Porsche 911

2024.01.07Porsche 911, Recommended Car Accessories

Installing Limited-Edition RECARO Classic LX Pepita Seats in an Air-Cooled Porsche 911 (964)

Happy New Year! Thank you for all your support last year.We look forward to another great year with you and thePorsche blog, Welcome Home, PORSCHE. RECARO Classic LX Pepita For my first blog post of the year, I thought I’d revisit my air-cooled Porsche 911 (964)—a car I haven’t written about in a while.Last year, it spent a long time in the shop for various repairs, including work on the air conditioning, so I barely...

2024.01.07Porsche 911, Recommended Car Accessories

Our Car Life

2024.01.05Our Car Life

I’m So Glad I Took the Leap and Bought a Porsche | Looking Back on 2023 and Goals f...

A belated Happy New Year! I hope you’ll continue to follow along this year. I started this blog in June 2017, which means it’ll celebrate its seventh anniversary this June. It feels strange—like the years have flown by, yet somehow it’s hard to believe it’s been seven years already. To mark the start of the year, I’d like to look back at the journey from the beginning of the blog to now, and share my...

2024.01.05Our Car Life

Reviews & Test Drives

2023.12.28Reviews & Test Drives

Porsche Owner Picks: 2023 Test Drive Car of the Year!

Back by popular demand (?)—it’s time to announce our Test Drive Car of the Year! In this article, I’m sharing my husband’s top three most memorable cars from the many he test-drove in 2023. He regularly gets the chance to drive cars owned by readers and friends, and these were the ones that left the biggest impression. That said, every car was excellent, so he found it difficult to rank them. Please keep in mind...

2023.12.28Reviews & Test Drives

Reviews & Test Drives

2023.12.22Reviews & Test Drives, Porsche 911

Driving the Porsche 911 Turbo (997): The Original Dual Personality of a Turbo

After driving the 987 Cayman, I had the chance to get behind the wheel of its contemporary, the 997-generation 911 Turbo. Here’s what the experience was like. The Porsche 911 Turbo (997) The 997-generation Porsche 911 marked a break from the 996’s “fried-egg” headlights, returning instead to the round headlights of the air-cooled era. I remember well when it first went on sale. Its design seemed like a further evolution of the 993, with just...

2023.12.22Reviews & Test Drives, Porsche 911

Porsche 911

2023.12.11Porsche 911, Our Car Life

Six Months with My Porsche 911 Carrera T: What I Really Think About Ownership

I’ve Been Driving My Carrera T Less It’s been six months since my 911 Carrera T was delivered. It’s my first Porsche, and I spent ages deciding on the perfect specification. It’s incredible to drive: light on its feet, with outstanding handling and a manual gearbox that’s an absolute joy. I have no complaints about how it drives—in fact, the Carrera T is almost too good. But lately, there have been more days when I...

2023.12.11Porsche 911, Our Car Life

The Appeal of Porsche

2023.11.30The Appeal of Porsche, Reviews & Test Drives, Porsche 911

Porsche 911 Dakar Review, Part 2: Highway Performance and Final Verdict

Following on from Part 1, here’s the second half of my review. Highway Performance: Confidence and Power Once I reached the highway, I gave the accelerator a gentle press after the tollbooth, keeping in mind that the car was still being run in. The Dakar is, after all, based on the GTS engine. At low revs, I’d actually found the Carrera more responsive and quicker, but once the revs climb, the surge of power and...

2023.11.30The Appeal of Porsche, Reviews & Test Drives, Porsche 911

Reviews & Test Drives

2023.11.28Reviews & Test Drives, Touring Reports, Porsche 911

Porsche 911 Dakar Review, Part 1: What 900 km of Grand Touring Revealed

Taking Delivery of the 911 Dakar: Expectations vs. Reality My younger brother bought a Porsche 911 Dakar. I joined him at the dealership to take delivery, then rode along for a grand tour of about 900 km. Here’s what we discovered along the way. What comes to mind when you think of the Porsche 911 Dakar? To be honest, I hadn’t been particularly interested in it. I pictured it as a lifted 911 that could...

2023.11.28Reviews & Test Drives, Touring Reports, Porsche 911

Reviews & Test Drives

2023.11.19Reviews & Test Drives, Porsche 911

Test-Driving a Porsche 911 Carrera S (992) with PASM Sport Suspension, Rear-Axle Steering...

A 992 Carrera S Loaded with Options My younger brother has bought another car. He and I are complete opposites. He loves Ferraris, G-Class Mercedes, Lamborghinis, Okinawa, Richard Mille watches, and Hublot watches—in other words, he goes all-in on the picture-perfect “successful person” lifestyle（笑） That’s why, in principle, he isn’t a fan of understated cars like Porsches, which put driving first. He’s always complaining about their limited features and plain interiors. So it was a...

2023.11.19Reviews & Test Drives, Porsche 911

Porsche 911

2023.11.11Porsche 911

“Don’t Buy It If You Don’t Plan to Drive It” | Thoughts on Rising Used Porsche 911 Carrer...

Our Carrera T was delivered at the end of May 2023. It’s hard to believe that nearly six months have already passed. It now has 5,500 km on the clock. Whether we’re heading to the supermarket, taking the kids to the dentist or dermatologist, or doing the school run, we use the Carrera T for just about everything. Sometimes I think, “There can’t be many people in Japan who use their Carrera T this much...

2023.11.11Porsche 911

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2023.10.28Uncategorized

[Reader Report] From Honda S2000 to Porsche 911 GT3 (997): Why He Made the Move and How I...

Recently, my husband had the chance to drive a 997-generation 911 GT3. He described it as a car where the car’s behavior (the output) changes noticeably in response to the driver’s inputs. That’s where the analog joy of driving comes from: the fun is in mastering the car. Unlike a modern 911, which is easy to drive and lets anyone get the most out of it, this is a car you can only truly master...

2023.10.28Uncategorized