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Originally Posted by BowtieGuy
Both of those cars were anemic underperformers in their final iterations. Not really stars to begin with.
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Very true. The Celica was a crap shoot in its last generation, although the Celica was never a stellar performer like its more expensive sibling the Supra was.
The MR2 Turbo was a pretty decent performing car for its price. Very affordable (well kinda not at its time) and a pretty well performing track vehicle for what it was. The old MR2 Turbos are still competing very well in autocross events to this day.
But yeah when the MR Spyder came out it disappointed me because I had always preferred the hard/t-top that the MR2 had. While the MR Spyder was slow to begin with it was built with tuning intended, which was something I always thought was pretty cool of Toyota to do. All it needed was a turbo kit and with how light it weighed that 1.8L i-VVT converted to F.I. was capable of being a 10 second car...