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How far would you go to secure a modern roadster? Surely not as far as trading in five classic sports cars for it, right? Well, according to Ben Brotherton, the sales manager at Coad Toyota in Missouri, quoted by TheDrive, a retired college professor did just that: he traded in five first-gen Toyota MR2s, in return for a barely driven 2016 Mazda MX-5 Miata

The collection included a yellow example from 1985, with 207,000 miles (333,134 km) on the clock, which was originally finished in silver, as well as a red one, from 1986, with 140,000 miles (225,308 km) on the odo and a solid metal roof

The 1987 car sports a white paint, comes with an automatic transmission and was driven for 80,500 miles (129,552 km)

Another white model has 78,500 miles (126,334 km) on the clock, was made in 1988 and features a supercharged engine

As for the final example, it was put together in 1989, sports an Ice Blue Pearl finish and a manual transmission, and is the car driven the least of the pack: just 28,000 miles (45,062 km)

Shortly after making the deal public on social media, the dealer was contacted by petrolheads from all over the country

And by last week, all Toyota MR2s, except for the yellow one, had been sold.The question is, why did the professor decide to part ways with five classic sports cars in return for the modern roadster? The answer is quite pedantic: he was tired of maintaining the MR2s and wanted something newer

In a previous deal, the former owner of the MR2s traded in another example last year, when he purchased a new Toyota Tacoma

Still, it makes you wonder: car collector or not, what on Earth does one man need five MR2s for?

For more infomation >> Car Collector Trades In FIVE Toyota MR2s For ONE Mazda MX-5 - Duration: 2:30.

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New 2019 Toyota Supra vs Old - Mk5 with BMW B58 vs Mk4 - Duration: 15:06.

Welcome back to the Exotic Car Play Place. Mark here again and today I'm gonna cut

to the chase we are going to compare the old tried-and-true classic

Toyota Supra Mark 4 with the current generation the newly released 2019

Toyota Supra with theBMW powertrain we're gonna get into that I'm gonna share you

specifications and I'll summarize which one I think actually is the best car

welcome back to the channel everybody mark with exotic our play place and

today. So let's talk about some of the basic performance numbers first of all

the new 2019 comes equipped with an inline six three litre turbocharged

engine that's a single turbo twin scroll engine powered by one of your favorites

BMW and of course I know if you're a Toyota fan you probably saw one of my

last videos and this probably stirs something up for you

that being said that car now produces 335 horsepower at a high 5500 RPM and it

also produces 332 pound-feet at between thirty eight hundred and fifty two

hundred RPM makes it a very tractable drivetrain now how does that compare

with the A80 Toyota Supra from the 90s that was basically one of the

enthusiasts favorite car and it is still to this day maintains a cult classic

status and is highly sought after by many many enthusiasts who like them not

only stock but also like to highly modify their cars and that is the A80

generation that car actually is equipped with also a 3 liter inline 6 but this

time this car is a twin turbocharged sequentially turbocharged engine that

produces approximately 320 horsepower and 315 pound-feet of torque

now which one reigns supreme between those two compare the two

obviously the newer car has a marginally amount more horsepower

is that enough to edge this the old classic out is it really enough is it

the engine that really is what will do this car justice well that always boils

down to power-to-weight ratio of course so let's get to weight. The new car weighs

1496 kilograms Oh soaking wet curb weight and the older 2jz version

actually weighs a little bit more and about 1510 kilos putting it at a slight

deficit from the new car now here's the juicy bits because a lot of the older

generation cars the 2jz is loved by many many people and we know very few of them

