How hard do you drive your car?
 

I drive my car hard sometimes but don't often floor it. I probably hit 5,000 rpm every 50 miles and 3,500 rpm about 50% of the time when I accelerate. I have floored my car ten times in about 2,000 miles. Please provide your input.
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Theres no one in here that doesn't run their car hard. I would just say don't run it hard too ofthen, even though our engine are made to last with care.!

I want to find out how most people drive their cars because Consumer Reports rates the cars as having excellent things like engine and transmission major. Are these ratings excellent despite how hard people run them?

I've owned my car for about 2 months so far. The first month it was driven pretty hard. I hit redline pretty frequently when I was going the the gears, nothing to extreme though, just acceleration.

Now I have settled down quite a bit. I still get on it but not quite as often. Cars are made to be driven and I do just that. I don't abuse them, I take care of them and actually drive them.

To much of a rush :)

ive driven my car pretty hard for the last 40k miles, flooring it whenever i feel like it and just enjoying the car but it wastes to much gas and burns oil when you run it hard so i started slowing down when i hit 140k and my oil consumption went way down from 3q every 3k miles to 1.5q.

like most males I know, we all run them hard the first couple months we pick up a car and then start taking it easy. taking it up to 5k isn't what i consider driving hard, more of redline is hard.

Most cars on the road aren't remotely close to being used of their potential.

Judging by what you know of my driving style, would you hesitate to buy a car from me?
I hardly ever take corners hard, just accelerate fast.

Nothing wrong with hi revs as long as you wait till the car is properly warmed and and you stay on stop of your maintenance.

Before people attack me, by warmed up i didnt mean, dont use the coolant temp guage, drive the car for about 10mins light footed then do all the pulls and crap you want.

I drive the crap out of this thing, I'm very hard on cars. I've always been happy with how Nissans take the beating I deliver and keep ticking away.

I suspect my driving habits will calm down. But I'm buying harder cheap rear tires for my next set anyways :)

Is this how you guys drive your cars?

I have almost 100k miles so I don't want to be running it hard very often

Dont forget hitting redline once in a while is good for cleaning deposits.

When ever I get on the highway and its empty ahead of me, I floor it.

other than that I don't really redline it. I dont have any issues redlining it more than once a day.

I have been driving mine hard since the day I bought it .... back in October 2002 with 7 miles on it ... she still drives great.

I've been told I drive like a grandpa,I will only get on it occasionally. :)

That's how you drive your car if you want to get into an accident.

I drive my car harder than that, that type of driving is not hard on the car, but the location he was driving that fast in was foolish, one guy pulls out from his driveway without double checking and you're toast. Fing dumb.

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^ this.
Driving fast through neighborhoods is an accident waiting to happen.

I'm easy on my cars even when there's no one around though...
I dont slide sideways
I dont do burnouts
I dont go off road
I dont scrape
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Would you buy a car from me? :driving: