My husband is the complete opposite. He\u2019s the type who\u2019ll research something until he understands it inside and out<\/strong>. He reads manuals and instructions from cover to cover, and if there\u2019s something he doesn\u2019t know, he\u2019ll dig into it until he finds the answer. If he\u2019s not interested, he couldn\u2019t care less\u2014but if he is, he goes all in.<\/p>\n The same goes for cars. I\u2019d say I like Porsche more than the average person, but compared with a true Porsche enthusiast, my knowledge is pretty limited. I\u2019m not especially knowledgeable about how cars are built, either.<\/p>\n Only recently have I started to get a feel for what people mean when they say an engine has plenty of torque. And I\u2019ve learned that inline, flat, and V8 engines are named for the way their cylinders are arranged<\/strong>\u2014that\u2019s about the level I\u2019m at.<\/p>\n But I\u2019m the sort of person who wants to put new knowledge to use right away, so I\u2019ll sometimes write things on the blog that sound like I know what I\u2019m talking about. My husband often calls me out:<\/p>\n \u201cYou\u2019re using PDK wrong.\u201d The other day, I suddenly remembered something from when we bought our 970 Panamera Edition. Our dealer, H, had said, \u201cThe test-drive car had air suspension, but the car being delivered to you will have coil springs, so the ride may feel slightly different.\u201d<\/strong> I knew the basic difference\u2014one uses air, the other springs\u2014but what did that actually mean for the way the car drove?<\/p>\n So I casually asked my husband:<\/p>\n \u201cHey, what\u2019s the difference between air suspension and coil springs?\u201d<\/p>\n Apparently, that question flipped his enthusiasm switch\u2026<\/p>\n He started with \u201cWhat is suspension, anyway?\u201d and I kept asking questions that completely missed the point. Before long, he was getting more and more fired up, and about 30 minutes had gone by. By then, I was losing interest in the whole thing and tried to call it quits: \u201cYou know what, never mind. I\u2019ll just say I get it. Thanks (\u00af\u2015\u00af).\u201d<\/strong> But he stopped me:<\/p>\n \u201cNo, you can\u2019t just leave it at that.\u201d<\/p>\n Then he suddenly got up and disappeared into another room to fetch something. When he came back a little while later, he was holding an RC car. (A Porsche, naturally. Haha.)<\/span><\/p>\n Then he started taking it apart\u2026<\/p>\n \u201cSo, coil-spring suspension works like this\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n Wait\u2014you\u2019re actually doing a live demo?!<\/span><\/p>\n At that point, I figured I\u2019d better settle in and listen. An hour later, his lecture on the difference between air suspension and coil-spring suspension<\/strong> finally came to an end. And I think I sort of understood it. Haha.<\/p>\n Are conversations between a car-mad husband and his wife always like this? Or is it just our household? Either way, thanks to my husband, I may have learned a little about the value of digging deeper into things. That\u2019s what I\u2019ve been thinking lately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"My Husband and I See Things Very Differently To get right to it, I\u2019m the kind of person who thinks, \u201cAs long as I get the gist, that\u2019s good enough.\u201d I\u2019m happy once I understand about 60 percent, and I get bored easily, so I tend to know a little about a lot. I also almost never read the manual when I buy an appliance. Going through a thick instruction book sounds like a chore...","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2305,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_locale":"en_US","_original_post":"https:\/\/www.panamera-life.com\/?p=2295","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nocar-nolife","en-US"],"yoast_head":"I Love Porsche, But\u2026<\/h3>\n
\u201cWhat you wrote on the blog today is completely off.\u201d<\/p>\nAir Suspension vs. Coil Springs<\/h3>\n
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(His demonstration)<\/span><\/p>\n