Feeling guilty for not driving my Boxster

[meerzee]

Originally Posted by maxferran

Not me, I will spend more time cleaning it after a rain than I will driving it. Unless I get caught while out, my girl stays in the garage for sunny fridays, and nice weekends.

Yep, only drive her on Fridays and weekend if the weather is perfect.

Exactly....She will be driving tomorrow to work and then hopefully to the airport to pickup my daughter on Saturday. She is 11 and she hasn't seen it yet and she is definitely NOT spoiled (unlike my nephew --- see prior rant!) - so it should be fun!

[djomlas]

man, with that much drivig and the cost of insurance and cost of the car, you are better off just renting one once in a while.
fridays only if it doesnt rain?

i dont know, i wouldnt be able to do that at all, while i was waitig for my wheels to arrive (1 week) it was driving me crazy not being able to drive the porsche...i dont know how you can own one and not drive it. i drive mine in rain as well, but its got many layers of zaino, and when i get home car looks the same, no water spots whatsoever, but now that i got the leaf blower i can probably just hose all that water off anyways, but still even without anything, the worse thing is just the wheels.

but hey, you car and $, just doesnt seem like the smartest idea out there.

please, go drive that car before things stop functioning from sitting out 11 months out of the yer total

[blinkwatt]

Just drive it any day the weather is nice! Don't let it sit,that's when it seems like these cars start to develop problems. Look at it this way,you pay insurance on it 100% of the time,why wouldn't you drive it 100% of the time? Now there are times like when you have to be a shuttle for siblings/kids and need to haul big stuff around but otherwise put that foot to the floor in that thing!

I only put 6k on my 99' in two years,my only regret was not driving it more.

[boxstershorts]

I am alive to drive. And I'm a alive when it rains ... therefore I drive the P in the rain. In the winter ... I hate winter.

[nola911]

Hmm, not the smartest? I put over 35k miles on three cars last year. If they were only on the porsche, the car would have 300,000 miles... It would have, therefore been replaced twice and wouldnt look nearly as good as it does now.

My first car is expensive to insure, after that, the rest are cheap. The porsche is actually the cheapest by far. I am not worried about that cost. I am not burning expensive tires or changing expensive oil either. The car, to me, is a pleasure vehicle. I stare at it, work on it, and play in it. I try to drive it weekly, like I said. Usually 3 days a week. But some weekends, I have hobbies and obligations that render the porsche useless. For day to day activities, it is completely impractical. It is also not a fun car to drive while sitting in daytime traffic. It is not what it is made for and I would rather it in my garage.

So to me, driving it everyday is "not the smartest idea" but hey, its my money.

[humara]

you're not lame, just a poser.

i didn't drive my car today. i'm a poser.

[cvhs18472]

Purchased my car Mid Dec., Put it away for about 10 weeks, It is now late Oct. and there are 13K more miles on it than when I got it. My only complaint is that I have not put more miles on it. We go on trips and Runs and just ride rain or shine. The top down is best, but certainly top up is better than driving most anything else. Yes it is more expensive to maintain than my Pick Up, but I didn't get one to say I have one, I got mine to enjoy the pleasure of a fine automobile. I have driven sports cars since I was 16 and have had a few nice ones. Nothing compares to the Boxster so why not enjoy. I will die one day and I would not like to think that I left a car with no miles on it. What a waste. Ed

[HB.]

Originally Posted by djomlas

fridays only if it doesnt rain?

Nothing more needs to be said :ah: