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... a 20th Century triumph of mechanical engineering. No Bluetooth to sync. No GPS , you'll have commit your route to memory. No airbags, this is not your car of choice if you can't drive worth beans. No ABS, you'll have to learn to the art and science of brake modulation. No automatic rev matching, you'll have to learn heel & toe. Mechanical linkage from cockpit to gearbox, there's no shift-by-wire on this car. No fly-by-wire, it's mechanical throttle actuation, from the pedal all the way back to the engine. No cup holders, either. Everything you see on this car is honestly mechanical. How Toyota engineers conceived the heat sink of their MR2 Supercharged, cool air to be drawn up from the undercarriage, through the intercooler, out the cheese-grader bossed and slatted, into the boot lid. On the MR2 Supercharged, its air-to-air intercooler shares mounting hardware with its battery. The battery/inter-cooler bracket you see here, I had custom powder-coated, super white, to match the car (I have two of them). Most people who owned these cars weren't too bright. Funniest thing you've ever seen, many of my contemporaries who owned supercharged MR2s dundered themselves into ruining them, doing "the George Foreman Grill" modification (e.g., fluid-filled intercooler conversion). The absurdity, some of the heat sinks they adapted were well over 4 feet wide, with Porsche 917-30 style 650 CFM fans zip-tied beneath. I don't do stupid mods; I won't do a mod if it adds weight. To the chagrin of the dimwits at Top End Performance (e.g., Spearco) and to the consternation of the community college drop-outs at the MR2.com, no one could ever develop an air-to-air intercooler which outperformed the OEM unit one Toyota's engineers provided. Not only did the US$1,200 Spearco aftermarket heat sink turn out to be a behemoth disappointment? It weighed more, and it overheated the engine bay: [url="http://www.mr2oc.com/showthread.php?t=162903&highlight=spearco"] Turbonetics intercooler upgrade kit - MR2 Owners Club Message Board[/url] These automotive aftermarket developers like Spearco do no development, whatsoever. They use automotive enthusiasts to beta their products. And, when their components prove to be defective? Just so long as they got paid, they don't care. Final analysis, Toyota's OEM air-to-air IC proved superior --