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Originally Posted by Fleegle 
Funnily enough, I also had a Mk2 MR2 coupe, in gunmetal. It looked like a stonker in the showroom, so I bought it. Turned out to be a complete dog. No handling whatsoever...any time I accelerated off a roundabout, the back end wanted to take the next exit.
In the wet, it would have been easier trying to control a surfboard....Eventually wrote it off one Saturday morning on my way to work outside Edinburgh...hit black ice, then a kerb or two, then entered (and exited) a sturdy bush (of the horticultural type)...the thing just disintegrated..no-one told me it was made of bloody fibreglass!
Toyota have a lot to answer for, in my opinion!...I've stuck with Berlin Motor Works ever since.
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fleeg - was it an early mk2? they had handling issues at high speed due to wind buffeting. mine was an early one - no power steering - went round corners fantastically once you worked out how to not make it swing like a pendulum. Mid-engined cars are a real handful once they lose grip! I spent a day flinging mine round the track over on anglesey so i could get used to the handling and controlling it in drift.
I used to love going round roundabouts sideways in the wet!
Still ended up smashing it into lots of little bits though. Someone clipped my rear driver's side on the motorway - its very odd watching the crash barrier whizz by in front of you at 70...only to be ripped right around and slam backwards into it as you flick round...
still, gotta love those pop-up headlights...