How many members use the Boxster daily?
 

How many of our forum use their Boxsters:
A/ Daily Drivers- use the car to work daily, all weather conditions. :)
B/ Garage Queens- car sits in a toasty garage hibernating for the winter. :(
C/ Weekend cars- all weather. :cool:

Daily Driver
 

A- Daily driver- NY even in the snow. 20 miles a day roundtrip :)

B/ for me I guess. My car has never seen rain nor snow, but I drive the snot out of it when the weather gets nice. I can't wait to get on the track this summer.

Pilot, hows all that snow treating ya? Hey, also, how many miles do you have racked up on your 03 so far? I have a tad over 10K right now.

It's my only car. Daily driver. I'm in CA, though. I could have bought 2 cars, but neither one could have been a Porsche...

daily driver, to and from work. i don't take my porsche out on weekend nights much, we usually pile into my roommates jeep and hit the clubs with big groups, and i don't drink and drive, so she sleeps on weekend evenings.

All of the above....

Drive it to work everyday

Let it sleep in the nice toasty garage at night after a good-night dusting

And hit the road on weekend for the pure pleasure of the drive.

:cheers:

daily driver for me!

It is my only car.

But never driven in snow.

it too is my only car, and outside of the completely unusual snow storm we saw one day here in las vegas (@ 5 inches) it has never seen the snow. but i drive it everywhere and love it. :D

sunday car. with the huge parking lot that is manila traffic, it's the only day you get to nail the throttle. it's just a sin to let it crawl in traffic all the way to work.

i'm of the opinion that if you let the car sit for too long, it starts to "invent" ailments... dunno if you guys have encountered this with your cars. :D

I’d say B+ for me. The car spends most of the winter under wraps. It gets driven 2-3 times a month during the winter, then during the summer it becomes my evening and weekend car. I basically drive it any time I can put the top down and I’m not going to work.

I would say that I'm a fair weather C driver. I haven't used the wipers yet. I turn my 2 1/2 car garage into a three car garage on foul weather days.

Definitely A.

I don't need a fancy-looking piece of furniture for my garage; I need a car. So I drive my Boxster everywhere, in all weather.

I've seen what salt does to a car... The P-car stays parked when the roads are contaminated.

Mine is a daily driver. While I also have a Forester, that is used only when I need to drive the dogs somewhere, go to home depot for supplies that won't fit in the boxster or if the roads are flooded during a deluge, like last years hurricanes (I would hate to end up like the 350Z shown in another post). Although, I remember last summer there was a HUGE thunderstorm that flooded a major road that I was on. Cars were stalled all over the place but my boxster made it home. I guess the question I have is, if you live in a non-snow area, why WOULDN'T you drive your boxster all the time???

Fortunately the snow is cleaned right away in NY thus the exposure of driving on the physical snow is diminished. It is still slippery full of black ice and other dangers therefore you have to drive in control and exercise proper precautions. The Boxster being midengine has good traction but it is still a racing car not a Quattro. The traction control helps and hinders sometimes you have to decide when to shut the dam thing off. This year we have had our fill of snow but that is what winter is all about. Makes you really look forward to spring. :)

More of a weekend and night car for me. Parking space is limited at my work place so we car pool. I try to drive it at night so i can put the top down which is about the only time u can do that here in the tropics. Traffic is pretty bad in the day time as well and it is very frustrating having the car crawl in city traffic. Better to unleash the 'beast' when everyone else is asleep and not hogging the roads :troll:

Mileage
 

I forgot to give you part b of your question. Right now I have about 17,000 of which all but 3300 are mine. Where I am working now the mileage to work dropped a lot lowering my mileage use annually to between 5500 to 7000

None of the above. It hibernates in Winter, unless there's a nice weekend where I can clean the salt off of it before putting it back in the garage. In summer, I drive it whenever I feel like it, rain or shine. Usually that's shine. No sense in letting it sit in a parking lot getting rained on all day.

