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@Bebs comments about his cars and their daily use but I do think it depends on mileage and type of driving. At 10k miles pa I would love to do the same. I have always done at least 40k miles per annum, mostly social and fortunately mostly traffic free as we live in a rural location and I mostly choose to add the odd half an hour to a journey to avoid the motorways and take the B roads. When I have used special cars as daily driver with high mileage, it doesn't take long before the negatives start to detract from the experience and the positives taken for granted. These have included a 928S4 that needed new rear tyres every 6 weeks, a C63 with it's small tank needing refuelling every other day, the NVH in a 993 that is character at the weekend wears you down when you drive it every day etc. After trying so many different options from sports cars to Range Rovers, I have personally concluded it best to have a small selection of relatively inexpensive but brilliant cars in their own category. Total value of all 7 cars is probably 85k. So today I will be driving my CL500 (bought for 7.5k @ 48k miles 18 months ago) 180 miles to collect my elderly mother from Sussex to spend a few days with us (in the summer I would consider the SL320 (bought for 9k @ 38k miles on it 4 years ago) and if the rail network isn't running on Sunday evening and its more torrential rain as forecast I will take the Cayenne (bought for less than 20k @ 100k miles 18 months ago) 160 miles to drop my youngest back at school in Dorset passing countless deep puddles and avoiding pot holes. If the sun shines and I need to do the 20 mile round trip to Waitrose I'll jump in the TVR etc. Once the salt has gone I will take the GS for a blast or a trip to France or even the occasional school run in the summer term. That way I enjoy them all, pay the same insurance (2k per annum) for 7 cars as I used to for 3 cars (due to ltd mileage on 4 of them) and the biggest motoring cost by far (depreciation) is practically eliminated. I calculated by doing this balancing act, I have now halved our total car running costs vs what they were when running a 4 - 7 year old RR, a new - 3 year old 335d and a Maser in the garage at 5k miles pa. Variety has proved the spice of life for me! (I don't recommend it for all areas of life as divorce is very expensive!!)