That car looks pretty cool and is way better than some bullshit SUV, way to have the opposite of a good opinion
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.
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).
Decent chance you could get it financed for 0%, too.
Ouch, that hurts to hear as a millennial
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.
It would be tight, but not as impossible as it feels now; 680 seems a little low, my math had it closer to 730-ish. My mom got 40+ hours every week at a convenience store around that time, granted we didn’t have a new car (ever), but comparing it to now it seems impossible.
Maybe I’m misremembering but rent was cheap not very long ago, in early 2004-ish I was paying $250/mo for a very small 2 bed house and the lady I ended up marrying had just moved out of a single-wide trailer that she was paying $100/mo for. At that point I was working at one of the same stores my mother had worked at except I was getting $5.15/hr (minimum wage at the time).
Now it seems like cheap rent is 5x that much and minimum wage here is still just $7.15.
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.
You speak the truth.
You comment on the truth.
You comment on a comment on the truth
you probably posted this from the future where your at a museum using ancient technologies to talk on the digital network those silly humans creatures created before they met extinction
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No if anything we should judge harder.
The fuck you mean they spent 100k on THAT
Cybertrucks literally looks like the textures of the video game haven’t loaded yet.
Cars in gta3 looked better than that xD
And that’s after all the nazi shit.
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.
I loved my 2019 Cherokee. I didn’t do any off-road things but it pulled my trailer better than my 2024 Pathfinder does. If I could, I’d switch to a Grand Cherokee without second thoughts.
I loved my 2019 Cherokee.
and unsurprisingly, 7 years later you don’t own it.
I didn’t sell it because it had problems. I sold it because I wanted. I changed it mainly because it pulled only 4500lb and my trailer has this maximum weight. The Nissan Pathfinder was rated 6000lb but it feels like it struggles more than the Cherokee did.
I didn’t have any major issues with it, I really liked the car.
Jeep has consistently ranked the in the bottom three for reliability for over 20 years.
They are poorly built which us a shame because on spec sheets they look good for off-roading but I’d never trust one in outback Australia.
It is a sacred universal law that the most reliable truck on earth is a used Toyota hilux with the machine gun bed mount package
I rented one of the new higher end ones recently and it was absolute garbage. Would not rent again.
Jeeps are weird in that they are great cars if you know how to do work yourself or have a cheap mechanic. If not then no fuck them.
that was true over a decade ago. Cheap Stellantis garbage today.
Maybe they used to be.
Yeah, that’s a huge deal breaker for me. Even if I wanted to spend Jeep prices, I want to get 15 years out of a car. My 2008 G6 made it to 16 years. And the parts were crazy cheap. It’s the gold standard I measure my cars to now. My car is basically just for commuting to work. No frills necessary, just good gas mileage and cheap repairs.
That’s a cool fucking car, I wish they still sold cars with that much personality
And death trap handling. You just look at a corner and die.
I already said I’d buy it, you can stop listing benefits
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.
That’s kool aid from Jeep back in the day to discredit the Samurai as unfit.
and it worked
It was fine though, for its time, the Samurai didn’t flip any worse than anything else.
Same is true for any tall SUV or pickup, then people lift them so they can die faster.
And yet the Model F trucks are consistent best-sellers today.
It’s the short wheelbase and solid rear axle. They are unstable even driving straight.
And with the pickup trucks, it’s the high center of gravity which makes them deathtraps.
And with all cars it’s my bad driving skills that makes them deathtraps.
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.
I rented a Jimny in Aruba and took it off road. Was one of the most fun driving cars I’ve been in.
Totally. The new ones are so nice.
I drive a 94 Delica these days. It’s a great 4x4.
I thought the Jimny was the Samurai
The Tracker was a rebadged Suzuki
Yes, a Sidekick though
It is. But a Geo Tracker and Jimny might as well be the same.
@OrteilGenou @orbituary in Portugal jimmy and samurai are doferent models… the one on the photo looks lite a vitara for me
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They want you to forget 19 year olds could afford to finance brand new cars in the 90.
No body was writing 60 month car loans in the 90s
Seriously this car was like 11k new. Companies hadn’t full on started taking advantage of everyone yet.
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.
This is what I came here to say too. 12 and 24 month loans were a thing back then. The 60 month and more loans nowadays are fucking nuts.
I hate that more people didn’t think that way
I’d take that Tracker over any car built in 2026.
Very much so!
People used to pay these in 24 payments at 0% in Canada. I swear to God.
I would like 100% but that car today, it looks fucking awesome. What is it?
Suzuki Sidekick, a later version of the Suzuki Samurai. Would eventually be followed by rhe Suzuki Jimny. They are all incredible.
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.
Hilarious, Geo vehicles far outlasted any crap branded by GM.
Correct. However, a large portion of their fans are the type of people that always want to buy American. Honestly it makes sense from that standpoint. I remember everyone making fun of any Geo, especially the Tracker and the Metro. Side note, my friend had a Metro and that thing seemed to constantly be in the shop getting something fixed. I think that specific model was a dud.
There are still hundreds of those trackers on the road today. Not a single tesla or 202x chevy Malibu etc made today will be on the road in 20 years. I see junk yards full of modern cars that look like they came from a dealership because the repairs for a new engine or transmission cost more than they are worth.
I daily drive a 00 vw golf an 05 lexus that can run far into the future with me easily being able to maintain them
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
Ha a buddy of mine had one back in my college days. We took a road trip about 50miles in the middle of winter and it was wild how sketchy that thing was. Plastic windows flapping like crazy, heat struggling to keep up because the cabin was so leaky, awful road noise, pretty much no power at highway speed, etc. I’ve heard they’re actually somewhat reliable but it would be painful to live with for any length of time.
That sounds like my experience in a 90s wrangler soft top
Took a 16 hour (each way) road trip with 3 buddies across a bunch northern states during March back in the early 80s in a ragtop Jeep Cherokee. Snow, rain, cold. 2/10. Would not recommend.
You can feel that in most small cars.
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.
a first gen Suzuki Vitara
But not the Grand Vitara…Official car of Mahk.
That thing is rad as hell. Look at those wheels! Look at that decal!
My friend’s dad had one and we all loved it.
It wasn’t what I’d call a highway vehicle, but it would get your around town. No power, but it weighed nothing so they were ok for slow off road use. If you draft a big enough semi you can get them up to 85.
Is there something wrong with this car? Looks normal as for me…
Ya I would drive the FUCK out of this car.
It looks cool as hell though
Fits in your pocket
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. Honestly, it’s the compact crossover before compact crossovers were a thing … except that it has more off-road ability than pretty much any modern compact crossover.
