I never noticed this thread before. Ok, let me say, that the best car I have owned to date was a 1993 Toyota Corolla. It was white. I don't plan to ever buy another car that isn't white.
I sold that Corolla to a friend in 1997 because I wasn't driving it any more since purchasing the most fun car I have ever owned, a 1997 Mustang GT convertible. White of course!
It's an interesting story of how I bought the stang. I had just broken up with my girlfriend and was pretty depressed. I was living in West Palm Beach FL at the time. To get over my depression and get me out of the house, I thought it would be fun to go look at cars. I had absolutely zero intent of buying one though. And I thought, since I am not going to buy a car, why not just look at fun cars...cars I would not even consider buying? So, I test drove a Porsche Boxter, a BMW Z3, a Toyota Cellica GT, a Mitsubishi 3000GT, a Nissan 300Z, and I can't remember what else. Over the week or two I was looking at cars, I had already accepted a new job back in Atlanta, and would be moving to ATL in a week. One day I dropped by the Ford dealer to drive a Mustang. I wanted to drive an automatic transmission because I really didn't like driving manuals. I was very uncomfortable with the Z3 shifting. Unfortunately [well not for the salesman], they only had a manual in the V8 available. I was about a block down the road from the dealership when I asked the salesman how quickly he could get me one in white because I was moving in 5 days. That salesman puttzed around for 2 days. I don't know what he was waiting for...I had told him I was moving in 5. So, I found another salesman on the third day. He found one for me in Clearwater and had it driven to West Palm Beach on the fourth day when I picked it up. I moved the next day.
I was really bummed though because I couldn't get it back to ATL like I planned. I still owned the Corolla. So my plan was to tow the stang to ATL on the back of the moving truck and fly back to pick up the Corolla the next weekend. However, the crappy tow trailer the rental agency finally got me, 4 hours later than they were supposed to have it mind you, was messed up at the rear and had some ripped metal that was sticking up. Because of the low front air dam of the stang, I couldn't get it on the trailer and had to tow the Corolla back instead, leaving my brand new stang sitting unattended at my previous apartment complex. When I got to Atlanta early the next morning after driving all night, my buddy said there was no way he would leave a new stang sitting in FL for a week unattended. He scared me enough and offered to fly down with me to help drive it back because I was so sleepy. Keep in mind I was on zero sleep at this point. So we flew to WPB and picked up the stang when my friend says, how far are we from Miami? Realizing I didn't have to be at my new job for a couple days, and when was the next time I was going to be an hour from Miami with a convertible, we headed to Miami. We spent about 2 hours there and headed back. I was severely sleep deprived by this point and I don't really remember much. What I do remember was 'flying' back to Atlanta on the Florida turnpike. I remember going *** mph at some points. I don't know what we were thinking. But man, that car was fast, and it felt fast!
I traded the stang for an Acura TL in 2000. That car was not white and will be the last non-white car I plan to buy. The Acura was not a very good car for me, and I traded it this past April for a 2006 Toyota Camry, probably the smartest car I have bought to date. The 2007s were out and I got a great deal on it. And, it is white!
*** - Edited for legal purposes. Notice it was 3 asterisks though.
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