What Sort of Distance Do You Drive Per Year?

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What sort of distance do you drive per year in your daily driver?

  • 0 - 9,000 miles (~ 0 - 15,000km)

    Votes: 11 31.4%

  • 10,000 - 19,000 miles (~16,000 - 30,000km)

    Votes: 13 37.1%

  • 20,000 - 29,000 miles (~32,000 - 47,000km)

    Votes: 9 25.7%

  • 30,000 - 39,000 miles (~48,000 - 63,000km)

    Votes: 2 5.7%

  • 40,000 - 49,000 miles (~64,000 - 79,000km)

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • 50,000 + miles (~80,000km +)

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
    35
Joey D

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I'm a bit curious what sort of miles or kilometers people put on their vehicles per year, people keep telling me I'm driving to much and I would like to see if that's the case. After 7 months I have 11,000 miles on my car and I'm expecting to be near right up near 20,000 come November. Is that really uncommon?

I'm going to make a poll just to see and I would like you to select based on your daily driver. Also if you would like to share how you accumulate those miles please do so.

For me, I have about a 30 mile round trip commute to and from work and about a 10 mile round trip commute to and from the university. That's about 200 miles per week in just commuting. Also for work I tend to drive quite a bit, mainly to Ann Arbor, about a 100 mile round trip, and to Detroit, about a 70 mile round trip. Then there is car watching, peaceful back country driving, and the trips to god only knows where.

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The kilometre is a bit off, but I just sort of rounded the conversions to make them easier.
 
Last year I put a little bit more than 4,000 miles on the Blazer, which surprised me in how high it was.
That being said, with my parent's cars taken into consideration, last year I drove probably about 7,500 miles.


I imagine when I go to college that number will dramatically increase.
 
I believe the average is 12,000 in America, but I can't really find any solid proof of that.
 
I usually run about 12,000 miles a year, probably with a +/- of 2,000 miles. Its about eight miles to school, eight miles to work, and no more than 15 to my old neighborhood where my Dad and Grandparents still live. In all, I usually do about 30 miles a day (or less), so yeah, I'm not going too far...
 
I've just passed the 13,000 mile mark in the Chrysler Sebring that I collected in mid-October of last year, so that's in a shade under 8 months, and will probably be close to 17,000 miles by the end of the year. (I have a very variable commute, sometimes it's under 1/2 mile, sometimes it's over 250 mile roundtrips!)

Factor in the extra weekend & evening miles clocked up in the Mazda & Porsche, at around 3000 miles each per year and I'm in that 20,000 - 29,000 mile bracket.
 
6000 miles at most, i take bus to uni, and work is 3 miles away, every other week i do 270 mile trip to the girlfriends and back (with over 100 miles left in the tank after not bad for a 15yr old petrol :D ) maybe once or twice i year i go 500 mile round trip to leeds but thats bout it really, everything i need is close by
 
So, odd question then:

Are fuel prices altering anyone's distances at all? Or limiting your driving all together?
 
YSSMAN
So, odd question then:

Are fuel prices altering anyone's distances at all? Or limiting your driving all together?
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Not at all. I've actually been driving the car more this year than I did last year. I put about 6,000 miles on my car last year. This year it will probably be closer to 7,000.
 
Combining both the 3 and the TL, around 26,000 due to the fact I drove the TL over the 12,000/year limit. It's too early to tell on the Civic, but I expect it will add quite a few thousand miles when factoring in the distance it takes to get back and forth to MSR.
YSSMAN
So, odd question then:

Are fuel prices altering anyone's distances at all? Or limiting your driving all together?
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It's not altering my distances, but it's keeping me from enjoying my cars out on the country roads.
 
YSSMAN
So, odd question then:

Are fuel prices altering anyone's distances at all? Or limiting your driving all together?
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Not at all, the Cooper is efficient enough where I don't really worry all that much. I used to only put about 12,000 miles a year on the Blazer, so I'm actually driving my new car more.
 
I get over 20k a year. I am approaching 39,000 miles on the Rabbit that I bought in October of 2006.

YSSMAN
So, odd question then:

Are fuel prices altering anyone's distances at all? Or limiting your driving all together?
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When you live 40 miles from work, reduced driving means changing jobs, which is hard to do right now.

We do use my wife's Yaris for running errands around town. But if it is just me then I still drive my Rabbit. Something about wanting to enjoy the experience.
 
I got my E320 in August with 137k. It now has 155,2xx. I've done 18,200 miles in 10 months. I had 8 round trips from Kansas City to Fargo, two round trips from Fargo to Minneapolis, One trip from Kansas City to Breckenridge, Colorado, and one trip that started in Fargo, went to Minneapolis, then to Kansas City and back.

I drove a lot.

14,500 miles of highway. :dopey:
 
I drive very little in my car since everything I need/want is close enough to me. 0-9,000mi a year seems to cover it.
 
I probably drive around 10k-12k a year. I live in the city so everything is right there.
Work is only about 15 miles from my house. Anything else I need is within 5 miles of my house.
YSSMAN
So, odd question then:

Are fuel prices altering anyone's distances at all? Or limiting your driving all together?
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Yes thats a huge part of it. I used to drive a LOT more than I do now that the gas prices are so high. Lucky for me our saturns get very good gas mileage. The Camaro gets around 19-20mpg highway if I can stay in 6th gear. If I am in the city I get much less than that. So I dont drive my Camaro as much at all as I used to.
 
I would guess I drive about 25,000 miles a year. I don't need to at all, seeing as work is only 3 miles away, but I do.
 
I'm somewhere north of 20K. Work is 30 miles away, and I make many trips to Seattle on weekends and such. I think since I've moved to Olympia (just over a year ago), I've put about 24,000 miles on the Mz3.
 
Keef
I would guess I drive about 25,000 miles a year. I don't need to at all, seeing as work is only 3 miles away, but I do.
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I find driving on off beaten paths to be relaxing so I do it quite often. Tomorrow Kate and myself are heading off for a 250 mile road trip around the thumb of Michigan for the hell of it. I've always wanted to see more of the state and she keeps tell me there is life out there outside of the computer...I still don't believe her but I'll see :D.
 
I think I might be around 20K in the GTI since we bought it. We got it at ~22K and it was probably ~41K when I got back from school, which makes about a year.

YSSMAN
Are fuel prices altering anyone's distances at all? Or limiting your driving all together?
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Yes. 8 to 10 thousand of those miles were put on by me last year simply cruising around Seattle, and about a third through summer, I'm at maybe 1500 miles so far. And I don't pay for gas, so the parents get royally pissed if I take it for random joyrides.
 
I have had my Mitsubishi 3000GT since August 25th of 2005 and the car had approximately 111,000 miles on it from the date of purchase. As of just a few minutes ago, the odometer on the car shows 140,735 miles.

So doing the math, that gives a mileage driven of approximately 29,735 miles. I have owned the car for 1,023 days or 2.80 years, which means average mileage per year is 10,619.64 (or 29.07 miles/day).

If it had not been for one summer in which I worked full time and took a summer class, then that number would be lower. I drove about 325 miles a week just going to and from work and to and from class. If I had not had the summer class, then the mileage per week would have been reduced by a touch more than half; thus, I would have approximately 2,000 less miles on the car, which would drop the average mileage per year to 9,905.36 or about 700 miles/year.
 
I purchased my car in December '05-January '06 and I've only done about twenty thousand kilometres on it. I usually only use it when I go between home and uni (or vice versa), which I do eight times a year and it's a 250km trip, and if ever I need to go into town (as my uni is really quite removed from the centre of the town) or up to class if it's particularly cold.
 

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