At least they got a decent looking logo although it reminds me of a squished basketball rather than a squished globe. Maybe that makes them better and GM didn’t want to tarnish them with the Chevy name? I don’t know. Yes, it’s supposed to represent the world of cars available to GM that weren’t actually built by GM here in the US and sold by the Chevrolet division. This is also an opportunity to point out that 1997 was the last year for the daft idea of having a whole line of cars named Geo. (Spoiler, it isn’t, there’s another one four rows over but I like this color…). Yet they’ll likely eventually go back up again so we might as well take this interlude to cast a jaundiced side-eye at this Geo Metro in the junkyard, one never knows if it might be the last one ever to end up here. No, but seriously, gas prices are coming down. Some people ditch their Escalades and Navigators, others get rid of the wasteful version of the Metro.
What else would explain the reason to scrap what appears to be a perfectly usable gas-sipper? Well, this is the LSi model which features the gas-swilling 1.3 liter that has 33.3% more cylinders than the base version and was only rated at 39mpg city and 43mpg highway, so maybe that’s it.
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