[ExI] The silent PV revolution

Dave Sill sparge at gmail.com
Fri Mar 30 18:10:15 UTC 2012


On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 2:04 PM, MB <mbb386 at main.nc.us> wrote:
>
>
> Indeed. My 1989 Chevy Geo Metro got just below 60 mpg on
> the highway when new. Note that it was built of thin foil
> and could only seat 4 small adults - just a tiny slow
> tin-can of a car with a 3 cylinder engine. It's still my
> around-town go-to car. :)
>

Metro XFi. I had one of them, too. Put 200k miles on it with exactly $0
repairs. Glad I never had an accident in it, though.


> In my life I've had three cars I loved: a Corvair
> stationwagon (!), a VW squareback, and this Geo (also sort
> of like a mini-sationwagon).
>
> When will they make me a new Geo Metro??? This one is
> falling apart - it's old enough to vote.
>

They're still making them. "They" being Suzuki:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzuki_Swift

-Dave
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