Want a fun sports car but times are hard? This is the solution. 30mpg, 87 octane, extremely fast, extremely cheap, Toyota reliability, and I will even throw in a bike rack that fits!
2000 Toyota MR2, 91,000 miles
Mid Engined, rear wheel drive.
Weight reduced to 2000lbs
~155 horsepower
Chassis reinforced with aftermarket tubular aluminum braces front and rear, above and below
Tein SS adjustable coilovers
Lightweight wheels
Carbon fiber hard top
Long tube header
Cold air intake
all suspension bushings replaced with urethane bushings about 10k miles ago
Loud, light, fast. Many autocross victories. All the fun of a lotus elise with the gas mileage of a toyota echo! (actually a little better, same motor, less weight!)
I’m not knocking your car. it’s near perfect (only things I would ask for is floor to luggage space and quieter exhaust). Everyone on here respects power to weight ratios. Having said that, you can’t compare it to the echo and 32 mpg city is a pretty tall claim. Granted I haven’t been to Houston, but I assume it has traffic lights and stop signs. You’re upgrades won’t give you an accurate mpg read on your display if that’s what you’re relying on.
I’m not knocking your car. it’s near perfect (only things I would ask for is floor to luggage space and quieter exhaust). Everyone on here respects power to weight ratios. Having said that, you can’t compare it to the echo and 32 mpg city is a pretty tall claim. Granted I haven’t been to Houston, but I assume it has traffic lights and stop signs. You’re upgrades won’t give you an accurate mpg read on your display if that’s what you’re relying on.
Um yes it will unless he has some new magical system for calculating MPG. as Long as the Tire circumfrance stays the same. The speedometer gear in the transmission will spin the same number of times it did before for the exact same number of miles. The only modification he could make that would change that is Tire size.
