This Batmobile-Like Toyota MR2 Creation Has Sideways Transit Van Lights

Believe it or not, this car - wearing an extreme custom body made from metal - was once a second-generation MR2
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.

This Batmobile-Like Toyota MR2 Creation Has Sideways Transit Van Lights

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.

This Batmobile-Like Toyota MR2 Creation Has Sideways Transit Van Lights

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 interior of the car looks to have been left alone
The interior of the car looks to have been left alone

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

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Comments

chrislol
08/15/2018 - 10:34 |
214 | 4
Jesse Mast (back to Scirocco)

In reply to by chrislol

The face the seller made when he first saw the car in it’s current form. Pure love!

08/15/2018 - 11:39 |
30 | 0
Anonymous

So much work to do something this awful

08/15/2018 - 10:36 |
42 | 0
slevo beavo

And it’s not even road legal. Well it won’t be when the MOT need renewing

08/15/2018 - 10:38 |
10 | 0

yeah don’t want to get hit by that thing

08/15/2018 - 11:02 |
12 | 0
Noah Thorley Images

Batman called, he wants his MR2 back

08/15/2018 - 10:43 |
16 | 0
Jakob

How do I delete somebody else’s car?

08/15/2018 - 10:54 |
120 | 0
DL🏁

It’s awful but gotta admit that sideways transit light idea is pretty genius

08/15/2018 - 10:57 |
78 | 2

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.

08/15/2018 - 11:07 |
54 | 2

Yes, a bit like the current Renault (Megane, Talisman) rear lights, which look really good imo

08/15/2018 - 16:21 |
8 | 14
5:19.55

Go commit drop caravan over car

08/15/2018 - 11:36 |
8 | 0
Anonymous

The MR2 massacre needs to end.

By the time i get the chance to buy one, therr wont be any left

08/15/2018 - 12:11 |
10 | 0
Anonymous

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…

08/15/2018 - 12:25 |
4 | 0
Anonymous

Damm I’d buy that.

08/15/2018 - 13:29 |
0 | 0