Used Car of the Day: 2001 Toyota MR2 Spyder
Today we're going back to the early Aughts for this 2001 Toyota MR2 Spyder.
It's been transplanted with the 2ZZ engine and has a six-speed manual transmission. The body has about 140,000 miles on it and the engine around 40,000.
Outside of the swap, the car seems to be mostly stock. There does some to be minor cosmetic work necessary, including a need for new seats, and damage from a minor parking-garage collision with a Range Rover appears to be repaired.
Our seller says that the cracks in the windshield seen in the photos have since been addressed -- the windshield has been replaced.
You can find this car for sale in Austin, Texas for $8,000.
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[Images: Seller]
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Tim Healey grew up around the auto-parts business and has always had a love for cars — his parents joke his first word was “‘Vette”. Despite this, he wanted to pursue a career in sports writing but he ended up falling semi-accidentally into the automotive-journalism industry, first at Consumer Guide Automotive and later at Web2Carz.com. He also worked as an industry analyst at Mintel Group and freelanced for About.com, CarFax, Vehix.com, High Gear Media, Torque News, FutureCar.com, Cars.com, among others, and of course Vertical Scope sites such as AutoGuide.com, Off-Road.com, and HybridCars.com. He’s an urbanite and as such, doesn’t need a daily driver, but if he had one, it would be compact, sporty, and have a manual transmission.
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