For my 50th birthday, I bought a Toyota Corolla. 1 Wait. Did this guy really pick both the BEST-SELLING and MOST-BORING model of all time as his mid-life crisis car? Well, yes. And no. My gift to myself was a GR Corolla. It is polar cap white with gloss black Enkei wheels. Flared wheel wells give it a muscular silhouette. There’s a black spoiler in the back and in the front, a bulged hood with two black vents that make it snort like an angry bull when I accelerate. And yes I have “modded” it, or in layman’s terms, modified the stock components and tuned the engine. This is a major allure of Japanese import car culture and something Asian Americans are taught from birth: With hard work and ingenuity , you can become better. So far I’ve: Added rain guard visors for all the windows. Installed a JBL amplifier and subwoofer. Spaced the wheels out with H&R spacers and lowered it on RS-R springs. But the biggest modification was installing a Borla ATAK catback exhaust.…