Why Japanese Parking Spaces Can Be So Tight You hear it all the time: parking spaces at Japanese homes are narrow and have low clearance. A house may offer a little more room, but many apartment buildings have mechanical parking systems with width limits of 1,900 mm or even 1,850 mm, and height limits as low as 1,550 mm. That was on my mind when a reader recently sent me a message on the blog:...
A Few Thoughts on Test-Drive Reviews We publish quite a few test-drive reviews of Porsche models and cars from other brands on this blog, so it may seem a little odd for us to say this. But I’ve always felt that it’s best not to take any single test-drive review as the whole truth. That’s because one test drive can reveal only one side of a car. One person might say the ride is firm,...
A Long-Awaited Drive in the GT3 The other day, I drove the 911 GT3 (MT) for the first time in three months. I only drove it for about 20 minutes to swap it with another car in the parking lot, but it was great to feel the GT3 again after such a long break. Our GT3 is a 991 late model GT3 Touring. The clutch on this GT3 is surprisingly light compared to the 981...
Our 911 Carrera Cabriolet Has Arrived At long last, our eagerly awaited 911 Cabriolet (992) was delivered the other day. We placed the order at the end of February, so the wait was about seven months. （Read more about the timeline from ordering to delivery here）We’d expected the delivery to be delayed quite a bit by the impact of COVID, but production got underway sooner than we’d imagined, and the car was ready for delivery....
Three Years of Porsche Blogging I launched this blog, “Welcome Home, PORSCHE,” in June 2017. Now, after three years, I feel like we’ve finally managed to climb one step up the ladder. When the blog first started, nobody was reading it except my husband and me. A few months later, I decided to take blogging seriously and asked my husband to help. About a year and a half after launch, traffic began to grow, and...
What It’s Like to Buy a Porsche I used to think, “Buying a Porsche is way beyond anything I could imagine. I never thought one would end up in our garage.” My husband had always said he’d buy one someday, but I assumed, “Even so, it’s a luxury car, and buying one must be a huge undertaking. Even if we could afford it, it would probably be a long way off…” At the time, I’d...
Bringing Our Son Home A few days ago, I shared the news that I had given birth to our third child, a baby boy. A few days later, it was finally time to leave the hospital. Because of COVID restrictions, my husband hadn’t been allowed to attend the birth or visit us during our stay, so this would be his first chance to meet our son. He was going to drive over from home to...
A Baby Has Joined Our Family Today’s post isn’t about a car or a new-car delivery—it’s about a new addition to our family. If you’ve been reading this blog for a while, you probably already know that I was pregnant. Well, our third child finally arrived the other day! He was about a week past his due date and weighed in at over 3,500 grams (7 lb 11 oz), making him a big, healthy boy....
Our 911 Cabriolet Is Almost Here Time flies—and the delivery day for our 992-generation 911 Cabriolet is finally getting close. In early August, my husband completed the final delivery paperwork. Now all that’s left is for the ship carrying our 911 Cabriolet to reach port and for the dealership to finish its inspections before we can take delivery. With that in mind, I thought I’d put together a quick look at the timeline from placing...
More Than 10 Years Without Driving When something sparks my excitement or lets me clearly picture the future it could bring, I tend to act on it right away. But when I can’t imagine what the future will look like—or when anxiety and hassle outweigh the excitement—I’m stubborn enough to avoid it at all costs. For a long time, that was exactly how I felt about driving. I had gone more than 10 years without...
