More affluent women splurging on high-end performance cars
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SINGAPORE: Forget designer shoes and handbags. More affluent women in the Asia Pacific region are splurging instead on high-end performance cars.
The world of hot wheels is no longer just for the men.
Meet business consultant Nguyen Tuyet, who drives a Porsche 911-GT3, a street legal race car.
She has even beaten men with her super fast timings on the Formula One Spa Track in Belgium.
Nguyen said: "I was always interested in driving fast. I would prefer to go for a driver training or go for a tracking in Europe than buy a handbag."
She also disclosed how fast a motorist can easily chalks up.
Nguyen said: "On a straight (road), you can reach 300. That's the thing about women. We don't check the absolute speed. We drive and we just want it to be smooth."
Rich women buying luxury fast cars is the latest trend throughout the Asia Pacific, especially China, where women make up one-third of Maserati sales.
And two in 10 Ferrari buyers are female.
In Singapore, women bought nearly 30 percent of the 300 Porsches sold in the first half of 2011.
Christer Ekberg, Managing Director of Porsche Asia Pacific, said: "Female drivers appreciate different things. We do a lot of collaborations and joint venture activities with other companies that cater to female customers.
"We even have customers who want their car, the interior leather of the car, in the same colour as their favourite lipstick or their favourite handbag."
Porsche expects the female market share to grow to 40 percent in the next 10 years.
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bought by sugar daddies lah is it ?
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They know how to park backside in first or not? They know how to tear parking coupons? Flat tyre call tow truck?
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don't demean women like that lah....................
they know how to offer their backsides for doggy-style can liao what....................
they know how to tear their thongs off hor liao mah.................
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Why hasn't any of them come up with a hot pink Ferrari!!
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aiyoh...................terrible lah..................
there are too many Enzos around plus a number crashed and burned..............
i think there are replica kit versions of Enzo...................
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Originally posted by Susanteo2011:
aiyoh...................terrible lah..................
there are too many Enzos around plus a number crashed and burned..............
i think there are replica kit versions of Enzo...................
replica kits.......fitted on a daihatsu charade?
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Haha, probably to make up for their small breasts. Oh wait...
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Originally posted by Loor:
replica kits.......fitted on a daihatsu charade?boh lah................not so jialat lah...............
at least mah Corolla...............