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.
Is the MR2 SC just the spiritual predecessor to the Lotus Exige?
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.
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.
What should we take, the Toyota MR2 or the Corvette Z06?
One of the first things we do whenever we pick up an older car? Go through the fuel system.
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.
What wisdom have we gleaned from years of GRM project cars? We're glad you asked.
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.
The GRM staff knows rad-era cars, as we’ve been driving them since they were new–like the AW11 Toyota MR2.
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 …
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 …
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, …
So, just before our MR2 burst into flames at Daytona, it was running well. Really well.
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 …
