Despite the stellar improvements in handling and chassis response wrung out of our Project MR2 Spyder, there has been little fighting over who takes it home for the night or out for a weekend thrash.

No vehicle in recent memory has stirred up the dander at Automobile Magazine quite like our Four Seasons Toyota MR2 Spyder. Mom, apple pie, and baseball may be the most romanticized and defended icons ...

These days, even Toyota’s supposedly affordable mid-engined sports car, the MR2, is no performance bargain. Rather than buy one, it seems you can do better by just kind of building one yourself out of ...

When we first heard years ago that Toyota planned to revive its “three brothers” sports car lineup, and hinted at filling the gap between the 86 and GR Supra with a mid-engined model to honor the MR2, ...

When the third-generation MR2 Spyder was released in 2000, there was a strategic plan to reinvigorate interest among a demographic of buyers who had long given up on Toyota, which remained a dominant ...

Today's Nice Price or No Dice MR2 Spyder looks more like a Ferrari than a Toyota and suffers from a mechanical issue more befitting those looks than its heritage. Let's see if this Hawaii-located ...

The Toyota MR2 is no longer among us to be relevant in any way. Had it still been made by the world’s leading carmaker, it would have probably had a tough time fighting off Mazda’s MX-5, a long time ...

Toyota is currently on a collision course with some of its most iconic nameplates. Cue the recent North American reintroduction of the all-new sixteenth gen Crown (as a crossover sedan), or the Prius ...

The Toyota MR2 Spyder came from the factory with a 138-horsepower inline four, giving it the perfect balance of power and weight, maximizing cornering ability. This MR2 hillclimb car has a bit more ...

In this video, I evaluate the Toyota MR2 Spyder as an affordable alternative to the Lotus Elise. I drive both cars to ...

Toyota launched its two-passenger rear-wheel-drive sport convertible as a late 2000 model and revived a name used in the 1990s for a similar mid-engine coupe. In 2002, a five-speed sequential manual ...