[Porsche-O-Phile]

+1 on concrete. More durable and you can do a lot of it yourself or get a decent contractor. Paving contractors pretty much universally suck and there are endless horror stories of people getting ripped off, jobs half-done, improper thicknesses / asphalt compositions used, you name it. They're notorious for being shady and generally the bottom of the barrel in the construction trades world.

I've done a few parts of my drive in concrete already. I dig it down two feet, put in 12" of gravel and 6" of sand (do that myself), set the W.W.F. myself, build the edge forms myself and then just call the truck out. Rent a vibrator for $20 for the day and and let them pour 10'x20'x6" (4 yards) covers it. Vibrate, screed, add control joints and broom finish. Wham-bam. Yea it's a little work but I've done five 10'x20' sections already and have about eight more to go whenever I get to it to complete the thing. Not that bad and not that expensive and I could park semi trucks on it and the thing would last another 75 years. Best of all I haven't been ripped off by some scumbag crook paving contractor