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Old 06-05-2009, 07:05 PM
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Default Re: '96 CE Corvette or '00 Camaro SS for daily dri

depends on what your "daily drive" is

commute to work on traffic clogged roads with morons that cut you off?

We have a CE LT4 Z51 that my wife USED to commute in, she said it was too low and no one saw her on the road (of course all the traffic is in Suburbans, etc, most of those drivers don't care about other traffic

We used to have a Formula Firebird and she thought it was "too big" and "too low" to drive every day (it was my car anyway, not like she GOT to drive it everyday)

In OUR case the INSURANCE on the Corvette was about ONE HALF, that is correct, 50% of what the Firebird was, so all things being the same, I would pick the Corvette from the $$$$ savings issue alone. The cars are very similar in comfort, performance and MPG, assuming the Camaro is a 6 speed manual trans as well ... The ingress and egress of the Corvette is different than the Camaro, so If you are 6' 3" like I am, that takes finesse, but it is not particularly annoying, but then I never daily drove her car ...
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