Is the Price of Gas Effecting Your Driving Habits?
Is your Porsche your daily driver? Or, is it a toy (and possibly one of many) that comes out only to play or visit the track? Regardless of your income, net-worth or answer to my question about your Porsche being your daily driver, I’m curious as to the impact the price of gas is having on your decisions when it comes to your Porsche and even your normal driving habits. Where I live, premium fuel is now well north of $4.00 per gallon and still climbing. My Porsche is just a toy and as a result, my driving habits with it have not been affected. I still use it the same amount of time and put the same mileage on it regardless of gas prices.
However, I have noticed that I’m starting to economize a little in my daily driving. We’re starting to take our sedan for errand runs vs. our SUV. I have started to drive our mid-size convertible (which gets about 7 or 8 more MPG than our larger sedan) more often. Just yesterday, we planned an entire outing of errands around the fact that we were going to be out and about versus having to drive back and forth to the mall more than once. This is new territory for me and didn’t even realize I was doing it until I stood back and really thought about it.
This post originally ran with a poll. The poll is closed but you can see the results here
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I fall far below the average $350,000+/year income, 46+ year old, high-propensity-to-cheat-on-their-spouse Porsche owner, and my Porsche is my daily driver, but it also takes 87 octane and gets 28+ MPG -- when I use my right foot a little more conservatively, that is!
It'll be interesting to see where the votes lie on this, John! I'm working up in Cleveland for the summer but I head back to Cincinnati on the weekends, so the carpooling I'm doing while I'm up here is almost completely offset by that 4 hour drive! I'm also really busy, so I'm sorry I haven't gotten on the etiquette article yet, but I'm getting there, I promise!
Andrew,
Long drive home, but you have the right car to do it in. No worries on the etiquette article. If you have the time and can get it to me before the 24th of June, that would be perfect. I'm going to be away for the week and I could use it then.
Talk soon.
My Porsche is my only car and I don't drive it every day as I live in Lower Manhattan.
I take a lot of subways so my " carbon footprint" is fairly small to start with.
Gas prices suck, but I am originally from germany so I am used to much worse conditions.
My car gets great gas mileage so my habits have not changed at all.
I have a boxster and take it to the track for fun and will continue to do so for now.
:-)
I hadn't even thought about how we stack up to the demographics of the average Porsche driver when we bought ours. We're currently close, but below, the average annual income. I don't think we're close to the average net worth yet but are hopefully on our way. We have two Porsches that are our daily drivers for two 40 mile round trip commutes per day. Unfortunately, we live in an area where mass transit is not available to get us from our home to our places of work. While gas prices haven't dramatically changed our driving, we are trying to be responsible about avoiding completely frivolous driving.