How often do you enjoy driving?

[Skeptisk]

Sorry for starting another similar thread but when I thought about do I enjoy driving what was relevant to me was how often. I still love driving but I have found that opportunities to drive somewhere in a nice car and have a bit of fun on the road have dropped drastically, because of other traffic, bad roads, other drivers and extreme penalties for speeding.

[Muddle238]

I enjoy the dynamics of driving, as such I always prefer to be the driver rather than a passenger. I usually always enjoy the act of driving, but sometimes the drive itself can be ruined by other drivers who simply see driving as a chore; they don't really pay any special attention to what they're doing or care about improving their own driving, the usual MLM culprits, white van man, the 40-everywhere brigade and those whole generally display a lack of courtesy towards others. That's what takes the enjoyment out of driving; other drivers.

[CouncilFerrari]

I find increasingly that if I'm in the car, I have to make time to be able to enjoy a drive. Either up early, or out late on a summers evening when the roads are mostly free of traffic.

On the bike it's different because overtaking is a doddle.

[Xenoous]

Once a month or less for me. Unfortunately at this moment of my life I have other priorities which means taking a leisurely drive is at the bottom of my list. Shame, as it's always been one of my favourite things to do.

Hoping that'll change soon.

[kambites]

Pretty much every time I drive; probably due to a combination of the facts that I very rarely drive in significant traffic, I rarely drive on motorways or dual carriageways, and I drive a car which doesn't need to be traveling at particular high speeds to be fun.

[JakeT]

I chose the second option. I generally enjoy driving, and feel fortunate I have the ability and means to do it.

Even when I covered 25-30,000 miles a year I’d have said the same. Going to a boring work thing, the prospect of the drive was what got me out of bed.

[brillomaster]

i think my answer is 'As often as i want to'

most of the time i'm driving because i want to get somewhere, either commuting for work, or driving in to town for shopping. those drives are fine, nothing special. the daily is perfectly comfortable, torquey enough and automatic, so stress free.

however, if i want to go out for a drive, then i'll take the weekend car, and go enjoy some nice country roads, either around where i live in the north cotswolds, or over at my dads in north/mid wales.

the weekend car is probably driven 1 in 10 times on average, id say.

[TheOctaneAddict]

Often (once every two weeks) was my answer. Being full time WFH I don't really do any driving in the week, might do some pottering around at the weekend but I'll usually find time to go on a proper drive every couple of weeks.

[Triumph Man]

Not as often as I'd like - I mostly drive either to and from work, for work, or to see in-laws in Devon. In most scenarios the roads are either too busy, or I have family on board. Invariably I'm in my Discovery which isn't the most fun drive.

[LeeM135i]

Its getting less often as I am driving a lot for work at the moment which means busy roads and lots of traffic so I am tired and can't be bothered to go out for a fun drive in the evenings and weekends. This will probably change when the better, warmer weather comes in a few months. Last fun drive was on New Years Eve, I chose to drive to our friends party rather than take the train or taxi and it was great, roads were dead at 8pm on NYE and 1am on NYD.

[Alex_225]

I generally enjoy every drive in some way or other. That said I've moved from away from just inside the M25 to a really rural location and in turn locally you get little traffic. I'm on an A road but there's almost never queues of cars locally and even at weekends, local roads are quite quiet.

It's far nicer on those kinds of drives than battling through traffic or sitting at traffic lights. On the occasions I've driven into Bristol it's been a bit less fun I must admit.

[Robertb]

I enjoy trying to drive as well and safely as I can, which means I enjoy commuting in traffic as much as a balls-out Sunday morning blast, but in a different way.

[TeaVR]

Interesting thread.

It's getting more and more difficult to enjoy a good drive, certainly in a performance car.

This weekend I was in Wales and it was......a mess.

a) Several good roads have now been reduced to 40 mph / average speed

b) Walkers and bad parking. I was flashed by oncoming traffic several times, warning of unseen danger. Turned out to be cars that had been very badly parked on the road. When the designated beauty spot car parks fill up, the walkers park anywhere irrespective of safety.

c) Scamera vans. For several miles the road through Storey Arms has been made a 30 zone. But not happy with that, there was a scamera van parked attempting to catch people accelerating OUT OF the 30 zone! Revenue generating.

I'm thinking less power and drives at night are the answer

[soad]

Daily!

[UTH]

Given my very lucky position to own (what I'd call) two awesome cars, I need to make much more effort this spring/summer to go and enjoy some driving. I ticked the once a quarter box for now. For example I've owned my Focus RS for at least two months, and this weekend just gone is the first time I've actually taken it further than a few miles and seen what its capable of. It really is a waste to have these two parked up in my garage not being enjoyed. Bring on April ASAP!

[NDA]

It depends what I'm driving....

Ford GT (now sold). Every drive was enjoyable and made interesting by being LHD with zero visibility at junctions.

Tesla Rarely 'enjoy' a drive in the sense the OP means - but I enjoy remote aircon (de-icing and pre-cooling) etc and the ease of ownership. A very easy, quick and cheap driving appliance. Love it!

Morgan Aero 8. Enjoy every drive - but it's on SORN half the year.

[UTH]

TeaVR said:

Interesting thread.

It's getting more and more difficult to enjoy a good drive, certainly in a performance car.

This weekend I was in Wales and it was......a mess.

a) Several good roads have now been reduced to 40 mph / average speed


c) Scamera vans. For several miles the road through Storey Arms has been made a 30 zone. But not happy with that, there was a scamera van parked attempting to catch people accelerating OUT OF the 30 zone! Revenue generating.

I'm thinking less power and drives at night are the answer

Those two things make it near impossible to properly enjoy the drive IMO.

[AlexGSi2000]

A few times a year for me - If I were to pick a figure, probably around 5.

The daily is a boring 520d, not very inspiring, so is driven normally 99.9% of the time.

Between April - October, the M5 available when I fancy going for a drive.
Timing is key, the best times I find are either very early (5am) or late (after 10.30) during the summer days - I'm handy to both North Wales / Cumbria.
Although most popular / main routes have the likes of average speed, there are still plenty of interesting roads to itch the scratch.

[FIREBIRDC9]

I enjoy driving , even if its in the daily.

Weather impacts it a lot though.

I almost never enjoy driving in the rain.

Summer drives out in the classic are 100%

[911Spanker]

Every drive surely. How can you not?