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My friend had a GT4 ST182 and it was a wicked car. It nearly crippled him financially though - they have a LOT of electrics under the bonnet. Very clever car and ahead of their time. I love the old pop up lights too.

I almost bought an mkI MR2 (1.6 "hairdresser" version). Wicked little car being rear wheel drive and fairly eco. I'm not interested in fast cars on the road - barely get a chance to use them in all this traffic. Sadly, this means if your main transport is a bike, a 2 seater coupe isn't really practical.

If only the girlfriend would learn to drive, I could be over indulgent, selfish, and get a coupe...

crushedlizard wrote: they have a LOT of electrics under the bonnet. Very clever car and ahead of their time. I love the old pop up lights too.

definitely ahead of their time and well built

done some work on it today as i want to put it back on the road as it deserves....... back box which was blowing turned out to fall apart along with the centre section, what should have been a pinhole turned into 3 pieces of a 2 piece exhaust, well rotten, oh well only £180 for a new one.

crushedlizard wrote:I almost bought an mkI MR2 (1.6 "hairdresser" version). Wicked little car being rear wheel drive and fairly eco. I'm not interested in fast cars on the road - barely get a chance to use them in all this traffic. Sadly, this means if your main transport is a bike, a 2 seater coupe isn't really practical.

ditto, I've considered it before - I definitely gravitate towards lighweight sports cars rather than stupid-powerful ones. But for us it would mean running two cars, which at the minute is a bit of a waste of money.

thats exactly why mines been sat for 12 months, but now the missus is working weekends its a bummer stuck in the house with 4 kids and no car to take them out, especially with the summer comin.

Ne'mind your MR2s, you can still have a lotta fun in a big ol' turbocharged landbarge!

done sports cars and cant say i'll be going back to them, pick up trucks is where its at. Looking at selling my 147 for a hilux, but then diesel is at £1.25 now

I've had 2 hilux's back in nz both well abused by me dad first(he's had nothing but hilux's since the late 80's)damn good wagons,usefull as hell and run forever,last one was a 2000 surf tdi it was an auto but got up and went,mind you deisel is cheaper than gas out there by about 40% it's about 35-40p a litreand thats from BP!!

Thought about going for a battered ass old HiLux for a week or so, before buying the 820, actually. Was looking at a nice dented, scratched, paint faded, dinged, raped 2.4 TD one for about £400. Would have been fun, and useful. Couldn't have insured the bugger though.

well i finally got round to putting another exhaust on the celica and its booked in for an MOT on friday afternoon,insured it yesterday so hopefully have it back on the road after 18 months

Good on ya !

Want to Bling it up lol

Toyota of choice = Aristo V300 twin Turbo (AKA: Lexus GS300, I think)

Do the oil and filter every schedule and the motor will go for ever.

well blow me it went straight through the mot no problems!!!

Bonus. Both my Rovers have done that, now ain't that a peculiarity, considering how unreliable, rusty and awful they supposedly are?
Narry a hiccup for the 214's last MOT...