German Car Zone

So do you feel guilty driving your car?

Personally, I don't. My car does a very good job at providing me transport, keeping me and making me feel safe in the process, been reliable, comfortable, and also very good with fuel consumption and emission. It also has very good performance matched with this.

Tell me how you personally feel???

NOPE

I'm not a treehugger after all.

I do try to do my bit for the environment. Like if I were to live in the city I would buy a small car like perhaps a MB A-Class, BMW 1er Coupe or Fiat 500 with the appropriately suited engine.

No, I don't feel guilty! I don't have an own car - so most of the time I ride my bike. And it has still the best CO2 emission.

Nah. I do admit I do sometimes drive around the city or the countryside just for the heck of it, but that's not going to make me feel guilty, nor would it if I had an old supercar with atrocious fuel consumption and no catalysts to do it in. The thing is that I don't drive that much because I don't need to - I've chosen my current apartment on the basis of its location, so that getting to work in the morning only takes a few minutes' walk (more to do with wanting to sleep late than environmental concerns, admittedly). And yes, I do recycle my paper/cardboard/plastic/metal/glass/biodegradables...

Honestly, I sometimes do feel a bit guilty. I try to do a lot by feet, bus or train or anything, partly because of the fuel cost and partly because of the environment.

But when I drive, well, I don't feel guilty. I only try to avoid "unuseful" trips with the car, but when I need it I need it.

I feel quite concerned by all these "green" issues, it's important to me. But I won't buy a G-Wiz because of that, there are limits!

So it's not really yes, not really no, more in-between. But as everybody voted no, I voted yes

i dont care..
living in sweden i just get freakin pissed off when they make car owning so expensive, we are only 8million here..
put the pressure on industry and the monster nations like india, china and USA..
when they start to care about the inviroment as much as sweden.. thats when ile think about feeling guilty..

The only thing I feel guilty about is not having faught hard enough to be driving a better car.

Not really ...
However, I do feel a little guilty about having an S-550 and a Range Rover. I find myself having to explain all the time what great deals I got on both cars... especially when I also have a CLK 320 for commuting during the week. No one feels my pain at the gas pump on the big boys though, except my GCZ family of course.

I was thinking about posting this up when I saw it in Drive.com but I figure out those who will feel guilty won't be in this forum anyway.

As for myself, no guilt at all. People waste a lot of resources and produce excessive pollution in everything we do, so if we feel guilty about driving, we might as well feel guilty about a whole lot of other things. It is pretty easy to target cars because there is a clear and easy to understand measurement of emissions from the cars, but it is much more difficult to measure the emissions generated by other human activities, things like smoking for one.

Also as you guys will know, there are places which if we want to get there on time, or to get there at all, driving is the only sensible option.

Looks like all of you in GCZ are horrible polluting gas-guzzlers who don't care about other people, Mother Nature or the health of the Earth... Well that's bad from you, I tell you...

Honestly, I agree that the car is an easy target.
But it's not a reason not to be more careful. Of course there are other things to do, of course the car is not the Only Awful Polluting Devil, but it's clearly not a healthy, env-friendly ass-moving device.

That's why I now am more careful and try to take the train, bus, or do feetwork more than I used to. But I also try to live in a more environment-friendly way, I think it's important.

I'm not feeling guilty to drive my car. I'm trying not to drive it unless it's necessary. Where I feel guilty, is when I take it although I could have done diferently...
But I'm not criticizing the big cars, or bashing people that go on racetrack the WE!! Passion has always been the motor of the Human's evolution, it's stupid to pretend that competition or pleasure should be banned because of the warming-up. We only have to find other ways, like electrical/fuel-cell motors and others.

I only think that everybody has to do something, and that it's not because others don't do anything for the environment that it's useless to do it yourself.

Everybody can make a little something, it has the power to change the world. Taking the bike/feets instead of the car to make 1km in a city is not such a big effort, and will save your money too.

However, I still like you, my dear GCZ buddies, even if you're destroying the world!