You speak the truth.

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.

That and people still buy Jeeps.

There is always an idiot ready to be separated from their money.

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.

And death trap handling. You just look at a corner and die.

This car says tracker on the outside, but modern cars have trackers everywhere on the inside. Capitalism just keeps innovating!

Very much so!

Seriously this car was like 11k new. Companies hadn’t full on started taking advantage of everyone yet.

My friend's dad had one and we all loved 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.

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

It's basically a first gen Suzuki Vitara if you want a model you'd find in Australia. It was the upmarket model from the Sierra (aka Jimny) of that era which was also a nice little 4wd albeit with a few stability issues.

Suzuki Sidekick, a later version of the Suzuki Samurai. Would eventually be followed by rhe Suzuki Jimny. They are all incredible.

Fits in your pocket

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.

Best beach city transportation. Cheap, small, convertible.

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.

Fr take the batteries out of a cybertruck and plonk em into a Metro and that thing would get 700 miles on a charge

90s were peak car.

I had this beast...bought for $1000, drove 3 years, sold for $1000.

Women loved it, they love a frugal man.

Sorry, all electric cars must be giant SUVs or crossovers with bland styling, built in iPads instead of knobs, and mandatory data harvesting

Yeah, but I also only remember getting paid like $7 an hour working at a CD store.

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.

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).