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.
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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’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.
I have drifted one of these through mud and they are great :D
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.
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.
Same is true for any tall SUV or pickup, then people lift them so they can die faster.
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
@OrteilGenou @orbituary in Portugal jimmy and samurai are doferent models… the one on the photo looks lite a vitara for me
It is. But a Geo Tracker and Jimny might as well be the same.
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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’d take that Tracker over any car built in 2026.
This car says tracker on the outside, but modern cars have trackers everywhere on the inside. Capitalism just keeps innovating!
Very much so!
People used to pay these in 24 payments at 0% in Canada. I swear to God.
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.
I hate that more people didn’t think that way
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.
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.
Best beach city transportation. Cheap, small, convertible.
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.
At least it didn’t break with software updates. My Kia was KIA after a firmware release designed to prevent what it caused.
I have a brand new 2026 colorado and the infotainment/bluetulooth is all fucked up, and sometimes it just doesnt detect my key fob. There’s a maintenance memo out for it,l but no fix, meaning service department can’t really do anything until a fix comes down. So im just made to wait for them to get around to fixing it. Thanks a lot, GM, you motherfuckers.
Shit like this is why I refuse to buy new cars. That and they lose half their value upon taking it home.
