Avoiding the "Taxi-Look"

[dr. d]

wala kang magagawa... talagang mukhang taxi naman talaga, e.
perhaps if you keep the paintjob clean and shiny...
and keep all doors locked, at baka na lang may biglang pumasok at papuntahin ka sa molopisya..
at tanggalin mo kaya yung toplight..
mag-hintay ka na lang ng 2 years.. by then, illegal na yan gawing taxi..
heh heh.

but hey! seriously, i do not mind if my car looks like a taxi.. my colleagues do not mind.. and neither should you.
drive well and arrive well.

[oj88]

I think that arriving to that conclusion (that it looks like a taxi) was not meant to be mean spirited. It's just the way it is.

If you're bent on changing that image, change the color. If not, just accept the fact that it will, on occasion, gets mistaken for a taxi or a rent-a-car.

I have an associate who drives a white Corolla LE. He's quite comfortable with it that he's even the one that started bringing up the fact that he gets flagged down by unsuspecting commuters almost everyday. He even joked about that the 'LE' meant 'Low End'.

Anyway, don't worry. Just flip it around and use the situation as an ice breaker.