Your Driving History by Numbers

[v15ben]

I was thinking about a few of these while sitting in a long, boring traffic jam today and this thread was dreamed up!

Years Driving: 9
Test Passed: August 2003
Cars Owned: 6 (2 Japanese, 2 French, 2 Korean)
Total CC: a meagre 8500cc!
Total Miles Driven: approx 110,000 miles in maybe 25-30 cars/vans.
Most Miles in One Car: approx 50,000 in my first car (2002 Micra!)
Money Spent buying cars: Purchases in total about £14k, sale prices about £7k = Total £7k down!
Points: 3 (SP30 in Nottingham City Centre in 2010) plus 3 parking tickets!
Police Stops: 2 (both random breathalyser tests in Korea.)
Crashes: 0 (really!)
Fastest Speed Driven: about 130MPH on the speedo in my old Clio 182 in Germany.
Fastest Passenger Ride: 176MPH at VMax in a 996 Turbo
Countries Driven In: 16 (including Bosnia, Korea, Vietnam and Luxembourg!)

A couple of others not really numbers related.

Best Car Driven: Ferrari 360 Spider (for about 2 miles!)
Worst Car Driven: Knackered Mazda 121 hire car in Australia.
Over to you

 

[aucky]

Years Driving: 5
Test Passed: August 2007
Cars Owned: 2
Total CC: 3.2
Total Miles Driven: 50k ish
Most Miles in One Car: 30k in my 1.2 clio
Money Spent buying cars: 10k
Points: 3 (SP30 on EVO Triangle) plus 2 parking tickets!
Police Stops: 0
Crashes: 2 x non fault.
Fastest Speed Driven: Couldn't say
Fastest Passenger Ride: Nothing special
Countries Driven In: 2 (Does Wales count?)

 

[Slammed172]

Years Driving: 7
Test Passed: June 2005
Cars Owned: 5 (2 German, 2 French, 1 Jap)
Total CC: 8700cc!
Total Miles Driven: approx 110,000 miles (private) another 100,000 miles (work)
Most Miles in One Car: approx 40,000 in my first car (2002 Lupo!)
Money Spent buying cars: Purchases in total about £12.5k
Points: 0
Police Stops: 2 (one break light, UK. one breathalyser, NZ)
Crashes: 0 (seriously!)
Fastest Speed Driven: N/A
Fastest Passenger Ride: N/A
Countries Driven In: 5 (Eng, Scot, Wales, France, NZ)

 

[DB.]

I was thinking about a few of these while sitting in a long, boring traffic jam today and this thread was dreamed up!

Years Driving: 9
Test Passed: August 2003
Cars Owned: 6 (2 Japanese, 2 French, 2 Korean)
Total CC: a meagre 8500cc!
Total Miles Driven: approx 110,000 miles
Most Miles in One Car: approx 50,000 in my first car (2002 Micra!)
Money Spent buying cars: Purchases in total about £14k, sale prices about £7k = Total £7k down!
Points: 3 (SP30 in Nottingham City Centre in 2010) plus 3 parking tickets!
Police Stops: 2 (both random breathalyser tests in Korea.)
Crashes: 0 (really!)
Fastest Speed Driven: about 130MPH on the speedo in my old Clio 182 in Germany.
Fastest Passenger Ride: 176MPH at VMax in a 996 Turbo
Countries Driven In: 16 (including Bosnia, Korea, Vietnam and Luxembourg!)

Over to you

My 3 points came from the same place, in 2011. B*stards. Although I was heading out towards Clifton.

 

[v15ben]

My 3 points came from the same place, in 2011. B*stards. Although I was heading out towards Clifton.

Mine were outside Braodmarsh bus station, doing 44MPH. The daft thing was I worked just across the road from where I was caught!

 

[Harpham]

Years Driving: 5
Test Passed: November 2006
Cars Owned: 6 (All French turds + 1 Italian heap = 1 Fiat Punto, 5 Clios)
Total CC: 10,400
Total Miles Driven: probably around 80-100k
Most Miles in One Car: Just over 25k in my first car.
Money Spent buying cars: £16k, £3.5k, £3.5k, £1.4k, £800 & £100 = £25.3k
Points: 0
Police Stops: 1 (just a random check)
Crashes: 0
Fastest Speed Driven: 140mph. Not something i'm proud of, but did it up to the hospital when I found out my missus had been put in intensive care last year.
Fastest Passenger Ride: Nothing quick.
Countries Driven In: 2 - Just England and Wales.

