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I'm looking to buy a 2nd gen MR2 and a few of the clean ones that I have my eye on are right hand drive... what's the deal with them? are they expensive to insure or register, and should I stay away from them?
 
Ça me coûte 400$/an environ assuré d'un seul bord, y'a peu d'assureurs rhd donc pouvoir de négociation limité.

Rien de mal avec les rhd (au contraire, elles ont un meilleur turbo avec 20-40hp de plus) mais trouver une MR2 pas ti coune (sauf la mienne), bonne chance.
 
Asking on MR, you're going to be told it's the worst thing you can do. and that you're going to look like a ti-coune.

The reality is you're going to get a better maintained, likely more powerful car for a cheaper price, as long as you shop for a decent one that wasn't beaten to the ground.

As Broody said, insurance is a little trickier, but if you're not 18 and have a good driving record, you won't be paying as much as with a Porsche. Make sure the one you're looking at has been plated in the last 12 months or it will require an inspection...SAAQ approved garages no longer inspect RHD cars, so you'll be out of luck to get it back on the road.
 
i was paying 800 a year with lareau for my rhd mr2. 0 accidents and 0 tickets.
one of the reasons i sold it.

otherwiser its an amazing go-kart like car even if it doesn't have huge power
 
Turbo86 said:
i was paying 800 a year with lareau for my rhd mr2. 0 accidents and 0 tickets.
one of the reasons i sold it.

otherwiser its an amazing go-kart like car even if it doesn't have huge power
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Lareau c'est des estie d'crosseur en partant... T'aurais du magasiner ailleurs car un de mes chums avais une Pulsar GTI-R et il payais 350$ part années.

Envoyé de mon Nexus 4
 
Metro666 said:
Lareau c'est des estie d'crosseur en partant... T'aurais du magasiner ailleurs car un de mes chums avais une Pulsar GTI-R et il payais 350$ part années.

Envoyé de mon Nexus 4
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+1 ... quand je magasinais mon assurance pour mon ancien gtir Lareau était comme à 1000+ ... finalement j'avais reussis à m'Assurer pour comme 600$ avec Belair.
 
goshko said:
+1 ... quand je magasinais mon assurance pour mon ancien gtir Lareau était comme à 1000+ ... finalement j'avais reussis à m'Assurer pour comme 600$ avec Belair.
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j'avais fait le tour et lareau était le moins cher dans mon cas. aucune idée pourquoi mais bon comme toute assurance, ya pas de logique à leurs prix
 
Turbo86 said:
i was paying 800 a year with lareau for my rhd mr2. 0 accidents and 0 tickets.
one of the reasons i sold it.

otherwiser its an amazing go-kart like car even if it doesn't have huge power
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Last year I switched from Lareau to Intact (with groupe Lessard I think) and saved 150$/year.

Il faut un courtier qui veuille assurer. Par exemple l'assureur de ma moto (qui m'assure chez Intact) n'était pas intéressé de m'assurer, pourtant avec Lessard je suis assuré avec Intact pareil...
 
Perfect, just the answers I wanted. For sure going to get one though, besides the Testarossa and Diablo (which are both out of my league), it's my childhood dream car. Whenever I roll up an MR2 at a red light I really envy whoever is driving it lol. I'm going to find one unmodified/unti-couned if possible, and of course low kms and never winter driven. could take a while though since I'm extremely picky and "OCD", but we have another month or so till the snows gone so that's good.
 
Sa me coutais 378$ par annee , 1 bord avec La Personelle. J'habitais chez moman popa dans ce temps la et mon pere avait toute d'assurer avec La Personelle , donc j'ai eu un bon deal avec eux! Sinon personne voulait m'assurer !!

Je te conseil un HARDTOP GT ! Transmission 3rd gen avec double synchro et oem lsd !


Good luck ! Fun car to drive ! :bigup:
 
i hope you have a good file and werent dumb and stupid like i was cuz now my skyline cost me 780$/month to insure ... hope you get that mr2 of yours :)
 
So worth it to get a JDM one as long as its in great working order & well maintained. The japanese version got so many goodies we never got in NA, and prices are only lower due to many people not liking to drive on the wrong side...
 
You sure you wanna get into the whole rhd business? It will be the reason why you would wanna get rid of your child dream car in near future.

I say try to find a clean one from the state and swap wtv with jdm counter parts. You will appreciate it more imo.
 
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