Comments on: Top 10 Cheapest New Cars To Own http://www.ridelust.com/top-10-cheapest-new-cars-to-own/ - Motion + Mobility Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:25:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: lol http://www.ridelust.com/top-10-cheapest-new-cars-to-own/#comment-13702 lol Thu, 03 Dec 2009 11:42:02 +0000 http://www.ridelust.com/?p=4168#comment-13702 lolololololololo scrub!!!! lolololololololo scrub!!!!

]]> By: Robin http://www.ridelust.com/top-10-cheapest-new-cars-to-own/#comment-13148 Robin Sun, 25 Oct 2009 20:59:30 +0000 http://www.ridelust.com/?p=4168#comment-13148 I have a 2006 Chevy Aveo and love it. It does exactly what I bought it for - run around town and go to work. In Feb, 2007 we took a trip to Yellowstone from Arkansas and had no trouble. Plenty of space, lots of leg room and great gas milage. Best of all, when this car was brand new, on the show room floor, the price was $8,600 Thats with air and automatic transmission. So we paid cash - No car note. Now that the car is 3 1/2 years old, I can't part with it. I just can't see taking on a car note when I have a perfectly good car. I have a 2006 Chevy Aveo and love it. It does exactly what I bought it for – run around town and go to work. In Feb, 2007 we took a trip to Yellowstone from Arkansas and had no trouble. Plenty of space, lots of leg room and great gas milage. Best of all, when this car was brand new, on the show room floor, the price was $8,600 Thats with air and automatic transmission. So we paid cash – No car note. Now that the car is 3 1/2 years old, I can’t part with it. I just can’t see taking on a car note when I have a perfectly good car.

]]> By: Terry Parkhurst http://www.ridelust.com/top-10-cheapest-new-cars-to-own/#comment-3960 Terry Parkhurst Mon, 25 Aug 2008 03:21:41 +0000 http://www.ridelust.com/?p=4168#comment-3960 The GEO Metro or its under-the-skin twin made by Suzuki (GM rebadged the car for GEO) are really the hands-down winners. Suzuki called it the "Swift" which was a bit of misnomer but sounds good, eh? Of course, GM in its less than prescient thinking, decided to quit importing the Metro; from Canada, where it was made in Ontario, if memory serves. Additionally, it was really nothing more on GM's part but a sop to pass the CAFE standards, as well as offer CARB (California Air Resources Board) something, so that organization wouldn't ban the General from selling cars before it debuted the EV-1 (yes, the same electric car which starred in that documentary film, "Who killed the electric car?"). The GEO Metro could be ordered with a 1 liter, three cylinder engine. A friend of mine who is a machinist and worked for Boeing in the Seattle area, during most of the Nineties, used a GEO Metro to drive to work, on second and third shifts, when running a three cylinder engine on the freeway was not akin to taking your life into your hands (thanks to those who think freeways are NASCAR tracks). We were talking about the new "cool" car in Seattle the other night - the GEO Metro convertible, sometime seen with body mod kit and hard boot over the soft top, when said top is down. He said, "Getting 40 mpg is easy." Maintenance, for those who are still willing to work on their own car, is something one doesn't have to be a machinist to perform. Of course, you won't see this car on the Edmunds site, since they're in the business of moving new cars. Someone should start a used car lot with nothing but Metros and Swifts on it. Of course, now most owners of decent ones don't want to part with them, and at the dealer auctions, they probably pull a premium; thus hurting the potential for profit at the retail level. The GEO Metro or its under-the-skin twin made by Suzuki (GM rebadged the car for GEO) are really the hands-down winners. Suzuki called it the “Swift” which was a bit of misnomer but sounds good, eh?

Of course, GM in its less than prescient thinking, decided to quit importing the Metro; from Canada, where it was made in Ontario, if memory serves. Additionally, it was really nothing more on GM’s part but a sop to pass the CAFE standards, as well as offer CARB (California Air Resources Board) something, so that organization wouldn’t ban the General from selling cars before it debuted the EV-1 (yes, the same electric car which starred in that documentary film, “Who killed the electric car?”).

The GEO Metro could be ordered with a 1 liter, three cylinder engine. A friend of mine who is a machinist and worked for Boeing in the Seattle area, during most of the Nineties, used a GEO Metro to drive to work, on second and third shifts, when running a three cylinder engine on the freeway was not akin to taking your life into your hands (thanks to those who think freeways are NASCAR tracks). We were talking about the new “cool” car in Seattle the other night – the GEO Metro convertible, sometime seen with body mod kit and hard boot over the soft top, when said top is down. He said, “Getting 40 mpg is easy.”

Maintenance, for those who are still willing to work on their own car, is something one doesn’t have to be a machinist to perform.

Of course, you won’t see this car on the Edmunds site, since they’re in the business of moving new cars. Someone should start a used car lot with nothing but Metros and Swifts on it. Of course, now most owners of decent ones don’t want to part with them, and at the dealer auctions, they probably pull a premium; thus hurting the potential for profit at the retail level.

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