Own The Fastest Slow Car For $3,200

"PhiLOL" (philol) 06/10/2015 at 17:31 • Filed to: Daily Turismo, The Daily Turismo, Blog, Blogs, NPOCP, Geo, Storm, Geo Storm, GSi, Lotus, Isuzu Impulse

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Imagine pulling up to a Porsche meet in a 918. Your alien-tech wonder rocket reaches 60 mph in 2.2 seconds, shaming 996 GT3s and climate-controlled short-wheelbase 911s alike. You have the fastest Porsche. Now imagine pulling up to a Geo meet - not just any meet, but the “largest Geo Metro/Suzuki Swift meet in the world” !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! in Geneva Switzerland Ohio - in the fastest production Geo ever: a car that completes the quarter mile in 17 seconds and tops out at 118 mph. Buckle up! Find this one-owner !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! for sale in Sacramento, CA for $3,200 via craigslist.

The Storm was based on the second-generation Isuzu Piazza/Impulse platform. Its 4XE1 four-cylinder engine revved to 7,600 rpm, and was shared with the Impulse and the !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! . The 1.6-liter variant in this car would be replaced the following year with a 1.8-liter stroker, worth 10 additional power. As it sits, the DOHC 16-valve engine generates 130 horsepower, good for a 0-60 run in the low 8-second range.

Early 1990s buyers regarded these as competitors to the EF Civic Si or B13 Sentra SE-R, so we must do the same. Finding any of those on its original owner, original equipment, and original rust-free body is practically unheard of, especially for this price. A CRX with the same 71,000 miles on its odometer would ask double or triple the price tag of this Geo. This is a good deal for the best version of an okay car.

Replacing your 3-pot Metro with this hot rod will slam you with a 10-mpg penalty. But that won’t matter when you blow the doors off of all the Geo Prizms at the 8th annual Geopalooza, now less than two months away! It’s technically for Metros only, but Geo owners are an easy-going bunch and should openly welcome a globe-badged sister.

See a faster slow car? Post it below.

PhiLOL actually likes the tuna here, but abhors structural rust. Save the manuals.

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WesBarton89 - The Way to Santa Fe > PhiLOL 06/10/2015 at 17:38

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Geneva would do something like this.

I have rights to say this. Much of my family hails from the Cleveland area.

RazoE > PhiLOL 06/10/2015 at 17:45

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Laugh all you want, but my brother in law would regularly burn-out like a mofo with his. He didn’t have any rear windows, and once woke up to see someone had thrown a stereo INTO his car. No B.S. They left a stereo in there because he didn’t have one. He bought a conversion harness and used it until he sold it.

RustedSprinter > PhiLOL 06/10/2015 at 17:51

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Love storms! How do you know about the Metro meeting?

Manwich - now Keto-Friendly > PhiLOL 06/10/2015 at 17:53

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Neon RT would beat that easily:

http://www.carsforsale.com/vehicle/detail…

http://www.carsforsale.com/vehicle/detail…

PhiLOL > Manwich - now Keto-Friendly 06/10/2015 at 17:56

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Especially one with a 2.4l turbo swap!

PhiLOL > RustedSprinter 06/10/2015 at 17:58

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I wish I had a better answer other than “I Googled it,” but I don’t.

HotelCoralEssex > Manwich - now Keto-Friendly 06/10/2015 at 18:10

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Don’t forget the ACR, all the go-fast bits of the RT and you could get it stereo delete.

RustedSprinter > PhiLOL 06/10/2015 at 18:16

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My man!

boxrocket > PhiLOL 06/10/2015 at 18:36

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I like the design of the Storm/Impulse.

I can’t really say much more than that.

Manwich - now Keto-Friendly > HotelCoralEssex 06/10/2015 at 18:37

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Yes. But I wasn’t able to find one quickly. I’m sure they’re out there, but I only did a 5 minute search.

 V8 Rustler > PhiLOL 06/10/2015 at 18:57

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Accordion shifter.