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re: Ever drive a Geo Metro?
Posted on 3/15/16 at 7:42 am to danilo
Posted on 3/15/16 at 7:42 am to danilo
Got a rental for a few days in Palm Springs when my wife and I first got married. Told the agent to give me the least expensive car he had. It was a red Geo Metro.
Stuck out like a sore thumb driving down Rodeo Drive. We decided to go on the Palm Desert Tram and had to turn off the A/C to get enough power to go uphill to get to the tram station.
Easily the crappiest car I have ever experienced.
Stuck out like a sore thumb driving down Rodeo Drive. We decided to go on the Palm Desert Tram and had to turn off the A/C to get enough power to go uphill to get to the tram station.
Easily the crappiest car I have ever experienced.
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Posted on 3/15/16 at 7:45 am to danilo
One guy in high school put 8 12" subwoofers in a good just like that teal green one.
Posted on 3/15/16 at 7:51 am to danilo
Mom had to get a rental car one time. All they had was a Geo Metro and we have a family of 6. She had to come pick me up from High School, and I had no idea she was driving this. She pulls up to the front of the school, kids all around, and honks and hollers at me just to embarrass me. It worked.
Posted on 3/15/16 at 8:27 am to danilo
No, but I learned to drive in a Geo Tracker. I used to cruise around the neighborhood in that thing all day long.
Posted on 3/15/16 at 8:30 am to kballa6
G to the E O!
Posted on 3/15/16 at 8:38 am to danilo
My Mom taught in Iota when I was in 1st grade, and I can remember riding in our piece of shite Metro every morning on the way to school with her. We fly down the interstate going 65 mph in that beast. We had a frickin piece of plywood bolted to the floor because some of the floor was rusted through 
. We weren't poor either, my Mom also had a brand new Chevy Mark van that was the family vehicle and my Dad had a Silverado as a company vehicle so the Metro was strictly used as a mileage vehicle for my Mom. Good times.
. We weren't poor either, my Mom also had a brand new Chevy Mark van that was the family vehicle and my Dad had a Silverado as a company vehicle so the Metro was strictly used as a mileage vehicle for my Mom. Good times.Posted on 3/15/16 at 8:38 am to RATeamWannabe
I knew you would find this. It's as if I threw up the Bat Signal in the sky.
Posted on 3/15/16 at 8:41 am to danilo
Our family car in late 80's early 90's....family of four.
I got made fun of a ton
I got made fun of a ton
Posted on 3/15/16 at 8:48 am to LSUfan20005
My first brand new car was a geo prism. But by that time it was a badged corolla so it was a great car for the price. My MIL had a corolla and the door stickers both said Toyota plant.
Posted on 3/15/16 at 8:52 am to beaverfever
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I'm no car snob but I remember I got a ride in a Geo Metro once when I was probably 13. I had never heard of a Geo Metro but I remember thinking it was BY FAR the shittiest car I had ever been in. I'm pretty sure it actually topped out around 75 mph and at anything over 60 it shook in an unsettling manner.
My first car was a 91 geo prizm which had the same 3 cylinder engine. The car started rattling around 75-80mph
Posted on 3/15/16 at 9:51 am to BottomlandBrew
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Never drove a Metro, but I dated a girl who had a Geo Prism. Truthfully, it wasn't a bad little car. It was slow as molasses and you felt intimidated driving on the interstate with truck-nut baws weaving by, but overall it wasn't a bad car for a 20 year old girl. It didn't matter if you barely touched the gas or if you mashed it down with everything you had, it was only going to accelerate at one speed. Handled surprisingly well, but with that short and wide of a wheel base, I guess that's to be expected.
I'm pretty sure that the Geo Prizm was actually a rebadged Toyota Corolla. That's why it was much better than the Geo Metro
Posted on 3/15/16 at 9:59 am to danilo
Had one for a few months while in Venezuela. Anyone who's ever driven in Venezuela knows why that would be problematic. I parked it at the airport in Barcelona and left it...
Funny thing was it had the darkest window tint of any vehicle I've been in to date, including cop cars. The top 8 inches or so of the windshield was black vinyl and the rest the windshield was probably close to 20%. Bizarre.
Funny thing was it had the darkest window tint of any vehicle I've been in to date, including cop cars. The top 8 inches or so of the windshield was black vinyl and the rest the windshield was probably close to 20%. Bizarre.
Posted on 3/15/16 at 10:09 am to danilo
I drove a Geo Tracker every day for a year while stationed in Korea. Paid $300 cash.
Come to think of it, it was the most reliable car I ever had.
Come to think of it, it was the most reliable car I ever had.
Posted on 3/15/16 at 10:22 am to danilo
I promise it was faster that this little POS that we used for a cruiser at this radio station where I worked.
It was an '87 GMC Jimmy with automatic and a 4 banger.
It carried two Marti remote broadcast units, a rather large car power amp and a pair Klipsch Heresey's. On top of that any cd's and tapes and other crap we were giving away.
When the a/c was running, the throttle had to be floored at all times to maintain 60.
That vehicle was the result of a "trade" from a local GMC dealer.
It needed to be pushed off into the Ouachita river to a watery grave.
It was an '87 GMC Jimmy with automatic and a 4 banger.
It carried two Marti remote broadcast units, a rather large car power amp and a pair Klipsch Heresey's. On top of that any cd's and tapes and other crap we were giving away.
When the a/c was running, the throttle had to be floored at all times to maintain 60.
That vehicle was the result of a "trade" from a local GMC dealer.
It needed to be pushed off into the Ouachita river to a watery grave.
Posted on 3/15/16 at 10:25 am to 632627
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My first car was a 91 geo prizm which had the same 3 cylinder engine. The car started rattling around 75-80mph
Posted on 3/15/16 at 10:50 am to danilo
I drove a Geo Prism in HS. Looked like a corolla. Not a bad little car.
Posted on 3/15/16 at 10:54 am to ruzil
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Easily the crappiest car I have ever experienced.
You havent lived until you have yogo'd
Posted on 3/15/16 at 10:59 am to NYCAuburn
My best friend in high school rocked a chevette.
Posted on 3/15/16 at 11:57 am to danilo
lol I own one and drove it today..
1994 geo metro 3 cyl 1.0 with 210k..
its ugly but gets 40-45 mpg all day..
fill up is 12$..
1994 geo metro 3 cyl 1.0 with 210k..
its ugly but gets 40-45 mpg all day..
fill up is 12$..
Posted on 3/15/16 at 12:05 pm to CAD703X
In high school, I had a Datsun 210...there is a reason you may never have heard of it. I hated it with a passion. It was a 4 speed with a pull choke on dash, about 4 months after I got it, I just stopped using the clutch all together. All my friends had trucks, many 4wd. I would go to where they would go to play in the mud and get as much speed as I could and cut the wheel, went through ditches, took gravel roads curves with no caution. Dad sold it after about a year, still ran, would not surprise me the least if it's still running. I could not destroy that thing.
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