bigc wrote:So expensive!

I've been eying the Yaris. $11K and gets 40 mpg highway.

FuzzBob wrote:

gio wrote:I recall a Geo Metro model from the 90s that boasted 50 mpg. It flopped like a wet sock.

But it was a Geo, after all.

I had one in college, bought used for $3K in the mid-'90s when gas was 95¢ a gallon. $5 got me through the week, and I don't recall a road trip that cost more than $15. Three cylinders, 933cc displacement, 50 mpg, manual steering and light power brake assist so you could save additional gas by turning the car off while coasting downhill with full steering and braking. A set of tires cost $75 after tax. It was big enough inside that I could haul the trio I was in, plus equipment, to shows provided we all carried stuff on our laps. As light as it was, it never needed brakes in the 50K miles I had it.

But that was the good part. A good strong crosswind blew the car off its tack on the interstate. The engine screamed if you did anywhere close to 70 mph. It also blew 2-3 quarts of oil through the oil cap between oil changes, and eventually blew altogether at 100K miles. Somewhere along the line, the radiator cracked, although a $40 weld fixed it. The design was so unsafe that my insurance agent referred to it as "the coffin box."

Oh, and forget letting prospective girlfriends see it.

It was a good idea that couldn't have been more poorly executed.

tmidgett wrote:

FuzzBob wrote:The engine screamed if you did anywhere close to 70 mph. It also blew 2-3 quarts of oil through the oil cap between oil changes, and eventually blew altogether at 100K miles. Somewhere along the line, the radiator cracked, although a $40 weld fixed it. The design was so unsafe that my insurance agent referred to it as "the coffin box."

Oh, and forget letting prospective girlfriends see it.

It was a good idea that couldn't have been more poorly executed.

Evidently, the Geo Metro is making a mini-resurgence.

I just read an article someplace about a guy who is fixing them up and selling them for many times Blue Book value on eBay.

yaledelay wrote:

bigc wrote:So expensive!

I've been eying the Yaris. $11K and gets 40 mpg highway.

My girlfreind has one, she gets about 44 mph on the Highway, its a great car...

bigc wrote:

yaledelay wrote:

bigc wrote:So expensive!

I've been eying the Yaris. $11K and gets 40 mpg highway.

My girlfreind has one, she gets about 44 mph on the Highway, its a great car...

How does it drive? How old is it? Tell me MORE.

tmidgett wrote:Evidently, the Geo Metro is making a mini-resurgence.

burun wrote:The idea is not crap, but the name of the car always makes me think:

Priapism

I know it is not fair.

But this is what I think when I see this name.