Best Daily Driver GT350 vs GT500 ? Whats your pick and Why????

[socal2fast]

If you guys had to pick a daily driver say 9k-14k. per year.

What car would be your pick and why?

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[thill444]

It comes down to if you want to row your gears or not. Plain and simple. Totally personal preference. Me? I have tried the automatic thing for a daily and missed driving a manual too much. And this was in Washington DC traffic

Today I have a mostly rural back road to commute to work and I simply enjoy the manual too much to give it up right now. So I vote GT350.

 

[dg108]

Having a super high HP car isn't all it's cracked up to be sometimes. I just came from a 700 hp GT-R and love the GT350 much more as a (mostly) daily.

 

[RPDBlueMoon]

Can't speak from personal experience but from what I have read and heard from car reviewers is that DCTs get wonky and jerky when driving at low speeds in automatic mode unless you are in manual mode. At high speeds when you are driving on the track it is perfect. It seems pretty redundant to have a car as a "Daily Driver" meaning you are not going to take it to the track, and have to always have it in manual mode, using the paddle shifters to shift. You may as well just go with a stick shift instead.

Plus for the price of the GT500 you can just get a solid classic car like a '70 Chevellle or even a 70s GT500. I'd rather have that than even a GT350

 

[lenFeb]

It's all subjective. I would never drive car with AT. I can have fun in any car with MT. But my wife would never drive car with MT. My guess that majority people on this forum would have similar response.

 

[Voodoo Velocity]

Neither of these cars will live their potential on public roads. Driving them as a daily driver will not really call out dramatic differences. So as most above say, it really comes down to manual or auto transmission.

 

[racingandfishing]

Having a super high HP car isn't all it's cracked up to be sometimes. I just came from a 700 hp GT-R and love the GT350 much more as a (mostly) daily.

I only have a GT, but coming from a motorcycle perspective in the past I had way more fun on my 600cc crotch rocket than I ever did on the 1000cc version that I "upgraded to". One twist of the throttle to redline and two gears at tops was all you got on the big bike before excelling way faster than you should be going! It was fun for those two seconds, but the 600cc was way more fun to run through the gears and much more rev happy and agile.

 

[proeagles]

Early reviews from professionals claimed the GT500 was the better daily driver as the engine was smooth and driveable at lower speeds delivering immediate response while the GT350 needed a wakeup call at 4K RPM. They are both thirsty but the GT500 is ridiculously thirsty in comparison. It all boils down to whether you want to row gears or not most likely. I'd take the GT500 in a heartbeat. What's not to like about 760HP?

 

[lightrules]

fun daily driver means 3 pedals...

 

[socal2fast]

Yea being in Southern California. I'm just trying to take all points into account. I wish the gt350 came with the same Digital dash as the GT500.

I was thinking of sending what ever car back to Shelby for the wide body package.

http://info.shelbyamerican.com/eblast/021518-WB/WideBody_Web.pdf

 

[LICobra]

Having the King of the Hill GT500 would be nice, but having the Tremec and the sound of the Voodoo would be even nicer.....so it's GT350 for me.

 

[nodonut]

I love the manual transmission. To me; theres nothing like it. I have a 2019 and I daily drive mine. I picked mine up in Glendale AZ on July 5, 2019 and broke the engine in coming back to CA. Today she has 12100 miles on the odometer. All I ever get is nothing but SMILES TO THE MILE!!

 

[460Fred]

I love the manual transmission. To me; theres nothing like it. I have a 2019 and I daily drive mine. I picked mine up in Glendale AZ on July 5, 2019 and broke the engine in coming back to CA. Today she has 12100 miles on the odometer. All I ever get is nothing but SMILES TO THE MILE!!

You’re not helping me any by posting that picture. You see I’m torn about taking off the stripes on my Magnetic Gray ‘19. It has the black roof so I’m thinking it will still be stunning.
BTW...The stripes have swirl marks all over them which is another reason.

 

[crazymayhem]

My '17 350 is my daily driver. At ~33k miles now, ~9k of which have been on a new engine (Gen2 if you want to call it that...).

I enjoy the manual, even in traffic, I get to decide which gear im in (sure, could run in manual mode on the SCT if I wanted to...)
Thirsty yes, but not quite as the 500 - I think at least. And heck, once youre used to it, you keep the 350 near the powerband anyways!
526 is way more than enough for the streets.. - but thats just imho.

Though after seeing the new Mach1 announcement, I may be tempted by one as an addition to the stable... as my new daily (with appearance and handling packages).

 

[PP0001]

I love the manual transmission. To me; theres nothing like it. I have a 2019 and I daily drive mine. I picked mine up in Glendale AZ on July 5, 2019 and broke the engine in coming back to CA. Today she has 12100 miles on the odometer. All I ever get is nothing but SMILES TO THE MILE!!

That sure was a quick year and over 12,000 miles in that short time period.

With that many miles on your GT350 already I can only imagine how many actual "Smiles" that must have been!!

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