80's sports cars

[Sport1.3]

Too bad the AW11 MR2 was boxy as hell :


The Fiero came out a little bit before the MR2 and it was never designed to compete with it. Other than drive train layout they're completely different cars, the MR2 was much lighter and smaller. In terms of weight and power the Fiero was supposed to compete with the RX7 FC.
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Bitch Please, both cars look like door wedges

Actually, if you look back at a lot of the car and driver articles/vids the 2 cars were direct market competition. From 85-88 they were constantly tested against one another. 1988 being the defining year when the S/C version of the MR2 came out and suddenly the Fiero Disappeared lol. Though i will agree it had alot to do with the unfair "bad reputation" the Fiero had gotten for being unreliable

That doesn't count, lol. Like 30 total Mk.I MR2 convertibles wouldn't affect the market enough for other companies to copy off it. Hell, there were about 10-20 Fiero convertible prototypes made, with several still running around. The Miata definitely spawned the MR-S, Pontiac Solstice, etc, and it copied off of older British roadsters.

They weren’t Prototypes though; they were a limited run specialty car. There were plenty in Japan and Europe as well. We just didn’t get as many. They were also called a "spider” before the Miata was even a pipe dream. Spider referencing Italian sports car convertibles. The MKII also came in Convertible under the "spider" designation. Are you telling me the Miata had a hand in that one as well? lolol. The miata had nothing to do with the MR2 or MRS. The cars have retained almost the same identical design/layout since its inception. I mean they still are MR set ups aren’t they? Also we may have only gotten the MRS here in the states, but over seas there are plenty of FACTORY hardtop MKIII's. Convertibles have and always will be popular here in the US. Are you saying the Miata was responsible for that? Get the fuck out of here If the MR2 were to base any of its European styling que's off of another car/manufacturer it would be Lotus and Fiat....not Mazda lol.

[thepolecat]

well,since this is 80's car...u know this one was coming

But I 1 up you!

[thepolecat]

and making a late entry into 80's cars

[OneSlow5pt0]

But I 1 up you!

please,what u know bout this

[OneSlow5pt0]

Bitch Please, both cars look like door wedges

Actually, if you look back at a lot of the car and driver articles/vids the 2 cars were direct market competition. From 85-88 they were constantly tested against one another. 1988 being the defining year when the S/C version of the MR2 came out and suddenly the Fiero Disappeared lol. Though i will agree it had alot to do with the unfair "bad reputation" the Fiero had gotten for being unreliable







They weren’t Prototypes though; they were a limited run specialty car. There were plenty in Japan and Europe as well. We just didn’t get as many. They were also called a "spider” before the Miata was even a pipe dream. Spider referencing Italian sports car convertibles. The MKII also came in Convertible under the "spider" designation. Are you telling me the Miata had a hand in that one as well? lolol. The miata had nothing to do with the MR2 or MRS. The cars have retained almost the same identical design/layout since its inception. I mean they still are MR set ups aren’t they? Also we may have only gotten the MRS here in the states, but over seas there are plenty of FACTORY hardtop MKIII's. Convertibles have and always will be popular here in the US. Are you saying the Miata was responsible for that? Get the fuck out of here If the MR2 were to base any of its European styling que's off of another car/manufacturer it would be Lotus and Fiat....not Mazda lol.

MK1 MR2 was built with the help of lotus...and lotus uses toyota engines..and the MR2-S rated the best thing under the lotus elise for the $$

[thepolecat]

please,what u know bout this

oh i know that- and I got THIS for ya- muwahahaha

[Sport1.3]

MK1 MR2 was built with the help of lotus...and lotus uses toyota engines..and the MR2-S rated the best thing under the lotus elise for the $$

Lotus engineers actually helped design the suspension on the AW11 with Toyota. The body design was taken from a combination of early fiat designs and Toyotas plan of building Japans first MR car. The Lotus X100, an early prototype of the Elan was actually made up entirely of Toyota parts, not the other way around. Especially cars like the Fiat X 1/9 played a huge role in the production of the MR2
Fiat x1/9

The SAX prototype for the AW11

Final prototype and eventual production model (SV3)


X100


Also, Lotus just recently started using Toyota specific motors, they for many years were strickly Rover powered. Also the 2zz motor used in the MRS/Elise/Exige was designed by Yamaha and built by toyota...just a cool little fact ab such a neat little motor.

[OneSlow5pt0]

yea,i love Lotus and MR2s...cause they show u dont need 500HP V8s to whoop ass

i love the fiat X1/9s

[Kamikaze]

I'd love to have a DMC-12.

[RandomGuy]

Too bad the AW11 MR-2 was a better car in practically every performance category. Cheaper too. I think Car & Driver's only negative comment was that it had more road noise.

I was always a fan of the Mk.III Supra and the Turbo-II RX-7.

lolol guess you didn't sense the sarcasm

i agree with the fourth post minus the last three


now if we're talking imports, i'd say the Z cars, the starion, mk2 celica-supra and the mk3-T, the rotaries, etc the RWD import beasts of the 80s,

[David88vert]

RX7s all the way....

[stillaneon]

Its funny, wikipedia has no american cars for their top ten 80's sports cars. I would have thought between Kip (knightrider) and the General Lee from Dukes of Hazzard (which ran mostly through the 80's) more people would have been into the american sportscars. I personally would have to say exotics have the 80's scene, between the Ferrari Daytona Spider (Miami Vice) and the Testerossa (Magnum P.I.) and the
Coyote (Hardcastle and McCormick) that was early on based on the McClaren M6BGT and then later on based on the Delorean. I definitely think that Europeans had more hollywood popularity.

[joesblk_teg]

delorean OWNS all what other car travels through time

[VooDooXII]

e30....

End of the story

[DinanM3atl]

cant argue that....still an amazing car today

1 person knows what is up!!!!

Don't forget

e28 M5!!!! Fastest Sports Saloon of the time!!! And can still take 1/2 the cars on this board

[DinanM3atl]

Ok 2 people know what is up

[Tinton]

1 person knows what is up!!!!

Don't forget

e28 M5!!!! Fastest Sports Saloon of the time!!! And can still take 1/2 the cars on this board

SWEET car! I didn't even know they made a M5 back then. Any other specs on it?

BTW to the MR2 dude I looked at a couple articles and back in the 80's the Fieros tended to slalom at about the same speed as the MR2s. The handling isn't that bad.... still double wishbone front and multilink rear. I crave a 90's MR2 like nothing else though...but that's not an 80's car . BTW the MR2 had nothing to do with the cancellation of the Fiero, for every year the Fiero was sold it consistently sold around 3x more cars. It was GM's (I really do hate GM...) decision to kill it because they didn't see a good market for the car going into the 90's. 1984-1988 about 450,000 Fieros were produced. Has the MR2 even sold that much, even though its been around about 15 years longer?

[OneSlow5pt0]

i hate the 90's MR2.......one of the belived reasons for the cancel of the fiero is insurance rates hurt sales

[sirkus]

i hate the 90's MR2....

Me too.. No one said it yet.. MK2/MK3 supra.

[Gilgamesh]

e30 M3 all the way... 200+hp out of a 4cyl motor that took honda's h22a to beat it out.

either way, 80s sports cars are the best thing that have happened to design all of the future cars. and now they are all affordable (but the supra lol) and all really fun to drive.

exotics dont play a role because their in a diff. catagory.