Hoping for a Yellow Jolt

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WeeYari, hats off to you for rocking the yellow. The car in those pictures looks fantastic; is it yours? Bright yellow is a fast color. It goes really well with those mods.

The yellow Toyota used isn't a fast color. I'd call it a happy color, like something you'd see on a VW Bus. I still like it.



I don't think a more vivid yellow would have improved sales any. Hardly anyone buys colors anymore. Up until ten years ago, the top four colors across the globe were mostly all colors. Even brown was more popular than white or grey, for three decades! But, over the past ten years, black, white, and grey have moved all the colors out of the top 3. I had a link to a graphic that showed the top colors over the past 60 years, but my post was insta-deleted when I tried to post it. I was amazed to see that green was the most popular color for several years in the '90's. I love green. Good luck finding a green car anymore.

Originally Posted by CTScott

There are a few of us on here who have done transmission conversions. On the Yaris it is really not that hard to do, particularly if you can track down a wrecked one to swap the parts over from.

I'm sure that would be easier & cheaper than a (proper) re-paint, but more trouble than I'd like to go though. I know on the Metro, switching from the awful 3-speed automatic to a manual involves an ECU and wiring harness swap, along with a few other little details. I'd rather wait. I'll find one... someday...