People used to pay these in 24 payments at 0% in Canada. I swear to God.
Is this the one that had that little tilt gauge on the dash to let you know that if you cornered too hard you were gonna die?
I would like 100% but that car today, it looks fucking awesome. What is it?
It’s a Geo Tracker. Geo was a brand that GM made to make partnerships with and import foreign cars without “damaging” their brand. The Geo Tracker is a GM version of the Suzuki Samarai. With some modifications they’re beasts off road.
Geo Tracker. I had the unfortunate luck to have my driving school lessons in one of those. It’s really light so when trucks passed me on the highway I could feel the car get pushed a little bit from air displacement, which was not a calming experience for a new teen driver.
Also wouldn’t recommend for the back windows being made of plastic
Ha a buddy of mine had one back in my college days. We took a road trip about 50miles in the middle of winter and it was wild how sketchy that thing was. Plastic windows flapping like crazy, heat struggling to keep up because the cabin was so leaky, awful road noise, pretty much no power at highway speed, etc. I’ve heard they’re actually somewhat reliable but it would be painful to live with for any length of time.
Took a 16 hour (each way) road trip with 3 buddies across a bunch northern states during March back in the early 80s in a ragtop Jeep Cherokee. Snow, rain, cold. 2/10. Would not recommend.
It’s basically a first gen Suzuki Vitara if you want a model you’d find in Australia. It was the upmarket model from the Sierra (aka Jimny) of that era which was also a nice little 4wd albeit with a few stability issues.
They want you to forget 19 year olds could afford to finance brand new cars in the 90.
That thing is rad as hell. Look at those wheels! Look at that decal!
No body was writing 60 month car loans in the 90s
Seriously this car was like 11k new. Companies hadn’t full on started taking advantage of everyone yet.
God damn I didn’t even think they were that expensive. Just had to look it up and looks like they arranged $9,800 to 14k. I sold cars in the early 2000s and I remember selling a brand new Toyota Tacoma first gen for 10,500 out the door.
I want it right now and forever
My favorite car has always been my precious tiny '93 metro, but I could settle for a Tracker
I loved my cousins metro! It was like a little gokart, doing 50 felt like 70.
Pretty sure I had this Micro Machine
That’s a Geo Tracker and it was close to 40 mpg as you were going to get in the late 90s. That and the geo metro.
There are like 50k people who looked at the Cybertruck and thought: “I want to spend $100k on that!”
We shouldn’t be judging the past here.
Besides, those lil trackers were badass and ones in good condition are still sought after. The one in the picture would probably sell for about $7,000 in that condition.
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No if anything we should judge harder.
The fuck you mean they spent 100k on THAT
Cybertrucks literally looks like the textures of the video game haven’t loaded yet.
Cars in gta3 looked better than that xD
And that’s after all the nazi shit.
That and people still buy Jeeps.
There is always an idiot ready to be separated from their money.
I loved my 2019 Cherokee. I didn’t do any off-road things but it pulled my trailer better than my 2024 Pathfinder does. If I could, I’d switch to a Grand Cherokee without second thoughts.
Jeep has consistently ranked the in the bottom three for reliability for over 20 years.
They are poorly built which us a shame because on spec sheets they look good for off-roading but I’d never trust one in outback Australia.
Jeeps are weird in that they are great cars if you know how to do work yourself or have a cheap mechanic. If not then no fuck them.
It is a sacred universal law that the most reliable truck on earth is a used Toyota hilux with the machine gun bed mount package
In the 90s anything over 3 years was frowned upon. 4 years maybe if you were desperate. Interest rates were middling, and var prices relatively about the same I think. Hard to tell but a cheap car was 7500 - 10k in the early early 90s.
That’s a cool fucking car, I wish they still sold cars with that much personality
They’re called Jimny in Japan and Latin America. Check them out. You can import a 25+ year old one for about $7000, usually with 49k miles.
Source: I’ve done it twice.
I thought the Jimny was the Samurai
The Tracker was a rebadged Suzuki
It is. But a Geo Tracker and Jimny might as well be the same.
@OrteilGenou @orbituary in Portugal jimmy and samurai are doferent models… the one on the photo looks lite a vitara for me
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I rented a Jimny in Aruba and took it off road. Was one of the most fun driving cars I’ve been in.
Totally. The new ones are so nice.
I drive a 94 Delica these days. It’s a great 4x4.
And death trap handling. You just look at a corner and die.
I already said I’d buy it, you can stop listing benefits
I’ve owned two Suzuki Samurais at different times in my life as my primary mode of transportation for a total of about 12 years of my life. Somehow I managed to keep all 4 wheels on the ground the whole time…well except for the times I purposefully took it airborne. Which both Samurais also had no problem with.
That’s kool aid from Jeep back in the day to discredit the Samurai as unfit.
and it worked
It was fine though, for its time, the Samurai didn’t flip any worse than anything else.
I have drifted one of these through mud and they are great :D
And yet the Model F trucks are consistent best-sellers today.
It’s the short wheelbase and solid rear axle. They are unstable even driving straight.
And with the pickup trucks, it’s the high center of gravity which makes them deathtraps.
And with all cars it’s my bad driving skills that makes them deathtraps.
Bruh if that were available today and electric and buy two
Sorry, all electric cars must be giant SUVs or crossovers with bland styling, built in iPads instead of knobs, and mandatory data harvesting
I had one of these for a few years. It was noisy af with a soft top. It had no guts on acceleration. Other than that, it really was peak.
Best beach city transportation. Cheap, small, convertible.
It couldn’t handle much acceleration. It weighed almost nothing so it would be hard to keep from just spinning the tires if it had any more power.
I’d take that Tracker over any car built in 2026.
This car says tracker on the outside, but modern cars have trackers everywhere on the inside. Capitalism just keeps innovating!
Very much so!
