Used Car Of The Day: 1993 Toyota MR2

by Tim Healey

Published: April 9th, 2026

Today is a 1993 Toyota MR2 that's had an engine swap.

The swap is from a naturally aspirated engine to the 3SGTE turbo. The car does needs some paint work, and the seller says that while it starts and drives, there is some jerkiness.

Water leaks into the trunk and the A/C also needs some work.

You can find this one in Houston for $10,000. Click here for more.

[Images: Seller]

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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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Grandmaster T 17 hours ago

Is this car fast? Not Artemis II fast, Apollo 10 fast.

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- Probert 8 hours ago
  
  Fast for the day. Much smaller than they look in pics. Being mid engine, this version had a rep for snap oversteer - nothing a turbo won't cure...
  
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28-Cars-Later 6 hours ago

"Water leaks into the trunk "

Oh I'm sure that's fine...

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Jer65725303 It's all smoke and mirrors. Nothing could cause this thing to delay another 29 MONTHS and 47 MONTHS respectively. They'll both be dead in the water - and too dated by then. I'm just glad I didn't get my hopes up and reserve one.
CHRISTOPHER https://www.hagerty.com/media/automotive-history/gms-3800-v-6-was-long-lived-and-underappreciated/
Program i see them as chasing two rabbits. ev or erev. pick one. all automakers should be making chassis with only one type of drivetrain in mind, bc u cant just simply swap them out, and u usually end up compromising one or the other in the process.
Mnemic Most of their orders are for the hybrid, they should only build that one but they have to figure out how to get the volume. A VW truck with the same drivetrain will just steal sales from the Scout truck (and cost the same) and an Audi G-wagon based on it will cost more and sell even less, so I dont know they do it.
28-Cars-Later "Water leaks into the trunk "Oh I'm sure that's fine...