Welcome to Found Around The District, where we highlight fascinating cars we find around a city where people are too busy fighting through traffic and hunting for parking to drive anything interesting: Washington, D.C.

This picture appears to come from a 2007 Wangan Midnight forum post, and in the past five years its message has really sunk in: don't do anything like this, ever.

There's more to driving than tire-shredding hoonage. Beautiful roads and a free afternoon are all you need for a perfect drive. Having a first-gen Toyota MR2 and some of the finest driving roads in Hungary at your disposal doesn't hurt either.

One member of the Japanese Nostalgic Car board put it best. "Those cars don't even look real they are in such great shape." Indeed, the German owner of two Toyota Tercels, 1980 and 1984, has kept them in ridiculously perfect condition.

When you were a kid you probably rode a bike, and while mastering that you rode with training wheels. Before even that, you likely rode a trike. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe MR2 custom appeals to your inner child, but will its price have you asking, are you kidding?

At last year's Goodwood Festival, Toyota and racing group Gazoo unveiled an MR2 fitted with front-wheel-turning electric motors and a 3.3-liter V6 for the back. For this year's event, they've upgraded the Sport Hybrid Concept to version two-point-uh-oh.

What started life as a Toyota MR2 was transformed into the unholy combination of a Prowler and Testarossa if designed by a guy whose work was too controversial for VeilSide. Vote it the biggest Tokyo Auto Salon fail here. [TopGear]

Have a Toyota MR2 but really wish you had a Ferrari? The wrong way to make your dreams reality is to eBay for this $2,000 kit that'll help you re-badge your 'yota as an Italian supercar.

The first few MR2s we saw at LeMons races looked pretty good, but since that time the MR2 experience has been a steady drumbeat of spun bearings, thrown rods, and other engine problems. Some blame the oil pan's inability to keep the pump fed under hard cornering, while others point to the cooling system's piping. On…

Let's say you've got a Toyota MR2 sitting around and you're bored. What to do? Well, if you're Japanese engineering tuner Gazoo, you put an electric motor on the front wheels and create the four-wheel-drive Gazoo Sports Hybrid Concept.