remain in stock configuration but we have to compare apples to apples because

at some level at some point I would believe that the new car will also be

highly modified once it sets in and people start getting used to it and

actually start accepting it I would guarantee you that it will start seeing

the aftermarket kick in that being said 0 to 60 times on the older generation

car is 0 to 60 in approximately 5 seconds flat

which makes it exceptionally quick especially for its day and still by

today's standard very very swift car for sure how about the new car well there's

a few reports of course and I'm hearing variable numbers but at the end of the

day the new car can put 0 to 60 times down of 3.8 seconds this puts the new

car at about a one-second advantage on the 0 to 60 run and the quarter-mile

time I would expect to be very very close as well how about the top speed

well we'll see the old car there's again there's varying reports of different

numbers and depending on the state of tune can change I've seen numbers as

high as 186 miles per hour but generally it was a lot lower than that the newer

car of course will likely be governed to a hundred and fifty-five miles per hour

that's typically tuned by BMW that would be almost my assumption it has not yet

been tested yet as a top speed run however I would expect the new car to be

in that hundred and fifty five mile per hour limited governor governed speed so

overall if you're talking about power and power-to-weight what would take the

take the cake here obviously if you're talking just sheer numbers the new car

wins out by an edge I would say it's a slightly lighter car has slightly more

power and it translates into a slightly brisk or acceleration overall the newer

car would be slightly lighter on its feet it would feel a little crisper out

of the hole that being said the old car is not lacking anywhere at all but

either way this goes to the new generation now what about the

transmission well we all know that you know the old cars I mean a lot of you

guys that are enthusiasts the old cars came with one of two options in the

turbo format of course either you could get a six-speed manual transmission or a

four-speed shiftable automatic of course the new car sadly enough reports now it

will only come with an 8-speed Auto and this for the true enthusiasts I really

have to say as far as I'm concerned me being an enthusiast even though I'm a

little bit of a BMW fan I love all cars that are truly fun to

drive I will easily give this one up to the older generation the A80 car no

question in my mind the mark 4 wins hands down on the overall driving feel

obviously a translation of driving dynamic utilizing the stick shift gives

you that sense of you know you're operating the car is the driver you

truly owning your taking taking that car by the reins and a lot of the these

automatics do it so well but unfortunately they really do become more

disconnected and of course performance pays dividends but you know the feel the

excitement of the drive slightly starts to wane with time that's why marked four

for the tranny now what about general construction well the new car if we're

talking about the 2019 comes with and even a perfectly even if you call 50/50

perfect and I do perfectly evenly distributed weight balance and that

translates to exceptional track prowess and if we talk about track prowess the

new car is also as stiff and rigid as the older LFA with a carbon fiber

chassis now this car doesn't have that however its built in such a way that it

is truly in fact a very very rigid car one that is going to excite you in a

straight line as well in the corners it also has a few other tricks up its

sleeves like the adaptive variable suspension there's going to be a lot of

little tricks in the new car that make it not only go quickly but efficiently

and safely of course now if we talk about the mark four there was a few

tricks there but they really because it was such a bulky heavy car made of

primarily steel construction Toyota felt there's still some places that they

needed to trim some weight otherwise it was going to be just too fat and so some

of the places where things like aluminum hood and if you had the t-tops who would

