Used Car of the Day: 2005 Toyota MR2 Spyder

by Tim Healey

Published: August 23rd, 2024

used car of the day 2005 toyota mr2 spyder

Today we have a person selling their 2005 Toyota MR2 Spyder because they live in the city of Chicago and congestion makes it too hard to have fun with the car.

As a fellow Chicagoan, my gosh do I feel that.

This one has a five-speed manual and 28K miles. It is stock mechanically though there are some minor cosmetic mods.

It appears to run and drive well and have been well-maintained. It also is "loaded" with options.

If you'd like to know more, click here. The asking price is $21,700

[Images: Seller]

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Tim Healey

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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Add Lightness on Aug 24, 2024
Lota Lotus in the first gen and probably a lot still in the second gen. Lotus agility and Toyota toughness.Little wonder there's a big premium.

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- VoGhost on Aug 25, 2024
  I believe this is the third gen senor dos, but otherwise quite correct.
  
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Bd2 on Aug 26, 2024
Anyone who wanted to suffer through such impracticality would have just gone off and gotten an Elise and were thus deranged (your's truly is one of them). The Miata and Boxster had trunks and cubbies putting them in a different class in terms of livability.

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- 28-Cars-Later on Aug 26, 2024
  This is a good point, depending on your lifestyle don't discount the trunk because its going to suck if you need it and don't have it on your "fun car". I rented a Lexus hard top 'vert for two weeks, the space not taken up by the roof when retracted is maybe 2-3 grocery bags in size. Although I swore I'd never own a soft top in my climate, the trunk is an ample size despite 1/3rd of it being taken by the roof storage compartment - easily fits my golf bag and then some.
  
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- Bd2 on Aug 26, 2024
  Even an Elise fitted with it's hard top is wildly impractical. I went to Home Depot yesterday and could only get a 3ft stick of lumber lol.
  
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