Dozenspeed
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- May 1, 2012
Short summary in a long title. You=warned.
Another member (TomJD) and I have decided to have a race to 300,000 miles.
In this corner:
TomJD's 2000 Jetta 5MT road warrior with ~251,000 miles.
Taking on Dozenspeed's venerable workhorse, a 2011 Jetta 6MT with ~202,500
What's the point? None. Other than amusement. But I warned you about that in the title. If you are this far along and still have nothing better to do, follow along for a year-plus statistical drama that promises to have edge-of-your seat excitement equalled only by the blistering pace of real-time play-by-play mileage logging and calculation!
Some background on the men and their machines:
TomJD has had his MK4 Jetta for a little over 3 years and accrued over 65k. These days a 49 mile one-way commute accounts for much of his 700 mile-per-week average which also includes recreational and road trip driving.
Dozenspeed (me, feels weird writing this third party, and wrong somehow first party ) has also had his for a little over 3 years. It was bought specifically to use as an officially comissioned, licensed and regulated taxicab here in St. Louis Missouri. So far the car has been in fulltime viability and "daily" service, averaging 1225 miles per week.
It was due to this observation, we thought to have a race to the 300,000 mile odometer mark for giggles. I have since figured, that at current weekly average levels, starting today at current odometers, it will take TomJD ~70 weeks to hit 300k, and Dozenspeed ~80 weeks. This far out, I think that's not a huge gap. He plans for more adventuring, and I plan to be less lazy, so who knows how this will end?
Will TomJD indeed rack up more miles in attempt to keep his girlfriend entertained? Will Dozenspeed try to squeeze more miles toward financial betterment? Will the cars hold up? Can their owners keep them going? WHO WILL WIN?!?
FIND OUT HERE IN THIS FRIVOLOUS THREAD!!
..........eventually
For convenience, we are going to refer to the rough mileage goals as "points" (in tenths) in reference to 1000 miles. The goal being "to reduce your score." So in this manner, the current score is:
TomJD - 251,000 miles = 49.0 points
Dozenspeed - 202,641 miles = 97.4 points*
*yes technically smaller than that but that's how it is
Wish us luck!
EDIT: A simple, public poll has been added to this thread, set to close at the end of July, 2015. So predict your winner before then. The poll will show who you voted for, but not when you voted. Consider posting that you voted at the time you do so, to record how early you made your call.
Another member (TomJD) and I have decided to have a race to 300,000 miles.
In this corner:
TomJD's 2000 Jetta 5MT road warrior with ~251,000 miles.
Taking on Dozenspeed's venerable workhorse, a 2011 Jetta 6MT with ~202,500
What's the point? None. Other than amusement. But I warned you about that in the title. If you are this far along and still have nothing better to do, follow along for a year-plus statistical drama that promises to have edge-of-your seat excitement equalled only by the blistering pace of real-time play-by-play mileage logging and calculation!
Some background on the men and their machines:
TomJD has had his MK4 Jetta for a little over 3 years and accrued over 65k. These days a 49 mile one-way commute accounts for much of his 700 mile-per-week average which also includes recreational and road trip driving.
Dozenspeed (me, feels weird writing this third party, and wrong somehow first party ) has also had his for a little over 3 years. It was bought specifically to use as an officially comissioned, licensed and regulated taxicab here in St. Louis Missouri. So far the car has been in fulltime viability and "daily" service, averaging 1225 miles per week.
It was due to this observation, we thought to have a race to the 300,000 mile odometer mark for giggles. I have since figured, that at current weekly average levels, starting today at current odometers, it will take TomJD ~70 weeks to hit 300k, and Dozenspeed ~80 weeks. This far out, I think that's not a huge gap. He plans for more adventuring, and I plan to be less lazy, so who knows how this will end?
Will TomJD indeed rack up more miles in attempt to keep his girlfriend entertained? Will Dozenspeed try to squeeze more miles toward financial betterment? Will the cars hold up? Can their owners keep them going? WHO WILL WIN?!?
FIND OUT HERE IN THIS FRIVOLOUS THREAD!!
..........eventually
For convenience, we are going to refer to the rough mileage goals as "points" (in tenths) in reference to 1000 miles. The goal being "to reduce your score." So in this manner, the current score is:
TomJD - 251,000 miles = 49.0 points
Dozenspeed - 202,641 miles = 97.4 points*
*yes technically smaller than that but that's how it is
Wish us luck!
EDIT: A simple, public poll has been added to this thread, set to close at the end of July, 2015. So predict your winner before then. The poll will show who you voted for, but not when you voted. Consider posting that you voted at the time you do so, to record how early you made your call.
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