That car looks pretty cool and is way better than some bullshit SUV, way to have the opposite of a good opinion
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I hate that more people didn't think that way
I don't think five year car loans existed in the ninties. Also, you could still get a car for like two paychecks back then.
It wasn't what I'd call a highway vehicle, but it would get your around town. No power, but it weighed nothing so they were ok for slow off road use. If you draft a big enough semi you can get them up to 85.
People used to pay these in 24 payments at 0% in Canada. I swear to God.
They want you to forget 19 year olds could afford to finance brand new cars in the 90.
I would like 100% but that car today, it looks fucking awesome. What is it?
Suzuki Sidekick, a later version of the Suzuki Samurai. Would eventually be followed by rhe Suzuki Jimny. They are all incredible.
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.
Hilarious, Geo vehicles far outlasted any crap branded by GM.
There are still hundreds of those trackers on the road today. Not a single tesla or 202x chevy Malibu etc made today will be on the road in 20 years. I see junk yards full of modern cars that look like they came from a dealership because the repairs for a new engine or transmission cost more than they are worth.
I daily drive a 00 vw golf an 05 lexus that can run far into the future with me easily being able to maintain them
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
You can feel that in most small cars.
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.
a first gen Suzuki Vitara
But not the Grand Vitara...Official car of Mahk.
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.
No if anything we should judge harder.
The fuck you mean they spent 100k on THAT
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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.
That thing is rad as hell. Look at those wheels! Look at that decal!
My friend's dad had one and we all loved it.
That's a cool fucking car, I wish they still sold cars with that much personality
And death trap handling. You just look at a corner and die.
Same is true for any tall SUV or pickup, then people lift them so they can die faster.
I already said I'd buy it, you can stop listing benefits
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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’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!
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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.
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.
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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.
But the Tracker isn't a terrible choice.
It's for when you want a Jeep Wrangler, but a bit more affordable and a bit more daily usable.
Very compact, decent use of space, relatively good gas mileage for what it is, okay off-road capability, available manual transmission... There's a lot to like here. Honestly, it's the compact crossover before compact crossovers were a thing ... except that it has more off-road ability than pretty much any modern compact crossover.
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
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