Citations:menoporsche

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"

 * 1987 — Bulletin with Newsweek, Volume 109:
 * 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 9780335192816:
 * 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.
 * 2006 — Helena Frith Powell, Be Incredibly Sexy: A Crash Course in Getting Your Groove On — And Keep It There, Perigee (2006), ISBN 9780399533440, unnumbered page:
 * 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.
 * 2006 — Rachel Johnson, "When tycoons hit the menoporsche", The Telegraph, 18 October 2006:
 * 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"?
 * 2006 — Lise Hand, "Rich men and the mid-wife crisis", Irish Independent, 19 October 2006:
 * Another high-profile victim of the male menoporsche was former chairman of General Electric, Jack Welch.
 * 2010 — Jim White, "Who would be a thirtysomething?", The Telegraph, 30 September 2010:
 * 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"

 * 1985 — Financial Mail, Volume 95, part 3:
 * 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 9781903096307, 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.