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(according to the seat belt tags) and first registered in the UK in March 1990 - see profile. That makes my car 17 years and 3 months old!- whats your mileage?+ 
I presume those cars were not maintained properly and thrashed daily. 
Oh and a caliper siezed the other week. N-reg with 37k and one owner from new - her mum. Serviced and cleaned and generally taken care of, but dies with that kind of mileage? Where's the workmanship? She hates me. 
'box has been a bit whiney in 5th, but driven normally it still works ok and the noise is barely audible. That said the gear change is becoming a bit more mechanical, especially from first to second and second to third. Synchro problems I presume. Considering the car's age I tend to drive it gently nowadays, so I guess it'll be ok for a while.(which has since dropped it's standards).- 2nd and 3rd - 2nd was always crunching, it was impossible to change with any kind of speed.£40 £175. I was lucky, it could have been worse than the one I already had. So perhaps it will last quite a while yet 
- the right most numbers up until the zeros indicate what number off the production line you chassis was. IIRC we scrapped number 800 a couple of years ago.£40 gamble that turned into a result! 1936, built dec '89 and first reg april '90. Got 167300 miles on it with nothing more than a couple of clutches, an alternator, a few gaskets, droplinks and a shock going in the 85000 miles and 7.5yrs I've had it.... 
476bhp & 415ft lb @ 1.9bar Magic by Ryan!Gone, but never forgottenNow with a mk1.5 & a NHB EP3..( I note you didn't say) I'm not sure these images do it justice (even though it was a deliberate and cold process to go out and shoot them in the dead of a winters night) so must get out with the camera again when the light is good. I'm going for an old school look to try and emphasis the basic (fabulous) shape and keep all the detailing within this shape rather than add on bits that make the car look bigger (IMO of course). .. waiting for somebody to organise a group day somewhere close I can join. Anybody? What have you done about number plate illumination? I would prefer to see it in the flesh before making my mind up. I've always liked the spoilerless bootlid, kind of less is more approach. I despise Veilside or other kits, don't like side skirts, hate huge rear wings, etc... (than Rev1) suspension, that rear spoiler and round rear lights. I don't like the Rev5 alloys and the Combat spoiler is OTT IMO. I've fitted a Mongoose exhaust and K&N induction system for better sound, not necessarily better performance (benefits are questionable). Inside, CD player and speakers aside it has a Rev 2 steering wheel (smaller and chunkier) and a black round metal gearknob instead of the standard joystick handle. I wouldn't want to do anything else to the car and all the bits I've replaced can be easily replaced with the standard items, which I have and are in mint condition. When Autocar & Motor tested my car they clocked the 0-60 in 6.7secs and 1/4 mile in 15.2secs, significantly better than factory figures. I've been advised that my car has been tweaked before the press got their hands on it but I have not seen any evidence of this. It's fast enough for me, especially considering that I spend most of my motorway journeys in the left lane doing 65MPH. 
****3SW2000012740.. 12.000 MR2s in 6-8 months... That's a lot... .. Not the oldest I guess. (steering wheel, springs, exhaust, gearlinkage, bootlid and spoiler) to put back on in case I ever decide to sell (though I doubt it). All my mods have improved the driveability of the car except for the despoilering and no. plate mods which are purely cosmetic (though weight saving...). Couldn't believe how much better it felt for the lowering springs (only 30mm) and smaller fatter steering wheel. Likewise the quickshift was an immense improvement over the standard change I had... much shorter and more precise, gear changing is now a joy. The 15"s were on it when I bought it all those years ago.(£10), cut out the raised middle bar, screwed the no plate to it and put it back in it's normal place. To illuminate use the current no plate lighting but turn it to face up and just cut two slots in the center panel for them to shine through. I think you can see the slots on one of the pix in my gallery. Put the MR2 logo back and presto... Now bring on that rolling road. I'd forget my head if it wasn't screwed on... too busy admiring my styling changes to remember my mouse, at least I'd got the laptop! You'd just got your new 2 hadn't you? Hows it going? What d'ya think to my rear mod then?- Europe, America, Australia, etc!