<< The people here calling the MR-2 "under powered" have never driven the thing, and are only parroting what they've read from spec sheets.
I've had the pleasure of driving one, and it can hardly be called "under powered." It's got all the power you'd need for a small two seater roadster.
Roadsters are NOT about brute power, and never have been. They're about turn on a dime handling. Besides, sub 7 seconds 0-60 is nothing to sneeze at. >>
Its easy to turn on a dime when the car is going slow.
I've ridden in one, never driven one. I still say its way underpowered. The old MR2 Turbo was a model of what 2 seaters should be like. Wish we actually got those in the later 90s