All Toyota MR2 reviews

"A car which properly recaptures the carefree uncomplicated spirit of the Eighties original..."

Real roadsters don't need to be powerful to be quick. That's not what makes them fun. The better MGs and Triumph TRs were never awesomely powerful. Nor are the best of today's breed, cars like the Lotus Elise, the Caterham Seven - and the latest Toyota MR2 Roadster. Speed comes through agility instead.

In their original guises of course, original Eighties and Nineties MR2s weren't open-...

When it comes to performance cars, you usually get what you pay for. The market is generally well tuned in to what's the hot ticket and adjusts the price accordingly. Every once in a while, however, a car slips under the mainstream radar. Just such a car is the Toyota MR2 Turbo. Never officially imported to the UK, the MR2 Turbo is probably the biggest performance bargain around. Where else will £3,000 buy you a slinkily styled two seat mid-engined coupe with rear wheel drive, Toyota reliabil...

Some recommendations are easy. If you're after a used roadster that's built from a clean sheet of paper around a purist mid-engined design, by people with a competition pedigree as long as your arm and which is palpably the best car in its class, the decision makes itself. You should buy a Porsche Boxster. If, however, your funds won't stretch to the Porker, there exists an alternative which isn't as far off the German Mark as you'd expect. The Toyota MR2 in it's back to basics third generati...

Some recommendations are easy. If you're after a used roadster that's built from a clean sheet of paper around a purist mid-engined design, by people with a competition pedigree as long as your arm and which is palpably the best car in its class, the decision makes itself. You should buy a Porsche Boxster. If, however, your funds won't stretch to the Porker, there exists an alternative which isn't as far off the German Mark as you'd expect. The Toyota MR2 in it's back to basics third generati...

The Toyota MR2 was the car that originally turned the affordable sports car market on its head. Before it was launched in 1984, two seater mid-engined sportsters had been strictly for those on six-figure incomes. Toyota changed all that, enabling the ordinary man to afford something which in terms of specification, if not in looks, was truly exotic. On the road, the car was a revelation, one of the few that you just couldn't bear to see sitting idle in the driveway. A car which begged to be d...

"If you like red and you like roadsters, you'll love this car."

There are times when even the most practically minded of people experience a moment of weakness. Driving along in our prosaic hatchbacks or sedate estates, sensible shoes lightly caressing our accelerator pedals, how many of us have caught a glimpse of a different kind of motoring? Something small, fast, roofless and wildly impractical. A car that, in the brief seconds before reality dawns, we've secretly longed to own.

Some recommendations are easy. If you're after a used roadster that's built from a clean sheet of paper around a purist mid-engined design, by people with a competition pedigree as long as your arm and which is palpably the best car in its class, the decision makes itself. You should buy a Porsche Boxster. If, however, your funds won't stretch to the Porker, there exists an alternative which isn't as far off the German Mark as you'd expect. The Toyota MR2 in it's back to basics third generati...