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  1. #176
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    Quote Originally Posted by riser3 View Post
    In French-speaking markets, the vehicle was renamed Toyota MR because the abbreviation "MR2" sounds like a profanity when spoken in that language.
    We borrowed my sister's '91 MR2 t-top for our honeymoon road trip though France.

    I don't think it was being sold there at the time. Certainly didn't see any there around back then.

    The amount of attention it got was incredible.

    Fun car.

    I thrashed it around the Le Mans Bugatti circuit on the way home. Don't tell my sister.
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    Quote Originally Posted by BmillsSkier View Post
    That thing looks like a hoot to drive.

    Also, Refried, kudos on the CRX. As a kid that always looked like a sweet sportscar that you could take skiing/rallying. Safety regs all but killed it by the time I was old enough to drive.
    I had a Civic SI which was pretty close to a crx and that thing rallied pretty hard in snow with just studs in the front. Back in the day I couldn't afford a full set and lot of people just drove with just 2 studs in the snow. Passed many miles of cars between Rhody and silent rocks back in the day in that thing.

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    Quote Originally Posted by riser3 View Post
    First gen cornered like they were on rails! They were like driving a motorcycle.
    yes until it spun, almost impossible to correct for, where as the 3rd gens can drift easier and do not have the snap oversteer that the 1st and 2nd gen do. The 2nd Gens remain a very competive car in SCCA Autocross in several class. The 3rd gen is great in Mod classes though where you can give it the power it needs.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bushwacka View Post
    yes until it spun, almost impossible to correct for, where as the 3rd gens can drift easier and do not have the snap oversteer that the 1st and 2nd gen do. The 2nd Gens remain a very competive car in SCCA Autocross in several class. The 3rd gen is great in Mod classes though where you can give it the power it needs.
    My MkI had a spin problem exactly once: when I swapped out the front shocks and left the rears, which turned out to have blown rebound circuits. Enter a slalom and by the third cone the rear was lifted, roll couple jacked, camber destroyed and 180'd 3/3 times. Swapped the rear shocks, problem solved.

    Of course, "snap" can be subjective, and the feel of a first gen MR2 settling into a turn is as distinctive as it is brief. Adjustment of the nut behind the wheel can't be discounted entirely. But classes are just classes. There may have been a Jenson running in E-stock in those days.
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    Quote Originally Posted by jono View Post
    My MkI had a spin problem exactly once: when I swapped out the front shocks and left the rears, which turned out to have blown rebound circuits. Enter a slalom and by the third cone the rear was lifted, roll couple jacked, camber destroyed and 180'd 3/3 times. Swapped the rear shocks, problem solved.

    Of course, "snap" can be subjective, and the feel of a first gen MR2 settling into a turn is as distinctive as it is brief. Adjustment of the nut behind the wheel can't be discounted entirely. But classes are just classes. There may have been a Jenson running in E-stock in those days.
    I still think the NA 2nd Gen is the car to have in E stock(now street)

    to be entirely fair I have driven little 100s of cars at Ax event or track days but I never owned a MR2, maybe I would get more used it. I was by no means bad at driving these thing(I would normally beat other people in their own car at AX) but I have driven all three gens and the 3rd is BY far my favorite from driving stand point. I would own a 3rd gen(with out tiger print) in heartbeat if one came up. I still feel more at home in a FR cars, despite being mostly a FWD driver.

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    Quote Originally Posted by fatnslow View Post
    I had a Civic SI which was pretty close to a crx and that thing rallied pretty hard in snow with just studs in the front. Back in the day I couldn't afford a full set and lot of people just drove with just 2 studs in the snow. Passed many miles of cars between Rhody and silent rocks back in the day in that thing.
    I ran BFG Comp TA HR4's year round on on my CRX, they were great in the snow and they would last about 50,000 miles, after my gf was done with it I lowered it and replaced the sway bars and it became even more fun. I would have kept it but I knew it was only a matter of time before rust would get the better of it, the east coast was really hard on cars.

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    Quote Originally Posted by fatnslow View Post
    I had a Civic SI which was pretty close to a crx and that thing rallied pretty hard in snow with just studs in the front. Back in the day I couldn't afford a full set and lot of people just drove with just 2 studs in the snow. Passed many miles of cars between Rhody and silent rocks back in the day in that thing.
    What year SI? EF? EG? OR EK?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bushwacka View Post
    What year SI? EF? EG? OR EK?
    I think it was 86 and fuel injected. The second gen body style.

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    Quote Originally Posted by fatnslow View Post
    I think it was 86 and fuel injected. The second gen body style.
    oh wow so none of the above.

    Rad man.

    The first car I ever auto X was am 86 Si that was one of my dad's friends.

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    Quote Originally Posted by m2711c View Post
    I still call it The Jake.

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    You just know that girl Priscilla is some hot trash.

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    2001 Audi TT roadster, AWD (quatro) 6 speed manual. Bike rack on the back in summer, ski rack and winter tires now.

    Works great as a small compact get to the hill/work car for me and Mrs Mntlion


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    Did STFU&GBTW have a RSTT that he used to get back and forth to that paint can shaker of a house?

    Thing looked like a ton of fun.
    I still call it The Jake.

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    I miss STFU. I hope he's doing ok.

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    Quote Originally Posted by riser3 View Post
    I miss STFU. I hope he's doing ok.
    I was thinking about him the other day. I miss his comments too

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    Can someone please tell me to not go buy this?

    https://seattle.craigslist.org/see/c...402915370.html


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    Quote Originally Posted by Art Shirk View Post
    Can someone please tell me to not go buy this?

    https://seattle.craigslist.org/see/c...402915370.html


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    NFW that's not a shitbox.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Art Shirk View Post
    Can someone please tell me to not go buy this?

    https://seattle.craigslist.org/see/c...402915370.html


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    I can’t, in good conscience, tell you to stand by and let that slide to some 16 year old beater.
    I still call it The Jake.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BmillsSkier View Post
    I can’t, in good conscience, tell you to stand by and let that slide to some 16 year old beater.
    $3200 is the new $500?!?! WTF?!?!

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    Quote Originally Posted by riser3 View Post
    $3200 is the new $500?!?! WTF?!?!
    Welcome to the 21st century.

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    Quote Originally Posted by simple View Post
    Welcome to the 21st century.
    Right, inflation. However, it's a fucking Escort. The barn just stopped the clock, it didn't erase it. Like death and taxes, Escorts collapse into a pile of rust 5 years after they are born. It is inevitable. I should know, I've had the misfortune of driving two of them. I traded a quarter oz of KGB for one and I literally inherited the other. In retrospect keeping the weed would have been a better deal. I certainly would have preferred that my dad was alive rather than inherit his Escort.

    So I guess if $3200 is the price for a beater these days, have at it.

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    It's still a Shitscort obviously but you can't even get a bicycle for $500

    No desperate kid is gonna buy it, just some GenX with nostalgia like me is looking at it.

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    its 130hp in a pretty light car. Its probably more fun to drive than 95 percent of what you can buy new today. Same motor that went into Miata and can actually take a fair bit of boost before it blows.

    I

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