There’s an ocean of these motors out there. The Lotus supercharger is obviously the first thing you clock in the engine bay of Turnbull’s MR2, but it’s what’s underneath that’s interesting.

which makes for a solid improvement over the MR2's factory numbers. However, the real draw for this swap comes from the engine's potential. The Yamaha-designed block was so good that Lotus ...

If you go to the Wikipedia page for the MR2 you will read that the suspension had the magic wand of Roger Becker, Lotus’s legendary engineer, waved over it. I wasn’t so sure about this ...