2000 Toyota MR2 Spyder review from Malaysia

No fault yet.

FAQ for this car can be view from www.spyderchat.com (english)

Check out the chat forum pages.

"The Online Community for Toyota MR2 Spyder Enthusiasts"

Toyota Spyder or as it is known as Toyota MR-S in asia.

Like many Mid-engine cars, this far exceeds in terms of running cost and affordability.

Yes, the MR2 MK 1 and MK11 are Nice and powerful (esp turbo) but for those in the know would love this car for "great handling"

Quote from international magazine "EVO" May - 2001 issue.

"Bargain Boxster"

"apprenticeship for porsche"

Quote from Autoweek:

Toyota may have come late to the current small sports-car craze, but it doesn't plan on screwing up this time.

Simple, Not simplistic. The 1985-89 MR2, sometimes called the MR2 Mk 1, was inexpensive, direct, basic without being cheap and a whole lot of fun. Today there are still some 40,000 MR2s on the road, and dozens of MR2-dedicated Internet sites created by and for loyalists. The first MR2 was as close as Toyota has come to a cult car.

Then the MR2 changed, and it wasn't only Toyota that was shifting. From the RX-7 to the 300ZX to the Mitsubishi 3000GT, the emphasis for Japanese sports cars shifted in the early 1990s to world-beating horsepower, high-tech gizmos like four-wheel steering and luxury GT appointments. They were fast, but they were also complex and expensive, just as a hyper-strong Japanese yen was making Japanese cars generally more pricey in North America. The second-generation MR2 was more powerful and more comfortable than the first, but it was also fatter and a lot more costly to own and maintain. The car's original appeal got lost. By 1995, demand for the MR2 had dried up to the point where Toyota quietly euthanized the car in the States.

``Obviously we didn't think we were doing it at the time, but we made some mistakes with the sports cars in the early 1990s,'' says Don Esmond, general manager of Toyota ision."