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I own a 1996 Toyota MR2 (SW20) Spider, one of only 88 produced.
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So, EV seems like the best route to keep my car on the road and keep a bit of (not very well known) Toyota history.
I had never heard of a W20 spider, so of course I had to look it up...
SW20 Spider (from Wikipedia)
Between 1996 and 1999, Toyota TechnoCraft (TTC) produced 91 MKII SW20 MR2 Spiders. These cars featured a retractable, cloth softtop roof, wingless trunk lid, and an engine lid that was unique to the SW20 spider. Most of these cars were automatics and nearly all of them sported a naturally aspirated engine. Toyota decided against putting its name or logo on these cars as a result of its desire to distance itself from cars that featured leaky roofs. Most of the Spiders came in Lucerne Silver with a blue side moulding and featured black and blue accented cloth seats.[36]

Several of these cars have been imported into the UK.
If the comments in the Wikipedia article are true, Toyota may not want this bit of their history remembered. :eek:

For EV conversion, it should be the same as any W20 (second generation) MR2. There have been a few of those to use as sources of ideas.
 

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The link for an image doesn't work. I see that it is from googleusercontent, and is some huge key value, not a path to a user's folder or album, so I suspect that it only works for the person who copied the link; the rest of us get a placeholder suggesting that access is not allowed. There should be another way to generate a link for sharing the image.
 
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