https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1993-geo-metro-2/
How much do you think this thing is selling for? >20k?
10-15k, maybe? It's really clean, the market is insane, but there may be more of these rolling around than other cars because they never qualified for Cash for Clunkers (which was a bad program, btw).
Cash for clunkers is the weird neoliberal hill I’m willing to die on. Nobody misses the shitty Firestone rollover era Explorers that comprised the majority of trade ins. At the end of the day it was dumb gimmick and hardly a blip on the massive scale of car sales and scrappage.
I just saw a Pontiac Firefly (Metro convertible clone I had no idea existed) on bay area craigslist go for around 4k
Damn I had no idea those existed either. That's pretty sick. I sometimes check craigslist to see if there's any beater metros, I'd like to pick one up for like ~$500 just to fuck around with
The recession as a whole killed them. C4C was like a week of PMC types trading in their explorer for a focus. The real harm was like two years of anyone with a tow truck offering $500 to desperate people to haul away their cheap car. :matt-jokerfied:
stringent, expensive smog regulations have done the rest of killing cheap cars in places like california. seller can't legally offload a car if it can't pass smog, so people have these 3000lb anchors that work fine except they need an 02 sensor in their front yards and the state will pay you $1500 to scrap it.
Love to have to scrap my car after someone steals the catalytic converter.
yeah, cost of labor is a nightmare on small jobs. honestly i could see an "uber for mechanics" popping up. anyone with a van full of tools, knowhow, and some spare time could fix a huge number of common car problems
