Porsche Boxster

2023.12.02Porsche Boxster, Our Car Life

Finally Meeting My Dream Porsche Driver After Five Years!

Sapphire Blue Boxster, Mr. Wata The other day, after about five years of wanting to meet him, I finally got the chance to meet someone I had admired for a long time. His name is Mr. Wata. After running an Alpina blog, he now operates the Porsche Boxster blog, “Wind & Light, Boxster.” Mr. Wata’s beloved 981 Boxster has an incredible current mileage of 230,000 kilometers (and it’s probably even more by now). In Japan,...

2023.12.02Porsche Boxster, Our Car Life

Porsche Boxster

2023.09.08Porsche Boxster

Rediscovering the Ultimate Joy of Driving the Boxster

　 A Long-Awaited Drive in the Boxster The other day, I had the chance to drive the Porsche Boxster (981 Boxster GTS) again after quite some time. Recently, I’ve mostly been driving the Carrera T delivered at the end of May, but one day my husband came home in the Boxster and said, “This is truly fun! It’s just too much fun!” He spoke about its joy as if it were the delivery day all...

2023.09.08Porsche Boxster

Touring Reports

2023.05.10Touring Reports, Porsche Boxster

Kyushu Touring 2023 Day 3 with Porsche Boxster GTS (981)

Kyushu Touring Day 2 Off to Ibusuki Skyline On a morning when the sun appeared and the rain had stopped, we headed for the Ibusuki Skyline in the Porsche Boxster. This was the main destination of this touring trip. The Ibusuki Skyline starts from Taniyama IC, and after paying the 100 yen toll, traffic thinned out significantly. From the occasional viewpoints along the way, the majestic Sakurajima volcano peeked through. Some parts of the road...

2023.05.10Touring Reports, Porsche Boxster

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2023.05.07Touring Reports, Porsche Boxster

Kyushu Touring 2023 Day 2 with the Porsche Boxster GTS (981)

Kyushu Touring Day 2 We woke up to unfortunate rainy weather this morning.At 8:00, I met TAKURO-san in the lobby of our hotel in Yanagawa City to discuss today’s route. We set off aiming for Unzen. Tara-dake Orange Highway in the Heavy Rain It was raining steadily, but both Boxsters were equipped with Michelin Pilot Sport 4S tires. Plus, the tread depth was more than sufficient. Even in the heavy rain, the Boxsters handled confidently...

2023.05.07Touring Reports, Porsche Boxster

Touring Reports

2023.05.03Touring Reports, Porsche Boxster

Kyushu Touring 2023 Day 1 with Porsche Boxster GTS (981)

Kyushu Touring Day 1 This time, I went on a touring trip with my beloved Porsche Boxster GTS (981) after a long break. Usually, I go solo touring, but this time I set out on a 4-day, 4-night trip around Kyushu with my friend and the blog’s chief test driver, TAKURO-san, driving two Boxster GTS (981)s together. The Prestigious Taiyo Ferry Voyage Traveling from Kansai to Kyushu is very convenient by ferry. I have used...

2023.05.03Touring Reports, Porsche Boxster

Porsche Boxster

2022.10.16Porsche Boxster, Our Car Life

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...

2022.10.16Porsche Boxster, Our 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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2022.05.28Our Car Life

The Joy of High-Performance Cars Like Porsche Grows with the Driver’s Skill

Back When I Couldn’t Drive a Manual About five years ago, I could barely drive a manual transmission car. Every time I got behind the wheel of the only manual car we had at home, the Boxster GTS (981), I thought, “There’s no way I’ll ever be able to drive a manual car.” My sense of defeat just kept growing. My feet wouldn’t leave the accelerator or clutch pedals, and I half-wondered, “Does the Boxster’s...

2022.05.28Our Car Life

Touring Reports

2022.04.21Touring Reports, Porsche Boxster

Spring San’in Touring with the Porsche Boxster

A Journey with the Boxster When spring break comes, my wife and kids always go back to their parents’ home. March was busy for various reasons, but with work settling down, I decided to take a short tour after a long time. At first, I was thinking about heading toward Wakayama, where the highway has been expanded to four lanes, but the weather forecast showed it would be bad there. Looking westward, the weather seemed...

2022.04.21Touring Reports, Porsche Boxster