Just bought my 53 MR2 Mk3 a few weeks ago and I cant stop driving it. In the looks department its pretty cool, with a factory fitted T.T.E pack which includes a big chrome roll over bar, side and rear skirts, twin chrome exhausts, also includes a matching hard top which gives it a smooth coupe look when its fitted. Red leather seats and black 5 spoke alloys finish it off nicely. All round its a neat little two seater. Performance...now this is where it gets really interesting. The MR2 only has a 1.8 cc engine lifted straight out of the Toyota Celica, where to be honest its a pretty uninspiring lump of do do's but.... put it into a car weighing less than 1000 kg and its a different matter all together. This VVTi alloy block 4 cyl engine will rev until it wets its pants, pushing the car forward in an every increasing surge of naughtiness. marry that to just about the best handling of any mid engined two seater on the road and you have a sports car that will make you giggle even before you turn the key. The twin exhausts just make you want to blip the throttle just to hear the music that comes from somewhere behind your left ear. Drop the easy to handle rag top which folds neatly into the space behind the seats and you are in motoring heaven. Practical it is not, with only two small cubbys behind the seats and an even smaller space under the front hood this aint no load hauler, but if that's what you want then buy a van. This is a small two seat fun monkey, bags of sillyness and cheap as chips to buy, own, and keep. I also owned one of the fastest production bikes in the world and since buying the 2 I haven't ridden it once. People get one of these you will not regret it.

Got the Toyota MR2 back in 2001 (rev 3 gts hard top) 34k on the clock, px old MK1 for it, the best decision I have ever made, a car that simply makes you want to drive for the sheer hell of it, a car that confused the hell outta some bloke in his Evolution iv as to why he couldnt pass me....40% hike in power perhaps??? Noble M12 for me next I think or NSX type R.

I waited 12 weeks for a yellow Toyota MR2. Faults from day 1. Toyota dealership utterly useless. Car now unsafe to drive thanks to Toyota inefficiency. Cannot sell it for what I owe on the finance. Avoid Toyota finance deals and their cars like the plague.