Noun: "(informal) male mid-life crisis or andropause, especially the type that manifests in attempts to reclaim lost youth, such as buying a sports car"
The latest word in motoring circles is that misguided chaps in the 50-plus range who climb into these low-slung chariots are going through the menoporsche.
1997 — The Gains of Listening: Perspectives on Counseling at Work (ed. Colin Feltham), Open University Press (1997), →ISBN:
The amusing term 'menoporsche' has been coined for those who feel a sudden need to purchase and drive fast cars designed to deny the reality of the ageing process.
2005 — Shari Rudavsky, "Manopause", Indianapolis Star, 14 March 2005:
Some doctors believe that midlife crises often stem from men's waning testosterone levels. Dr. Harry Fisch, a New York physician and author of the "Male Biological Clock," drolly refers to the phenomenon as "menoporsche," noting that testosterone treatment may prove a better antidote for the condition than the purchase of a new sports car.
A man in a Porsche has become a bit of a cliché (you mean you've never heard of the male menoporsche?), but there is no denying that cars can help a man's sex appeal.
The mystery here is, why do these powerful, older, wealthy men want to leave their wives and marry their mistresses during what the writer Evans has christened the "male menoporsche"?
The menoporsche it is mockingly termed, when existential panic grips, leading a man to rail against the decline of his youth by growing a ponytail, harbouring inappropriate thoughts about younger female colleagues, and buying a powerful American motorbike.
Noun: "(informal) a sports car bought by a man during a mid-life crisis"
Of the flashy car that middle-aged men of the northern suburbs have taken to buying? A menoporsche.
1986 — Iain Johnstone, "Film Review: Death in a French ditch", The Sunday Times, 11 May 1986:
Take that away and the age-old problem of a young woman having an affair with an older married man (who tellingly drives a meno-Porsche), although approached with some insight from the girl's point of view, continues to remain insoluble.
2004 — Antony Mason & Marina Muratore, The Bluffer's Guide to Men and Women, Oval Books (2004), →ISBN, page 45:
At the onset of their mid-life crisis, along with the desire to recapture their lost youth, comes a yearning for the sexy, sleek, high-performance car of their dreams — the menoporsche.
