Either way she looked amazing…

Posted on 25. Mar, 2009 by PB in 911

Pulled up to a set of traffic lights this morning and a Red 911 Turbo pulled up right behind me. sounded amazing, a slightly electronic rumbling noise.

‘Grrrr...pssccchhht’…you know the sound. Something about the noise a Turbo makes that just instils a sense of power and speed. Even when just idling.

Okay...so far, not exactly worthy of a post, but bare with me!

I looked in my mirror and the driver looked mid 30's with long hair, and shock-horror....a woman! Who would have though it?!?

Why this seems so unusual I'm not entirely sure. It's fairly common to see female Boxster drivers I guess?

She looked pretty cool sitting low down in the Turbo, shades on, grey business suit, and tapping along to some music. No doubt some really cool music I've never heard of. Her window was down slightly and I’m convinced I could hear Abba, but we'll move on.

The Turbo comes across as quite a masculine car, so seeing a woman in control of it was something of an unexpected revelation.

I used to drive an mx5..I know I know 'hair dressers car'. It was an amazing driving experience to be honest and gave me the rear wheeled drive bug. I would buy one again...I figured the Mx5 was a female car...a 'she' or 'her'.

So is a 911 male or female? A 997 Targa would be female (imho). But a Turbo? Probably male? Or a fiery red headed female? Does it depend on the colour?

This all got me thinking and a carrying on down the road I was overtaken by a Scooby WRX. 'Arg...annoying. Why, oh why, do their owners need to be so aggressive...bl**dy Subaru drivers...oh wait. Another woman driver. Good for her...floor it! …after you – I insist!'.

So a male driving a Scooby = annoying, woman driving a Scooby = cool. Now I'm confusing myself. Does the key to not looking like a berk involve own a car with the opposite sex as you? After all a Subaru is surely male?

Either way she looked amazing...the Turbo of course!

Tags: 911 Turbo, 996 Turbo, Porsche Turbo