I love me some white gas. I collect old Coleman lanterns and every now and then I'll pick up a stove as well (in the Coleman collecting world, people who collect stove are "Stovies" and are thought of as a little bit odd.) Cruise your local garage sales in Summer time, or look on Craigslist and you can pick up a barely used Coleman white gas stove for a song. I paid $5 for a near-new 413H from about 1972 (Coleman products normally have the month and year of production on the bottom.) Also $5 for a white gas lantern with a case (a 288, pretty run-of-the mill but it works fine.)
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For camping with the trailer, though, I wimp out an use propane. It's just easier and less messy. Since we have a 20lb propane tank on the trailer I always carry an adapter that lets me use my Camp Chef propane stove on the 20lb tank, but we carry the little 1lb disposable bottles too.
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One thing I like about white gas is that in terms of how much energy you can carry in a small space, it beats propane gas by a wide margin. A week-long trip where I'm cooking breakfast and dinner normally takes at least 2 full 1lb propane tanks. But a small 1 liter bottle of white gas will be more than enough fuel for a liquid gas stove (especially if I fill the tank of the stove before I leave.)
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I hate the smell of white gas, though, it gives me a headache so if I carry a white gas stove it goes on the roof.
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As for modern Propane stoves, I presume they're all made in the same cheap Chinese factory, so just get whichever one appeals to you and fits your budget and figure that if you get a couple of years out of it you're doing good.
