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i was wondering if they are a good beginners car. (i have a peugout 205 at the moment that i drive around our farm, so i can drive well). i was also wondering what i need to listen out for in the engine or what i need to check when im looking at an mr2. thanks alot 
"official" car, as MR's can snap back at you if your a little too eager on the right foot. But hey, who am I to pull anyone back from having a beautiful car!(1.9) and they were very eager to snap as well!!! We have a good buyers guide up there.(let alone mid-engined) for a few years..........but all cars used to be rwd.......were just conditioned now to fwd so people suddenly changing to rwd can now cause problems......i reckon he could be fine by going straight to rwd, the mk1 is hardly massively powerful, and besides all youngsters will nearly always have a crash early on whatever they drive!'us' anyway!Scooter wrote:
all depends on his mentality, and whether he's an enthusiatic but sensible'ish lad or a gunho show off wide boy type, and if he's the later he won't listen to
Id say go for it and just take it easy as you should with all your new cars 
Had no real issuses with the handling.- BUT, the poster already has a first car (normal FWD scrabbly nonsense 
)- only if your daily drive will remain your pug think about buying the Mk1. - then you can drive it sensibly and when it's not raining. - let alone learning the way to drive a tail happy 2 at the same time ! 
i know that rwd cars do bite, but if the car just has a 1.6, it wont be to dangerous will it? i am thinking of spending about 700 quid on one do you think that for that price i will be able to get one that will run me about for a year, because after im moving to Oz and China for a year. 
hillc wrote:
Oh yeah and do the standards have a NA engine or are they turboed or supercharged.
.. if it's damp and you are not careful you will be snaking all the way up the road (if you are lucky) (that would just be insane! 
)hillc wrote:sounds like fun
Also you'll FEEL every single bump like someone is kicking you in the nutsack. Unless you've got Koni shocks or similar, in which case incase of a kick, it'll be more like a hard pounder with a hammer.Also you'll FEEL every single bump like someone is kicking you in the nutsack
hillc wrote:i know that rwd cars do bite, but if the car just has a 1.6, it wont be to dangerous will it?
. No lifting off mid corner/braking while turning - the back will start overtaking the front.axisofunity wrote:hillc wrote:sounds like fun
Umm, no MR2 is suited for a farm condition.
It'll rot quickly unless garaged in the arches as well as take paint damage.
"firm" for a laugh up the track, my hands felt numb after a few hundred yards! Back under the bonnet and soften them again methinks 
The first thing you must do when you get it also is put some good tyres on it too. My car came with happy shopper tyres with bad tread. I oversteered on the first day driving it gently cornering on a motorway sliproad. Put A539s on and hammer that same corner no problems. Just be very gentle with the throttle and you'll be good.(good in wet and dry) - we have Bridgestone Potenza RE720's on our mk1 for normal road use - really grippy in the wet and dry (compared to Yoko A539's which can be 'interesting' in the wet!).- but no such probs with yokos...its only 1.6 so easy to drive
If you haven't driven a mk1 then you have no concept of how the little 1.6 absolutely loves to rev. I mean really really rev. What it lacks in torque it makes up for in pure revs.(SRF) then its a blast. A mk1 will out corner most mk2's so doesn't need the grunt.{and relax}. sits back and waits for the flaming to start 