James Foxall is 55 and likes cars. Now that his daughter no longer needs support he doesn’t have the pressure to be a responsible adult any more. He is embracing his twenty something self, but wants everybody to know it is nothing to do with mid-life crisis. Honestly. He’s not having a mid-life crisis.
Foxall is a journalist for a national newspaper so needs to convince everyone that it is perfectly rational of him to buy a Porsche. He goes to the effort of describing the technical specifications as if buying it was a bit of homework. He even adds in a bit of padding about what a mid-life crisis is in his article.
Posing next to the white Porsche Booster in a bright shirt, desert boots and a jacket he looks every inch the epitome of mid-life crisis as he tries to channel the spirit of his twenty year old self.
While we are on the topic of sports cars it seems that there might be something to the old adage that the owners are ‘compensating for something’. There’s no suggestion that this is the case for Foxall’s perfectly reasonable need to buy a sports car.
Sport cars: proof they are compensating for something