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If someone doesn't drive their vette much who gives a ****?
Just wondering why people keep asking me if I'm part of your low mile club and trying to figure out why its a sin to drive and actually enjoy the vette!v
2013 GS. I say drive it & enjoy it. Ours has already been from Texas to Vermont & back again. We even went & did some touring in Canada while we were up that way. My wife just had to see Niagara Falls on the Canadian side-lol. We stopped at the Corvette museum, drove on the Blue Ridge Parkway, Skyline Drive. Visited the family in Missouri. We took the long way BTW. It's pretty great that I was fortunate enough to survive my extended tour in 'Trash-Can-Istan' largely scarred but still functioning. I spend as much time as I can in the vette. Life's to short not to find time to enjoy the escape in the Corvette. Especially if you (me), have a good woman that will put up w/your (my) Corvette fetish.
Very cool!!! Looks like a blast, maybe ill take the vette up there this year. Thanks for sharing the pics!
Wish I could take it out more often but between the winter months, traveling for work, riding motorcycles and having a car the company supplies for work and personal use (including fuel and maintenance), it's just not going to get a ton of miles. Maybe 3k miles a year.
Just wondering why people keep asking me if I'm part of your low mile club and trying to figure out why its a sin to drive and actually enjoy the vette!v
It's funny because with most other toys I have everyone I know shows off how much they use them. I remember putting 25k Kms on my 2004 Yamaha R1 the first season I had it. I bought a 2014 Supreme V226 this past year and put 148 hours on it. I'm not sure what's "cool" about buying a nice toy then not using it
My vette is my DD. So it's going to get about 55 miles a day put on the odo. Probably will also take me on a trip to PA and back to TX this spring/summer as well
I drive mine, always have always will. I'm at 143,000 plus miles now on my 07 and 121,000 on the 85.
That said I really don't care how others enjoy their Corvette, as long as they are enjoying it. Lots of reasons miles are not racked up on some of them.......but that is good for the used market.
Kind of like the auto vs manual debate........people make a choice and defend their choice. but in the end it is all up to the individual driver.
I'm with you on this. I just saw an ad for a 2007 C6 Z06 with 320 miles. Why on earth would you store a Z06 for 8 years, only to drive it 320 miles, and sell it for over $20K less than you bought it for. What an outrageous waste. This person basically paid over $20,000 for the privilege of storing someone else's vehicle for 8 years. What were they thinking?
Why is in the mind of the owner. Why would someone buy a commemorative firearm which, if handled too much (never mind firing) it loses a great deal of its value? Why does one collect stamps of coins rather than buy stuff with the coins or send letters with the stamps?
I can go on. If this owner wanted to own a pristine Z and keep it 100% pristine, why does it bother you? Why not go to the gun thread here and get down on those guys who buy guns that they never use to the manner you think they need be used?
Why do some people obsess about how much other people drive their own cars.....
Originally Posted by Mr.Nubain
I keep the miles low because I don't drive my car a lot. I get sick of things quickly. I drive my Taurus everywhere as my DD, my corvette is a novelty item to me if I use it a lot it's not as special to me.
I'll take it out for the weekend in the summer for a couple days, then park it and wont touch it other than washing it for weeks. Low mile Corvettes are a good thing, when you sell it seldom do people want to pay top dollar for a used up car and when I go looking for one in the future miles and condition are everything to me.
Don't worry about us not using are cars up, we're doing just fine. If someone doesn't drive their vette much who gives a ****?
Originally Posted by dryadsdad
Why is in the mind of the owner. Why would someone buy a commemorative firearm which, if handled too much (never mind firing) it loses a great deal of its value? Why does one collect stamps of coins rather than buy stuff with the coins or send letters with the stamps?
I can go on. If this owner wanted to own a pristine Z and keep it 100% pristine, why does it bother you? Why not go to the gun thread here and get down on those guys who buy guns that they never use to the manner you think they need be used?
I guess I fit in here...
Every few months there is another thread implying that folks who don't drive their 'vettes as the OP drives his, are idiots.
