"Alfalfa" (alfalfa-romeo)
02/04/2016 at 22:38 • Filed to: None
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"Alfalfa" (alfalfa-romeo)
02/04/2016 at 22:38 • Filed to: None | 1
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So I went to my local classifieds and found this strange ad. Anyone want a 40k Cobra that’s actually a Geo?
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Matthew Keyser
> Alfalfa
02/04/2016 at 22:50 |
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All in all, a very interesting ad.
PanchoVilleneuve ST
> Alfalfa
02/04/2016 at 22:59 |
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Honestly, that’s probably the most intact Metro still on the road. I haven’t seen one in ages.
I did see a Swift GTI the other day, albeit on a trailer. It was wearing a set of Kosei K1s, so somebody has an autocross project car.
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Alfalfa
> PanchoVilleneuve ST
02/04/2016 at 23:07 |
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I see them in the road fairly often here in Utah. My sister had one in college, it was actually quite a beast for the cheap car it was.
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PanchoVilleneuve ST
> Alfalfa
02/04/2016 at 23:28 |
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I live in New England, which is great as long as you don’t want to get a shitbox from more than a decade ago that hasn’t been turned into either some kind of racing vehicle or riced to hell. Winters here are brutal even to the kind of cars people take super-nice care of, beaters like that don’t stand a chance.
The Metro/Swift is one of those cars that are great driver’s cars, despite nobody ever thinking of them as such. They weigh so little your choice of clothing can affect the performance in a measurable way, they were built to be as cheap as possible meaning they have power-nothing so they offer tons of feedback, and they are so low in power that even fragile mechanicals would be overkill, so you can beat on them like crazy.
Especially with the late 80s/early 90s Swift GTI, which is truly sad. I honestly believe it’s one of the greatest hot hatchbacks ever made. Seriously, a 100 horsepower twincam 4-pot that revs to 8 grand in a car weighs around 1700 pounds. They’re fucking tiny little monsters.
I’d say they’re the best supermini shitbox platform for hooning out there if it wasn’t for the KP60 Starlet. Because, honestly, the greatest crime in all of automotive enthusiasm is the answer always being Miata. Because the answer isn’t always Miata. The answer should always be KP60 Starlet.
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Alfalfa
> PanchoVilleneuve ST
02/04/2016 at 23:50 |
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Yeah, hers died when a mechanic said it needed power steering fluid and put some who knows where. Because there was no power steering.