Is your 10th Gen your DD?

[LeaveEarly]

Hi Everyone,

I don't have the capital to own multiple cars so my civic hatchback I use as my daily driver. I have driven it in ice storms and snow storms on the stock all season tires. Is this 10th Gen meant to be a DD or a weekend/recreational purposes driver?

Let me know what you guys think!

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[typemismatch]

I DD it all summer, I don't drive it in winter.

 

[LeaveEarly]

Its a Honda civic, of course its a daily driver. Not sure why you would buy the econobox just to let it gather dust while you drive your Dino-destroyer.

I was more leaning towards driving it for winter as a DD as well

 

[360glitch]

With the Type R possibly being an exception, the Civic is absolutely designed to be a daily driver.

 

[Curtman]

Drove my SI all through the winter in Canada. Just swapped wheels and tires.

 

[NotSerious]

All trim-lines of the Civic depreciate in value at roughly the same rate. The SI might retain some of it's value when it is ten + years old, but only if it is in pristine and in unmodified condition. Even then, it will never be a collectors car because so many of them are made so you will be lucky to get anything approaching $10,000 when it is 10+ years old. The Type-R may be an exception because so few are built, but I wouldn't count on it ever being a "collector's car" because the base design is a compact-class economy car.

The more you use your car, the more miles you will get out of it. I kept my last Civic for 17 years before it became unreliable, but it was a low-mileage car (80,000 miles). The high-mileage Civics (> 200,000 miles) are usually cars that were used a lot (>15,000 miles/yr). So you actually get less value out of your car by not using it. You might get more money for it when you sell it if you don't use it much, but the small bump in resale value doesn't make sense for what you lose in usage.

With the possible exception of the Type-R, these are economy cars, not collector's cars.
Trying to make these things last 20+ years is a fools errand because you actually get less value out of the car that way.

 

[LeaveEarly]

It's front wheel drive, and not all that light. With the same wheel base as the gen 1 honda pilots, If you go above and beyond and get some 17" steelies and winter tires I wouldnt worry about winter driving. That being said because the vehicle will perform in the snow doesn't mean the person behind the wheel will and I feel that is the most important aspect in bad condition driving. This coming from a Chicago native.

Sorry I meant to reply the guy saying he wont DD in winter

 

[typemismatch]

Sorry I meant to reply the guy saying he wont DD in winter

Me?

Mine is a Type-R, so I DD it as much as possible, but no winter driving.

If I had bought an Si, I would DD that in the winter as well. I DD'd my 8th gen Si year round.

 

[Doublestack00]

It's my DD, but I only drive 12-14 miles a day.

 

[LeaveEarly]

Me?

Mine is a Type-R, so I DD it as much as possible, but no winter driving.

If I had bought an Si, I would DD that in the winter as well. I DD'd my 8th gen Si year round.

Do you keep your summer tires on?

 

[typemismatch]

Do you keep your summer tires on?

Bone stock except for tint.

 

[bembol]

See side profile for my "winter beater." LOL

 

[CivicNerd]

Mine is my DD and I drove it throughout the entire winter, which was abnormally long where I am (ended maybe last week).

 

[islandon]

Any car I own is a daily driver, from my past Vette, muscle cars and even my Lotus.

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