Happy 1st Anniversary Geo!
That's right, precisely one year ago (August 17th, 2006) is when I purchased my Geo Metro. I can't believe it's only been one year. Seems to be longer than that to me. Anyways, this is what I've racked up since that special day:
$6,839.04 spent on the whole car (the car itself, insurance, gasoline, repairs, maintainance, etc.). Comes to $0.167 per kilometre ($0.269 per mile) and $569.92 per month. $1,876.02 of that was spent on fuel (27.4% of total cost). 535.73 gallons were used Drove over 41,000 kms (25,425 miles) in a 12 month span (112kms (69.4 miles) a day on average :eek:). 47.7 MPG(US) overall. That's a lot of travel within one year. It would've been murder on fuel if I hadn't bought the Geo and kept the '91 T-Bird (but then again, I probably wouldn't have driven the Ford as much). |
You really did rack up some miles! Those Geos are great little cars. GM really dropped the ball when they stopped offering them! :mad:
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Happy anniversary, Peakster!
It's interesting to compare our cars. In my first year I spent about the same total that you did for purchase, taxes, insurance & maintenance (about $500 more than you) . But the biggest part of my $ outlay was a $4500 purchase price. |
The Metro could not meet any of the new crash standards. Thats why we have a 2400 lb. Aveo, instead of 1650 for the Metro. Plus in the end the biggest buyers were rental fleets. People didn't seem to care about FE in 2000 and 01.
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Overall, I'm happy with the first year of my Geo. The engine just keeps going and going... :). Quote:
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I put on about 8600 km in my first year.
I don't buy the weight = safety argument. The current Smart car meets all crash standards and at 730 kg / 1609 lbs ( https://www.thesmart.ca/index.cfm?id=4730 ) it is lighter than our 1830 lb pigs - even lighter than the gen 2 & 3 Metroids. |
I'm just tickled pink with my Swift. I bought it 13 months ago for $800 and have driven it 24,000 miles. I did have to put about $500 worth of work into it to get it into the shape I wanted, but now it runs like new and gets >50 mpg on the highway. One of the best investments I've ever made.
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I will be curious as to the Smart cars sales after a couple of years. Moot question with most of us on this forum as we seem to like older cheaper cars. |
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Simple solution to the Aveo? Remove that 1.6L and throw in the 1.0L three cylinder the Metroids had :). I wonder how fast the Aveos go with their 4 cylinder engines. By the way, didn't the 1995+ Metroids get a 4 star full frontal impact safety rating? That's pretty good in my books. |
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I suspect actually that the sales of smarts have gone up, since they're eligible for a $2k rebate through the ecoAUTO program. Couldn't find any figures though. |
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