![]() ![]() If you drive a 280Z, the feeling will be of riding high. On the road, on a scale of onerous to terrific, the Tracker performs with aplomb. ![]() We would not have been surprised to find two zippers left over. Two of us put it back up by educated guesswork. Two of us took it down, working without blueprints. The downside of that is a lid that uses more zippers, snaps, straps, clips, catches and Velcro fasteners than an upmarket space suit. Unfortunately, such snugness is only be obtained by tight engineering. The tight tenting allows easy conversations and a decent sound system and during February’s chilly monsoons, not one drop trickled into the Tracker. Heated or refrigerated air actually lingers inside the vehicle. What Geo/Suzuki has done with its convertible top is only one trick shy of miraculous. Also dashboard recesses sized perfectly for early morning survival rations-two thermal coffee mugs and a box of chocolate doughnuts.Īll in all, with its crank windows, carpets, door liners and fabric seats, the Tracker feels much more suburban cruiser than rural puddle stomper-a ratio that makes sense because most 4WD vehicles spend more time at stoplights than they do upsetting the Sierra Club. There are more grab handles than occupants have hands. Instrumentation and controls offer no surprises-except for the insistence on a warning light instead of a full oil gauge. With their oiled tracks and heavy return springs, the seats shoot forward faster than Madame La Guillotine. But watch out when out of the vehicle and moving those front seats forward to reach into the back. The back seat collapses and locks forward to open a hold large enough for a steamer trunk. Off-road, there’s very little shoulder banging. On the road, rolling hard and belted in, there’s full comfort for four. Seating is high-backed buckets up front and a love seat behind. Its daily want, clearly, is going for walks and playing in the mud.īut if pert and sassy were the requirements of today’s marketplace, we’d still be buying Nash Metropolitans.įortunately for us, there’s a solid vehicle and much seriousness beneath the Tracker’s chuckles and visuals borrowed from Tonka. It’s the kind of car that would follow you home. Here was mischief in search of any kid who ever wore a baseball cap backward. ![]() Our Geo Tracker was in ladybug red with a white top. Geo’s Tracker is bare of the slicker options and is available with only the heftier engine.īoth are sold as hardtops or convertibles-and all versions are delivered with incurable cases of the cutes. The parallel marques of Geo Tracker and Suzuki Sidekick are the standard omnium-gatherum of vinyl or fabric upholstery, manual or automatic transmissions, carburetion or injection.īroadly speaking, Suzuki offers a 1.3 liter or 1.6 liter Sidekick and a full list of luxuries from tilt steering wheel to cruise control. The Sidekick/Tracker is smoother, less utilitarian and much more First World.Īnd those who recently purchased Samurais may be forgiven for considering hara-kiri. The Samurai, despite its visual charm and unique place as a plaything, was jouncy, slow and motored with the grace of a rock in a coffee can. Actually, the choice should be easy-for those who don’t have to squeeze nickels.įor what the Samurai did wrong, the Sidekick/Tracker has done right. ![]()
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