Mine has been hibernating since October in a nice heated garage rite next to my bike in fact I have not seen the car since I put it away, i hope that it is still there. Oh well that is what insurance is for

Same for me Automon. I can't wait because in about 2 weeks it should finally be nice enough to get the car out. It's been 4 mo but it feels like four yrs so it will almost be like the first timeI got to drive my car. :)

I use mine all year around... live in Montreal, canada...The car goes quite nicely in winter...in fact we are getting 6 inches of snow today... Run 16"original wheels with Michelin winters... and 17" in summer...

Biggest problem here is the quality of our roads... more fitted to SUVs than any sports car....

I think many of those who are bashing the winter use of the Boxster don't realize that it's actually quite capable and not very prone to damage at all in winter climates.

C and D, I guess... I drive my car whenever possible when it's not raining. We don't get snow here in Houston.

Because my wife and I carpool to our office every day, and take Lady, our golden retreiver with us, there's not enough room in the Boxster to be used as a daily driver... :(

Pretty much a daily driver for me. My inlaws have been in town since I got the car and are using the wife's car. After they leave we'll probably switch off which car we take in to work (we work together) in hopes of keeping the miles down on both of them.

YellowJacket is quite right...the car is quite amazing ..once it gets going... as much as I have never missed a limited slip diff in summer, I wish I had it in witer when we have a big snowfall....just to get away from a stop... after that.. no problems... this car is so well balanced with the masses centered that even when I push a little bit... it always comes back with a small move from the wheel.. great fun !!!

a daily driver
 

Count me (or my car) as an "A". It is driven every day, rain or shine, no problems.

FWIW, there is a guy near my neighborhood who drives his mid-80s Ferrari 308 (or 328) GTSQV every day rain oir shine.

daily...
 

if I go a day without driving it I start getting withdrawl symptoms!
seriously, I dig driving this car!

it's a third car for my family (expedition and volvo xc wagon), but unlike most porsche-as-third-car-scenarios, mine gets driven as much as possible...easy to do here...it's like 65 and sunny today.

A and C for me
 

I also have a SUV but just can't part with my Boxer. If this continues, she is going have 20k plus miles within a year.

Daily driver here. The car is too fun to save it for the next person to enjoy.

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Daily Driver for me too

It puts me in a good mood on my way to client meetings, puts me in an even better mood on the way back from client meetings. All year round car too, but they wouldn't know that you need salt on the roads here in winter.

The only time I use the VW Passat is when we have more than 2 people to transport, a trip to Bunnings (Aussie version of HomeDepot) or we are heading on a long interstate trip with loads of luggage (like going to the skifields in winter).

:D

Almost daily driver. I drive the Boxster 3 to 4 times a week and my truck the rest. The box does very well in all weather conditions, but the other drivers don't seem to do well when the weather turns bad. My truck can take a poor driver bouncing off of it better than the boxster. :matchup:

Live in the north east, only have summer tires for it, do try to roll it every 3 or 4 weeks in the winter. Garage Queen for sure, but still manage about 10000/year. Luv is a red boxster and warm weather!

C for me~ IS300 is my daily car.

I have a 2000 Arena Red 2.7 that is a daily driver except when I have too much to haul and have to get in the pickup truck. Cars are like good dogs, they should not go a day without one-on-one interaction.

Mine is never used for commuting. I will only drive it on sunny days, cold or warm.

Sunday clothing: clean and shiny at all times, and never worn in inclement weather.


jim

Pretty much A. Commute from Corona to LAX daily. Occassionally take the Bronco, rarely take the Jeep. Often swap cars with milady - which means I'm "stuck" with her BMW X5 :)

Will probably source a lightweight car cover though - my office is on the west end of the LAX airfield, that Jet-A residue can't be good for the paint.

what sort of residue is that? I live about 5 minutes drive from an an airport myself.

Jet exhaust is very degrading to auto finishes. New car manufacturers who bring their cars in to the US via Long Beach found this out years ago. That is why you see the cars coming in now with while plastic sheets covering all the flat services.

This fallout from the planes can ruin your paint unless you cover your car or get a qaulity sealent like Klasse on there and wash your car very often.

Bad stuff indeed!

:(