What the fuck went wrong? why don't they exist today

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Most people remember them as "the people who made that shitty little 3 cylinder". You also had Suzuki and GM making almost identical vehicles which didn't help. I think the Geo Metro was one of the reasons Suzuki failed in north america.

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>>17377230
It would be great to have a geo jimny and a geo huslter . Or a geo carry

>>17377230
Cheap shit sold to poor people with shit margins don't make for a good company. My dad bought one of these to commute in. The metro. It was a SHIT box. Loud, slow, uncomfortable, unreliable, cheap. The gas mileage was OKAY, but you had to romp on it everywhere to get up to speed which killed dem MPG's.

>>17377230
most of their models got merged with chevy brands under different names, they're not dead.

>>17377230

US didn't get turbo variants.

t- assmad americant who wants a turbo Pontiac Firefly

Because literally all of their cars were just rebadged Japanese cars.

>we never got a Storm equivalent of an Impulse RS

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>>17377276
They also made Toyota's.

>This was the most powerful 4A-GE sold in the US

>>17377441
Then why does Chevy exist?

>>17377441
>unreliable
Your dad must have abused the fuck out of it then.

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>>17378306
This. I got half a million km on mine without removing the head but it was the older 1300 carb version.

>>17377434
Or a Geo Storm.

A salvaged 94 Geo Prizm was my first car, shit couldn't break 50mph and had a leaking exhaust.
It also burned all the coolant multiple times but somehow doesn't overheat and the radio would restart everytime I hit a speed bump.

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>>17377230
Same reason scion died. They were marketed towards young people without a lot of money. Except young people have less and less purchasing power every generation due the growing gap between rich and poor.

At some point, you reach the threshold were nobody can afford a car no matter how shitty it is: they can barely stay alive as is.

>>17377230
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ktzeu14YmA4