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View Poll Results: how much do you drive your porsche? duplicate poll from 996 forum-please vote only 1x
daily driver--10k + mi/yr
35
39.33%
weekend car-- 5k -10K mi /yr
36
40.45%
garage queen-- less than 5k mi/yr
16
17.98%
track car only
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2.25%
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poll: how much do you drive your porsche?

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Old 04-01-2004, 02:53 PM
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mine is a daily driver 17-20k mi yr
Old 04-01-2004, 03:27 PM
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My Turbo has been registered on August 2000. I bought it in May '01 with 7'500 km. It passed the 155'555 km mark today...

Greetings,
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Old 04-01-2004, 05:50 PM
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I drive mine almost everyday (unless I steal the turbo cab ). Since Aug. of 2003 I have put 12,000 miles on my car . I think I will have 15K by the end of the year...
Old 04-01-2004, 06:17 PM
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I selected "daily driver" for the car because I put about 13,000 miles a year on.

However, it is actually a weekend warrior because I only drive it Fri, Sat, Sun. I still don't know how I put that many miles on with just 3 days a week.
Old 04-01-2004, 11:30 PM
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Driven as long as there is no snow on the ground.
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I drive mine about twice a month or whenever I am going out of town for the weekend.
I have put 3000 miles on mine in the past year.
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4000 MILES PER YEAR, I have 13k on mine but 4000 of that was Gumball.
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My current 03 X50 is my second Turbo - in 21 months of total ownership of Turbo 996's I have 48,000 miles in the seat. I drive it year round - snow. sleet, rain or sun. I have on several occasions driven it through snow as deep as 13 inches. I run winter tires on it during off months. My wifes Cayenne Turbo is not quite a year old and it has about 28,000 miles on it. We drive the vehicles. I look at my Turbo as my 1 hour of stress relief every day.
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My 02 X50 has 22,000 miles. I drove it thru the winter on the summer Contis till this February when the icy conditions persuaded me that winter tires would be smarter (but absolutely no foul weather problems on the summer tires when they had full tread). It's fine thru heavy traffic, hard rain, light snow, and every other condition. I'd put myself on the T2 side of the line. AS
Old 04-04-2004, 08:07 PM
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19K in one year....

Daily driver...and so much fun! Why would I want to drive anything else?
Old 04-04-2004, 08:09 PM
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Originally posted by Pierre
My Turbo has been registered on August 2000. I bought it in May '01 with 7'500 km. It passed the 155'555 km mark today...

Greetings,
--Pierre
Congrats! Just curious, any performance mods? If so, how long have you had them (mileage wise)?
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You can see all the details here:
http://www.911turbo.com/feature/2003-12/index.php

I'd of course be glad to answer any specific question!

Greetings,
--Pierre
Old 04-05-2004, 06:19 PM
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Besides coming home to see my wife and kids it's the only way I can bring a close to the day and feel my day is complete. I drive it almost daily. In fact I have a 2001 MB S500 Sport that just sits in the garage. I feel I have neglected it over the years.
Old 04-07-2004, 11:47 AM
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2 yrs, 13,000 miles minus 3,800 (Gumball) divided by two = 4,600. Oops, voted "weekend car" guess it should be "garage queen". Or maybe I'll just go drive it now....
Old 04-12-2004, 12:35 AM
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Originally posted by Pierre
My Turbo has been registered on August 2000. I bought it in May '01 with 7'500 km. It passed the 155'555 km mark today...

Greetings,
--Pierre
I love the fact that your actually drove this car, not only on the streets but also on the track(s)!! Pierre, can you please let me know whether there were any significant maintenance issues with the car during the span of your ownership?


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