When I bought my vehicle in April 2024, there was 50,987 km on the clock.
Two years old, so 25,493 km a year.
I have owned the vehicle for 21 months. 77,130km on the clock.
Works out at 14,938 km a year.
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Quite. I used to drive between 12 and 20k km a year which has dropped to around 3k because I no longer commute and the core family lives in the same area.
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I have had my Dmax for 10 years, it has done 150,000km so about 15,000km per year.
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I tend to do more miles than Kms
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How quaintly retro.
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at my last yearly service my car had done 6,000 miles, lowest ever, even when i first retired i was still doin around 15000 miles a year
At my wife’s last yearly service she had only done 3000 miles
makes you wonder why we still have two cars, think its called independence
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Had my car from new for nearly three years ( July) done just over 21,000 miles…
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Back in my working and earning days it was not unusual for me to do 25,000 to 35,000 km a year. Or more in the years I worked in sales. Now I can steadily predict my car usage.
2 trips per week to the shops - 50 km in total
2-3 weekly trips to nearby villages to meet friends - 50 km in total
So far, 5,000 km a year.
Add on monthly trip to bigger town for bigger shops - 120 km - another 1,400 km a year.
5-6 trips to airport to pick up visitors or for own travel - 1,500 km a year
I think that might be it, so about 8,000 km a year.
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When I was working, I was easily doing 35,000 miles / 56,300 km a year. My cars were on a five year lease, but exceeded their working mileage after four. Now I have retired, I’m down to about 6,000 miles /9,600 km a year, most of that is just local stuff as I hardly drive any distance these days. My wife bought her own car the same time as mine and has barely done a total of 12,000 miles /19,300 km in four years and nearly all of that was when she was looking after her father. Since he passed a few months ago, she barely drives it at all.
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I purchased my present motor in May 2024 with 7,000 miles on the clock, it’s now 18,563 miles so probably between 6 and 7 thousand miles per year…But it was a slack year last year.
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My car is also my daughter’s (my son has his own), and since my daughter moved up North for work eighteen months ago, I only do about 11,000km.
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My Fiat Panda has done 56,000 miles and is 18 years old.
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We drive about 20,000 kilometres a year
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When I worked in the car industry as a gopher for the engineering director I usually travelled 45,000 miles a year. Frightening when I think about. Good thing was I was given new cars to test the mileage on. Nowadays it is more likely 9,000 miles a year and I still love social driving.
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Good for you Spitfire. I restored a Triumph Spitfire and did 10 miles in it, ruddy awful thing in my opinion. Over 70 years of driving I had 11 motorbikes and more cars than I can remember driving every day for work. My last two cars I purchased in the same year, one totally mint with 2K on the clock costing 35k new, I purchased it for 14K and the other was one year old, which I purchased at half the original new price. So some mugs sure lost a shed load of money. My driving is ok, but gives me zero pleasure and I now do the grand total of 200 miles per year at 18mpg, which is 200 too many.
The one Triumph I would have loved to have owned and I guess few have ever known of its existence.
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I used to know a bloke, when I lived in London, who specialised in front end repairs for Spitfires. Apparently they were slightly powered up but still had the same brakes as the Triumph Herald so they just couldn’t stop, hence his specialisation.
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For me, I only drive to and from work, and only occasionally travel to other provinces, about 10,000 km per year.
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Back ten years ago when I first moved to France I enjoyed the long drive up to the UK - about 800 km to Calais and sometimes even as far as Scotland. A nice 2,500 km drive over a few days. Two things stopped that. First the cost - toll roads in France (I know you can avoid the autoroutes but sometimes it is just easier to use them), the increasing cost of ferry / tunnel and the increasing fuel costs. It is simply cheaper (and quicker) to fly; even when you add in cost of airport parking. The second decider was my lovely 2.7 litre, V6 Audi went from most likely unreliable to most definitely scrapped. So it train or plane for me and my annual car use has dropped considerably as a result.
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I bought my car with 3000 miles on the clock, it was 3 years old. That was over 15 years ago .
It now has 38000 miles so that averages about 2,000 a year.
But the last two years I’ve not exceeded 1,000 a year,I much prefer to use the bus now.
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Perhaps edging off topic, but in the same vein. As mentioned, I have had some interesting cars and done many miles in them, and it has cost me very little.
However, my neighbour beats me to it by a mile. He is a multi-millionaire by a mile, yet would never spend his money on a decent car when that money can be used to make money. At the moment, he drives his old 40-year-plus Merc for High Days. His main transport is his rusty 30-plus-year-old Merc and his real crowning glory is the Two brand new Landrover Defenders he purchased discounted of course to reduce his tax bill, which will be sold at a nice profit, I suspect. Credit, he did drive one to China.
Daily, he drives around here in a real banger, no exhaust, number plates, tax. MOT or insurance. I tell him it is illegal, as it is open to the public and not gated at one end. He tells me that it is not illegal.
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