Geo HA

[^YellowBandit^]

3-bangers kick ass...of kids on razor scooters. j/k

[fortyoz2eric]

has anyone ever modified a metro? i swear one day ima pick a 3 banger up and customize it. i bet if i could get it to hold 60psi i could beat a vette - just pray the frame doesn't snap in half

[Chris]

I've seen a suzuki swift with the 1.3L 4 that was modded. I just laughed

[Euro19]

Originally posted by GT-R V-Spec
geo does not deserve to be on this sight

That´s so rude. :evillaugh
I prefer the Metro over the Accent, what do you think?? Anywise if some day I´m in such a budget I´ll buy an used Honda, Nissan or Ford.

[91HBSi]

Yeah, that is like people who buy KIA's and their excuse is "I don't have a lot of money and can't buy an expensive car." Why don't they buy like a 97 accord or galant or something. It would be cheaper, safer, cooler, more powerful, more reliable... you get the picture.

[OisinT]

I'm trading my integra in for a Metro.. and they're giving me back money... suckers!

:finger:

[GeoMaster]

New to this site, but this is exactly what I'm looking for. All we need now is more ppl to participate.

The Geo Metros are a great choice for an automobile for many reasons.

1) Cheap as dirt. A used geo can cost anywhere between 200 and 5000 dollars; and almost every Metro engine out there will last for 150k miles if not more. Need new tires? No problem, the metros roll on 12's - rubber for these is kinda hard to find, but still dirt cheap.

2) Safe. Yes, I said safe. A metro (that hasnt been modded out) will never exceed 90mph, and anything over 60 is so scary that it causes the driver to panic and slow down. Granted, when a Ford Excursion and a Geo Metro collide, the Geo Driver is likely to die, making it all the more important for a Geo driver to pay attention constantly in order to avoid death; and thereby making it even safer to drive a geo metro.

3) FUN!!! Geo Metros are fun as hell if you treat them as jokes. Crack jokes about your metro and everyone will laugh. Tell people your car is a 3 cylinder and watch them stare blankly at you. Fill a metro full of friends and see how fast you can make it go! Create your own parts with misc. things from Home Depot (Air Intakes, Hood Scoops!)... You wont even feel that bad if you want to hit your car with a sledge hammer because you only paid $500 for it anyway. Once you hit the realization that you are not going to sell your car to anyone, that after you its getting smashed, then you can do whatever you want to it! Drill a hole in the roof and put a stobe light on top, (illegal in most states) but you cant do that in a Honda Accord or a Chevy Camaro (unless you WANT to waste your money)...

4) Money $$$. This ties in with reason #1.. Since GEO Metros are DIRT cheap, you can buy a decent '89 metro for $700 and drive it for probably another 50k miles at least (depending on a lot of things, but generally speaking geos last forever) versus spending $12k-25k on a new mid-class car and losing $4-15k over the same period of time driving the same ammount of miles! The geo is the smart solution, save your $$ and drive a GEO! The insurance is cheap as salt water Honalulu, and gas mileage can be upwards of 50mpg! Tires are cheap, brakes are cheap, and after the tranny wears out... well forget about it and keep driving anyway.

[Chris]

lol:hehehe:

[91HBSi]

I want a Geo to go mud ridding in My friends hyuandai excel is fun as turd. We went rallying the other day down some truck trails, and tore up a muddy cotton feild. That thing is indestructable.

[Chris]

My Uncle and his friend used to go mudding in a VW Beetle. They would just pick up parts as they fell off

[fortyoz2eric]

heh i can't believe this is actually a topic. alright so which metro's have 3 cylinders? is it only the ls's? and what years?

[GeoMaster]

All Geo Metros, from the first model year (I am not sure which year was the first year) have 3 cylinders. The Geo metro came in two trims. LSi, the luxury trim fitted with A/C and AM/FM radio, and the base model XFi. Both Geos housed the same 1.0L I-3 engine.

There is a turbocharged 1.0L engine available, Pepboys was selling it rebuilt for $1600.

There is no such thing as a 4 cylinder geo, the newer chevy metros have 4 cylinders and I believe the chevy sprint also had four cylinders, but all of the GEO metros came stock with the 3 banger.

[Chris]

Sorry, but the Lsi metros have a 1.3L 4 cylinder with 79 hp. That is the base engine on the Suzuki swift.

[GeoMaster]

Well Chris brings up a good point, there have been many changes to the metro between '89 and now. One of which, the newer metros do indeed come with a larger 4 cylinder engine. Anyhow, the LSi models up to 1994 as you can see in my signiature, do indeed have the 993cubic cm 1.0L I-3 engine producing roughly 55bhp. But, as chris mentioned, 1994 ushered in the stronger power plant for the LSi. The base model still running the 3 banger.

I would like to thank Chris for pointing this out, but I suggest that next time we try to share information in a less 'in your face' manner.

[Hudson]

I'm going to agree with most of the posts so far.

All Chevrolet Sprints from 1984 through 1988 were three-bangers. Some were offered with turbos, upping the hp from 49-52 to 70. In 1989, the Sprint became the Geo Metro and carried over the Sprint's non-turbo threes (XFi for the high-mileage version with 40-some hp and the rest with 50-some hp). In Canada, the Chevrolet Sprint name remained (as did the Pontiac Firefly from the previous generation) and the turbo motor remained.

The third generation of this car was called the Geo Metro, Chevrolet Metro, and Pontiac Firefly (I'm avoiding treading into Swift/Forsa territory for this discussion; the model I prefer), depending on the year and country. The four-cylinder was introduced with this edition. The final Chevrolet Metro went out of production in Canada early in 2001.