Those Geos weren’t around long. Didn’t see used ones around long either. I gathered they were crap. Though I doubt as bad as the Yugo. My wife had a Saturn. Now those were crap!

 

I think it was an experiment by GM..... Most of the Geo's didn't last, however, Chevy still makes the Tracker. At least, I think they still make it??? In any even, it lasted longer then the Prizm, or Metro.....

We had a metro come in with a blown motor. (under warranty) Mechanic ordered a long block for it. Few days later, UPS comes by, and drops off a box..... I was curious what was in it, so, opened it up. It was the motor..... The mechanic came over, looked at it, lifted it out of the box, by himself.... carried it over to the car, and set it down....... I don't think it weighed 150 pounds.......

 

I’ll take a pass.

 

The running joke at the dealership at the time was: If you scrape of some of the paint, it says 'Budweiser' underneath. They truly were just beercans with engines......

 

I remember shopping for cars for the wife back then. The Geo dealer was closed (sunday) so we could only look at what was on the lot. Never went back.

 

I gotta admit, I did like the Tracker. (essentially a suzuki samurai....) Small, fairly light, four wheel drive, and respectable gas mileage. The only problem was... the engines had a habit of developing a 'window'..... Sometimes with a rod sticking out of it, sometimes not. We had a customer come in, complaining of heavy oil consumption, and it was smokey under the hood. Said he had been driving it like that for months, and finally got tired of always having to add oil. Pop the hood, and right at the front, drivers side of the engine, there was a hole you could toss a cat through...... I pointed at it, and said: Found your problem..... I couldn't believe this guy never saw that..... It was the first thing that caught my eye when I opened the hood......

 

Perhaps that customer deserved that car.

 

I see them around here, usually in the Fall, for sale.The problem when they were new was they tended to fall over. The ones around here are usually modified. I've seen them lifted with huge tires. One, the tires were nearly touching each other.