turbo

Ive still got my 5. Ive had it for 8 years now. At the time it was the quickest in the area and one of the few road going ones in the country to have the top end competely gasflowed/ported out. At the time it was putting out about 220bhp. Not bad for a 1.4! lol. Its down on power atm as its been off the road for the last couple of years. Im just getting it ready for the race track atm. Ive stripped the interior out and will be fitting a full roll cage in it this weekend. Then i`ll tune it all back up and MOT it ready for trackdays.

They are by far the quickest car you can buy for the money. Although, they are going up in price atm. I saw one in a garage the other day, competely stock with high mileage going for 2500quid, when a year back it would have only been worth 1000quid. But, you need to get an expert to check the car over before you buy it as too many of them havent been looked after and if you buy a bad one it will cost you a fortune to fix.

I used to buy/sell them, and specialise in tuning them up, and you can easily spend about 1500quid fixing one up into a good standard condition. But, the advantage is that you can get an extra 40bhp out of them for litterally 80p!!!!

If you want to know anything about them, just pm me. The calibra turbo is cheap now, as is the MR2 turbo. My mates dad flogged a lovely MR2 turbo, K-reg last year for £2500, and as Paul will probably tell you, they are pretty quick cars for the money. Depends really if you want to go for hot hatch or a sports car.