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Old 02-05-2019, 11:27 PM
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Default How much do you drive your Porsche sports car each year?

I don't think this has really been asked before, but I wondering how many kilometers Canadians drive their Porsche sports cars each year. In other words, what is your average yearly mileage? This question is directed at owners of "sports cars", so I want to exclude more "family oriented" daily drive vehicles like the Cayenne/Macan/Panamera.

My guess is that the majority of Porsche sports cars owners do not use their vehicles as daily drivers, but I would love to be proved wrong!

Anyways, I've owned my 991 GT3 for 4.5 years, and I drive it about ~5000 km's per year. It is a weekend/weeknight "fun" car and occasional summer track car for me, and I still drive it in the winter when the weather is reasonable. And feel free to post a pic of your car! This pic was from last week:

Old 02-05-2019, 11:46 PM
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Every 911 I have owned has been my daily driver. Ordered my T in August, delivered November and I'm sitting at 5,300kms as of this evening!



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I have various cars, but the GT cars are:
2008 GT3RS- 39,000km since new
2016 RS 13,000km since new




2010 RS ( gone) 13,000km in 4 yrs
Old 02-06-2019, 12:47 AM
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I average 10k per season in the 87.
Old 02-06-2019, 01:07 AM
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Bought my 2001 boxster s in June 2009 with just under 70k km, had somewhere around 145k km in October 2018 when I put it away.
Old 02-06-2019, 06:58 AM
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Last year was my lowest mileage at a little over 11,000kms, commonly in the 13,000 kms/year range.
Old 02-06-2019, 09:19 AM
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Not enough lol... We picked the car up in April last year and put 3500 km on it...but we missed a bunch of good driving days prior to pick up.
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in my GT2 about 17k km this past year, 22k year before, no winter use except on the occasional clean/dry days
Boxster-not much
smile miles-not commuting
Old 02-06-2019, 09:41 AM
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3000 km/year. Never winter driven.
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400 km on my 993 last Summer. I've been seriously thinking about DD a newer 911 for the past few years, but keep getting cold feet!
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Around 10,000 km between the 2 per year. Not winter driven.
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My C4S was a DD for ten years and was averaging 14000 km per year and the engine required to be rebuilt so it was down for 5 years with just under 1k a year put on it to refresh the gas and do drive it to do maintenance on it. Just had the engine with 138000 km on it rebuilt to a 3.9l last fall and put 2000km on it in 2 weeks, My Turbo gets about 4500k/year just basically to the track and weekend country drives but I am sure now with the C4S back up the turbo will see less of the weekend drives. None are winter driven anymore.
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I probably do about 2k kms per summer on my 993. All mileage is 'just for fun' driving - evening runs, driving events, meets etc.

I'd love a newer 911 as a DD - but my S4 is still hanging in there. But for practicality (two kids), a Panamera Sport Turismo would be just the ticket!
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I have put 19,000 km on my car in the last 3 summers of driving.
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14k ish km on my gt3 in 2 yrs.. not a Dd

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