What year's your MR2?
I have a '92 Toyota Corolla, which with 400K still out performs (mind you, by performance here we're speaking strictly how many dollars and days between mechanic visits) my '93 Sable at 250K.
The radiator on the Corolla was leaking this summer, and because it's my partner's car, of course I didn't find out until September when I had to borrow the Toyota. Has anyone else out there had this conversation:
Me: "How's your car running?"
Her: "Oh, I think it's doing okay."
Me: "I just took it for a spin - did you notice all those lights lit up on the dash?"
Her: "Oh yes! They've been on for quite some time now. I was going to mention it, but the car seemed to be working fine!"
Me: "Hand me that bottle of aspirin, would you?"
I poured a bottle of stop-leak in the radiator, and whadduya know? The leak stopped, the engine heat went from H to C (where it usually stays when the rad's working), and I haven't noticed any performance reduction as a result of the car's long, hot summer. It's no performance vehicle, but it's always had a respectable amount of pick-up to zip me through traffic - great automatic transmission, good accelerating car. In its younger days, people were even surprised it didn't have turbo!
Has anybody seen that Top Gear show? Over a series of episodes, they attempt to kill a Hillux (I think that's a U.K. Tacoma?). They do everything to it, include collapse a multi-storey building with it on top, and... well, I'll let you have the fun of finding out what happens yourselves!