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Dear Philip,

I have just downloaded and read with interest your pdf document ‘You can drive a Porsche’. This is not because I am immediately thinking of buying one, at least not at this moment – but given time it will most likley happen…. again. Indeed, when I buy another Porsche I’ll simply be adding a third to my collection.

I may perhaps be a somewhat ‘minority female’ in that I had ALWAYS wanted a 911, or at least, ever since I was old enough to understand what they were! Blame my father, he was the one who got me ‘into’ cars in the first place – although I will confess that I was never a girly girl. In fact, so far, I have derived more pleasure, satisfaction and reliability from owning and driving well-built sports cars than I have in any of my relationships with men. Sorry nothing personal, but given the choice, I know where my loyalties would lay.

In the same breath, I am also one of those ‘enigma’ types of car owner. I’ve a degree in physics and worked in a range of engineering and science jobs, none of them particularly well paid and still aren’t! Yet much to my friends, neighbours and even mother’s bafflement, I’ve somehow managed to buy and run not just one, but two of these flat-six beasts – albeit the shall we say ‘daily runaround’ is a Boxster. However, I like the latter because it handles superbly and means I can legitimately restrict how many people I can give a lift to at any one time. Generally, most people I know won;t be out on their own, so by default with only one spare seat in my car, none of them will ask for a lift – which is especially good when their idea of ‘we’re only just around the corner’ is in fact 20 miles in the opposite direction to where I live.

The yellow (colour to sample) 964 Targa however leads a rather more leisurely and upmarket lifestyle. Never deliberately driven in the rain and used only for those sunny days out, she would never be subjected to such monsters as the supermarket or shopping centre multi-storey car-park, where her pristine bodywork would no doubt become a magnet for 3 year olds gooey fingers, prams, trolleys and other sharp metallic objects.

My cars are pampered, lovingly washed and polished by myself, and their every need tended to regardless of cost. I know each and every single inch of them, inside and out. In my spare time I am as good as their slave. Sure, I get all the usual comments such as “Don’t know why you fuss over it, it’s only a lump of metal”. I bite my tongue and ignore them. When their car is a worthless bucket of dents, nuts and bolts and mine still valued at what I paid for it, or more, it will be me who’s laughing!

And so there you have it, living proof that not quite ALL Porsche buyers/owners are middle-aged married men with a disapproving wife, some are 40 year old single women who might even be happy to meet one of those Porsche loving men…..if only they were single…..Now don’t even get me started on that!

With kind regards,

Amanda