Even as a teenager, she had a soft spot for extraordinary cars. Taylor is delighted by the thumbs-up, the oohs and aahs she registers as she swishes through the streets of Los Angeles in her Porsche. Above all, it’s all about the fun of driving. Which might explain why she bought a matching Porsche Design handbag for one or another of her sports cars. She’s more of an extrovert, always wanting to be a bit different than the others, she says. Lisa Taylor can’t exactly say where her love of bright paint jobs comes from. Taking the new car straight to the hardest of all racetracks? “It all turned out well,” says Taylor as she caresses the car’s deep-violet roof. Where she promptly bolted Ame through the “Green Hell” at up to 260 kmh. “We picked it up at the plant in Leipzig and then zipped straight down the autobahn to the Nürburgring,” gushes Taylor. Taylor has particularly nice memories with that one. The 911 GT2 RS in Voodoo Blue is called Vudi the Maritime Blue GT3 goes by Mari the 2019 GT3 RS model in Racing Yellow is Bumble Bee and her 911 Turbo S in Amethyst Metallic bears the moniker Ame. So each nickname is also a play on the respective model’s color. There are just too many of them for that. When Lisa and partner Tom are considering which car they should drive next, simply saying “let’s take the Porsche today” doesn’t do the trick. It therefore comes as no surprise to find a bevy of potent RS and Turbo models in her garage.īack in the day, she says, she used to chuckle over people who gave their cars names, but nowadays she does it herself. Today, Taylor indulges her passion for speed in autocross races and as a certified Porsche driving instructor, among other amusements. “I traded in my horses for Porsches-it’s safer,” she says with a grin. For several years she ran a successful stud farm, but after a riding accident in which she broke an arm and hip, Taylor bade farewell to the world of horse racing. Her estate is named for it: Flying L Ranch. Taylor bought her first horse, named Lawai, in Hawaii in 2002 and had it flown to California. Where rows of gleamingly polished Porsche gems in Star Ruby, Maritime Blue, and Racing Yellow now stand, stately purebreds once awaited their next race.
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Lisa Taylor loves old manual transmissions, Porsche, and vivid colors, if you please: “The paint has to match the character of the model.” A strapping sports car in a mousy gray? Not in a million years would such a thing find its way into her “barnage,” as she calls her repurposed stable.
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