Drive And Let Drive

Our senior writer’s love for driving will never die, but when it comes to the office commute, he would rather be driven than do the driving himself.

- Jeremy Chua

TWO years ago, I test-drove a Porsche Cayman GTS and spent the next few weeks gushing about my experience.

Anyone who asked me about the car had to spend the next five (okay, 10) minutes hearing about how loud and raunchy the exhaust note sounded.

They also had to listen to me go on about how the naturally aspirated flat-6 engine made my chest vibrate each time my foot touched the throttle.foot touched the throttle. One day, after I had told yet another motoring journalist about this, he asked: “Can you actually drive that car to work every day and still get a kick out of the whole chestshaking thing?”

My first instinct was to reply: “Hell yeah!”

But my mind paused to consider the question. My friend, waiting for my reply, heard me say “Hmm…” instead.

We changed the subject and I don’t remember what else we discussed. I do recall, however, that I spent at least a week pondering this query.

In the end, I concluded that in all likelihood, I wouldn’t be able to drive a Cayman GTS to work every day and not tire of it.