Sorry Guys

Gotta disagree.

Had a Rev 3, GT Turbo that was dyno'd at 320lbft/290lbft which was sold to Dino at Owen Developments. He took it to 350ish.........
(It should be back on the road in the next month or so after his 12month build programme, so keep an eye out!)

Anyway, it was a brilliant car and very very quick (in a straight line) , but I still dont think it was as fulfilling a drive as my 99 Type R scooby with (317bhp - 259@wheels and 310lbft)

Watch this space though as Dino is building something that may change my mind

All down to personal taste.

Like music the car is a definition of taste........

But there's no way you can compare a 4wd, easy to drive Scooby to an MR2 T.


The Scoobie in any form is a great, fast car. It handles well and is reliable. It has got to be the biggest success in performance mass marketing since the XR3i. A worthy replacement and improvement on Dagenham's finest.

The MR2 T is a different beast. Never sold here (only Japan and USA - the USA version is slower) it is a vehicle that would never have mass appeal. The normal MR2 sold well so why bother with one that killed people with its difficult handling?

These cars bite your ass if you make an error. In the wet thay are hard to hold down on the road if you fancy a blast. I sold my last one because I got tired of correcting the back-end when it started to push out!!!

In my 5 years of driving MR2 Ts I learned so much about driving and keeping myself safe.


These are motors to dabble with only if you fancy a challenge. I bought my 1st one on a whim and crashed it within a week. It was damp and I was stupid.

I'll have another one. The best overall car I've ever encountered.

My V6 Mondeo seems like a milk float in comparison.

I drove an MR2 for 4 years, a rev 1, the most twitchy version. They are great cars and stick to the road like glue in the dry. Just don't drive them fast in the wet or put a lot of power down mid-bend and they are great, very go-kartish and capable of a lot of corner induced G-force before they break away, a lot more than a standard 200sx I would have thought. If you push the limit though they are much harder to control when they do break away. I spun mine twice, once in the dry, but I was on crap tyres that time (still on original crap 14's!!! - it was much much better when I put 225 bridgestones on 15's on it).
I am about to buy a S14 200sx as I need a change and a slightly more normal looking car. It seems their standard suspension set-up is poor (see thread floating around at the moment) and I hope I don't have to spend too much to get it sorted.

Just to clarify, my MR2 was a MK2, rev 1 (89-91). Not a MK1.