The official "I drive to damn much" Thread

Since 2002 I have averaged about 80K a year total, in the early years I did 100K a year, I am just now slowing down.

Yet I can easily drive an F600 1000 miles towing a $20xx car.

and I drive manuals..

7 miles short of 45,000 to the day last year. I really don't mind it much.

Use to drive alot. As others have said. Comfort is king over sporty and power. My Cadillac Fleetwood brougham was by far my favorite car. Ate up the miles and was like being on my livingroom couch.

So, tires. Winter is easy, I'm running blizzaks from mid October to mid April. The weather in shoulder seasons is variable enough that I want all-seasons.

Going off of tire racks tire classing, I'm assuming I should be looking at grand touring tires vs the performance categories? I want quiet and comfortable without sloppy handling (twss).

JThw8 wrote: Unlike some others I've actually found it makes roadtrips more enjoyable because I've developed such a tolerance that I don't mind long drives. Heck when you drive an hour or more just to get to work it starts to seem weird when you hear other people complain that "OMG that's like an hour away" yeah...so?

Same here, although I typically drive about 100 miles/day, round-trip. I knew when I got back into DH racing, my driving would go way up since the ski areas where I practice/train on are a minimum of 90 miles away, depending on which one I go to. I've averaged almost 1000 miles/week over the last month and a half. I remember looking at my records and seeing about 12 fill-ups in July alone.

The CD player in the van broke about a year ago... I do need to fix (replace) that... While I prefer listening to the radio while local, I generally dislike channel surfing while on trips and just popping in a few CD's. The idea of language-learning CD's has merit, tho...

Try the Pimsleur series for languages. Amazon carries them. Usually the first 5 disks are cheap, as an introduction. Niet ware?

I used to be a vendor for various companies and would average 30k miles a year. I bought a new Yaris in 09 and put 43k miles on it before trading it in. Now I average roughly 70 miles a day going back and forth to work. Comfort, cruise control and good stereo are my requirements. The Mazda 5 has turned out to be a great mile eater on the highway.

86 miles per day, unless I'm traveling for work....in that case the miles are then in planes and rental cars.

For three and a half years I drove 103 miles each way for work. When offered the chance to go to the track or autox on the weekend, I started to decline. That's when I knew I had done too much. These days, I love driving again. Oh, those miles were in an NA answer or on my WeeStrom.

I'm on a first name basis with everyone who works in my local Enterprise branch. I've got 24 rentals so far this year and at least two or three trips where I had to take my own car or a company car. Driving between Cincinnati and Columbus is basically auto-pilot for me at this point.

I drive to and from Cincinnati and Columbus Ohio every day. The amount of A-holes who park in the left lane astounds me in a way I didn't think was possible. Every single day. A-holes. Left lane. Whats worse are the truckers. I may be getting a gyrocopter or something so I can just fly overhead and ditch this driving thing all together.

your drive in a month what i average a year. i couldnt do it, it would beat the enjoyment of driving out of me and id sell everything and live in a cave!

This thread makes me sad for most of you. I live 4 miles from work so the commute is silly short, if all I do is commute I may gas up once a month .

At work my company pick-up is a 2007 with just 13,000 miles on it so I'm not racking up many there.

I've had long commutes in the past and anything past 30 minutes really grated so I'll take living in town for the short drive. Annoyingly the road I take is so unfriendly to cyclists I really can't go that route.

Swank Force One wrote: Ya'all is crazy. I do less than 15k a year. Usually around 10k.

theoretically, I do about 13K a year to get to work. But to my own car, it ends up being well under 10k.

2015: Driven miles (from company onboard computer that calculates miles from zip to zip and not actual) are just shy of 50,000.

2014: 75,000 miles (same mileage config as above).

I just went over the 2 year mark of owning my truck and my actual mileage also crossed over the 200,000 mile mark for these two years.

I doubled my commute recently after moving in with the fiance. 60 miles each way now of highway up from 30 miles each way of country 2 lane. It will be worth it when we get a house and move closer to our respective jobs.

alfadriver wrote:

Swank Force One wrote: Ya'all is crazy. I do less than 15k a year. Usually around 10k.

theoretically, I do about 13K a year to get to work. But to my own car, it ends up being well under 10k.

Yeah i spread that out across three cars. I do around 4k a year commuting.

Going to be working from home finally by the end of the year. I expect my yearly mileage to be cut in half, to the point that the majority of my logged mileage will be to and from track days, Miatas at the Gap, Miatas in Boone, and hopefully GRM Challenge.

I don't enjoy driving when i HAVE to do it.

Geez, I am better than some of you guys, my commute is 25-40 miles each way depending on where I am headed, but it used to be sometimes two places per day. So I figure 60-100 miles/day. Luckily that is getting cut down now. The Camry is pretty good for commuting, but really comfortable power seats work good lumbar support is a priority for the next DD. This is up from a 30 min round trip commute before I moved to Maryland.

3,800 miles during July in the Z06. Road trips only. I drive ~50 miles per week for work (1 trip to the office per week). I've traveled 16,000 miles in the past year.

Work-related driving last summer (12,000 miles), as well as December-March were done in the Buick.

I'm extremely happy that I work from home and not spending my days driving through Detroit anymore.