 

[jenic]

Years Driving: 5
Test Passed: June 2007
Vehicles Owned: 7 cars, 5 motorbikes, 3 company vans
Total CC: 20425cc
Total Miles Driven: 100k ish
Most Miles in One Car: 20k in my RB clio
Money Spent buying vehicles: £43k
Points: none
Police Stops: none
Crashes: none
Fastest Speed Driven: 130mph in Germany
Fastest Passenger Ride: Nothing to shout about
Countries Driven In: 5 so far, 7 if we include Scotland and Wales

Changed to vehicles for the proper men

 

[NFox]

Years Driving: 6
Test Passed: 2006
Cars Owned: 6
Total CC: 9200
Total Miles Driven: A lot!
Most Miles in One Car: about 80k in my saxo!
Money Spent buying cars: £30k
Points: n/a
Police Stops: a few
Crashes: 1
Fastest Speed Driven: 135mph Autobahn Germany
Fastest Passenger Ride: 160mph Toyota Supra
Countries Driven In: 7

 

[Martin_172]

Years Driving: 6
Test Passed: April 06
Cars Owned: 7 clios!
Total CC: 11700 and 3 turbos!
Total Miles Driven: 120k ish
Most Miles in One Car:25k in my GT DCi in 12 months
Money Spent buying cars: £55,000
Points: zero
Police Stops: loads
Crashes: 0
Fastest Speed Driven: 147mph for about 3 miutes before it melted a piston! (clio 200)
Fastest Passenger Ride: 170+ on a few ocassions in my mates evo7 or Aldo from here's 200sx
Countries Driven In: Scotland, england & wales lol
Best Car Driven: Clio 200
Worst Car Driven: Corsa C 1.0

 

[Jordi17]

Years Driving: 3.5
Test Passed: October 2008
Cars Owned: 3, 2x Clio, 1 Fiesta
Total CC: 4,800 ish
Total Miles Driven: 91k
Most Miles in One Car: 65k in Fiesta ZS
Money Spent buying cars: £13,695
Points: 0
Police Stops: 2
Crashes: 0
Fastest Speed Driven: 70
Fastest Passenger Ride: Dunno
Countries Driven In: 1 - UK

 

[Knuckles]

Years Driving: 3.5
Test Passed: nov 08
Cars Owned: 2 (both French!)
Total CC: 3.4l of French displacement
Total Miles Driven: 35k? Probably less
Most Miles in One Car: around 20k in the 1.4 Clio
Money Spent buying cars: About £10k
Points: none touch wood... I got the course
Police Stops: once because they mistook me in a clio for my mate in a Saxo lol!
Crashes: 2
Fastest Speed Driven: about 115mph
Fastest Passenger Ride: 100+ I think?
Countries Driven In: 3 England, Scotland and Wales haha



Best Car Driven: Overall, my r27... Best fun, rally prepped fiesta rs1800
Worst Car Driven: my mams 1.2 8v clio

 

[Jardo]

Years Driving: (Legally on road) 4, Racing/Off Road 10 years.
Test Passed: April 25th 2008
Cars Owned: 38, far too many to list here mainly classic cars.
Total CC: Got to be over 200,000CC.
Total Miles Driven: God knows, 100K ish.
Most Miles in One Car: 11000, XJS.
Money Spent buying cars: £20K
Points: 0
Police Stops: 0
Crashes: 2
Fastest Speed Driven: 173
Fastest Passenger Ride: 160ish.
Countries Driven In: 6, UK, Ireland, France, Belgium, Germany, Spain
Best Car Driven: 911 GT3 RS (drove daily for a week)
Worst Car Driven: Clio 172

 

[alanc1000]

Years Driving: 16
Test Passed: June 1996
Vehicles Owned: 10 cars, 1 motorbike
Total CC: 20,925
Total Miles Driven: about 140,000
Most Miles in One Car: 35,000 in Clio 182
Money Spent buying vehicles: £143,485 (this it the total of the cost of each car but i PXed the previous ones and topped up the rest so not really the correct figure)
Points:3
Police Stops: 4
Crashes: 2
Fastest Speed Driven: 70mph
Fastest Passenger Ride: 150 in an RS6
Countries Driven In: America, Iceland, France, Holland, Italy, Greece

