granted, people you drive $100K cars are not as affected by expensive gas as much as many others, but nevertheless, I do find that I tend to drive less aggressively lately, shifting to a higher gear sooner (but not lugging) and thinking twice about taking a fun ride,

has the gas prices affected you as well?

 

I've been doing a bit of the same. It's frankly not bc of the money, but just because I don't want to be pissing away gasoline and spewing more carbon than necessary. I've also realized that I was tooling around in lower gears than I needed to be in. A lot of time, I can cruise around in 5th and downshift if I need the acceleration. If you're just going along a blvd surrounded by other cars, you don't really need to be in a low gear bc you aren't going anywhere fast. I still drive hard if I have the room, however.

 

When I recall that I paid about $91 for a fill outside of Firenza two years ago I realize that in the USA we still have it (with a $60 fill) relatively easy compared to most of the industrialized world. There are many occasions where I look to see what sort of mileage these cars are capable of,--and am amazed! Imagine the DI engines,--getting more HP and better mileage! Even McCain mentioned that yesterday in Santa Barbara,--how some European engineering houses (citing Porsche, specifically) can do so much better with automotive engineering.

 

It's more annoying than anything to pay $60/tank instead of $40. If I had a really long commute, I'd just get a Honda Fit or base Mini Cooper to save money. Anything in the 20-mile range isn't a big deal to me. Currently, I only fill up every 4-5 days, so it's not a massive hit (~ $360/mo vs. $240/mo).

 

It's telling me the end of the world is nearer, so I'm driving faster to squeeze in as much fun as I can.

 

Honestly, it doesn't affect my normal daily driving. I work for myself, so I already do very little around town communiting.

However, I am very worried about continuing to do racing events... I do a lot of autocross, and a few DE's here or there. For autocross, it's the two hour commute to and from our nearest decent location, and for DE's I'm trekking at least an hour and a half, typically more like three+.

I'm not rich by any means.. I scrimp and save to partake in the events I am a part of, so the squeeze of a few more cents every month on gas really is going to impact how much I can partake...

... and that really upsets me, especially because I am becoming more addicted with every event.

 

No.

PS. I metro to the office, and often just walk the 4.8 mile trip home- good exercise.

 

I must +1 with "Dan". When driving the Autobahn at 150+mph, I went through an entire tank in 35 minutes!!!!

Oh, when changing the oil yesterday, I had to pay 6.59/liter for Mobile 1, much better than the $28/liter in Germany.

It is all relative as they say.

 

Heck, my 997TT gets the best gas mileage of any of our 3 cars. I'm fiscally responsible when I drive it.

 

No, and I don't see it affecting anyone else either. The roads in the NYC metro area are as crowded as ever, so are the malls, etc.

So long as most people buy gas on a credit card, the increased cost just becomes part of their debt service.

If you want to reduce consumption, as a higher price normally would, eliminate credit card purchases for gasoline. You'd see a 15% reduction in comsumption within one week.

 

Are you really asking on forum with $100K cars?

 

Try going to Europe for a bit? You will come back feeling much better! Gas is still cheap here.

Mark.

 

Funny...

How everyone makes every attempt to haggle a lower price on obtaining your Porsche, but are willing to spend $4.75 +/- a gallon of gas.

Yes it has changed my driving. I'll wait for good weather (no brainer there) and when I have time to really enjoy the car (less wife in it... another no brainer). I don't go as far and fill it as often as I need to as it's less painful than taking on a full tank.

Deanski

 

Our Cayenne now takes about 100 bucks worth of super. Yeah, it's a big of a pig and I love it!

 

Nope. Drive just as normal. The one thing might be that I pick the Sl500 where in the past I would jump in the GL320. What it has done is decrease our boat use. .73 miles per gallon. We use to just go for little cruises out for dinner... now we are using it as an on the water condo