welcome to wacky Wednesday's where everyone has a chance to show off their
car mods, and here's this week's winner,
this is my supercharged t-top variant 1988 toyota mr2, let's take a look at
this engine,wait a second, inside this car you'll find that it has 4AGE engine which is a
1.6 liter inline-4 that was borrowed from the Corolla of the same era, it
makes about 145 horsepower with the supercharger and since the car is so
light it has a top speed of 130 miles per hour, let's talk about this
supercharger, 1988 was the first year Toyota offered a supercharged model of
their US market mr2, unlike other supercharged cars the supercharger on
the mr2 is not always on, when you accelerate fast enough the supercharger
will turn on and a light inside the dash will indicate so
the brakes are also pretty interesting both the front and rear brakes are disc
brakes unlike other cars of this era, the trunk is actually more spacious than you
would think
inside the car you'll also find a few features that you wouldn't expect in a
1988 model, first of all it's got power doors, power windows, and power mirrors, in
addition to those features it's also got cruise control which comes in the form
of this huge stick coming off the steering column, also it's got window
locks for some reason, the pop-up headlights also still work, interestingly
enough it also has a feature that has to do with gas, if you're using regular gas
you can keep this button pressed, but if you're using premium gas you can unpress
it, this car comes equipped with a 5-speed manual transmission and there
was also a factory option for a 4-speed automatic, the automatic version this
button puts it from normal mode to power mode, but the only real difference is
that power mode shifts later than the normal mode, the t-tops are also a relic
from this era, they're a great way to have that convertible feeling without
the hassle of up keeping a soft top, also it feels a lot safer than a soft top and
they also function as sort of a permanent sunroof, this is how they work
Toyota was also gracious enough to supply us with these bags to keep the
t-tops thing so they don't get damaged or scratched, enough chatter let's test
drive this thing
first impression is that you can already feel that this thing has a kick,
Toyota's main design goal with the mr2 was to make a car that felt fun to drive
30 years later it still feels fun even in traffic jams this car doesn't feel
like a hassle to drive it feels enjoyable, so thank you Toyota for making
such a great car, and thank you Scotty for featuring me on your channel,
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