Car Collector Trades In FIVE Toyota MR2s For ONE Mazda MX-5

How far would you go to secure a modern roadster? Surely not as far as trading in five classic sports cars for it, right?

Well, according to Ben Brotherton, the sales manager at Coad Toyota in Missouri, quoted by TheDrive, a retired college professor did just that: he traded in five first-gen Toyota MR2s, in return for a barely driven 2016 Mazda MX-5 Miata.

The collection included a yellow example from 1985, with 207,000 miles (333,134 km) on the clock, which was originally finished in silver, as well as a red one, from 1986, with 140,000 miles (225,308 km) on the odo and a solid metal roof. The 1987 car sports a white paint, comes with an automatic transmission and was driven for 80,500 miles (129,552 km).

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Another white model has 78,500 miles (126,334 km) on the clock, was made in 1988 and features a supercharged engine. As for the final example, it was put together in 1989, sports an Ice Blue Pearl finish and a manual transmission, and is the car driven the least of the pack: just 28,000 miles (45,062 km).

Shortly after making the deal public on social media, the dealer was contacted by petrolheads from all over the country. And by last week, all Toyota MR2s, except for the yellow one, had been sold.

The question is, why did the professor decide to part ways with five classic sports cars in return for the modern roadster? The answer is quite pedantic: he was tired of maintaining the MR2s and wanted something newer.

In a previous deal, the former owner of the MR2s traded in another example last year, when he purchased a new Toyota Tacoma.

Still, it makes you wonder: car collector or not, what on Earth does one man need five MR2s for?