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2019.02.10Our Car Life, Porsche Panamera

A New Year’s Drive to Shirahama and Kumano in Wakayama with the Porsche Panamera

To Kumano Nachi Taisha in Wakayama Prefecture Our family doesn’t really have the tradition of “always going for Hatsumode (New Year shrine visit) on New Year’s Day or during the first three days.” Shrines are crowded during those days, and until around the Taisho era, the New Year was celebrated according to the lunar calendar (this year’s lunar New Year is apparently February 5th), so we thought, “Why not take our time and go for...

2019.02.10Our Car Life, Porsche Panamera

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2019.02.08Our Car Life

Porsche: A Passport to a New World

Thoughts on Porsche The other day, I casually tweeted, “Porsche is amazing. It instantly connects you with people you’d never normally meet. Somehow, Porsche feels like a passport to a whole new world.” To my surprise, it got quite a few retweets and likes. It seems many Porsche owners feel the same way: I really love how it doesn’t matter much about age or status — just being a “Porsche lover” or “Porsche driver” creates...

2019.02.08Our Car Life

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2019.01.30Our Car Life

Voices from Porsche Owners: Sharing Comments Part 4

Sharing Your Comments We regularly share comments from our readers, and this is the fourth installment. Among the many messages we receive daily, there are plenty of valuable insights, including things even I didn’t know. Here are some selected highlights from recent comments. (Please note that comments have been lightly edited for clarity and context, with only relevant excerpts included.) Reader Comments 1. Panamera Hybrid [970 Plug-in Hybrid] The 970 plug-in hybrid exceeded my expectations....

2019.01.30Our Car Life

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2019.01.27Our Car Life

If My Husband Had to Choose Just One Porsche Today: 911 (964C2), Panamera, or Boxster

A Slightly Unusual Couple My husband and I aren’t very interested in the usual things like food, clothing, or housing. Our family of four rarely eats out (about twice a month), and when we do, it’s usually at places like Gusto or conveyor belt sushi. As for clothes, both my husband and I are firmly in the “Uniclo is more than enough” camp, and my husband even wears his clothes until they fall apart. We...

2019.01.27Our Car Life

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2019.01.24Our Car Life

How Porsche Improved Our Marriage and Enriched Our Lives

Always Enjoying… The most common comment I receive on this blog is “I always enjoy reading your posts.” No matter what the comment is, I’m always grateful to receive it, but what makes me happiest is when someone says “enjoyable.” That’s because, what I value most in running this blog is “making it a fun blog to read.” The power of “fun” is incredible—when a space is enjoyable, more and more people gather there. As...

2019.01.24Our Car Life

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2019.01.23Our Car Life

Meeting Air-Cooled Porsche Owners at Royu Driveway

Encounter with 911 (Air-Cooled) Owners One day before noon on a recent day off, my husband casually said, “I’m going for a drive to Royu in the air-cooled Porsche” and headed out. As usual, when he arrived at the Higashi Rokko Observatory on the Royu Driveway, he noticed several air-cooled Porsches parked side by side in the lot. Thinking, “Is this some kind of air-cooled enthusiasts’ gathering…?” he parked his car a little apart and...

2019.01.23Our Car Life

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2019.01.20Our Car Life

The Problem Porsche and Luxury Car Owners Face: Not Being Able to Tell Others They Own One

Is Porsche Just a Rich Person’s Hobby? The other day, my husband told me about a Porsche-owning doctor he once met who said this: “Once, when I drove my Mercedes-Benz to my clinic, a patient said to me, ‘You must be making good money,’ and a staff member said, ‘Oh, your car is a Benz, isn’t it?’ which made the atmosphere awkward… Since then, I stopped driving it to the clinic. Even though the model...

2019.01.20Our Car Life

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2019.01.15Our Car Life

About the Porsche, Mercedes-Benz, BMW, and Audi Museums Visited on Our Trip to Germany

Photos from Our Trip to Germany At the turn of the year, while organizing photos that had piled up in my computer folders, I came across some nostalgic ones. These were photos from about four years ago when my husband and I went on our honeymoon to Germany. Although we had been married for a while by then, both of us had been rather laid-back, saying things like “There’s really no country we absolutely have...

2019.01.15Our Car Life

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2019.01.09Our Car Life

Will the Day Come When I Can Master the Porsche Boxster GTS (MT)? – Vol.5

Boxster MT Practice The new year had begun—January 2, 2019. With my daughters looked after by my mother-in-law, my husband and I set out to practice driving the Boxster GTS (MT) together. Until now, my husband had driven from our home to the practice spots (Royu Driveway or quiet parking lots), and I would take over after we arrived. But that day, for the first time, I decided to drive from home myself. Thanks to...

2019.01.09Our Car Life

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2019.01.03Our Car Life

“Porsche: Adding Color to Life” — Interview Vol. 6 with TAD JUN JUN

Hello everyone, this is Mina, the manager of the “Welcome Home, PORSCHE” blog. Today, I had the pleasure of speaking with “TAD JUN JUN,” a gentleman racer in the Porsche Carrera Cup Japan. (1) Competing in PCCJ Since 2016 1. The Motivation Behind Joining PCCJ —TAD, you’ve competed in PCCJ and stood on the podium. Have you always been a fan of racing? Not exactly. It’s not so much that I love racing; it’s more...

2019.01.03Our Car Life