Where better to test drive a new Porsche than along hundreds of miles of summer greenery-draped German country roads and famously speed-limitless German “Autobahns” [motorways]? I have long dreamed the Porsche-lover’s dreams of poetic rides. So when Ghada el-Kari, public relations manager for Porsche Middle East Dubai, suggests I to test-drive the new Porsche 911 Carrera 4S Cabriolet at its press launch in Germany my Porschophile pulse leaps off the chart. I’m not an automotive journalist. My invitation to what Ghada explains will be a veritable Porsche gala is the product of Porsche’s decision to give its brand greater exposure in business magazines – read by people with a high propensity to spend. Three weeks later, the Lufthansa plane is touching down in Cologne, Germany, center of the Porsche universe. And only a few hours after that I’m already enveloped by the sleek twin-tone grained-leather interior of the new Carrera
