Foot to the floor....

[vrsmxtb]

So this being PH and all the default answer is probably "every time", but how often do you actually floor the accelerator in day to day driving?

[S1_RS]

Do you mean through all gears or just getting up to speed?

[Baryonyx]

Quite a lot in my Impreza. A naturally aspirated engine means that I use quite a lot of WOT in it, as ther eis no turbo to give things a shove in the midrange.

[dtrump]

Everytime I use the car

I don't go crazy but while getting up to speed as fast as possible....sure, all the time

[Ki3r]

dtrump said:

Everytime I use the car

I don't go crazy but while getting up to speed as fast as possible....sure, all the time

Same.

Unless its my mums van were you have to put your foot down to go anywhere!

[AdamTheTrader]

Wouldn't miss an opportunity for a nice third gear blast onto a carriageway or motorway

[Raize]

Almost never. Basically just hills and when I am in too high a gear.

[EmmaJ]

Far more often then is necessary or prudent given it's a 6lt twin turbo

[phumy]

Especially when the engine is cold as it aids it to warm up a lot faster

[Zad]

Not usually advised on cold engines at low revs. High crankshaft torque loads and low oil flow makes for accelerated wear.

Whether that is true or not, I dunno, but it seems to be the received wisdom and sounds reasonable.

[sticks090460]

XC90 - all the time
Wife's Eos - quite a lot.
911 - not often enough.

[Contigo]

Once or more per journey as I believe that a car should be worked.

2 guys who drive for us, identical Jag's (R's) one that is used properly (warmed up, booted frequently etc.) actually is more reliable than the one that is driven like miss Daisy is in the boot.

[CBR JGWRR]

90 percent of the time is WOT.

(That's not as impressive/licence risking as it first seems.)


There is just so much fun in getting the most out of yourself and the machine.

[Zoobeef]

EmmaJ said:

Far more often then is necessary or prudent given it's a 6lt twin turbo

I didn't know the monaro had that conversion available. Nice!

[shirt]

jeep - not much, it's got glacial acceleration and the last 25% of travel makes no discernible difference.

hire car [currently a fiesta] - all day every day.

clubbie - every straight part of the track.

[jwo]

Have a 1.6tdi blue motion (aka slow motion) passat as a company car - saves money apparently - foot to the floor just to make it go anywhere... 105bhp in a 1700 kg car....!

[thinfourth2]

All the time i give it the full beans and i often hit Vmax as i am a real man with huge testicles

Actually i drive a nissan micra and its crap

[CBR JGWRR]

thinfourth2 said:

All the time i give it the full beans and i often hit Vmax as i am a real man with huge testicles

Actually i drive a nissan micra and its crap

My dad got 83 mph out of his 1.0 micra...

[paranoid airbag]

most acceleration is foot to the floor. In a 1.2 Clio, this is sort of necessary.

[Jurgen]

When the engine is up to temp quite a lot actually! I also use 9000rpm quite often