Thankfully, this isnt a story about my own experiences, but a friends

He sold his mr2 about 5-6 months ago. He put alot of work into it, rebuilt the engine etc, but decided to sell it in the pursuit of somthing else. He still loved the car

Today while browsing boostcruising for mr2 parts, I found his old car. A mangled Mess. I dont know exactly what happened (yet) but the ad said he hit a tree

http://www.boostcruising.com.au/car-sales/2418436-1990-Toyota-MR2-for-Sale.html

Very unfortunate. 

Another case of the fully hektic drifter?

Just another one to add to this....

Jaemus' 3VZ V6 powered SW20 when he sold it to "MR2V6"

 
Couple of months later...

 

Apparently he was battling a gtr down nebo and hit some gravel and lost it

Eric
Apparently he was battling a gtr down nebo and hit some gravel and lost it

Excuse my ignorance, but...
 
LMFAO

this isn't a bad thing for people with MR2's......more parts and the rarer they get the better the value will be.

Knightrous

Eric
Apparently he was battling a gtr down nebo and hit some gravel and lost it

Excuse my ignorance, but...
 
LMFAO

+1 !!!!! LOL

Good advice, as the next owner probably wouldn't realize that real life is not like cartoons..... until its too late.

Sad to see these great cars written off like this. Like Dirty Harry said "a man's got to know his limitations", but its a terrible way to find out. It also proves that a few people are a lot more limited than they want to believe.
 
Someone I met late last year had a pristine 1997 Bathurst with only 86k on the speedo and was a one-owner car. Trying to go around the huge roundabout near Eumundi in the wet he lost it and slide sideways into the long grass. Didn't notice anything really wrong until he went to drive off.
 
Big noise coming from the back of the car so he thought he'd probably dropped a tyre and had busted a mag wheel. What he didn't know was that hidden in the grass there remained the bottom meter or so of a steel and concrete street light stanchion which had cut a channel right across the underside of the car at the firewall behind the driver. The car suddenly started going in two directions, the front at about 30 degrees to the back. End of story - the car was written off and he has not been able to find such a good stock one again.
 
The moral is that these are damn tough cars but there are limitations, usually on the part of the driver.

Some people just don't realise that you need to be cautious of changes in road surface, hazards, in the wet, etc. Motorcyclists tend to be acutely aware of this, but in a car you feel safer to push limits. To be fair though, even the best race and rally drivers in the world still have accidents, random stuff happens. Learning limits and training instinctive emergency reactions on a skid-pan or mud-flat helps.

Then again, some people just don't have functional brains.

These cars deserve some respect, they are quite capable, but Mid-Rear cars are less forgiving than all other drive configurations except Rear-Engine (hence why some Porsche's have the moniker "widow maker").