My first car was a bay-poop brown 1987 Ford Taurus. A real tank of a car. It got terrible fuel mileage, it was slow, looked like.... well... sh!t, had a tendency to crap out on me from time to time, and it swayed like a boat around corners.....
....god, I miss that car.
Traded it in towards my mom's new Sorento (I think it is an '05). She then gave me her '04 Optima LX. I drove the LX for a while. Then one day, after a long lecture in one of my classes (which I slept through mostly), I fell asleep at the wheel on the way home and a truck ran over my car. A pic of my car is in my avatar.
I took my insurance check and found a great deal on my current '04 Optima EX V6. Only $7,000 and it had less than 10,000 miles on it! Too bad it has a salvaged title, though... I don't have the 60,000 mile warranty now.
- Tum