That’s a cool fucking car, I wish they still sold cars with that much personality
3.9% APR
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Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
And death trap handling. You just look at a corner and die.
Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
I already said I’d buy it, you can stop listing benefits
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
I have drifted one of these through mud and they are great :D
DJKJuicy@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
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.
Willoughby@piefed.world 1 month ago
That’s kool aid from Jeep back in the day to discredit the Samurai as unfit.
and it worked
SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip 1 month ago
And yet the Model F trucks are consistent best-sellers today.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Same is true for any tall SUV or pickup, then people lift them so they can die faster.
orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
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.
OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I thought the Jimny was the Samurai
Brosplosion@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
I rented a Jimny in Aruba and took it off road. Was one of the most fun driving cars I’ve been in.
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I’d take that Tracker over any car built in 2026.
ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
This car says tracker on the outside, but modern cars have trackers everywhere on the inside. Capitalism just keeps innovating!
nightwatch_admin@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Very much so!
darctones@lemmy.world 1 month ago
No body was writing 60 month car loans in the 90s
_chris@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Seriously this car was like 11k new. Companies hadn’t full on started taking advantage of everyone yet.
titanicx@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
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.
FluorideMind@lemmy.world 1 month ago
They want you to forget 19 year olds could afford to finance brand new cars in the 90.
agent_nycto@lemmy.world 1 month ago
That car looks pretty cool and is way better than some bullshit SUV, way to have the opposite of a good opinion
username_1@programming.dev 1 month ago
Is there something wrong with this car? Looks normal as for me…
jade52@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Ya I would drive the FUCK out of this car.
0ops@piefed.zip 1 month ago
That thing is rad as hell. Look at those wheels! Look at that decal!
A_Drusas@lemmy.world 1 month ago
My friend’s dad had one and we all loved it.
daggermoon@piefed.world 1 month ago
It looks cool as hell though
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It’s in your pocket
OwOarchist@pawb.social 1 month ago
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.
DrVonSinistro@lemmy.world 1 month ago
People used to pay these in 24 payments at 0% in Canada. I swear to God.
BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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.
ITGuyLevi@programming.dev 1 month ago
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).
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Ouch, that hurts to hear as a millennial
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Decent chance you could get it financed for 0%, too.
Spaceballstheusername@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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.
slowmolaggins@thelemmy.club 1 month ago
At least it didn’t break with software updates. My Kia was KIA after a firmware release designed to prevent what it caused.
FudgyMcTubbs@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I have a brand new 2026 colorado and the infotainment/bluetulooth is all fucked up, and sometimes it just doesnt detect my key fob. There’s a maintenance memo out for it,l but no fix, meaning service department can’t really do anything until a fix comes down. So im just made to wait for them to get around to fixing it. Thanks a lot, GM, you motherfuckers.
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Shit like this is why I refuse to buy new cars. That and they lose half their value upon taking it home.
Elaine@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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.
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Best beach city transportation. Cheap, small, convertible.
zourn@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It couldn’t handle much acceleration. It weighed almost nothing so it would be hard to keep from just spinning the tires if it had any more power.
smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
If the Geo brand came back this very instant with their peak model mix, they would be insanely successful right now.
starman2112@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Fr take the batteries out of a cybertruck and plonk em into a Metro and that thing would get 700 miles on a charge
smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
If it could move. Probably not made for that kind of weight!
Glifted@lemmy.world 1 month ago
This so dumb. Trackers are a beloved classic
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Bruh if that were available today and electric and buy two
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Sorry, all electric cars must be giant SUVs or crossovers with bland styling, built in iPads instead of knobs, and mandatory data harvesting
boeman@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I financed a couple vehicles in the 90’s… for 3 years. The payment on the first one didn’t even break $300, and the full sized pickup was like 375
homes@piefed.world 1 month ago
Yeah, but I also only remember getting paid like $7 an hour working at a CD store.
OwOarchist@pawb.social 1 month ago
There are still some people making $7/hr.
boeman@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Hey now, I was making $9 fixes people’s computers over the phone
acchariya@lemmy.world 1 month ago
They still sell cheap, basic, manual transmission cars you can finance in this price range in the rest of the world outside of the US and Canada.
boeman@lemmy.world 1 month ago
That’s all well and good, but these weren’t cheap or basic back then. Ugh, I sound old
Karmanopoly@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I remember girls with their boobs out in the geo tracker
artifex@piefed.social 1 month ago
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?
kalpol@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
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.
barkybeak@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
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.
NeonNight@lemmy.world 1 month ago
You just posted by dream car
skankhunt42@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
This has also been my dream since I first heard about it 2 minutes ago.
musubibreakfast@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It was a hopeful time, but also a crazy time, you could match your shoes to your polo, big gulp and tracksuit. Why not go the extra mile and also match your car?
lefaucet@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
TF you on? This was peak
gibmiser@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Oh shit, that was my first used car in the early 2000s. It was kinda fun but I mainly regretted it.
Soft top convertibles suck
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
I hate that more people didn’t think that way
starman2112@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
I want it right now and forever
My favorite car has always been my precious tiny '93 metro
FluorideMind@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I loved my cousins metro! It was like a little gokart, doing 50 felt like 70.
bluegreenpurplepink@lemmy.world 1 month ago
My friend had one of these and it was really fun. Until he loaned it to me with the top down, and they were predicting heavy rain. It took me forever to figure out how to get the top back on. There were too many steps.
West_of_West@piefed.social 1 month ago
Better than the soulless cars we have nowadays.
Would you like the generic 1? Or 2? It comes in grey, or, if you’re feeling interesting, a limited edition greige.
baeb66@lemmy.today 1 month ago
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.
Dr_Fetus_Jackson@lemmy.world 1 month ago
You speak the truth.
squirrel@cake.kobel.fyi 1 month ago
You comment on the truth.
Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
No if anything we should judge harder.
The fuck you mean they spent 100k on THAT
PhoenixDog@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Cybertrucks literally looks like the textures of the video game haven’t loaded yet.
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
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.