I cannot for the life of me understand why anyone would even have a thought as to why others drive their cars as they choose.
Some folks use their 'vettes as daily drivers to and from work and rack up 9,000 miles a year.
Some love long road trips and drive 25k a year.
Others use their 'vettes for an occasional cruise and drive 1k per year because they enjoy detailing more than driving.
My choice has me driving my 'vette about 3.5k per year because I am retired, and have several other cars.
I like to switch off, and drive different vehicles.
Why in the world would anyone care how, when, or why I drive???
Well, the reason for the low mileage on my car is I take public transportation to work everyday. There is a park & ride 4 miles from my house and an express bus takes me 35 miles to downtown Atlanta and drops me off right in front of my building for $6.00 per day total cost. I tried it once and have not driven to work since.
If traffic sucks (and it does a lot here in the Big-A), I could care less when I am on the bus. No stress, fixed cost, way lower chance of getting in to an accident, whats not to love about my "third vehicle" that just happens to sit 50 comfortably!
My Vette, and my FJ Cruiser, and I all wait patiently for the weekend!
Well, the reason for the low mileage on my car is I take public transportation to work everyday. There is a park & ride 4 miles from my house and an express bus takes me 35 miles to downtown Atlanta and drops me off right in front of my building for $6.00 per day total cost. I tried it once and have not driven to work since.
If traffic sucks (and it does a lot here in the Big-A), I could care less when I am on the bus. No stress, fixed cost, way lower chance of getting in to an accident, whats not to love about my "third vehicle" that just happens to sit 50 comfortably!
My Vette, and my FJ Cruiser, and I all wait patiently for the weekend!
Now ya see...there's a perfect example. You don't need a Corvette!
In fact, you have no right to own a 'vette. You've chosen a bus, so you will not put enough miles on your 'vette to justify it's cost.
I think you'll have to answer to a lot of people for your actions.
I ride several motorcycles an average of 15,000 miles per year. So that's a big reason my '11 GS only has 12,000 miles on it.
Yup, those for me too.
My toys i don't drive them in winter. I still keep insurance on them for comprehensive but if its snowing or too much salt/snow on the ground i won't take it out. So i estimate about 100-250 miles during a winter period for my toys.
Not to mention i have other cars i use so i can't drive them at the same time, which is another reason my toys have low miles.
I also ride motorcycles which again, in summer time, when people drive their toys (vettes) a ton, my toys still sit from time to time because it's soo much more fun riding a bike.
Not to mention that's how i grew up, i pamper my toys to where i'm very selective when driving it. If the weather is bad, even rain, i probably won't take it out. If i'm too tired after work or lazy, i won't take it out.
So for me there's too many variables for why my particular cars have low miles. I'm not the type to just drive like there's no tomorrow either. I came from modified cars ever since i got my license and things break lol. So i'm used to, the more you drive it, the higher chance of something going wrong. So i kept the mileage low.
I agree that people need to drive them as much as they want because they will depreciate regardless. But for me, my vettes are toys that I want to keep looking as new as I reasonably can. Every time I get them out they are looking good which makes me happy. I'd rather drive my Avalanche automatic as my daily driver and pull the vettes out on nice days. Again, I agree people should drive them as much as they want and not worry about the miles. To each his own..
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I just don't drive a lot as a whole. My reasons are :
1. I have a daily driver that's an auto - It's not a whole lot of fun sitting in stop and go traffic in the Vette.
2. When I go somewhere with the wife and kid, for obvious reasons we take her car
3. I work from home 3 out of 5 days a week.
So all those combined = very low miles per month put on the Vette. Usually in the neighborhood of a few hundred miles a month, if that.
I drive mine, always have always will. I'm at 143,000 plus miles now on my 07 and 121,000 on the 85.
That said I really don't care how others enjoy their Corvette, as long as they are enjoying it. Lots of reasons miles are not racked up on some of them.......but that is good for the used market.
Kind of like the auto vs manual debate........people make a choice and defend their choice. but in the end it is all up to the individual driver.
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