A Great Compact Car: The Geo Metro
Have you ever wondered if a Suzuki Swift felt like it was looking in a mirror when it drove past a Geo Metro? If you have not, consider it now. The Geo Metro was a car designed by Suzuki in cooperation with Geo, a branch of General Motors and the Chevy division. During the end of the nineteen-eighties, Chevy was seeing an increase in loss of sales to foreign car makers such as Toyota and Suzuki who produced small, gas efficient, economy cars. In response to a need for GM to incorporate a dependable economy car in their own line, Toyota and Suzuki were brought in to develop a car for them.
The Geo Metro is GM’s version of the Swift and is identical in almost every way. The alternator and a few other select items on the Geo lineup are Chevy parts but the rest is as Suzuki as it gets. This is a great benefit to anyone who owns one of the Geo cars (produced between 1989 and 2004) because the Japanese car market during that era made some of the most stable, dependable economy cars in the industry. They manufactured their vehicles for incredible gas efficiency; the Metro gets low-end mileage around 35mpg but if well tuned up and maintained can run as high as 50mpg.
In addition to great mileage, the Metro is a wonderful car to own for cheap maintenance. Because it shares so many parts with the Swift, finding parts for the Geo Metro is easy and inexpensive. It may come as no surprise that the most commonly malfunctioning part of the car is its alternator but in general owners boast of having a car that will not break down in hurricane conditions or desert sand storms. As a used vehicle in today’s expensive gas culture, the Geo Metro is perfect.
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