Too expensive......on the other hands when you keep them long enough it also gets expensive!!!!!

 

Drive the car. I have taken mine on two smokies trips of roughly 2500 miles round trip each. Car has not melted yet.

Took my 5800 mile 11 RS on the last one. Now has over 9000 miles. Only worth half as much now. LOL

These autos are happiest when driven.

YMMV

Tal

 

Got to find that sweet spot and stick to it.

 

if your on vacation you don't want to think about someone screwing around with your car. take your daily driver. plus the GT4 isn't that great of a freeway cruiser. its for fun not transportation . carl

 

Not too worried about someone screwing with it in Rancho Santa Fe but your point is well taken, there'll be times when I'd have to leave it somewhere while I'm at the beach or downtown.

 

Why the hell would you drive your GT4 1k miles and enjoy it, that sounds ridiculous! Obviously leave it in the garage and save it for the next owner, go rent a Toyota Yaris or something cute. Especially with the tire tread vaporizing at 7500 miles, you don't want to risk putting highway stress on them.

I have a better idea, rent a U-Haul with trailer to bring your car to your destination just so you look really cool. Don't bother taking it off since you don't want to risk tread wear or miles.

 

The only time I take mine on a trip its to the track. It's made for recitation not transportation .

 

Some of the most innocent sounding topics get very interesting!

 

Enjoy your car, I have 13k miles in 11 months, I can't care less about depreciation, I have enjoy this car on track and many road trips. Just added the Fabspeed competition exhaust and took a 1300 mile trip to the smokies mountains, I loved it even more now. Just do it!

 

You are assuming he is headed West on 10, he could be going South through Yuma along 8 or on 78, both VERY fun roads.
I love the Anza Borrego desert just outside RSF

 

but you quoted me, I'm OP, I am taking the 10 to Palm Springs.

 

Depreciation aside, treat a car like a daily driver and that's what it becomes. Make it a special experience, and it remains special. I've been through enough of these types of cars to have seen both sides of it. Not sure why savoring the experience of driving a car translates into saving miles for someone else for so many people here. Are they justifying their own actions or looking to make the low mile market on this vehicle smaller?

Keep it for the next ten years, but keep the experience fresh and new every time you drive it. When you make driving it mundane, the car becomes mundane.

Not sure why I bothered posting on this thread. People need to learn these things on their own or never learn at all.

 

I wasn't thinking as much about "the next guy" because I plan to keep this car a very long time. I'm just bouncing back and forth between "I've never taken this car out of town" and "I don't want to drive a bunch of junk miles down the 10"

I'm not taking it because of what 4carl made me think of, leaving the car parked on the side of the 1 while I play at the beach and then getting sand in the car. Once it's in there it never comes out.

 

Drive it. If someone told you today was your last day, would you be glad you left the car in the garage so much?


Tomorrow is not promised. Live today. The car was made to be driven.

 

^^^^
Yep, what he said....