I live in central CT and daily mine "year round" (only had it for 2 months so far). I had an RS5 before which I daily'd as well. These last two cars are the only ones I've ever had that were the only cars I owned at the time...I've always had 2...one usually being a truck. I put winter performance tires on and they're fine. I wouldn't purposely go drive in 6 in of snow, but that's more because I don't have to (I can and do regularly work from home), and because the only issue would ever be ground clearance, not traction. AWD 'sports cars' with winter tires are surprisingly (or maybe not so) good in the slick. They're low and planted and modern AWD systems are magical. The snow/ice/rain setting is great. The PPF is easy to clean too. I will be ceramic coating the whole car in the spring, though.

 

I drive mine year round except in the snow or ice, the last thing I need is one of our local cowboys to take slick roads as an opportunity to see just what his tricked out Silverado can do. I save the SUV for that. Also, driving the Jaguar makes me happy and who can't do with more of that?

 

Daily driver here in South Louisiana!

 

Daily driven, put over 36,000 miles on each.

 

Daily driver. Bought mine to drive and enjoy.

Have no intention of leaving it sit in the garage, with a cover over it to take out only for special occasions, nice days or to look at, etc.

 

I live in Winnipeg, MB, and currently with windchill it is -40 C. Drive the car all year round, and actually look forward to driving it in the snow! If the snow is too deep to get clearance, I will use the truck, but we plow pretty quickly, so not many days I have to leave her parked...

Threw on a set of Nokian Hakkapellita's in 245 all around, and it is an absolute blast! Definitely one of my favorite AWD platforms I have ever winter driven in. No other car was rear wheel centric, and this makes it extremely fun to get around and have fun

 

The worst part about the -40s and -50s is how fast an engine cools off after parking somewhere. (Besides losing feeling in your fingers and toes in about 5 sec ❄️) I went with Continental DWS 06 in oem 19in sizes. So far the they work wonderful as well in the snow.

 

Nope; I can't imagine driving a 500hp RWD car with little ground clearance around here in the winter.....wouldn't be going far! The F type sits from Nov. 1st to May 1st and I drive my 4x4 truck or GLC43 AMG.

Dave

 

I wish I could. But I live in Quebec, Canada and we have been getting pummeled with snow. Just not worth driving this in the winter with these conditions. Wish I was in bay area.

 

Glad to hear all the responses! I no longer feel silly doing it myself.

So for all of you daily drivers... how do you take care of the exterior? Do you take it through an automatic car wash or are you washing it yourself every weekend or something else?

 

Automatic car wash!
Go and wash your mouth out!
No self respecting F-Type owner would ever take their P&J through such an abomination.
I clean my F-Type on average once a week, although it doesn't get anywhere near as dirty as those in the northern hemisphere (pretty much zero mud or slush where I drive).
I use a waterless wash method which I won't bother to detail (no pun intended, honest!) as there are heaps of cleaning/detailing threads already.
On the rare occasion the car gets very dirty I take it to a self-serve car wash where where I use just the high-pressure soap spray to remove the worst of the muck, followed by the spot-free rinse spray, then I take it back to my garage and give it the waterless wash method.

 

Well, I have a few problems with washing it myself. One is the climate - it's pretty cold to be out with water splashing everywhere. Two is my own time - I've got three young kiddos, which doesn't lend itself very well to spending time on washing the car every weekend. Three is that I am on well water and it's fairly hard so it leaves bad water spots.

I haven't ever tried a self-serve station - most of them around where I'm at are in rather terrible shape and don't really give me a good feeling about taking my car there. And I feel like the dirt won't come off without some scrubbing anyway. Maybe I'm wrong about that though!

I'm open to options, I'm just having trouble finding something that works as well for me as an automatic car wash!

 

Or even better (for a number of reasons perhaps) in Victoria, British Columbia. 11 degrees C. today and the daffodils are coming up. You can drive your Jag (every and any Jag) all year long, and I do.

 

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I'm a daily. I know I've put this everywhere, but I work in hospitality, so I'm off to my office or a hotel most days, and drive it 400 miles round trip some days. I've done 4000+ mile road trips, as well as a few 1000 mile trips.

Northern California doesn't really get weather, so there's that. I doubt I would drive it up over Grant's Pass to Willamette Valley wine country, no up to Tahoe.

Anyone take their RWD through the snow?

 

 

I've only owned my SVR for a few weeks but have been and will be my daily driver here in NJ. The weather this year has been mostly ice but temps in the 30's and 20's. The iConnect remote start and temp setting is amazing! So far the AWD has proven incredible but if we get any serious snow I'll probably use the Sequoia baby hauler instead for a day or two.

 

 

 

It only snows here about once or twice a year but rarely stays longer than a few days so yes, I drive her year round. See a recent pic here