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#FastFriday: Thinking outside the box with a front-engine Toyota MR2

Is an unconventional approach the key to winning the Tire Rack Ultimate Track Car Challenge? This front-engine Toyota MR2 is about to find out.

You need this: Get your mid-engine thrills in this Toyota MR2 SC

Is the MR2 SC just the spiritual predecessor to the Lotus Exige?

Check this out: a JDM Toyota MR2 Turbo for sale

Sure, the steering wheel is on the other side of car, but the JDM MR2 Turbo also got more power from the factory than the U.S. version.

This MR2 demonstrates the most inexpensive way to add lightness | #LowBuckWednesday

Andy Surprenant's idea of "simplify and add lightness" is to remove the body panels of a MR2 Spyder and fit a Toyota 2ZZ engine, apparently.

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Shop Work: Can bigger brakes make an older car perform like a modern machine?

Brakes should both correct speed and balance the chassis. The brakes on our MR2 Turbo did virtually none of that, so it was time for a change–a big brake change.

Shop Work: What we've learned after a lifetime of project cars

What wisdom have we gleaned from years of GRM project cars? We're glad you asked.

Shop Work: Can blueprinting old fuel injectors really increase performance?

One of the first things we do whenever we pick up an older car? Go through the fuel system.

Buyer's Guides: Saving the best for last? | Toyota MR2 Spyder buyer's guide

As the new millennium approached, Toyota had a plan to woo back younger drivers. One of the arrows in their quiver was the MR2 Spyder: light, fun and, perhaps most importantly, inexpensive.

Features: Is the first-gen Toyota MR2 the most practical exotic of its time?

The GRM staff knows rad-era cars, as we’ve been driving them since they were new–like the AW11 Toyota MR2.

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MR2 project car updates

This simple mod gave us 5 horsepower for free

The 3.5-liter 2GR-FE V6 that will soon find a home in our 1991 Toyota MR2 Turbo (which will, of course, no longer be a turbo, but we’ll probably …

How to use air/fuel ratios as a tuning tool

Turbocharged engines are a double-edged sword. More power is readily available through more boost, but so is more disaster. So, when you even vaguely consider adding boost to an engine, …

Can a racing seat unlock more speed?

So, just before our MR2 burst into flames at Daytona, it was running well. Really well.

[How to react when your car catches fire | Project …

What is causing our MR2's shift linkage to keep binding?

It would be nice if we could shift our MR2’s gears, right?

In the last update on our 2GR V6-swapped 1991 Toyota MR2, we left …

Rules require a floor covering? What we used instead of carpets.

One of the things you notice when your car catches on fire is that the stuff you use to put out the fire is capital M messy. We’ve found fire …

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