What's your shortest ever car journey?

[Futuramic]

Reading the reports of others, it is often a cause of celebration to complete a very long car journey; however today I made what I believe to be my shortest. This was not done out of laziness; it was raining on a Biblical scale and I didn't want to get soaked.

There is a supermarket at the end of our road. The road is about 200 yards long. The total distance, including turning into the car park, can only have been 220 yards making a round trip of about a quarter of a mile.

So what is your shortest journey between two distinct points? Discounting moving a car on a driveway etc.

[fivetenben]

Well, I drove to the pub this lunchtime. It's about 40m away as the crow flies, and about 100m by road.

It was absolutely tipping it down, and a fine excuse to start up the V8. That's my excuse and I'm sticking to it... :-)

[Six Fiend]

About 400 metres (round trip) to the postbox when my lungs are on strike

Edited by Six Fiend on Sunday 29th April 20:46

[thinfourth2]

From inside the garage to the front door

About 100 meters

[wackojacko]

From my drive to the post box, possibly less than a 100M....

[FreeLitres]

About 3.5 meters to get the car off the drive and onto the road in order to get Tiv out of the garage.

Am I doing this right?

[Clinton Baptiste]

About 10ft in reverse to dispose of the ex wife.

[zollburgers]

When I was at my parents house I had parked too close to the garage and had to get in the car and reverse less than 1/2m so I could open it and raid their beer stash.

[Harding91]

0ft

The upside to owning an old ford i guess, Cheap on fuel as the git never works when you need it to!

It's long gone now though i do miss it, did many 0ft journeys in it on a cold morning

[GingerWizard]

25m (fwd) rolling burnout. (did it to annoy the wifey!)

[deltashad]

I get a row for driving from my house to my mums.

[otherman]

deltashad said:

I get a row for driving from my house to my mums.

you should go live in the usa. They all do that.

[carmadgaz]

From my drive to my neighbours drive 100m up the road.

Usually due to a car needing a jump start or gas canisters being moved.

[GTIR]

3 inches.

Got in car and started engine selected drive then remembered it was Sunday and the banks are shut (derbrain) so put it back in park but as its auto and I don't often use the foot operated park brake it rolled forward slightly. Engine off, journey completed.

[Ray Luxury-Yacht]

I pick my Ma up from the Supermarket every Thursday.

The store is on our housing estate.

So from door > supermarket > door is half a mile.


BUT!

As I'm a bit anal about my cars, and my current car being turbocharged - it's not good to start a cold engine with a turbo, and shut it down again 10 minutes later before it's had a chance to get up to running temperature and burn off the moisture inside the motor.

So when I do this shopping run, I actually go for a 10 mile drive before picking her up - hence working the engine enough to get all the fluids hot and avoid a cold shutdown!

[Gooly]

Half a mile (Mile round trip of course) picking my sister up from the tube station every now and then, if it's late at night / poor weather.

[NHK244V]

deltashad said:

I get a row for driving from my house to my mums.

Lol i do the same to my mums, one side of the housing estate to the other, 0.1 mile there and back mind you sometimes i go on from there, i pop in to check on her and sometimes we chat so long i just go home instead of going down the yard and doing some work

[LouD86]

My shortest journey was completed in three cars, I moved next door, so they all came off one driveway, 7m along the pavement, onto my new driveway!!

[B'stard Child]

Clinton Baptiste said:

About 10ft in reverse to dispose of the ex wife.

[KrazyIvan]

About 25ft from over the road to back on my drive, after the tt of a salesman decided to vacate my spot on the drive.