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Originally Posted by Brink
Well until I got to this part I was just gonna say keep the car in another garage and keep the bike in your garage (or vice versa). But with that not being an option I would go with keeping the car and letting the bike go. Why? Always needing to run your errands in a tank of an SUV or a barge of a minivan will totally suck. Keeping the FR-S gives you a fun car to drive that can still haul groceries or whatever when needed. Sure, you could do a limited amount of errands on the bike but your cargo space there is gonna be limited to a backpack or saddlebags or whatever. And rain? The bike is staying in the garage when it rains. The FR-S will still be fun to drive. Same goes for winter/cold or otherwise unpleasant to be in weather. It sounds like you're not going to be able to get as much track enjoyment as you would like out of either vehicle, but the FR-S would seem to offer more possibilities on or off the track.
Also I'm not familiar with your driveway in particular, but is it something that driveway ramps would enable a FR-S to scale without scraping? I know I've seen 1 person around here that has them. I don't recall the exact product they had, but it was something like this:
http://www.bridjit.com/blog/bridjit-for-lowered-cars/ |
Here's a pic of the driveway to show the layout and give you an idea of how steep it is:
I actually did better than the bridjit ramps and built my own rubber ramps to traverse the curb:
The driveway is so steep that the front and rear overhangs still scrape going up and down. Even at an angle. It's not so bad I can't get the car up or down it at all, but so far it has scraped through the clear bra and paint on the bottom of my front bumper and taken about a 1/4" off the underside of the rear diffuser.