I had one of these for a few years. It was noisy af with a soft top. It had no guts on acceleration. Other than that, it really was peak.
It couldn’t handle much acceleration. It weighed almost nothing so it would be hard to keep from just spinning the tires if it had any more power.
Best beach city transportation. Cheap, small, convertible.
That car looks pretty cool and is way better than some bullshit SUV, way to have the opposite of a good opinion
I’d take that Tracker over any car built in 2026.
Very much so!
This car says tracker on the outside, but modern cars have trackers everywhere on the inside. Capitalism just keeps innovating!
That’s a cool fucking car, I wish they still sold cars with that much personality
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 thought the Jimny was the Samurai
@OrteilGenou @orbituary in Portugal jimmy and samurai are doferent models… the one on the photo looks lite a vitara for me
The Tracker was a rebadged Suzuki
Yes, a Sidekick though
It is. But a Geo Tracker and Jimny might as well be the same.
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.
And death trap handling. You just look at a corner and die.
I have drifted one of these through mud and they are great :D
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.
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.
Same is true for any tall SUV or pickup, then people lift them so they can die faster.
I already said I’d buy it, you can stop listing benefits
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.
Is there something wrong with this car? Looks normal as for me…
Ya I would drive the FUCK out of this car.
It was a hopeful time, but also a crazy time, you could match your shoes to your polo, big gulp and tracksuit. Why not go the extra mile and also match your car?
Only 5??
In the 90s? Sure.
I want it right now and forever
My favorite car has always been my precious tiny '93 metro, but I could settle for a Tracker
I loved my cousins metro! It was like a little gokart, doing 50 felt like 70.
Pretty sure I had this Micro Machine
Hate cars woth a passion but I’ll take that over any of they grey ones that look like all the others if I’d had to choose one.
Better than the soulless cars we have nowadays.
Would you like the generic 1? Or 2? It comes in grey, or, if you’re feeling interesting, a limited edition greige.
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.
I financed a couple vehicles in the 90’s… for 3 years. The payment on the first one didn’t even break $300, and the full sized pickup was like 375
They still sell cheap, basic, manual transmission cars you can finance in this price range in the rest of the world outside of the US and Canada.
That’s all well and good, but these weren’t cheap or basic back then. Ugh, I sound old
Yeah, but I also only remember getting paid like $7 an hour working at a CD store.
There are still some people making $7/hr.
Hey now, I was making $9 fixes people’s computers over the phone
This so dumb. Trackers are a beloved classic
90s were peak car.
I had this beast…bought for $1000, drove 3 years, sold for $1000.
Women loved it, they love a frugal man.
Oh shit, that was my first used car in the early 2000s. It was kinda fun but I mainly regretted it.
Soft top convertibles suck
