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Considering an Air-Cooled Porsche 911? A Closer Look at the 964 Carrera 2
空冷ポルシェ911（964）について。約30年前の、発売当時の様子や評価について、詳しく調べてまとめてみることにしました。
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Our Parenting Philosophy: What I’ve Learned from Watching My Daughter Ride in a Porsche S...
The Morning Conversation Between My Husband and Our Oldest My husband takes our four-year-old daughter to preschool every morning. Before they leave, he always asks her, “Which car do you want to take today?” And she’ll say: “The blue Por-she (Porsche)!” or “The white Por-she (white)!” or “The Golf!” So off they go in whichever car she chooses. Sometimes my husband will suggest, “How about the white Porsche today?” But if she says, “No, I...
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The Man Who Drove a Porsche 356 from Japan to Stuttgart, Germany—Nearly 15,000 km
Who Was Jiro Shirasu? Jiro Shirasu, the man whom GHQ reportedly called “the only Japanese who never obeyed” after World War II. Jiro Shirasu served as a close aide to Shigeru Yoshida during the Allied occupation of Japan. He also had a successful business career, serving as chairman of Tohoku Electric Power and as a director at numerous Japanese companies. His father, Bunpei Shirasu, founded the trading firm Shirasu Shoten, which grew through the cotton...
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Considering an Air-Cooled Porsche 911: What I Learned About the 964 Carrera 4
A Closer Look at the Air-Cooled Porsche 911 The other day, my husband drove to Nagoya to check out an air-cooled Porsche. When I asked what he thought, he replied matter-of-factly, “Yeah, it was a pretty good car.” I figured he wasn’t about to buy one just yet. Then, a few days later, this magazine arrived at our house. This special issue from the automotive magazine Car Graphic brings together road-test impressions and evaluations of...
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Why Even a Porsche-Loving Wife Doesn’t Want to Take a Family Road Trip in a 911
A Stay at Amakusa’s “Tenku no Fune” Hotel Last year, we used a hometown tax donation to get a voucher for a stay at Tenku no Fune, a hotel in Amakusa, Kumamoto Prefecture. We quickly found a date that worked for the family and headed there for an overnight stay. It turned out to be a wonderful hotel, and we all had a fantastic trip. We’d planned to take the ferry from Osaka Nanko to...
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51 Ferraris Written Off After Typhoon No. 21: Damage at Nearby Luxury-Car Dealerships and...
51 Ferraris Written Off Many of you may already have heard that Typhoon No. 21 recently caused 51 Ferraris at an authorized dealership on Rokko Island in Hyogo Prefecture to be flooded with seawater and written off. News reports put the damage at more than one billion yen, though some estimates suggest it could actually be as high as three billion yen. The dealership had prepared for the approaching storm by laying out tarps and...
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What Experiencing a Typhoon Blackout Taught Me About Electric Cars
Typhoon Jebi Hits Japan Typhoon Jebi slammed into Japan on September 4, and “powerful” hardly begins to describe it. Our home lost power at 2 p.m. that day, and the blackout was still ongoing as I wrote this. There was no word yet on when electricity would be restored.(I’m writing this on the Shinkansen at 10 a.m. on September 5 → Later, at 11 a.m., I got word that power had been restored at home.)...
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Time for a New Laptop! Which One Is Best for Bloggers?
One Day, My Mac Screen Went Black About a month ago, my trusty MacBook Air finally gave up on me. I’m not exactly gentle with my devices, and my younger daughter had scratched the screen and dropped it more than once… Honestly, it’s amazing it lasted as long as it did. One day, I closed the laptop as usual, then opened it again a little later—only to find my Mac completely unresponsive, with a black...
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The Best TV Show for Porsche Fans—and My Husband’s Unusual Way of Watching
He Loves Cars, but Has No Interest in Movies My husband is a self-confessed car enthusiast, but when it comes to movies, he seems completely uninterested. I, on the other hand, enjoy movies and watch quite a few on Amazon Prime Video. (Lately, I’ve been watching more on Netflix, too.) But whenever I try to talk movies with him, it’s like talking to a brick wall: Me: “Isn’t ◯◯ gorgeous?” Him: “I don’t know. They...
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The Appeal of the Porsche Panamera—and What’s Been on My Mind Lately: Sharing a Richer Li...
Who I Used to Be A few years ago, I think I was a completely different person. Back then, I lived by the idea that “work comes first in life.” I put what I wanted to do ahead of my children and family. I believed I had to grow more this year than last, and more next year than this—and that I should always be taking on new challenges. That, I thought, was simply the...