Used Car of the Day: 2005 Toyota MR2 Spyder

Tim Healey
by Tim Healey

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

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 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.
    • VoGhost VoGhost on Aug 25, 2024
      I believe this is the third gen senor dos, but otherwise quite correct.
  • Bd2.0 Bd2.0 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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    • Bd2.0 Bd2.0 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.
  • SPPPP Well, at least it lets you select the brake regen level. I hate that dash, though.
  • Bkojote Wow, I can use the touch screen to adjust the steering wheel and oh my god i'm in hell.
  • Bkojote Without "Allison" I'll be forced to sit on the "non commercial" side of the truck stop diner and will be laughed at by all the real truckers because I can't tell them I've 'basically got the same transmission' as their Freightshaker. I still owe 85k on my Duramax. Please help.
  • ToolGuy™ Thanks Trump.
  • Bkojote I once saw a hacker documentary where the guy said "a gigabyte of RAM will do the trick" and was able to access the mainframe. So the solution is simple: ban RAM.
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