Hi guys, im new to this forum as i just got my first car. i am 17 years old and just recently got a 2000 corolla. I want to do various hings to this car but wwant to know if it's worth it. The first thing is that this car is wine red and i think that its horrible, so i need to paint it black, that costs a lot of money. Plus all the body kit, and accesories i want to get for it. The other option is to just save or a while and get an eclipse or prelude in like a year. What do you think i should do in this case??Eclipse and prelude look better than corolla and can be turbocharged, but corolla i have it now......  

i dont think investing in a corolla is a good idea,its a 4 door AND has a small engine (125 hp lol) if i were u i would sell it and buy the turbocharged eclipse or prelude (the prelude would be more expensive i think)  

yea totally sell it...get a GSX if u can, Preludes r cool 2 but its easier to find parts for eclipses.  

KEEP the Corolla, keep it bone stock and LEARN HOW TO ARAB DRIFT!!!!! Isn't that what they always use, late model corollas? HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

But anyway, a piece of advice from me is to never paint a newer car a different color just cause it doesn't look good. You don't want to pay all the money to strip the engine bay to have it painted, plus inside the door sills will be a different color so it will look tacky, cheap and most importantly selling it will be hard because the buyer will look at it and think the car was wrecked, hence the new paint job. (Unless you are building a full show car and can afford to paint the engine bay don't worry about it)

Imagine everyone knowing you as the crazy guy in the stupid RED corolla who can pull the sickest street drifts! hahaha

*PS don't even think of learning to arab drift on the freeways here, if you wanna do it, go to Saudi Arabia or something because if you kill someone there America won't care, killing Arabs is our new pastime.. (haha I am not an anti-war person, I just took that qoute from a George Carlin CD)  

Keep the corolla. It's a good starter car.

It's pretty much a 100% guarantee that you'll crash your first car, so why not crash a cheap corolla? I bought my sister the same exact car a year ago for about 3000, and it's been great to her. She doesn't have to pay alot for gas, it's got a decent speaker system, power windows/locks/steering, air bags for when she crashes it, and it's not too poewrful.

Trust me, you don't want a fast car when you're young. You're thinking it'll get you into womens panties faster but the only place you'll be going faster to is either jail, or the cemetary.

Drive until your insurance rates go down, and in the mean time, save up for a car you really want. Any wise teenager follows that structure and sticks to it. I did, and it got me the car I wanted. I started off with a 2001 Civic EX, which isn't by any means a bad car, but it certainly wasn't fast or an eye catcher. It got me from A to B until I could put a hefty down-payment on my 2006 Si, and now I'm happy as *** because my EX got ran into twice instead of my Si because I waited.  

My first car was a '89 Dodge Colt (not the turbo, mind you). My dad picked it up for like $500 with 30k miles. I fixed that heap up to where it looked like a decent car. I was gonna swap the 4G63, but the swap is much easier in a factory turbo colt, so I ended up just getting my first nice/fast car a few years later, 1990 Eagle Talon Tsi! Lots of good memories in my first car, even though it was a cheap car.