[Sethomas]

Yeah, but I didn't feel like answering it at the time. You asked what kind it is, right?

My new car is a 2000 Chrysler Sebring JXI Limited. We still don't know how to describe the color. It was listed as "brown", which I'm confident prevented the auction from going up several hundreds and perhaps thousands of dollars more, but it's actually a nice tone of copper-ish.

Chrysler is the same as every other nominally American car company in most regards other than financial success, but in recent years it's taken to the marketing strategy of pretending like it's European in style. Their biggest success seems to be the 300, which was designed on the assumption that Americans are dumb enough to regularly mistake them for Bentleys. As a result, I would imagine that people stopped buying Bentleys here for the shame in having them mistaken for Chryslers.

The Sebring model is Chrysler's reaction to the Ford Taurus, which is to say a horrifically bland car that actualizes a typical mid-lifer's realization that he cannot afford a sufficiently vain crisis.

The JXI indicate by some arcane logic that the car is not only a convertible, but the "I" tells that it is a "sports" model of convertible. This is evidenced by the leather seats.

The final "Limited" addendum tells that it's even sportier than the standard Sebring JX and even the elite JXI. I guess that explains the hilarious alloy wheels and the sound system that will likely see to a sharp reduction in the range of pitch and volume in my hearing. Also, the "Limited" addendum indicates that the gear shift includes an extra function that allows you to pretend like it's a manual transmission.

It's funny that I ended up with this car, because in terms of my finances, pragmatic ability to pick it up, and basic wants it was the best choice. Yet, it also included a huge number of bonuses beyond these that include the kind of thing that I typically make fun of people for electing--a ridiculously powerful sound system and deluxe wheels that are in themselves probably worth (to people who give more of a shit than I) almost what I paid for the whole car. As a result, I'm mainly pleased with myself for having made a good investment in that I could probably hold onto it for two years, add thousands of miles to the odometer, and still sell it locally at a very nice profit. As it stands, the fact that I neurotically investigated the market for weeks before buying a car 800 miles away let me get it for just over half of its market value. Maybe when the weather is nicer you can expect a photo of car and driver in full sexiness.