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.
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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.
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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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That car looks pretty cool and is way better than some bullshit SUV, way to have the opposite of a good opinion
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.
I already said I'd buy it, you can stop listing benefits
I have drifted one of these through mud and they are great :D
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.
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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.
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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.
They did, that particular model was under 12k though so you were looking at 200-ish a month (5 year loan at 8%-ish) which was totally possible on the minimum wage of the day ($4.25/hr).
Ouch, that hurts to hear as a millennial
Decent chance you could get it financed for 0%, too.
Idk if you're working minimum wage that's a tough payment to make. You were making 680 a month if you could get 40hrs/week. Then taxes and gas for the car your spending half your income on your car. If you're working 40hrs you aren't a student or something so then rent and excetra. This was out of your price range if you were sensible with money and working minimum wage.
It would be tight, but not as impossible as it feels now; 680 seems a little low, my math had it closer to 730-ish. My mom got 40+ hours every week at a convenience store around that time, granted we didn't have a new car (ever), but comparing it to now it seems impossible.
Maybe I'm misremembering but rent was cheap not very long ago, in early 2004-ish I was paying $250/mo for a very small 2 bed house and the lady I ended up marrying had just moved out of a single-wide trailer that she was paying $100/mo for. At that point I was working at one of the same stores my mother had worked at except I was getting $5.15/hr (minimum wage at the time).
Now it seems like cheap rent is 5x that much and minimum wage here is still just $7.15.
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.
This is what I came here to say too. 12 and 24 month loans were a thing back then. The 60 month and more loans nowadays are fucking nuts.
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?
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.
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Suzuki Sidekick, a later version of the Suzuki Samurai. Would eventually be followed by rhe Suzuki Jimny. They are all incredible.
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.
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People used to pay these in 24 payments at 0% in Canada. I swear to God.
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.
I hate that more people didn't think that way
At least it didn't break with software updates. My Kia was KIA after a firmware release designed to prevent what it caused.
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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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If the Geo brand came back this very instant with their peak model mix, they would be insanely successful right now.
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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
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?
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.
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 Geo Tracker and it was close to 40 mpg as you were going to get in the late 90s. That and the geo metro.
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