give you the aluminum tops it also had a plastic gas tank aluminum transmission

and engine pans of course shed a little weight at the bottom magnesium steering

wheel virtually left it weightless and even did away with extra hardware in the

exhaust system and went with a single exhaust just to shed weight why have all

that extra you don't need it so in terms of the

overall construction who would you say wins this little

battle I would say largely this this goes to the modern car largely because a

lot of the technology is going to lend itself to premium performance and

handling and acceleration it's going to keep you safer it's gonna push allow you

to push the car to more limits particularly on the track environment

while the older car definitely does a lot of great things and because it's

older technology some would argue that that's what makes it an exciting drive

for sure it's going to be a little bit more engaging with a manual gearbox it's

definitely going to lend itself to an exciting driving experience not being

said if you want a really dry you know aggressive driving dynamic experience

you want safety and you want to be able to push the car you know to 90 percent

versus 70 percent on the track you probably want to lean to the newer car

there's nothing to hate about it it's just that good and so we'll talk about

one other area of course is the interior finishing there's no question when you

look at the interior of the new car no question in my mind it is a BMW they

virtually stripped it from the majority of the BMW lineups it all starts with

the leather everything looks very BMW ish and it all starts with essentially

the fit and finish and the parts and the materials to the long straight narrow -

and of course the thing that really gives it away is that big iDrive display

right smack dab in the middle when you sit in the driver's seat it's almost

like you're sitting in a BMW even the dashboard in the console down where the

control for the shifter is feels a lot very BMW I mean the only thing that's

lacking is the M and the colours on it it really does feel like a BMW on the

inside that being said it's very stark and honestly then when you look at the

older car the mark for that car truly feels more like you're in a cockpit like

you're in a jet fighter plane it has a wraparound - it really caters to the

driving experience the controls are there it looks a little busy but in all

honesty the driving area the driving perspective in the

mark for far surpasses in terms of ergonomics look and feel in the older

car than it does in the new car and honestly the interior totally in my mind

has to go to the older car sure it's got some of the older switch gear and it's

got some of the older lights and the dashboard but outside of that the feel

the ergonomics the general layout and and the position the driver position

feels a lot better in the older car and again therefore I have to choose the

older car the mark for for you know the finishing the interior of the look the

the look of the interior so I know there's a lot of haters out there guys a

lot of haters of the new car the new car is so good it's fast its fuel efficient

and likely it's going to be more reliable than a lot of the M cars

because it's not an M engine it's it shares the b-58 engine from BMW which

essentially is a high-performance standard more or less standard engine

from their standard lineups it's from the 340 s on the 440 series of cars so

it's a high-performance engine but it's not an M engine and therefore likely it

will not suffer some of the the little finicky issues that you typically see in

a lot of the M cars as far as the older generation car goes we know that there's

a lot of enthusiasts out there and I honestly I think what's happening here

is if you saw my last video you can recognize the basic dollars and cents is

a big part of why Toyota likely went with this BMW borrowed engine and

transmission however at the end of the day you know this is possibly a

marketing ploy even to bring some BMW clientele over to the Toyota brand very

clever maybe hey there's a thought for you didn't really cross my mind until

recently when you think about it everybody knows that's a BMW drivetrain

in that new Supra well the vast majority of Toyota owners are not looking for

sports cars they're looking for Toyota Camrys they're looking for the Corollas

and the hybrids that is their bread and butter so what if you want to capture

another small marketplace what if we borrow a powertrain from another

company we know it's another premium brand maker but we're going to borrow

some of their hardware publicize it not hide the fact and hope that eventually

we start to see some new clientele trickling through those doors I think

that's a perfect marketing ploy by Toyota and I think that's a very

distinct possibility of one of the game plans that they were looking to optimize

their sales on this car there you know at the end of the day what you're going

to see is the people that love the old-school Toyota Supra will likely

stick with the older Supra it's it's just a totally different car yes it

looks very much the same it performs very much the same but it has a totally

different feel it has a different sound and overall even the driving perspective

and the positioning makes it a whole whole a totally different driving

experience so at the end of the day these truly are two different cars and I

would expect the new Supra to bring in a whole different bunch of clientele the

older car will still have its strong following kid is such a great car and

honestly it's a kind of vehicle it will never get old you know from the fact

that it's reliable and strong from stock format - it can tolerate a thousand

horsepower plus with some heavy mods and still tolerate that power without

blowing it up it's well loved it's well loved in the tuner market as well as you

know just the enthusiasts who love the style in the car in general so at the

end of the day what is my favorite between these two cars honestly between

these two cars if I had to choose today you give me one of each in good shape I

would take the old car yes guys I would take the mark 4 I have to say that

I've driven them in the past they are spectacularly substantial they

feel beefy they're fast they're sexy and with that wing on the back it is just

it's an amazing car yes I love the BMW and I think the b-58 is going to prove

some things here in this next couple of years with this new generation but we'll

see and we'll also see what the reliability looks like on this new

generation that's always gonna be up for a question

everybody knows Toyota is gonna lay it down for reliability BMW they've got a

lot of reliable drive trains but not all of them are reliable and so

let's find out what this engine has in store for the new Supra so everybody I

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