 

[SamP]

Years Driving: 5.
Test Passed: October 2007?
Cars Owned: 4
Total CC: 7800cc.
Total Miles Driven: 100k, used to drive around the country alot for work.
Most Miles in One Car: 30k in my E30
Money Spent buying cars: 8k?
Points: None
Police Stops: 10+
Crashes: 0
Fastest Speed Driven: 152 on the A419 in a Rover. Baller y0.
Fastest Passenger Ride: 150 on the back of a bike?
Countries Driven In: England, Scotland and Wales.


Best Car Driven: E90 335i
Worst Car Driven: 1.8 Nasp Diesel Fiesta Van

 

[Chris205]

Years Driving: 5 Years
Test Passed: 16 november 2006
Cars Owned: 20
Total CC: around 50,000
Total Miles Driven: 250,000+
Most Miles in One Car: 45000 in ten months
Money Spent buying cars: 50,000
Points: 0
Police Stops: 5-6
Crashes: 0
Fastest Speed Driven: 150
Fastest Passenger Ride: 170+.
Countries Driven In: 3
Best car Driven: IHI Ibiza Cupra R (Favourite)
Worst Car Driven: Corsa 1.4 sport

 

[Russ_16v]

Years Driving: 13
Test Passed: Dec 1998
Vehicles Owned: 52 cars
Total CC: I have no idea!
Total Miles Driven: I dread to think!
Most Miles in One Car: near 55,000 in Clio 172
Money Spent buying vehicles: I would never add it up, would scare the s**t out of me
Points: 3 + a ban for speeding - now all clean
Police Stops: Approx 20
Crashes: 2
Fastest Speed Driven: 162 mph
Fastest Passenger Ride: 170 in a tuned Toyota Supra
Countries Driven In: America, UK combined

 

[Cup_Phil]

Years Driving: 13
Test Passed: August 1998 I think?
Vehicles Owned: 7
Total CC: 11200cc roughly
Total Miles Driven: 250k+
Most Miles in One Car: 130K in my 106 quiksilver
Money Spent buying vehicles: £20k ish - probably 100k+ after modding
Points: none at the moment - had 9
Police Stops: 20+
Crashes: 5
Fastest Speed Driven: 140mph ish on the Autobahn
Fastest Passenger Ride: None really
Countries Driven In: 6

 

[aucky]

Forgot to add-

Best Car Driven: Gallardo
Worst Car Driven: Peugeot 106 1.1

 

[DB.]

Years Driving: 5
Test Passed: June 07
Cars Owned: 3 (2 french, 1 german)
Total CC: 5400cc
Total Miles Driven: approx 60,000 miles
Most Miles in One Car: 20,000
Money Spent buying cars: £24500 out, £7600 in from sales of the other two
Points: 3 - Nottingham aka speed camera capital of the UK.
Police Stops: 2, let on my way both times
Crashes: 1 none fault, lorry decided to switch lanes into me when a bus stopped in front of him.
Fastest Speed Driven: About 140mph. (legally)
Fastest Passenger Ride: Not that fast.
Countries Driven In: England and Wales.

 

[SC03OTT]

Years Driving: 7
Test Passed: December 2004
Cars Owned: 3
Total CC: ~5,635
Total Miles Driven: ~65,000
Most Miles in One Car: ~27,000 (VW Jetta)
Money Spent buying cars: ~£35,000
Points: 0 (as of 2 weeks ago )
Police Stops: 3
Crashes: 0
Fastest Speed Driven: ~120MPH
Fastest Passenger Ride: No idea
Countries Driven In: 3 (UK, USA, Greece)

 

[Dan@M.A.D]

Years Driving: 2
Test Passed: 2009
Cars Owned: 5
Total CC: 8000cc ish
Total Miles Driven: around 80k maybe more
Most Miles in One Car: 20k ish on my clio but most of my driving is for work
Money Spent buying cars: 17k
Points:0
Police Stops: 2
Crashes: 1, My fault, only minor
Fastest Speed Driven: 130mph
Fastest Passenger Ride: 170mph
Countries Driven in: only the uk..

