ll always love Volvo and zipping around in their newest invention would be pretty exotic for me.
2016 Land Rover Defender 110 bespoke.
Rolls Royce Ghost. Expensive enough to be exotic, sensible enough to daily ( I can do 1000 miles week)
I’ve dailyed a Lotus Elise in the past. It wasn’t a problem. Mainly
Easy …. Mc Laren F1
I’ve driven exotics (Ferraris and Lamborghinis) at HPDEs, but for whatever reason I find them a little underwhelming. It’s hard to explain, but I seem to like cars that are less exhibitionist, but equally powerful. I would have to agree with Jim Klein, a 911 would probably make the best exotic to daily. I’ve only ever driven them at HPDEs too, but I think they would be the easiest to live with.
I find the new GT350s and GT500s interesting; I bet they would be fun. I have to imagine that starting with a fairly livable sporty car as the basis should yield a fairly decent exotic driver. Of course, I would skip the Le Mans stripe livery, but it would probably fulfill my need for exotica for a whole year.
No contest. Acura NSX Gen 1.
The car I’m driving since 2009 of course. An old 911.
Got to be a McLaren F1, if that counts as a daily driver still. If not, McLaren 720S and a Porsche Carrera 4S Targa in dark red metallic for the chores.
A Porsche 911 SC/RS or an Audi Quattro Evolution 2 with PDK because I love group B