I thought I was a paper driver my whole life.

I was a paper driver for about 10 years after I got my license. I got my license at the age of 18, but until I turned 30, I had only driven a car a couple of times, and during that time, of course, I had a gold license.A car is useless. If I should ever buy one, a used minicar will suffice."I thought.

We married at age 30, and when I was 33, my husband bought a 981 Boxster GTS, and I was unanimously in favor of his Porsche purchase.

30-33 years old.Over the past three years, theWhat in the world happened to me?

What my husband did to me

It's not so much what happened to me.What did my husband do to me?"is the key, and when I thought about it, I found five key points. I would like to introduce those five today.

(1) Make Porsche's photos and videos visible on a daily basis.

My husband used to watch the Porsche episodes of Car Graphic TV over and over again. He often looked at Porsche magazines at home. That is why II see Porsches on a daily basis."environment. Then, I used to think that Porsche was a car that people in a different world from mine would buy, but gradually I began to feel less and less uncomfortable and felt that it was no surprise that my husband might buy one. People come to favor it when they are repeatedly exposed to it.The Simple Contact Effect."I think that is exactly what happened.

(2) Travel to Germany and let them experience a Porsche ride.

My wife and I got married in 2012 and went to Germany for a late honeymoon in the fall of 2014.

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In Germany, we rented a Porsche 911 as a rental car. My husband had actually reserved a Boxster in advance, but when we went to the counterAll the Boxsters are out.And of course they said...911. To my husband's delight, it turned out to be a miscalculation: "Seriously, a 911! And it's a Carrera 4S! And it's a Carrera 4S!(I honestly didn't understand my husband's excitement at all, as I knew nothing about Porsche at the time...)

On that trip to Germany, my husband had told me many times beforehand that

You must get an international driver's license! You don't get many chances to drive a Porsche abroad!"

I was told. But at the time, I said, "No, thanks, I won't drive because I don't want to get any scratches. I would not drive because I didn't want to get a scratch on my car (-_-)," and stubbornly refused to get an international driver's license. So, of course, I didn't want to travel to Germany."Passenger Seat Specialty."But when I drove a Porsche for the first time, I felt how comfortable it was to drive and people around me said, "Oh, what a nice car! When I first drove a Porsche, I realized how comfortable it was to ride in, and people around me said(Maybe that's what he said in English.)I thought for the first time that Porsche is not a bad car.

(iii) Share the car configurator with my wife.

If you go to Porsche Japan's official website, you can simulate the specifications of the car you want.Car ConfiguratorFeatures. So my husband used to simulate the Boxster's specs.

'This is what I actually want, but maybe the holo should be a different color?'
Do you think the interior should be beige?"

He showed me the screen as he said. I looked at it and said, "Wouldn't it be better if the interior was black, so that dirt wouldn't stand out?" I remember the couple actually tried changing the specifications, and we talked about this and that and came up with the specifications together.

(4) Let them test drive the Panamera.

Test driving a Panamera was a pretty big deal for me. As I wrote in a recent blog, there is no better way to experience the quality of a Porsche than to drive one.

→[See article] The composition of a husband who wants to buy a Porsche and a wife who does not give the OK goes like this.

Although, if they had taken me to the Porsche Center out of the blue, I might have said, "Eh, why all of a sudden, I don't like it."I had been exposed to Porsches and looked at car configurators on a regular basis, so I had the forethought to say, "Well, let's go for it, shall we?" I was able to get into the mindset of "Well, let's go.It may be.

At the time, without any certainty, I wandered over to the dealership to "go for a Porsche test drive" and was allowed to drive a Panamera.(Maybe it was the Panamera Fair or something)

And the moment you step on the gas pedalI was shocked and fascinated by the Porsche. I was instantly fascinated by the Porsche.Since then, buying a Panamera with my own money has become my business goal.

(5) Money out of the husband's wallet

This is huge...right?Instead of "putting the money to buy the Porsche out of our living expenses," my husband said he would pay for it all out of his own wallet.At the time, they were making a down payment of about 7 million and the rest was a loan. Now it looks like they can get a loan from a small amount each month, and since we had kids, the "don't let it affect our current lifestyle" part was huge for me as a wife.

I guess.

I'll share the process with my wife.

To tell you the truth, I was not present at the scene of my husband's purchase of the Boxster GTS, and he went alone and made the decision by himself. I had not even met the dealer's representative at that point in time. Nevertheless, he had no objection to my decision to buy a Porsche.He shared the process of buying the Porsche with his wife."I think it is from

You don't buy a Porsche as a car that only you enjoy.We could ride together.We work together to come up with specifications andImagine life after you buy...I was honestly glad that he involved his wife in that way.

I was with you at the Porsche dealership when you took delivery of the car.(The Boxster is a two-seater, so I believe we left the kids at daycare on Saturday and headed out as a couple.)I'm going to buy a Porsche someday! It was a moving moment for me to witness the fulfillment of my 20-year dream of "buying a Porsche someday! It was a manual car, so it stalled the moment we left the dealership (explosion), but at that moment, from the bottom of my heartCongrats on your husband getting a Porsche!"I thought.

Thinking about this, I said to my husband the other day, "Fatty was so good at laying the groundwork for the Porsche purchase, wasn't he?

'That's right! I'm serious about this one.

He said. Well... if you really try, you can do most things (laughs).