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Forget the Viagra. Ditch the Grecian 2000. If you want to look and feel 10 years younger, you could do worse than buying yourself an MR2. Just half an hour behind the wheel of Toyota’s brand new, mid-engined road-rocket, and you’ll feel like a new person (no promises specifically for your hair or other anatomy, though).
Top down, listening to the zing of its twin cam motor, feeling the snick-snick of its five-speed shifter, and you’ll have a grin on your face as wide as Texas. Guaranteed. This is a four-wheeled motorcycle, a 138-horsepower go-kart, a ride on Space Mountain, and a six-pack of adrenaline, all rolled into one.
That’s the good news. Wanna hear the great news? The cost of all this sensory overload is just $23,583. Or you could buy a minivan instead.
This is the successor to the last "Mister Two," which was canned back in 1995 after becoming too expensive, too flabby, too out of touch with the market. Toyota designers went back to the drawing board, went back to basics. They came up with a slimmed-down, two-seat roadster with an affordable sticker and an emphasis firmly on the fun factor.
And boy, is this car a blast to drive. Every Interstate on-ramp becomes Turn Two at Daytona; every rush-hour snarl-up becomes a moving chicane.
Small wonderYou don’t so much drive the MR2 as wear it. Climb in, buckle-up and the car wraps around you like a t-shirt that’s shrunk in the wash.
Yep, it’s small. Small as in around three inches shorter than a Mazda Miata. And lower than a Miata. Which makes it about as low as lawn weeds. Drive alongside an 18-wheeler and all you see are lug nuts. Full-size pick-ups look like moving skyscrapers. School buses seem like small Caribbean islands.