 

[Chili Red]

Years Driving: 22
Test Passed: March 1991
Cars Owned: 9 (Nova, Tigra, Pug 306, Ka, 172, 182, R26, 370z, Abarth 500)
Total CC: f**k knows
Total Miles Driven: No idea
Most Miles in One Car: No idea
Money Spent buying cars: Erm, I don't know. Total cost of the cars was about £100k but obviously I've not spent that much!
Points: 0
Police Stops: 3 - and allowed on my way each time (only got told off once )
Crashes: 0
Fastest Speed Driven: Maybe 120. Not faster.
Fastest Passenger Ride: Rather fast in a Ferrari California up the hill at the Goodwood FOS.
Countries Driven In: 2 - UK and America

Best Car Driven: Ferrari around Goodwood motor circuit but can't remember which model it was! (it was old)
Worst Car Driven: Nissan Almera

 

[Ronnie R]

Years Driving: 5 Years
Test Passed: 27th November 2007
Cars Owned: 3
Total CC: 5800cc
Total Miles Driven: 50k
Most Miles in One Car: 25k
Money Spent buying cars: 15k
Points: 0
Police Stops: 2 random checks
Crashes: 0, been crashed into twice
Fastest Speed Driven: 120
Fastest Passenger Ride: 70
Countries Driven In: 1
Best car Driven: Clio lol
Worst Car Driven: Some crap Fiat

 

[hazzamondo]

Years Driving: 6.5
Test Passed: July 2005
Vehicles Owned: 10 cars, 3 company vans, 2 company cars
Total CC: 18100 own cars, 26200 with company
Total Miles Driven: 150k ish
Most Miles in One Car: 84,000 in a astra van
Money Spent buying vehicles: £25.350
Points:0
Police Stops: 1
Crashes: 3
Fastest Speed Driven: 142mph at the ring
Fastest Passenger Ride: 130 in an mondeo st
Countries Driven In: France, Germany, Belgium, Holland

 

[Charlie.]

Years Driving: 4
Test Passed: March 2008
Vehicles Owned: 4
Total CC: 6000cc
Total Miles Driven: 60-70k
Most Miles in One Car: 20k in TT
Money Spent buying vehicles: £11,600
Points: 0
Police Stops: 30+
Crashes: 1
Fastest Speed Driven: 130mph
Fastest Passenger Ride: Fast. R8 on M1
Countries Driven In: 1

 

[z8jay]

Nice thread steal from Pistonheads

Anyway;

Years Driving: 8
Test Passed: 2004
Vehicles Owned: 6
Total CC: 5800cc (I think)
Total Miles Driven: Around 100k
Most Miles in One Car: 30k in my Civic
Money Spent buying vehicles: £10k ish
Points: 0
Police Stops: 2
Crashes: 0
Fastest Speed Driven: 140mph
Fastest Passenger Ride: Over 160mph
Countries Driven In: 1

 

[Chili Red]

Years Driving: 4
Police Stops: 30+

LOL at 30+ police stops in four years!! Do you drive like a total penis or are you a gangster? Amazed that none of them breathalysed you.

 

[SamP]

LOL at 30+ police stops in four years!! Do you drive like a total penis or are you a gangster? Amazed that none of them breathalysed you.

I see what you did there...

 

[Pep]

Years Driving: 6
Test Passed: 2006
Vehicles Owned: 15, (4 clios, 1 megane, 1 330ci, 1 DC2, 1 volvo, 1 lupo, 3 vans, 3 bikes)
Total CC: 21855
Total Miles Driven: About 45k
Most Miles in One Car: 18k in my 182
Money Spent buying vehicles: £52400ish - lost about £14k not including running etc.
Points: 3
Police Stops: 2
Crashes: 1
Fastest Speed Driven: 158mph on my bike.
Fastest Passenger Ride: 170mph.
Countries Driven In: 4

 

[mitch1503]

Years Driving: 2.5
Test Passed: 2009
Vehicles Owned: 3
Total CC: 4400cc
Total Miles Driven: 250k+
Most Miles in One Car: 46k
Money Spent buying vehicles: about 8k
Points: 0 god knows how
Police Stops: 5ish
Crashes: 2.. latest been a NL driver head on on my side of the road
Fastest Speed Driven: Didnt keep looking but off the limiter in the cup
Fastest Passenger Ride: 155ish
Countries Driven In: 2 uk and scotland

 

[st3ve]

