How far do you drive a car each year

[Ming the Merciless]

When I bought a new driving tuition car I used to go straight from the sales desk the service area to book it's 1500 mile service for two weeks time.

Did you also book it in for its first crash?

 

[Jenkins]

Somewhere around 8-9000 miles per year, most of which is between March & November thanks to frequent trips to Snetterton, Brands Hatch & Silverstone, plus occasional visits to Nowrwich & Cambridge for gigs.

I put around £50 of fuel in the tank at the end of November and zeroed the trip meter, just before a 140 mile round trip to Cambridge and, as of yesterday, the trip meter reading is just under 250 miles and there's still 1/2 a tank of fuel left. In the first week of January alone, I did almost as many miles as that by bike!

 

[Smokin Joe]

Did you also book it in for its first crash?

Very low accident rate on driving school cars, with the exception of some idiot rear ending you at the entrance to a roundabout.

 

[Drago]

Yep, safe as houses.

 

[Smokin Joe]

Yep, safe as houses.

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Obviously an advanced lesson, innit?

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

35-40,000 miles a year

 

[Drago]

35-40,000 miles a year

It's on the turbo, but it still counts, eh?

 

[marshmella]

Before changing jobs 15 months ago my annual mileage was around 4000 as the car was only used at weekends. I'm now doing about 18500 of which 15000 are commuting miles.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

Before changing jobs 15 months ago my annual mileage was around 4000 as the car was only used at weekends. I'm now doing about 18500 of which 15000 are commuting miles.

A friend of mine from Swindon took a job at McLaren in Woking a year or so ago. It's 4 hours commuting a day, 30,000+ miles a year but it's a great career move for him. He plans to work there for 2 years, get them on his CV and move on. Still, he's aged about 10 years in that time and he hardly sees his young family.

 

[Thomson]

Used to drive 420 miles a week. For about 8 years. Then changed jobs to about 240 a week for 2 years now I cycle 2.89 miles to work. Don’t get any better than that for me. I hate driving now.