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2022.10.22Our Car Life

“Learn by Doing!” My Mistakes Until I Mastered Driving a Porsche Manual Transmission

Driving a Manual Transmission The other day, I wrote an article titled “I Finally Mastered Blipping the Boxster! Manual Driving Is Fun,” ポルシェのMT車の運転が何倍も楽しくなる！MT車のブリッピングをついに習得。 and received a message saying, “I’d love to read about the kinds of mistakes you made while learning to drive a manual,” so today I want to share that story. I think I struggled with driving a manual more than most people and made plenty of mistakes along the way (laughs). It...

2022.10.22Our Car Life

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2022.10.16Our Car Life, Porsche Boxster

Driving a Porsche MT Becomes So Much More Fun! Finally Mastered Blipping.

A Long-Awaited Boxster Drive Yesterday, I drove the Boxster (981 GTS) for the first time in a while. Whenever I get behind the wheel of our Porsche, I always write “It’s been a while…,” but this time, I honestly couldn’t even remember the last time I drove the Boxster—it had been that long. Usually, I drive my beloved Swift Sport (MT). It’s been a year since I took delivery, and I drive it almost every...

2022.10.16Our Car Life, Porsche Boxster

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2022.10.09Our Car Life

Adding a Porsche to Our Garage Alongside the Swift Sport?

The Swift Sport Is a Car Made for Driving Solo The other day, my husband drove the Swift Sport on an errand, covering about 150 km round trip including the highway, and he said this to me: The Swift Sport is really a car you drive alone. On the way there, I had two people in the car, but on the way back, I was alone—and the way it drove was completely different. I thought...

2022.10.09Our Car Life

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2022.09.25Our Car Life

How I Turned My Wife, a Paper Driver for Over 10 Years, into a Porsche Manual Transmissio...

From Paper Driver Wife to Manual Transmission Driver I used to have no interest in cars at all and was a paper driver for over 10 years after getting my license. After marrying my husband, I gradually became interested in cars, and over about six years, I was able to comfortably drive a Porsche Boxster (981 GTS) manual transmission, and now my current beloved car is a Suzuki Swift Sport with a manual transmission. The...

2022.09.25Our Car Life

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2022.09.19Our Car Life

Typical Porsche Owner Story? Why Many Owners Switch from the Latest Models to Their Prede...

Porsche’s Return to Its Roots The other day, my husband was talking about something. He said, “Among the people I know, quite a few buy relatively new Porsche models, gain experience, and then gradually switch to older models or add them to their collection. It’s like a kind of Porsche ‘return to the ancestors’ (laughs). For example, some who drove the latest 991 (992 generation) gradually went back to the late 991, then the early...

2022.09.19Our Car Life

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2022.09.11Our Car Life

Our Car-Loving Eldest Son Has Started Refusing to Ride in the Swift Sport

Our Car-Loving Eldest Son In our family, we have an 8-year-old eldest daughter, a 5-year-old second daughter, and a 2-year-old eldest son. While the two older sisters have absolutely no interest in cars, our eldest son is currently growing up to be a car enthusiast. Today, I want to share a story about that eldest son. When our son was born, my husband said, The very first car he rides should be the best car...

2022.09.11Our Car Life

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2022.08.29Our Car Life

Why My Porsche-Loving Husband Has Never Opposed Anything I Wanted to Do

A Husband Who Opposes vs. A Husband Who Supports The other day, when we gathered with relatives at my husband’s parents’ house, I met my husband’s younger brother’s wife after a long time. She and I are close in age, and since I started my own business and she also runs her own shop, we often talk about various things when we meet. Recently, she shared this with me. Until now, my husband has never...

2022.08.29Our Car Life

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2022.08.16Our Car Life, Porsche Boxster

Is It Okay to Drive a Porsche Convertible on Rainy Days? What Should You Watch Out For?

Can You Drive a Porsche Convertible on Rainy Days? The other day, I received this question. Is it okay to drive a Porsche convertible on rainy days? Are there any precautions I should take? I’ve written before about caring for the Porsche convertible soft top, and today, building on that, I’d like to share what I’ve learned from my husband and our dealer representative. To get straight to the point, you can definitely drive a...

2022.08.16Our Car Life, Porsche Boxster

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2022.08.10Our Car Life, Nissan

I Just Signed the Contract for the New Fairlady Z!

The other day, my husband came home from work and said as soon as he walked in the door: “I bought a Fairlady Z.” Wha—what!? I asked, “Weren’t you supposed to be at work today?” He said he had visited a client for work but finished early, so he thought, “I wonder if I can actually buy a Fairlady Z?” He called the Nissan dealer, stopped by, and ended up buying it. (laughs) He wrote...

2022.08.10Our Car Life, Nissan

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2022.08.07Our Car Life

Can Wide-Body Cars Really Be Used Daily? My Experience Owning a Porsche Cayenne and Panamera

Daily Use of the Porsche Panamera and Cayenne Based on my experience owning a Porsche Panamera for four years (970 Panamera Edition, 971 Panamera Turbo) and a Cayenne E-Hybrid (third-generation Cayenne) for two years, I’d like to share my thoughts on using wide-body cars daily. To get straight to the point, wide-body cars are hard to use daily in Japan. Both the Panamera and Cayenne have a width of about 1,940mm and a length of...

2022.08.07Our Car Life