How hard do you drive your car?

barryfitz · 30-04-2010 03:26PM

Rovi wrote: »

To keep the fuel consumption somewhere just this side of insanity, I drive as if there was an egg between my foot and the pedal.
Mostly in the 2-3k range on a light throttle, occasionally venturing higher should circumstances dictate.

An egg on its side or on its bottom

??

whippet · 30-04-2010 04:06PM

it all really depends on what I am driving, who is with me and where I am going .. oh .. and what tunes are on the stereo.

In the MK GTi, I would tend to give it a good blast at the weekends when I don't have the wife or nipper with me. During the weekly commute it is easy going .. in Drive for the whole time. But at the weekend I will make use of the DSG Flappy paddles, back roads and the revs tend to be up at the 4,000 - 4500 mark for the most part and on the limiter on occasions. It hurts the pocket in petrol, but I didn't buy it to be prudent.

My 323 coupe is an auto and this tends to be driven quite softly, its a nice big cruising engine and is very comfortably in and around 2k rpm.

colm_mcm · 30-04-2010 04:06PM

Depends on the car I have, when I had high revving Japanese stuff I'd bring it right to just under the limiter as the car encouraged me to do that. Now I have 2 sensible diesel yokes I drive a lot slower and less aggressively.

Atomic Pineapple · 30-04-2010 05:01PM

Have I mistook this thread?

When you say how hard do you drive your car do you mean on a daily basis all the time or how hard have you driven the car?

Obviously I dont drive around in VTEC at 8000+ revs constantly

I though you just meant how hard have you pushed your car at some stage but some people seem to be descibing there daily driving style here so that's confused me a bit

Cuddlesworth · 30-04-2010 05:05PM

I've been told I drive it like I stole it. Not entirely sure what that means.

Tefral · 30-04-2010 05:06PM

draffodx wrote: »

Obviously I dont drive around in VTEC at 8000+ revs constantly

I though you just meant how hard have you pushed your car at some stage but some people seem to be descibing there daily driving style here so that's confused me a bit

Same here, id need shares in maxol to do that... car gets changed gear around 2500rpm and i drive in the highest gear applicable.

Tefral · 30-04-2010 05:08PM

Cuddlesworth wrote: »

I've been told I drive it like I stole it. Not entirely sure what that means.

think the car chase scene in ronin in the audi

Vertakill · 30-04-2010 05:29PM

My MPG dictates how I drive so.. have to change gear between 2k-3k and always stay in 5th/6th but I do of course redline 1st,2nd and 3rd if I'm doing anything fast. Haven't redlined 4th in a long time as it's pretty damn fast!

af_thefragile · 30-04-2010 05:42PM

draffodx wrote: »

Have I mistook this thread?

When you say how hard do you drive your car do you mean on a daily basis all the time or how hard have you driven the car?

Obviously I dont drive around in VTEC at 8000+ revs constantly

I though you just meant how hard have you pushed your car at some stage but some people seem to be descibing there daily driving style here so that's confused me a bit

No, I meant by the daily driving style.

Almost everyone of us has pushed our car to the limit sometime.
This is about how do you usually drive. Do you drive like a priest or like a convict just escaped from prison...

mondeo · 30-04-2010 06:26PM

Depends on which car I am driving...

My s80 see's 5k usually as it's a big car for a 2L engine so needs it.

My 1.3 lancer well that see's well up to 6k+ because it would not pull you out of bed otherwise. It's like driving a lame goat.... Itching to get rid of it at this stage..

MagicMarker · 30-04-2010 08:29PM

My car averages 4k on the m50 in 5th gear! It's a piece of **** so I don't put the foot down too often for fear of embarrassing myself.

Captain Slow IRL · 30-04-2010 08:44PM

My iS got caned frequently - it was a very revvy engine and you needed to when overtaking.
My current yoke gets it's exhaust cleaned out about once a week:) - love the sound of a roaring straight 6!:D Fuel consumption makes me drive sensibly most of the time though

Midnight_EG · 30-04-2010 09:18PM

I'll see 7500 a few times a day

jaffa20 · 30-04-2010 10:28PM

I feel so boring. I try to keep my revs as low as possible and i'm constantly changing gear to get higher mpg:o

Run_to_da_hills · 30-04-2010 10:43PM

I currently drive the bol*ix out of a "whores mouth" Transit and it won't even exceed 65mph. :mad:

How hard do you drive your car?

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