Are You An MR2 Nut?

This is from a US MR2 site, thought it needed printing. What was your score?? :)

You know you are a MR2 Nut IF:

  1. You use the words AW11 in conversations, and no one knows what you’re talking about.
  2. You park your MR2 in a particular spot so you can see it while you chow down at your favorite McDonalds.
  3. You get kinda conceited because you know that car next to you in your blind spot is admiring your car.
  4. You consistently leave parties every 30 minutes or so just to make sure the “two” is fine
  5. On a DAILY basis you carry at least two cloths (one wet and one dry). So you can wipe anything down anytime AND dry it!
  6. You wipe brake dust off your wheels on a daily basis (sometimes several times in a day)!!!
  7. You owe more on your car and modifications than you do on student loans!!!
  8. You CHASE others MR2s in traffic CONSTANTLY just to chat!
  9. Over half of the cars you have ever owned in your life were MR2s!
  10. You know, more or less, the owner of EVERY MR2 in your area or at least where they live!!
  11. You buy tires before you buy shoes.
  12. After you graduate, you are planning on moving to a more ‘MR2- friendly’ city!
  13. You have more MR2 seats in your basement than formal dining room chairs.
  14. You refuse to sell your spare front bonnet ‘Firebird’ emblem, because you think it’s a cool work desk paperweight.
  15. Your partner wants to try an autocross but is afraid they’ll hurt the MR2, to which your reply is that you have spares of everything so ‘go for it’.
  16. You and your partner are arguing over who gets which MR2 that day, because you are either both in the ‘turbo mood’ or both in the ‘go-kart mood’.
  17. Before you go to the speed shop, you know if the part you’ve ordered will fit in the boot or not.
  18. Your house resembles a parts warehouse rather than a place to live.
  19. You trip over a $2,500 suspension kit when you get up to go to the toilet at night.
  20. You’re sure you had more hair before you started worrying about whether a bulk order of boost controllers made it into the country or not.
  21. You dig it out of the snow even though you’re not going to drive it.
  22. The guy at the dealer doesn’t leave his name on your answering machine anymore - he just says ‘they’re here!’.
  23. You have a personal cheque account with the words ‘mr2 parts’ as your second address line.
  24. You can rebuild an ’85 MR2 passenger compartment and rear boot COMPLETELY (including seats, door panels and boot-lid spring) with parts in your garage, attic and basement. And have actually done it. On the spur of the moment.
  25. The Toyota parts department calls you, looking for parts they need now for a project, and don’t want to wait to get it from the warehouse.
  26. You can’t decide between a Mk I and Mk II, so you have both (there are more of us out there like this than you think).
  27. You want to take an MR2 to work that morning. And so does your partner. So you each do.
  28. Being able to spot an MR2 from almost everywhere. For example, driving past a parking lot with lots of cars and just one MR2: what do you see in the glimpse of driving by?
  29. If you spot a parked MR2 (which you haven’t seen before) you pull up next to it, put a note under the wiper inviting the owner over to the next MR2-meeting (even leave your phone number for more information).
  30. You keep gazing at your MR2’s reflection in the chrome wheels of the car/truck next to you (preferably while in motion).
  31. You drive into work, and don’t want to get out of the car.
  32. All your friends know everything you know about MR2’s, because you’ve told them 3 times over.
  33. You only drink from your MR2 mug.
  34. Convince yourself that Toyota’s prices aren’t really that bad.
  35. You turn OFF the stereo, just to listen to the engine.
  36. Your CD-ROM drive(s) is mostly used for the Toyota Electronic Parts Catalog
  37. Use heel and toe and last minute braking on your way to work - every day, on the same road you drive every day
  38. You change down and avoid braking for corners that other cars need to brake to get through
  39. In the middle of the corner, you realize that they’re too slow so you have to brake to avoid running into them.
  40. You get in your car every morning with that same happy feeling. It can’t be explained, but every true ‘2 driver knows what I’m talking about - right?
  41. You feel real proud when the kindergarten boys point at your car instead of the Ferrari next to it.
  42. If you see a 215 Senator on the road you must catch up to it and whip its ass
  43. You’re actually saving up to get a $3,000 or so paint and body job ...on a car you paid $5,000 for?
  44. Your computer wallpaper is a picture of an MR2....
  45. You own mr2 memorabilia besides the actual car itself....
  46. You buy the 89 cent Matchbox from K-Mart, and customise it with red fingernail polish and ultra fine black magic marker to make it match your own.
  47. You call the local model shop and stump them with a request for a model kit of the MK1 MR2, then call all the places they listed as “maybes” until you finally find one that actually has the kit...
  48. You spend all your time thinking "how do I make it go faster"
  49. Your e-mail address has something to do with your Mr2.
  50. Your signature line says something about your car.
  51. Your home page is really your mr2 page.
  52. You stare at your car with a gleam in your eye, even though it’s 10 years old, and you’ve had it for over 5 years
  53. You see people talking in the car next to/behind you, and think they are admiring your car
  54. You’re a female looking for a guy with a last name of Two, just so you can say you married Mr. Two.
  55. On motorway onramps that cloverleaf, you like to hug the inside and really gas it...
  56. You HAD an MR2, for one reason or another sold it, and decided now that your life would be incomplete until you acquired another...
  57. You have more than 1 MR2 at 1 time.
  58. You have spent more money on modifications than the car itself.
  59. You go to Internal Affairs to have your surname legally changed...now it’s tu, and it’s now required for everyone to call you Mr. Tu !
  60. Bad days at work don’t bother you anymore.... because you know you have that drive home at the end of the day to look forward to!
  61. You have a five month old baby, only two cars in the family, and one is a MR2
  62. You purchase a $200.00 stroller because it fits in the boot of your MR2.
  63. You make bets with your wife/husband about your babies’ weight/etc., and if you win, you get to upgrade something on your MR2.
  64. Upon breaking up with a partner, they screams "You love that car more that me!!" And You reply, "but of course! it is more reliable, and handles better!”
  65. As you drive by a motorway cloverleaf, you take all four on/off ramps before continuing on to your destination.
  66. You have a Sony Playstation and have bought "Gran Turismo" and spend you whole time racing the MR2 GT-S.
  67. You break out your car duster at every stop!
  68. You have a separate sponge/brush/rag for every aspect of car cleaning (bug sponge, wheel sponge, exhaust sponge, tire brush, interior armor all rag, exterior armor all applicator, etc.)
  69. You own one model MR2, but would love the other one as well, and don’t want ot give up your car. So you get your partner hooked on MR2’s too, and convince them to buy one instead!
  70. You met complete strangers, and they reply "ahhhr, so you’re the MR2 person I keep hearing about".
  71. You’re atsounded to find out that some people don’t rev there engeines above 4,000rpm.
  72. When attending MR2 drives, you have to decide which one to leave.

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