Years Driving: 5
Test Passed: February 2007
Cars Owned: 6 (Escort, Focus, 3 non sport Clios, 172 Cup)
Total CC: 9400cc
Total Miles Driven: 50k
Most Miles in One Car: 20k
Money Spent buying cars: £12k
Points: 0
Police Stops: 5
Crashes: 2
Fastest Speed Driven: 145mph
Fastest Passenger Ride: 130mph
Countries Driven In: 1
Best Car Driven: Clio lol
Worst Car Driven: 1.3 Ford Fiesta

 

[Slammed172]

Years Driving: 2.5
Total Miles Driven: 250k+

Impressive. An average of 300 miles a day, every day, since the day you passed your test.

Were you driving while posting these figures ?

 

[stephen chadwick]

Years Driving: 4 (including cbt, 50cc for a year)
Test Passed: 2009
Cars Owned: 3 + 2 bikes (Clio 1.2, Nissan 200sx, Clio 182, Cpi sm50, Honda vfr400 nc30)
Total CC: 5,450
Total Miles Driven: around 30k
Most Miles in One Car: 10k ish clio 1.2
Money Spent buying cars: 8.5k
Points:0
Police Stops: 6
Crashes:0
Fastest Speed Driven: 150mph
Fastest Passenger Ride: blody fast mph (Kawasaki ninja)
Countries Driven in: England, whales
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[DB.]

Years Driving: 2.5Vehicles Owned: 3Total Miles Driven: 250k+
Most Miles in One Car: 46k

This also means you did the remaining 204k in two cars, yet your highest mileage in one car is 46k?

Or are these work vehicles?

 

[Daniel]

Years Driving: 14
Test Passed: 1997
Cars Owned: around 80-90.
Total CC: No idea.
Total Miles Driven: for the last 4 years, about 50k per year, before that, only about 10k per year.
Most Miles in One Car: My astra van. 60k in just over 12 months.
Money Spent buying cars: No idea. I'd be sick if I worked it out.
Points: in 14 years About 20. Clean license now though.
Police Stops: Every other week when I was 18/19.
Crashes: 1 big one, couple of minor bumps.
Fastest Speed Driven: indicated 135mph Autobahn Germany. Not my car, I was driving another member off here's car! lol.
Fastest Passenger Ride: 150mph Rover Tomcat Turbo.
Countries Driven In: 7

 

[Marky_]

Also if we're picking out errors:
Scotland is part of the UK.

 

[NickM5c]

Years Driving:19
Test Passed: September 1992
Cars Owned:8
Total CC: About 14,000cc
Total Miles Driven: No idea
Most Miles in One Car: 58k and rising.
Money Spent buying cars: Around 30k
Points: 0
Police Stops: 5
Crashes: 4 or 5
Fastest Speed Driven: Around 140mph
Fastest Passenger Ride: No idea
Countries Driven In: 5
Best Car Driven: 182
Worst Car Driven: 1.2 Corsa

 

[Slammed172]

Also if we're picking out errors:
Scotland is part of the UK.

To be fair, half the thread have stated: 1 country.. the UK. IMO, the UK is 3.5, but what do I know.

 

[mitch1503]

Impressive. An average of 300 miles a day, every day, since the day you passed your test.

Were you driving while posting these figures ?

no but considering iv done just over 45k in my cup in about 18 months.. also i used to work on the railway which sometimes involved driving from the North east to london and back and i never ever worked locally so it was always atleast a few hundred miles either way.. also as a few ppl on here know i drive back and forth from bedford to the north east on a regular basis which is a 500mile round trip and when your doing that twice a month it adds up.. i often cover 500ish miles in a week end i had a hire car 4 a week and i done 1800miles in that in 6 days sooo if your trying to be smat it doesnt work

 

[Slammed172]

no but considering iv done just over 45k in my cup in about 18 months.. also i used to work on the railway which sometimes involved driving from the North east to london and back and i never ever worked locally so it was always atleast a few hundred miles either way.. also as a few ppl on here know i drive back and forth from bedford to the north east on a regular basis which is a 500mile round trip and when your doing that twice a month it adds up.. i often cover 500ish miles in a week end i had a hire car 4 a week and i done 1800miles in that in 6 days sooo if your trying to be smat it doesnt work

Trust me, it won't be 250k +

Not even close !