Used Car of the Day: 1994 Geo Tracker

Tim Healey
by Tim Healey

Today we remind you that Geo existed. Not all that long ago!

This 1994 Geo Tracker looks clean and offers shift-for-yourself fun.


There's a 1.6-liter mill underhood and the top drops. The seller says its well-maintained but the true mileage is unknown.

He or she says it runs and drives well and has a new radiator, new engine mounts, and other recent maintenance. There's upgraded audio.

The seller asks $5,500 for this return to the '90s. If you're interested in traveling back in time, click here.

[Images: Seller]

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Tim Healey
Tim Healey

Tim Healey grew up around the auto-parts business and has always had a love for cars — his parents joke his first word was “‘Vette”. Despite this, he wanted to pursue a career in sports writing but he ended up falling semi-accidentally into the automotive-journalism industry, first at Consumer Guide Automotive and later at Web2Carz.com. He also worked as an industry analyst at Mintel Group and freelanced for About.com, CarFax, Vehix.com, High Gear Media, Torque News, FutureCar.com, Cars.com, among others, and of course Vertical Scope sites such as AutoGuide.com, Off-Road.com, and HybridCars.com. He’s an urbanite and as such, doesn’t need a daily driver, but if he had one, it would be compact, sporty, and have a manual transmission.

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  • InCogKneeToe InCogKneeToe on Apr 17, 2023

    I bought one of these to teach my Kids, 12 and 14, how to drive on the frozen lake/ice conditions. They had many hours of fun and frustrations getting stuck, Mine is an Automatic, 4x4 with the Removable Hard Top, still runs today but Rust has most of it.


    Awesome 4x4, and can go places my F150 4x4 can't go.

  • Funky D Funky D on Apr 17, 2023

    A coworker had one of those back in the mid 90s. It may or may not have been off-road capable, but the entire vehicle reeked of cheap. Only a Chevette offered a more unaccommodating form of transport.

  • Probert They already have hybrids, but these won't ever be them as they are built on the modular E-GMP skateboard.
  • Justin You guys still looking for that sportbak? I just saw one on the Facebook marketplace in Arizona
  • 28-Cars-Later I cannot remember what happens now, but there are whiteblocks in this period which develop a "tick" like sound which indicates they are toast (maybe head gasket?). Ten or so years ago I looked at an '03 or '04 S60 (I forget why) and I brought my Volvo indy along to tell me if it was worth my time - it ticked and that's when I learned this. This XC90 is probably worth about $300 as it sits, not kidding, and it will cost you conservatively $2500 for an engine swap (all the ones I see on car-part.com have north of 130K miles starting at $1,100 and that's not including freight to a shop, shop labor, other internals to do such as timing belt while engine out etc).
  • 28-Cars-Later Ford reported it lost $132,000 for each of its 10,000 electric vehicles sold in the first quarter of 2024, according to CNN. The sales were down 20 percent from the first quarter of 2023 and would “drag down earnings for the company overall.”The losses include “hundreds of millions being spent on research and development of the next generation of EVs for Ford. Those investments are years away from paying off.” [if they ever are recouped] Ford is the only major carmaker breaking out EV numbers by themselves. But other marques likely suffer similar losses. https://www.zerohedge.com/political/fords-120000-loss-vehicle-shows-california-ev-goals-are-impossible Given these facts, how did Tesla ever produce anything in volume let alone profit?
  • AZFelix Let's forego all of this dilly-dallying with autonomous cars and cut right to the chase and the only real solution.
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