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Two Engines Equals Twice As Good: Toyota MR2olla!
The crazy thing about 24 Hours of LeMons racers is that they actually follow through with their terrible ideas. Maybe it’s the urgency of the deadline, or maybe it’s the peer pressure to keep...
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And The Winner Is…
On paper, the Toyota MR2 should be an excellent choice for a low-buck endurance racer… but 24 Hours of LeMons racing has a way of shattering such preconceptions like a connecting rod hurtling through...
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Twin-Engined Toyota Racer Works Fine, Confounds Self-Proclaimed Experts
“How will you sync the engines?” whined the naysayers when they heard about the plan to weld an ’89 Corolla front half to an ’87 MR2 rear half. “How will you cool it? The handling will be terrible!...
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I Must Say, Sir, Your Ferrari 360 Sounds Suspiciously Like A Toyota
Perhaps inspired by my recent TTAC fiction piece The little death, I was idly shopping for 360 Modenas on eBay this morning when I came across this little gem. Obviously, it’s not a real 360… but it’s...
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Toyota MR2: Fear the Robot Eagle!
Members of the MR2 Jihad generally refer to the creature on the hood emblems of their cars as the “Screaming Eagle,” but I say it’s a stoic, tight-beaked Robot Eagle. I hadn’t paid much attention to...
View ArticleDigestible Collectible: 1988 Toyota MR2 Supercharged
Salt is a killer. Any time I travel south, I’m amazed when I see pristine, 30-year-old cars being used as daily transportation. Up here in the Great White North [Don’t you live in Ohio? —Mark], most...
View ArticleDigestible Collectible: 1991 Toyota MR2 Turbo
Based on pageviews, you guys didn’t particularly love Wednesday’s Ferrari. So, let us consider something at twenty percent of the price, but with maybe 85 percent of the performance: Toyota MR2 Turbo:...
View ArticleAce of Base Redux: 1989 Toyota MR2
On occasion, Ace of Base will scour the web for the details and minutiae of a ride from the past that we feel fits the Ace of Base ethos. This is one of those cars. Offered in naturally aspirated and...
View ArticleJunkyard Find: 1986 Toyota MR2
The Toyota MR2 has always been a somewhat rare Junkyard Find, partly because not many were sold in the first place, and partly because the surviving examples tend to be cherished by MR2 enthusiasts....
View ArticleBuy/Drive/Burn: Affordable Convertibles From 2005
This edition of Buy/Drive/Burn was inspired by the comments some of you left on the recent QOTD Crapwagon Garage post on coupes. Though roadsters and convertibles were off limits there, the...
View ArticleToyota’s Sports Coupe Ambition Doesn’t End With the Supra
At Toyota all eyes remain on the upcoming Supra — a long-departed model returning to the automotive landscape with some help from BMW. The Supra, however, isn’t exactly a sports car for the masses. No...
View ArticleToyota Mulling a Return of the MR2
Starting with the introduction of the 86 (Scion FR-S in North America) in 2012, Toyota began spicing up a brand viewed as being more synonymous with bulletproof reliability than fun. While this...
View ArticleRetiree Trades Quintet of Toyota MR2s for One Mazda MX-5
Last week, a retired college professor walked into Missouri’s Coad Toyota with an interesting proposal. He was willing to part with five first-generation Toyota MR2s as a trade-in for a gently used...
View ArticleJunkyard Find: 2001 Toyota MR2 Spyder
It took a while for the 2000-2005 Toyota MR2 Spyder to start showing up in the big self-service wrecking yards I visit, but depreciation finally caught up with the final generation of Mister Two. I...
View ArticleRare Rides: An Original 1988 Toyota MR2 – the Supercharged One
The mid-engine MR2 started out strong in the Eighties, but ended its life in the new century with a quiet, blob-shaped whimper. Today we take a look at the best of type — it’s a first generation...
View ArticlePiston Slap: TPS, IAC, VTV…WTF?
Jeremy writes: Hey Sajeev, Long time reader, first time writer; I finally have an issue I can’t seem to figure out and was hoping you can help. I have a supercharged 89 Toyota MR2 I bought a couple...
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