This Batmobile-Like Toyota MR2 Creation Has Sideways Transit Van Lights
While our used car classifieds picks are generally vehicles we’re lusting after, every now and then we get a little morbid and pluck out something bizarre. You might have seen that weird E39 BMW M5 with an awkward E60 body conversion, or perhaps you remember the MG F that someone had tried (and we have to say: failed) to turn into a Bugatti Veyron replica.
This, however, might just be the most ridiculous yet. It was - once upon a time - a second-generation Toyota MR2. Look closely, and you can see the doors and roof of the original car are still there, shrouded in the kind of bodywork that makes it look like a knock-off Batman film prop.
Curious as to what those rear lights are from? So were we, and after looking at them for quite some time and doing some extensive Google image searching, our social media team figured it out: they’re from the current-generation Ford Transit van, rotated 90 degrees. Yes, really.
Just in case it wasn’t bizarre enough already, that, erm, curious bodywork isn’t made from fibreglass: it’s all metal. This won’t have been cheap to do.
The seller dubs it a ‘supercar project’, although it won’t exactly have supercar performance - the car it’s based on is a non-turbo ‘GT’ MR2, which will be outputting around 150bhp. And it’s a fair assumption that all that new bodywork will have added quite a bit of weight.
The price for this unpainted and, um, bold project? £5000. Unsurprisingly, it has been up at least a few months with no takers.
Source: eBay via @ProjectCarsUK on Twitter
Growing up on a diet of World Rally Championship highlights and lengthy Gran Turismo 2 sessions, a life in cars was as good as inevitable for Matt.
Comments
The face the seller made when he first saw the car in it’s current form. Pure love!
So much work to do something this awful
And it’s not even road legal. Well it won’t be when the MOT need renewing
yeah don’t want to get hit by that thing
Batman called, he wants his MR2 back
How do I delete somebody else’s car?
It’s awful but gotta admit that sideways transit light idea is pretty genius
It would look pretty good if the rest of the car actually followed that design language, but they are so much out of place here.
Yes, a bit like the current Renault (Megane, Talisman) rear lights, which look really good imo
Go commit drop caravan over car
The MR2 massacre needs to end.
By the time i get the chance to buy one, therr wont be any left
I really appreciate the effort and work that has been put in, and the Transit lights are genius!
But they should’ve gone for a different design…
Damm I’d buy that.