Comments on: The Geo Metro is Back, Baby!

By: Randy

Randy — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 02:31:07 +0000

I have a 1991 Geo metro that has been abused for the last 83,000 miles of 183,000 so far,I have only replaced normal parts so far with the exception of the alternator last month.My fault I kept driving it for a few years knowing the battery was weak.I have headers,cam,advanced cam sprocket,MSD coil,Pulstar plugs,underdrive pulleys,milled cylinder head,stainless exhaust valves,and mild porting,my son,my friends and I can not kill this car.I wish that Eldebrock would make a dual cam 12 valve cylinder head for this engine so it will modernise a rugged efficient engine...........one more thing,the last time I loaned my car out it came back with a hard to downshift tranny now,I guess it is synchro time soon

By: Rigo

Rigo — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 23:40:11 +0000

I'm really eating my words now for making fun of my friend's vomit-rust colored Geo. He calmly says he's got plenty of gas to make the hour trip to San Diego from our house when the needle is just above E; Meanwhile my 06 sentra has a dodgy sensor and only tells me when I'm running out when I'm on my last 12 miles or so.

By: bacaorr

bacaorr — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 00:18:20 +0000

When I purchased my 93 Honda civic in 96 I was wavering between it and a new Metro because the Metro got 50 miles to the gallon. I'm not sure why I was concerned with gas prices back then, but decided to go with the Civic. The mpg was less but I'm still driving it after 12 years. I have a tape deck that will only accept my iPod connector and no power steering. I'm still getting 35-40 mpg.

By: seekshelter

seekshelter — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 20:40:06 +0000

i used to roll in a blue 93 geo metro... awesome times. especially driving really fast over railroad tracks while someone was sitting in the back seat... haha..

By: TwoDragons

TwoDragons — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 19:41:22 +0000

Pol X--LOLZ, yeah, I caught one of your former comments (I think it was in with the flag post) concerning your previous residences. I knew that if there was anyone here who would understand heat avoidance, it was someone who'd spent an appreciable time in Oz. I think even a West Texan would have a hard time in the Outback...

I agree that cars should be better insulated (it's amazing how much of a draft we get around the windows of our 2006 Kia!) and that vehicles would benefit from a considerable amount of scaling-down of the AC unit. Perhaps the delivery system can be modified. A gross amount of energy is wasted trying to cool the back half of the car from the front console. And the air warms up considerably as it travels through the ducts, especially on really hot days.

If car makers can strip a car down to its bare essentials and still keep the safety factor high, then they've gone a long way to improving things. Unfortunately, it's a matter of convincing a very spoiled public just what constitutes a "bare essential"...LOL

--TwoDragons

By: Tracy

Tracy — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 19:25:59 +0000

Hahaha! Finally the GEO will have its revenge! Bahahahahaahaha!

By: MrsBug

MrsBug — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 18:33:25 +0000

Awwww, we had a Geo Metro up until about three years ago. It's second engine (yes, second engine) puked and that was all she wrote. It was a great car!

By: Pol x

Pol x — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 14:53:49 +0000

Two Dragons

I replied to the donut burger thing.

I think we are on the same page on that one, despite any previous crossed wires.

By: mustardhamsters

mustardhamsters — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 14:51:20 +0000

I've got a Geo Metro. Best car ever. Even in the peak of the gas price hikes I could still fill it up for about $30.

By: just a guy

just a guy — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 14:38:58 +0000

its hard to tell in that pic, but that guy's tan looks orange-odd.

By: Pol x

Pol x — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 14:37:41 +0000

Two Dragons.

Oh I don't doubt it for a second. I used to live in Australia which is not reknowned for being too chilly.

Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain institute makes some brilliant points re AC in cars.

like...

Why aren't cars double glazed? Sure it is a bit heavier, but it is a LOT lihgter than car AC, which is essentially a domestic AC unit, and can chill a whole house.

Actually everything Amory says is pretty much brilliant. look himm up on YouTube, well worht the 10 mins of anyone's life.

By: zantimisfit

zantimisfit — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 14:32:57 +0000

My husband owns a 1995 Geo Metro (which he bought new). He's fiercely loyal to it.

By: All Adither

All Adither — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:39 +0000

Oh, those Geo Metros are just one step above Yugos.

By: TwoDragons

TwoDragons — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:27:12 +0000

Polx--

I heartily agree with you on excess weight except for one minor thing: Trust me, in Texas...AC is a necessity. Admittedly it's an overused necessity in most cases, though. Why people have their windows rolled up and their air conditioner running on a gorgeous Spring day mystifies (and disgusts) me. But in heavy start-and-stop traffic with 120-degree Summer temps and diesel fumes...? Crank that thing up!

Oh BTW--I left a comment at the doughnut-burger post for you, but it got buried under other posts.

--TwoDragons

By: Pol x

Pol x — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 11:07:12 +0000

Small efficient engine, stripped of all the extraneous rubbish, will make a car pretty frugal.

Take a standard car and strip it and you'll get a raceing car, do the same to a compact car and you get serious fuel economy.

Top Gear, UK tv show about cars, did this with a big old Jaguar, they stripped it down to engine and seat and it became a terrifyingly fast beastie.

Then they NOS'd the blighter.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoxEis_Y7F0

basically, the more hefty rubbish you lug about, the worse your car will perform.

What the Rocky Mountain Institute refer to as Nega Wattage.

If you don't carry it about, you don't need the extra fuel.

Why do people have AC in cars anyway?

By: alistair

alistair — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 07:19:48 +0000

Of course these things never went away in the more compact streets of europe.

current favourite of mine is the smart car.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_(automobile)
http://www.dicomwg12.org/mpg/SMART/fortwo-coup-/50-bhp-175-rear-tyres/

capable of 60-70mpg