You really don't know how a car drives until you run it in both good weather and bad. Sunday cruises are fun, but motoring to the airport at 3:58 am the following Monday is often more educational. And nothing beats loading it up with a trunk full of groceries or wheeling it around with a hatch full of dogs to determine just how practical it really is.
You'd be amazed what a few minutes behind the wheel can do to change your tolerance for questionable aesthetics. Now, when it comes to color, white over black is about as basic as you can get, and given my druthers, I'd have gone for the Phytonic Blue Metallic. Again, though, it didn't take me long to get used to the Stormtrooper color scheme, and now I kind of like it. On the inside, I'd have gone with Mocha, but even in black, I adore the interior of the iX.