Porsche: Sorry, dear men
PASSION With the Porsche Ladies Club, five Swiss women have founded the world's first Porsche club for women. Not as a feminist act or to build a business network, but out of pure joy.
Whoever claims that Porsche sports cars are mainly men's cars should stick their nose in the history book again. The first person to buy a Porsche production car in 1949 was a Swiss woman. Jolantha Maria Tschudi from Zurich (gallery), record holder for a 5,000-metre take-off altitude in gliding and co-pilot on risky African expeditions, wanted a vehicle that was as extraordinary as she was. She found what she was looking for in the Porsche 356/2 Cabriolet with Beutler bodywork.
A track day was the beginning
The question that arises in connection with the new Porsche Ladies Club should be: Why did it take almost 75 years for this to happen? When a number of Swiss women met for a track day at the race track in Franciacorta, Italy, in August 2022 - many of them for the second or even third year in a row - they had no idea that they would soon become pioneers. They simply enjoyed the friendly atmosphere.
All age groups are represented
Manuela Cottiati, with petrol in her blood since she was allowed on the racetrack with her godfather as a little girl, lives in Freiamt in the canton of Aargau and drives both a 911 Carrera S and a 911 GT3. She took matters into her own hands. It didn't take much convincing to get the others excited about the idea of a club for women.
With Karin Strasser, Caroline Studer, Ouchj Buck Maurer and Ami Heiniger, the club was founded on January 23, 2023 and licensed by Porsche on May 15, 2023. It turned out to be the very first women-only club out of over 700 official Porsche Clubs worldwide, including 32 in Switzerland alone. Today, the Porsche Ladies Club already has 26 members. All of them drive one or more sports cars with the Stuttgart emblem on the hood and cover all age groups between 20 and 70.
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