Porsche Madness

There are options for getting your newly acquired Porsche home, each with their advantages and sticky points. It is worth some thought and putting a pencil to paper to see not only what the best way of getting your baby home is for you, but for your new ride. If you have found your car local, best bet is you will proudly drive her home, experiencing the exhilarating feeling of the wind in your face if you bought a cabriolet, or sense the rumble under your seat in a hard top. You will slyly glance sideways at lights to see not who, but  howmany whos, notice when you pull up to a stop. Driving your new buy home is of course the preferred method, once you have your certified Porsche mechanic check her over to make sure she is what you wanted, in the condition you were promised, and any issues are dealt with that could make getting her home a challenge. (More on god forbid when you have to get your Porsche hauled to the garage in another post…). In this day and age of Internet car list...

Kind of like having kids or pets, your 911 requires regular care and maintenance. Nothing is sadder to Polly Porschette than a sad, dirty, obviously not running right 911. It makes me cringe, cry, or both.  It is true that Porsches are not cheap to fix, or even that cheap to maintain, but I promise you that if you do take care of yours, you will find it is one of the most reliable cars built and has had that reputation for decades. (Polly challenges you to name another one that has over five decades of solid service records…not!) Let’s face it, you want, you long, you dream about, owning a 911, right? You want to hear that engine power up and eeekkk! take off leaving others in your dust. If that truly is your dream, be a responsible parent and plan not only on how to earn the money to buy your dream ride, but take care of it, too.  First off, it is highly recommended that newer Porsches, 911 or any other, run synthetic oil. I hear you groaning now. Stop. Just stop. Synth as it...

Sigh. How many of you have friends or worse, significant others (I mean, they might get to ride in it, right?) that struggle to say the name of your passion? You might get Porch, or Porchey, or Porcha, and once in a while, “Porsh”.  Porsche is a German word that means “offering” and is actually a two-syllable word. Expecting German parents often choose the name Porsche for a baby when they want a gender-neutral name, or one not traditional. It is interesting, though, that all German automakers are referred to in the masculine (as in “der Porsche”), versus airplane makers whom are referred to in the feminine (“die Airbus”). Porsche AG finally had all they could take and made a Youtube video (that does not help much and has been viewed nearly 2.5 million times, proving my point) just to teach people how to say the name of their hugely popular sports car brand (even the SUVs are sports cars!). The correct pronunciation for your dream car company is “Porsh-shuh”. And if any of the know...

It is really interesting to watch people when you drive by in your Porsche, or are pulled up to a stoplight with some hot to trot American “muscle” car rumbling gas out their tailpipe. Polly never understands why they do that, rev up and all, when all I have to do it step on my gas the way I normally drive (well, I do admit, I do like that little grab and not quite squeal…) from the light. For heaven’s sake, what is that Mustang trying to prove, anyhow? If my Porsche was not going to smoke them (and it will), hundreds of Pintos, oops, I mean Mustangs, would be on the tracks around the world racing with the best of the big boys instead of my high performance, tried and true,   winning  Porsche. Besides, my Porsche is not only   FAST,  it is so fast icated. You see, in Polly’s mind, you do not have to “prove” anything when you arrive and get to enjoy a classy 911 or any other Porsche for that matter. You have arrived, for heaven’s sake. True sophistication is carriage,...