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I bought my 2003 C4 with 6,100 miles. A 4 year old car with 6,100 miles! How much fun the original owner missed out on!
At first my 911 was a 3rd car, and thus I only put 7k miles after one year of ownership as I balanced car usage.
Recently, I have reduced our household to 2 cars, one for my wife, and the C4 for me, and now I drive my 911 constantly to the tune of about 450 miles per week.
The car is loving it - it runs so smoothly - and I am loving it!
A pointless post, really, other then the message being about when I leave for work at 6am I am smiling as I look forward to time enjoying my ride in, and taking the top down for my ride home.
The way I see it, the damn thing is depreciating if I drive it or not, AND, life is short, so I'm going to drive the heck out of it!
So for all the garage queens out there, you can start enjoying your 911, or wait for its eventual buyer to do that for you!
John
John, thats a great pic!! Open, nicely paved road, with no traffic.... ahhhh heaven.
I've been using mine as a DD for about a year. Im not putting on the mileage you are - but getting in and driving to and from work is certainly one of the best parts of my day.
Enjoy!
Redridge, it's not me - mine has half that many miles. But since emerging from storage, I've been driving it every nice day here in PA - I have to put some miles on the car. It makes no sense to let it sit. I'm not planning on using it as a DD, but (even though I said I'd do it last year) WILL drive it more this year.
OK, guys -- flame away!!
Except if you have no intentions of ever selling the car.
My 996TT has 5556 miles on it, just came back from a 3 month stay at the detailer's over the winter (words can't describe how it came out) and it will be my son's car when I'm gone.
So depreciation means nothing to some people and there is an important role for garage queens.
What a great picture, top down and open road. Looks like heaven. After seeing that picture I want to drive my car to work. Then reality sinks in and I think of DC traffic.
I do drive it to work on occasion but not as often as I would like.
Oh stop it. Just STOP IT!!!!!
I can't believe you made me come out of "retirement" again to refute this. Some of the naive Newbies might actually believe this crap! You know that I am not a big fan of Newbies, but even they need some protection from this type of malicious propaganda.
Did you forget who your audience is??? You are not on the Audi TT Forum, this is the 996 Forum! Do you think we just fell off the f*cking turnip truck??? Jeeze!
I'll believe it when I see it. I have a better chance of getting another Porsche and driving it 10K miles BEFORE you reach the 10K mile mark!
Phil, I hope you do drive it more this year. Hell, you couldn't possibly drive it less!
I actually figured that Phil would be breaking out in a cold sweat in reading that thread title.... the only way that Phil is driving his C4S ever day is if he has problems with his TT.... oh, wait, maybe him driving the car every day is not as far fetched as I first thought.
Tim - I hope you can see how important it is for you to stay out of retirement. The Phil mileage project is still a work-in-progress. You can't just leave before its completion.
Bob
"We'll call it the 'Phil-Mileage-Project" -- Dr. Evil.
That's a great pic, and I'm also driving mine quite a bit more.
I'll only drive mine less only if I lose my license for a major speed infraction.
It seems to me that if you have no intention of selling the car, you could justify the garage queen, OR the higher mileage DD. It's the ones in the middle that are more difficult. If you drive it every day, like I do, and you have no intention of selling it, then depriciation doesn't matter. I bought the car to drive and enjoy, and I don't care how much it depreciates due to mileage. I eventually plan to turn the C4S into a dedicated track car when I eventually buy another Carrera. My wife hasn't yet bought into this plan, but she'll come around.
