Cheaper Style

I guess I’ve always been something of a gear head. In high school I envied the people who had their own cars, and I worked during the summer and after school until I could afford my own. A friend of mine got a car right around the same time as I did. He got a BMW and I got a used Toyota. I know what you’re thinking. But it was only three years old, and with all the money I saved, compared to him; I bought a lot of Toyota accessories. Sure it was still a Toyota and not a BMW, but it actually looked pretty gnarly. It was a blank canvas in my hands. And by the time we were seniors his BMW was a couple years old anyway, too. Today you can get any Toyota parts you can imagine online. I guess the point of the story I’m trying to make is that people get too caught up in labels and image. All it takes is a few television advertisements to make us drink Coke and disdain the generic equivalent that taste the same. That said, I’d like to make one final, ironic comment: be sure to find genuine Toyota parts and not low-quality imitations.