Thanks for your reply. Mileage is a concern, but if it gets 25 or better that would be fine, but of course the better....the better. lol I will of course take the whole picture into consideration. I do not doubt it will be a blast to drive, thats a given compared to my old Honda. It's good to hear people state they use their camaro as a daily driver, that only helps my decision.

I think on this next point about longevity, we will just have to agree to disagree. My personal experience as well as that of family members and friends dictates that in the PAST the imports far out lasted the domestics on average and I see a lot of them on the roads today. There are of course some domestics that are taken care of as they should be that lost as long, but I think again IN THE PAST domestics could not offer the longevity that the imports could. But, I do also sense thats not the case anymore and the playing field is evening if not totally even, and I see that as a VERY good thing. You see, I really do want to buy american and thus my posts on this thread; I am ready to return to the flock. I don't see my assertion that in the past imports ruled as far as longevity as an unfounded myth at all. Quite the opposite but we could argue this point all day and we would still disagree. I'd rather focus on all the new camaro could offer.

Thank you again for your reply.

 

Quite Honestly there are several cars that are biult asthetically beautiful but not the best engineered. I love my LS1 Z28 but I have a commute much like the Original Poster and it really shows on my car. Only I do 55 Miles 6 days a week one way, not just 3... I'm closing in at 100K and I've had to replace the belts twice, water pump, A/C Delco Battery spewed Acid all over the cables causing both the battery and cables to have to be replaced, A/C no longer works (and I'm in Georgia), Smog Pump died, Front rotors continued to warp after replacing them three times with Duralasts until I finally oppted for slotted rotors, Has a bad alaignment that noone seems to be capable of finding the solution to fixxing causing my right front tire to wear alot faster than the rest (Tried Firestone, Dealer, next up is a proffesional suspension shop...), Driverside Window motor died ... Of course much of what I said was just standard maintanence... My 1997 Camaro RS was even worse, Window actually fell off track and into the door!, Door latch broke too and I don't even slam them, Transmission went at 130K Miles which isn't bad...

... and of course I know there is no perfect car and no car is immune to maintance but the point that the original poster is trying to convey is that he wants something reliable for his long commutes. It gets annoying having your car in the garage longer than it's on the road especially when you need it most...

I will say this... The LSX motors themselves are amazing... they havn't yet let me down when needing to start up and drive... ...It's the rest of the car that seems to crumble away...

 

There's no reason you couldn't get a Camaro as a daily driver. I'd recommend snow tires if you have to deal with snow if it's your only car.

 

Mine's gonna be a daily driver.

Just remember that gas mileage only gets better and better with every new model vehicle of every engine type. You do also, however, need to be realistic about them. Don't expect a v8 to get 40+ miles per gallon. You still gotta "pay to play" in some respects.

 

While I don't get 40 MPG, My LS1 for whatever freak reason does have tendencies of scoring between 420 - 450 miles per full tank... and on occasions it see's 500. I am at alittle under half a tank with 300 miles right now... This doesn't ALWAYS happen but it does happen more often than I would have ever believed until I experienced... Thats even better milage than my V6...

 

And we gotta keep in mind is that it's still loads better mileage on cars these days then in say the 60s and 70s. My dad have told me stories of powercars from the 60s where you put your foot down and it was actually possible to see the gas needle start creeping towards the bottom

 

They were real gas hogs back in the day, my '69 Z/28 got 4-6 mpg in town (and my foot was in it a lot) and 12-14 mpg on the highway if you were really gentle, but back in '69/'70 I was only paying 30-40 cents a gallon for high test gas. And when they had gas wars to try and draw new business I remember prices as low as 21 cents. And to keep it on topic, yes, that was my daily driver then.
Clyde

 

Mine will be a daily driver, by neccessity, tho I wish I could buy a second one and vacuum seal it in a storage container for say, 30 years or so..

 

Mine will also be a daily driver.

 

If they are being driven at all in the winter, that is surely taking a toll on cars in the northeast. I do like where I live, but for my cars, I sure wish I lived in a southern state. Salt is a killer for cars in this area.

 

I drove a 78 Firebird as a daily driver and an 85 Trans Am as a daily driver. They were great for everyday driving. Snow was the wild card. The Firebird Formula was great in the snow and the Trans Am was horrible (The Formula was a 4 speed manual and the Trans Am was an automatic)

I think a Camaro would be a fine daily driver, with the possible exception of snow areas. Even if you could drive it through snow (optimally with snow tires), the long term damage the salt is probably going to do to the underside of the car would be a big drawback.

 

I hear you. I wish I would have done that when I bought my 73 Mach 1 or even when I bought my 91 Eagle Talon TSi AWD.

 

RWD, small v8, dependable, good handling, and great looks. that pretty much sums up how i feel about my 89 RS 305. she's a great car and gets driven everyday in the summer, no winter driving at all. gas millage is fair, not bad, not my FWD corsica either. i would say things like interior, paint, mechanical wear items (engine, trans, suspension) all take a beating with daily driver use. all of those items can be replaced, repaired, rebuilt every 10 years or so. i dont drive my car at all in the winter, that is a death sentence. im going to rebuild a 350 to replace the tired but dependable 305. im also going to repaint it. that will make my car like new again, like resetting the odometer back to 0. as far as being reliable, any good chevy is reliable. camaro is no exception, my car has 165K on the clock and has never left me roadside. in fact its probably been 7 years since i had ANY GM product break down. my last breakdown is when my 86 GMC S15 jimmy had a failed fuel pump, and that wasnt even that big of a deal.

 

my husband drove our 99 z back & forth to work when we had it & he works like 30 miles away. on back country roads & the year he did it the weather was ICEY all thet time. Now he is going to drive his vette back & forth to work. (maybe he thinks lol)

 

I hear you on that. My 85 Trans am was a terrible winter ride. I use to leave it in the garage on days when snow was predicted and walk to where I worked (luckily I lived close to where I worked). Plus, you've spared your car from all the mess and damage of winter driving.