Filed under: Spy Photos, Sports/GTs, Japan, Toyota
MR2 redux snagged on transporter?
Nah. Highly unlikely. In your dreams. That's what the folks at Toyota said as I handed the keys to the MR-S V-Edition back to them earlier this year and asked if Toyota had another mid-engined sports car on the drawing board.
So what, pray tell, is this litle number spotted on the back of a Toyota transporter near Nagoya earlier this summer? Toyota is keeping mum, but could this be another prototype from the Committee to create Interesting Cars? Let's hope so.
[Source: BestCar magazine]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
ddrhero 12:40PM (9/14/2007)
VICTOLEE!
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Chris 12:46PM (9/14/2007)
I hope that's covered in camo, cause that's ugly.
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Lucas 12:55PM (9/14/2007)
UTE?
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James Sonne 8:00PM (9/14/2007)
My first thought was the El Camino redux, but it is a might small for that.
Scott 12:55PM (9/14/2007)
I adored my old Gen II MR2. Fantastic look and driving car, that was. I'd buy another if one could be found which either A) hadn't been thrashed to near death by a kid or B) wasn't so pristine that the person was asking $12k or more for it. I'm pretty sure the '94 and ultra-rare '95 will eventually be regarded as true classics next to the Supra of the same era.
Which brings me to a question: Where has that Toyota gone? They used to make a mix of practical and thrilling sports cars. These days they're looking a lot like boring Chevrolet, but without something like the Corvette to at least have some excitement.
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jjd 1:00PM (9/14/2007)
Looks a whole lot like a Boxster. No really. I think it is a Boxster. The wheels look like porsche wheels and the front section from the front wheel forward is exactly boxster shape.
Perhaps they are testing a boxster against some toyota/lexus and didn't want anyone to know that they had a Porsche.
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Tsunami Racer 1:24PM (9/14/2007)
i agree it looks like a covered boxster. the front, the roofline and the wheelbase looks correct. everything except the rear end which might have been altered.
it's not unheard of for car companies to use other company's cars for their engineering mules.
allbent 1:01PM (9/14/2007)
Boxster S wheels on a Toyota?
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Dave 1:02PM (9/14/2007)
I loved my '87.
Toyota killed the third gen MR2 with a boat anchor engine and no storage space.
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Ricky 1:09PM (9/14/2007)
MR? Where are the intake scoops? It's a DEL SOL!
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Andy 1:41PM (9/14/2007)
My dad has a 91 mr2 turbo, I love driving that car. I hope now that Toyota is doing so well they will go back to making fun cars.
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Carlos 1:50PM (9/14/2007)
Didn't some WRXs have wheels similar to those? Could sports cars be a result of Toyota-Subaru collaboration?
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FLR 1:57PM (9/14/2007)
The proportions on whatever that thing is look off...way off.
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ThunderStik 4:07PM (9/14/2007)
I wonder if thats the new scion pick-up. I have read a fw things about them possibly getting a small truck.
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Matt Baker 5:35PM (9/14/2007)
Looks quite a bit like a camouflaged Porsche Boxster to me.
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MattM 6:06PM (9/14/2007)
That's definitely a Porsche Boxster. I've lived with one for 7 years now, so I know my boxster's exterior shape almost perfectly.
The rear end looks like someone took a giant plastic rear body clip and stuck it over the boxster's bodywork real quick. The rear body plastic stuff makes it resemble thre rear end of the Maserati MC 12.
See how the side windows are cut off by the plastic covering? Its an add on, and a bad one at that.
Its totally a boxster in disguise....
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catgirlshyla 2:02AM (9/15/2007)
It looks like some weird Dodge Stratus....
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daflameking 10:38PM (9/23/2007)
MR3 Roadster
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Lee Gibson 12:31AM (9/27/2007)
Wow. It looks even less attractive than the MR-S.
It's not impossible that Toyota would make a car I want to buy, but I'm sure not holding my breath.
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