I'm too tired to write about cars today. It took me "hella" long to create that article yesterday. stupid picture links. Stupid internet. Damn it. Someone buy me a first generation turbo eclipse all wheel drive and you can do whatever you want with me. Whoring me out is an option. You can't even begin to imagine the things i'd do for that car.

I remember the first day that I really got into cars. It was probably after I got bored of the simplicity of driving. From day one, it was simple. I had my license. I had a car. I drive car. Make it go vroom to well above the speed limit and enjoy the adrenaline of speed. But then speeding became the norm.

I've always been into the super cars. Ferarris, Porshes, Vipers, and Mclarens were all things of fantasy to me though. They were things I thought about driving, but I never planned my life around them, knowing they were insanely priced and not exactly reasonable.

One day, while sitting around with my friend from across the street, he starts talking about these little cars that had potential to become super fast. Honda Civics, Toyota Celicas, Acura Integras were all standard cars to me. It wasn't until he showed me a 300 horsepower civic that looked nicer then a porshe 911 did I realize my goal of speed was very well within reach. It was about time for a new car anyway.

I started some basic research, mostly just asking my friend what car he'd think would suit me. One day, we passed a Volkswagon Jetta, and I instantly fell in love with it. At this time, I didn't know what the car could do, or what it could look like, but I guess I just liked european cars (since most of the supercars are european after all).

Then The Fast and the Furious came out, and the world became fanatical about import racing. I was happy too. One of the cars driven by one of the main characters had a Jetta. With my mind now set, I went about trying to convince the parental units that a new car was a good idea. A good idea. Really mom, it's a good idea. I need it, it needs me, we need each other.

No.

Damn it.

The Jetta model that I wanted was a tad bit more then what could be afforded, so i looked for other cars. To summarize, everything that appealed to me seemed to be even MORE expensive then the Jetta. I decided then and there that if i couldn't buy a new car, I would invest money in a used car.

I searched and I found it: Mitsubishi Eclipse. Just like in the movie! (I didn't even know the movie affected me that much). This is when i started to buy import racing magazines too, and saw that the eclipse had a high potential in being a really fast car.

But it turns out that the model I bought was a lower end model that didn't even have the same engine as the ones the magazines talked about. Seriously, leave it to fate to be the one who gives me the hot looking blow up doll of a car. Sure, from far away, it looks like a real woman.. but when you go to grab up on it.. something just isn't right.

Yes, i admit maybe i jumped the gun too much when i decided to buy a new car, but you know, alot of positive things have come out of this. Because I was so forcefully driven (no pun intended) into proving that my car could compete with the big boys, I managed to learn just about everything I could about my car. I'm almost certain that if anything was ever broken in my car besides the engine and transmission, I could fix it, given enough time and with the proper tools.

One interesting thing though... on the irony of wanting the same eclipse as the movie... it turns out that the actual car it was based on is actually the lowest possible trim of the eclipse. Everything else... was just movie magic and exaggerations.