I personally have always liked the Chevy Tracker, especially compared to the Honda CR-V and Toyota RAV4. I feel like it was the last of the tough small SUV. Everything after this just went car based crossover, and lost that rugged edge that makes driving an SUV more fun than driving a basic hatchback. I mean, that's what all of these compact crossovers are nowaday: just hatchbacks on stilts. But most people, at least here in America, still pretentiously believe that they are getting an SUV because the ride height is tall. And when do they end up realizing they don't have a real SUV? In Slippery conditions, when that front-wheel drive is failing, and the optional all-wheel-drive isn't worth its viscous coupling that's failing miserably. Only then do people realize the value of a differential...
I have a 2001 Honda CR-V that I absolutely love and is very much rigged and capable of off-roading given its high ground clearance. Despite the 1st generation ending in 2001, the 2 generation was still a tough small SUV, and didn't quite take the crossover name until 2007 when the redesign began. So I disagree that it was the last car based crossover; the Honda CR-V was tough and small until 2006, as I've seen many people taking the 1st and 2nd generation CRVs off-road, and they are both small and tough. The Toyota RAV4 stayed a small, tough SUV until about 2005, when it was redesigned in 2006, though it held a very similar body shape to previous generations until its crossover redesign in 2013. All that said, though, the Tracker I think was good for what it was, but died because of the competition from the similar small and tough SUVs that were the CR-V and the RAV4.
@@noahpehowic6080 I have the same with 230000 miles on it. It is still running strong. Just spent over $800 for new struts and shocks. All fluid changes. Tune up, this is my routine maintenance every three years
This and the Trailblazer were THE regular car for the Great Lakes. Easy to buy, easy to run, and easy to get around during the winter months with. It's hard to find a brand new vehicle with these qualities anymore, for better or for worse. But these will always be putting around in the "$500 and a case of Budweiser" category of Craigslist, where Dustin can find his first vehicle for the job at Burger King he got, and where weirdos like us get inane ideas in our head about taking these things on a 500-mile rally across the USA. Not even the Rav4 can match the accessibility and idiot-proof design the Tracker and Blazer has.
@@ddoormatt4834 The Blazer (especially the S10) has always been pretty much shit when the Tahoe came out. But when you bought a Blazer, you never had quality in mind. It was a big ass box that could take all your stuff, your dog, and your boat to the Dells with comfort and ease. You got 4WD for the inevitable winter storms, and that's about it. No tech (I mean the effing 94 Yukon GT I had still used SEALED BEAM HEADLIGHTS), terrible handling, terrible mileage, and more shit came off of my Blazer just from pulling too hard you could've sworn it was a drivable Jenga tower. It never had trouble starting however, and that's what made it such a mainstay of our region for so long. I mean, the Vortec V6 is pretty much an SBC with two cylinders lopped off and a fuel injection system hammered on. If the transmission on the S10 Blazer wasn't assembled with twigs, I feel like you'd still be seeing as many on the road today as you do old Camry's or F-150s. I still see the GMT360 Trailblazers (and their Envoy counterparts) pretty commonly here. They're like roaches!
I would honestly like to see more international RCR episode. The UK speciales had actual fitting cars and having a RCR meet at the Nürburgring would be nice. And we Germans have come nice common cars. Mk4 golf's with TDIs. Opel Vivaro Van's. Opel corsas. Renault Twingos. And many Audis and Mercedeses will suddenly make sense out on the autobahn
Seems like you don't know much about these cars Roman, cause if you did, you'd realize they are a solid 4x4 with actual capabilities. One of the biggest secrets in the used SUV market imo
I loved my ZR2 tracker. Great offroad, wouldnt get stuck on anything. Rolled 330,000km before the rust took it. Serving the rest of its days as a faithful field car.
I loved my Tracker. It was a little beast, would've kept it my whole life, but a drunk driver hit me doing about 65 and caused me to flip twice. The car was totaled and way beyond repair but I came out with only minor contusions.
I feel the same way about my 93 toyota carolla wagon. People could knock it but every mechanic i've had worked on it loves my car especially its engine. Husband brought home a tracker so I can fix up the carolla use it to haul shit instead of my wagon. Man my wagon has hauled some shit, sips gas, and fun as hell to drive like you stole it.
I was rear-ended hard once in a Tracker on a 6 lane highway and drove the car home with minor scratches on the rear bumber. Much, much less could be said about the brand new Sonata that hit me, especially since it needed to be towed ...
It's less so today with Uber and Lyft but getting a car meant freedom. