Do you actualy enjoy driving?

[karl922]

This is to see peoples opinion on where and when they enjoy driving,

For me, I realy enjoy long trips on motorways at night time with light traffic, listening to some james morrison/ jason mraz.

On the other end of the scale i obviously like a hoon now and then through the snake pass on a sunday morning ;-)

What is your memorable past time at the wheel?

[tybo]

I enjoy it all the time. Doesn't really matter what i'm driving.

[Animal]

Every journey is what you make it: smoother gearchanges, later braking, a safer overtake, etc, etc.

My best car journey was getting up at 3.30am to drive from Hemel Hempstead to Fort William a couple of years ago. I can still remember the run across Rannoch Moor into Glencoe...

[ludo]

my daily commute to work and back home again (provided it is reasonably dry and frost free), nice country roads for my Elise. Nice to drive at any speed provided there are corners. Don't like driving long distances on fast roads though - just boring.

[AndyBe]

Some journeys are just an 'A to B' event. They're made better by having a good stereo, cruise control, a comfortable seat, etc, etc.
Some journeys are just journeys for the sake of it. And in that case there's no replacement for cubic displacement.

[BarnatosGhost]

Not half as much as riding a motorbike.

Driving for me started great, then became good, then indifferent, then once the bike came along, it became irrelevant.

[T89 Callan]

I don't enjoy every bit of driving but I try to at least break 1.0 lepton and push the back end out one on every trip I make, just to remind me of the freedom and fun of driving.

Also 25,000 motorway miles this year were all worth it for the 90mile blast from Meriel to the Little st Bernard Pass that I did in March.

[pbirkett]

tybo said:

I enjoy it all the time. Doesn't really matter what i'm driving.

You wouldn't say that if you had to drive a 1.2 Corsa Twinport every day like I have to, to go to work. I wont take the Eunos as this makes for more convenient A-B transport, but nevertheless, its boring, slow, has pretty artificial steering, poor throttle response, and handles crap, understeer city.

Nevertheless, I would not enjoy driving my Eunos in heavy traffic, and its pretty crap on fuel, so I dont use it for work.

However, weekend, roof down, good B-roads =

I absolutely love driving my Eunos, whatever the weather. We have some of the best country roads around!

[B3njamin]

BarnatosGhost said:

Not half as much as riding a motorbike.

Driving for me started great, then became good, then indifferent, then once the bike came along, it became irrelevant.

Agree fully.

[paoloh]

An empty M25 at 10pm in the summer, roof down and heart FM playing old love songs.

[paoloh]

But on a day to day basis, I hate driving.

[chriis]

I would enjoy it more if the roads weren't such a mess .
If its not the condition of the roads then its the idiots that seem to get everywhere trying to ruin it for me .

[karl922]

I agree with the motorbike responce, ive just passed my bike test and love going out on a hoon with no where to go, then return home feeling chilled after a manic ride.

But i just love driving in general, surpose this is what pistonheads was made for... all the driving enthusiasts out there, thing is im always offering to drive when me and the lads go out on trips, or when im driving the police cars. i just dont get bord with it all. is there other people like me out there or am i just strange?

[Mr_annie_vxr]

Yes. I'm very lucky to get to do it for work. I also am very lucky to have been trained.

I enjoy lower speeds and winding roads rather than high speeds on straight roads. However much of my work driving is work. I probably drive about 32,000 work miles a year. Of which at least 10,000+ are on response drives. About 6-8,000 of my own miles.

Edited by Mr_annie_vxr on Saturday 21st November 20:29

[Mound Dawg]

Usually yes but I've just driven the wife's fully laden 1.2 Punto 8 valve which needs new wiper blades from Tenby to Cardiff in pouring rain/darkness.


So today, no.

[DrYazz]

karl922 said:

What is your memorable past time at the wheel?

Heading out of Macclesfield onto the Snake Pass. Damp conditions in the Ferrari F355.

Scary and exhilirating at the same time.

Overtaking the Power Rangers on their bikes and watching them disappear in the rear view mirror.

[Boosted LS1]

I enjoy it so long as I can make reasonable pace and have some involvement. As soon as I come across a numpty that I can't get past the fun goes. The more numpties I find the less fun driving is so make the most of it now because the agenda out there is to cause gridlock as soon as possible (but not quite) and then tax us in every way they can. We'll all be forced to drive kia's or wagon R's eventually.

[karl922]

DrYazz said:

karl922 said:

What is your memorable past time at the wheel?

Heading out of Macclesfield onto the Snake Pass. Damp conditions in the Ferrari F355.

Scary and exhilirating at the same time.

Overtaking the Power Rangers on their bikes and watching them disappear in the rear view mirror.

I like it alot, beautiful car by the way.

[speedtwelve]

Quite often in the summer, Kath and I will take the TVR over to Castle Combe on racedays. Partly to watch racing of course, but as much for the blast back home along the Wiltshire A4, roof off, through Calne, past Silbury Hill, V8 noise bouncing off the walls through Marlborough.

Newbury to Wantage along the B4494 is another local delight, a mix of high and low speed corners and the odd hairpin, a lot of them off-camber, but with enormous wide, safe sightlines on the approach. It's like a mini Nurburgring from Berkshire into Oxfordshire. It was particularly fun a few weeks back when I tackled it in the Chimaera along with a mate on his GSX-R 750. Trying to keep up was entertaining...

Yes, I enjoy driving, BTW! The trick is to keep even mundane journeys, commutes etc interesting. I keep myself amused on the daily drive to work just trying to make safe, rapid progress, maintaining as much situational awareness and anticipation as possible, even though I'm in the thick of it on a dual-carriageway. It's easy just to switch-off...

[speedtwelve]

DrYazz said:

Heading out of Macclesfield onto the Snake Pass. Damp conditions in the Ferrari F355.

Scary and exhilirating at the same time.

Fantastic road. The only time I've ever had brake fade on the public road. Not in an F355, unfortunately, but in my old Mk2 Golf GTI. Wish I owned something quicker at the time I lived in the area, as overtakes on the Pass were few and far between when you only had 112bhp!