I am sure Toyota didn’t intend it to be like that, but as things turned out they delivered a spanking new Toyota Camry Automatic in Beige Mica metallic to my house on New Year’s eve. I called up and cross-checked – it was indeed our test car, and I could have it for a week. Brilliant! A nice plush automobile to forget 2004 and usher in 2005. If I hadn’t sinned enough in my last life, it could have been Porsche sending a metallic silver Carrera GT for a smooth cross-over, but then a Camry Automatic in hand is better than two GTs in the bush, right? Needless to say I was a happy and content man, since there is nothing better to welcome a new year than a new car with that all-important new car smell.
Of course, I ferried my family and neighbours to a small New Year party, drove it first thing on New Year’s day and drove it to office on the first working day of 2005. I decided to have some more fun and subjected it to a proper road test. I am telling you, as a transition vehicle, the Camry was simply outstanding.
Then I got bored with it. You see, it was too perfect an auto to spend much more time than a week. It did everything oh-so-well that I am worried I won’t have much work to do throughout the new year. Worse still, I am worried that I will sleep through most of my driving in 2005.
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