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Both my parents were born in Germany and came to the US, when they were five years old. They spoke German to each other but not with us kids.
Now, I got my first job out of school and bought a Porsche. My father called it a cock wagon. While this term is sometimes used in English (see here and here), I do not think that he meant this but rather was translating a German word.
What word could this be?
I think what your father was getting at was the German word Schwanzersatz, penis substitute. It is a fairly common expression of envy to suggest that someone with a Porsche has a small penis, and tries to compensate with a fast/flashy car, to attract women, of course.
A different term used in a similar way would be Aufreißerwagen, where aufreißen means to catch the attention of someone, in a romantic or sexual way.
There is no similar sounding German expression that would fit to the context your father gave.
Sometimes we refer to over-designed sports cars owned by a certain male population as Potenzschlitten in colloquial slang. This may come close to the English term.
A better accepted not so rude term would be Angeberauto:
Die futuristische Version vom Angeberauto: ein Lamborghini Aventador Roadster.Focus
4er BMW: Angeberautofaz
"Schwanzverlängerung".
This translates to "cock extension" and is one of the more commonly heard phrases to convey what the OP was asking for.
May be you would better not have been asking. I can tell you the answer if you don’t be afraid to hear it.
(Probably you won’t drive your Porsche again without becoming blush for shame and you might think about of rather selling it. But not to me.)
We have a perfect term that names it well and brings the things to the point!
When we are overtaken on driving by a porsche and he speeds off my wife uses to say to me:
”E lueg doch mal, das Schnäbi!” (Hey, look at this pretty little cock)
(Whereby Schnäbi means in German “Schnäbelein” or better “Schnäbelchen” which is the diminutive of “Schnabel” and names the little pecker of a boy! The pecker ...of which is to say: the pecker is the opposite end of a cock, as if the tail of a cock is -let’s say the left end, that’s also called cock, then the pecker is the right end of a cock, what doesn’t mean that a cock has two cocks! Perhaps “pecker” is a little too big to translate “Schnäbelein”, as this might rather fit for a wren, let’s say a speckle-breasted wren, or a black-bellied wren, or may be better a bar-winged wood-wren, or even better a chestnut-banded wren, no: a happy wren! That’s it! Perhaps you prefer to look up yourself all the wrens and decide which one might fit as the best. And don’t forget to spelling the latin names as there are pheugopedius sclateri, thyrothorus fasciathoventris, henicorhina leucoptera etcetera,etcetera ... you have to learn them all by heart!
https://www.dict.cc/?s=Zaunk%C3%B6nig
Mind: Most important is, it has to be a very, very little bird! The most pretty little bird of all!)
But when my wife gets really very, very angry and upset about an overtaking porsche driver she is insulting and offending: “So-ne Gigu!”
(what means exactly what you are looking for!)
And now I need a cock-tail!
I think I have to stop now ere they are going to on hold my answer - calling me an “Unhold”!
