Sometimes, you just have to root for the underdog, and when it comes to rowing your own drag racing, it doesn’t get much more underdog than a Toyota MR2, does it? Unless you showed up with a bone-stock Kia Rio, hoping your quick reaction time would be enough, the MR2 is pretty low on the list. It’s a corner carver, someone’s sunny-day sports car…what is it doing on the drag strip? This one has an answer: kicking as much ass as possible while screaming the whole way and yanking the front wheels off the ground about halfway down the course. It’s not Toyota powered, but instead a Honda K24 four-banger is putting in the work, turbocharged to the hilt. I say again: the engine you can find in a Honda CR-V is being force-fed air and is turning out power beyond belief and the soundtrack of a pissed-off hornet’s nest. And unlike most loud Honda products, this one rocks. How good is it? For the final race, it’s lined up against Ray Bulach’s six-speed Camaro. We’ve seen that blue monster at LS Fest, and there’s only one way to put it: it’s a bad son of a bitch, easily a low-8 second car, with Bulach rowing the gears with precision and aggression. Watching the MR2 fight that beast of a Camaro…worth it. Hit play below to watch that run go down!
