Driving a Manual After a Long Time The other day, when I went to pick up my youngest daughter from kindergarten, I drove the Boxster GTS (manual) for the first time in a while. After that, I took a short drive around the neighborhood before heading home, and since it was a clear, sunny day, it felt really great. And once again, I thought, “Manuals are so much fun!” When I got home, I said,...
Talking About Car Life as a Couple Since the beginning of this year, we’ve been using the audio SNS app Clubhouse to talk about our family’s car life as a couple. Every Saturday at 10 p.m. for about an hour, we held talks about “This Week’s Car Life” and “Blog Afterwords”. However, at that time, Clubhouse wasn’t available on Android, so only iPhone users could listen in. Later, Twitter added a feature called “Spaces” that...
My Husband’s Sister Bought a New Car My Husband’s Twitter briefly mentioned this before, but recently my husband’s sister purchased her very first car in her life. She bought a BMW Mini Cooper 3-door model (Cooper D). I saw some photos, and it looked really stylish and cool. However, she’s been a paper driver for nearly 20 years since getting her license, meaning she hasn’t driven at all. Even after delivery, she said, “I can’t...
A Wife Opposing the Purchase of a New Lexus The other day, I wrote an article titled “To Wives Who Oppose Buying Sports or Luxury Cars: Let Your Husbands Buy Happily!”. I had come across a web article about a “47-year-old husband earning 12 million yen a year wanting to buy a new Lexus worth 8 million yen, but his wife opposes it,” and I shared my family’s perspective on it. *Image source: LEXUS RX...
Our Passion for Photos of Our Beloved Car We often receive messages and comments on the blog saying, “The car photos you post are beautiful.” Most of the photos on the blog are taken by my husband, who always says, “Photos are super important for running a website. They don’t just shape the site’s image but also influence whether people want to read the articles.” At one point, he was really focused on “capturing beautiful...
A Porsche Owner Who’s a Chiropractor The other day, I was deeply moved by the customer service of TAKURO, a hair salon owner and a car friend of my husband, and introduced him in an article titled “The Work Ethic of Porsche Owners,” which received a great response. Since then, I’ve been thinking, “If I get the chance, I’d like to write about the work ethic of other Porsche owners as well.” Today, I want...
My Mysterious Porsche-Owner Husband I mainly write the articles on this blog, but my husband, who usually handles the IT and system side of things, also occasionally writes posts. At the end of the articles he writes, his profile page is displayed, and if you click it, you can see his history of beloved cars. The number of visits to that profile page is surprisingly high every time. I wonder if so many people are...
Life with a Manual Transmission (MT) Car About two years ago, I purchased my very first car, a manual transmission (MT) vehicle. Before meeting my husband, I had absolutely no interest in cars—they barely even registered in my field of vision—so I never imagined the day would come when I’d buy my own car. And to think it would be an MT car… lol Life really is full of surprises. The reason I bought my...
Recent Customer Service Experiences The other day, I wrote an article about the discomfort I felt with a car dealer’s salesperson. I had visited the dealer to buy my own manual transmission car, but there were many moments when I felt the response was a bit disappointing. After returning home, I kept muttering things like, “They handle such wonderful cars, so I wish they would sell them with more passion…!” Then my husband said, “If...
Porsche 911 or Lexus LC500? Recently, I received this kind of inquiry on my blog. Currently, I’m torn between purchasing a Porsche 911 Carrera 4 Cabriolet (992 model) and a Lexus LC500 Convertible. I’d like advice from a 911 (992 model) owner. That was the question. In fact, I’ve received many inquiries like “I’m struggling to decide between XX and YY when buying a car.” Cars are expensive purchases, and even if you gather information...
