As the Storm was also available as a shooting brake and because the Geo Metro also existed, the hatch had to adopt a coupe-like shape, which robbed it of some versatility and added a rattly rear window. Sold from 1990 through 1993, the Geo Storm was available as a three-door hatchback and a three-door station wagon. And by open market, we mean estate sales. Price now: We have trouble seeing these exceed $1,500 on the open market. Items found in the glovebox: Fossillized Jolly Rancher that has acquired the strength of glass, three mild sauce packets from Taco Bell, spork from an unidentified fast-food chain still in its wrapper (could be that same Taco Bell). Was this car replaced? Chrysler ditched this whole captive import approach and fielded the Neon.
Where can I spot one today? In an advertisement in a 1992 issue of Good Housekeeping magazine you found in your parents' basement. Where did they all go? These were off the roads in large numbers before the 1990s really ended. If you wanted to be fancy-schmancy, there was also the sedan for trips to the opera house and evenings out with friends at a pricey steakhouse.
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Tiny 13-inch wheels made for slightly hairy handling, with four-speed and five-speed manual gearboxes providing a bit of slow-car-fast-fun for commuters and college students alike. A 1.5-liter four-cylinder was the base engine, producing 81 overstretched horses, while a 1.6-liter engine opened up a few more possibilties, like successfully merging into freeway traffic thanks to its 123 horses. What was this Eagle brand all about, and why were its cars a mix of Renault, Chrysler and Mitsubishi vehicles? Eagle dealers didn't have good answers for these questions, but one could also get this hatch as a Dodge Colt and a Plymouth Colt as part of Chrysler's strategy being flooding every brand with a variant. tradition of importing small Mitsubishis, the 1990 Mirage arrived as an Eagle Summit. which leads us to 10 hatchbacks from the 1990s you just don't see anymore.Īlso: 7 Hatchbacks from the 80s You Just Don't See AnymoreĬontinuing the Chrysler Corp. Many hatches were strictly point-A-to-point-B cars, simply used up and thrown away. Hatchbacks in the 1990s were never premium, and even the third-generation Volkswagen Golfs that were optioned to the price of the aforementioned V6 sedans were still thought of as the cars for college students.
The statute has since been repealed.Ĭars in the 1990s were a mixed bag as well, and for every BMW 540i station wagon in your city, there were at least 5000 V6-engined sedans making well under 200 hp. And need we remind you of Jar Jar Binks, wallets on chains as a fashion accessory, the comic genius of Tom Green, and the daily anthropological observations of Jerry Springer? Also, it was perfectly acceptable to have a mullet until about 1993, with many taking advantage of a Pre-Existing Mullet Provision in federal law that grandfathered in any obtained prior to January 1, 1991. The same decade that gave us The Big Lebowski and AOL Instant Messenger also produced that "MMMbop" song by Hanson, sweater vests, The Jerky Boys: The Movie, and just way too much washed-out denim.
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