Jan 19, 2008 -
I Saw What I Saw
Thursday, January 17, 2008, I saw the new 2009 Toyota Corolla. Instead of affirmation, I got hate from the Edmunds forums, especially from a poster with a host tag who wasn't even host of that particular forum. Well, I learned a long time to pay attention whom to take your orders from; at work just because someone's head of a department doesn't make him YOUR boss. kirstie_h is not the boss of me, nor can she take away what I saw. She can't prove I didn't see the car, and neither can everyone else.
I think it's great that here in Oklahoma City, a place nobody cares about because it's far away from New York City or even Detroit, a charcoal gray metallic 09 Corolla is roaming our streets, albeit with a Texas tag. I'm going to call around to the four Toyota dealers in the area, Bob Howard Toyota, Dub Richardson Toyota, Fowler Toyota, and Hudiburg Toyota, and see which one of them the car was visiting.
The car could have been given to a reporter in order that they can write about it in a New Car Review. I put those together for The Oklahoman, the state's largest newspaper, which means I could be seeing it again soon!
Ah, but it was like a ghost. I was on Santa Fe avenue between 2:30 and 2:45 in the afternoon, on my way back to the Broadway Extension when I saw the back end of a midsize sedan that was decidedly NOT the distinctive rounded back end of the Camry. Maybe in my sights all of ten seconds before I realized what it was, then off on the Kilpatrick entrance ramp and gone.
Can I be sure it was Corolla? The only sure things in life, it seems, is the hateful, self-centeredness of human beings, and the wonderful fact that they, like all the rest of us, will die. But looking at Motor Trend's photos of the 09, especially the rear views, I'm confident I was less than two car lengths from the generation X Corolla.
