Evo as your daily driven car?
Dec 4, 2011, 09:06 AM
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Yup, evo is my only car. I don't get why people say the Evo is a harsh daily driver. With MR Bilstein's, it rides like butter and the Recaro seats are super comfortable, at least if you're a skinny guy 
Dec 4, 2011, 09:23 AM
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Because, many MR owners on this forum removed their superb Bilstein suspensions shortly after buying their cars and replaced them with cheap Asian coilovers. Not that I'm not grateful; I bought two sets of almost new OEM Bilstein setups from the classifieds over the years.
Dec 4, 2011, 09:39 AM
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I daily drive mine. Had it less than a month and put over 1000 miles on it. I love dding it. The ebay exhaust the PO put on it makes it a little loud but I'm used to it. I daily drove my 06 wrx for over a year full of suspension mods. It was stiffer than my evo but still never bothered me.
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Dec 4, 2011, 09:46 AM
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I do but plan to get a DD down the road. Maybe a quad cab Tacoma or something to be able to move stuff and have the family in it comfortably. That may be rough considering when I'm at work all day I miss driving my evo even though I know I'm going to be driving it home. Lol
Dec 4, 2011, 10:32 AM
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Daily drove one of my gvr4's and now drive the evo dd. Although, in the winter I only get the evo out when the weather is bad and drive my van the rest of the time in winter. I love awd in winter!
Dec 4, 2011, 12:55 PM
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Dec 4, 2011, 12:56 PM
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Thanks everyone for replying to this thread! I was contemplating whether I should DD my Evo or go back to my good old EG just because I didn't want to run up the mileage. But all your replies helped my decision. DD my Evo!
Dec 4, 2011, 01:01 PM
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I started out with dding a base model cobalt, which was auto because that's all I knew how to drive. Sold it and DD the Cobalt SS, which was a 5 speed, that I had for a year before I bought a Grand Prix, which was auto, because I wanted to park the cobalt in the winter. I can honestly say I hated every minute of driving an automatic every day. Sure there are times where a manual is inconvenient, but it's so dreadfully boring to drive an auto every day that I don't think I can do it again unless I have to. Driving a manual keeps you focused on driving, in an auto I was constantly getting distracted and falling asleep at the wheel.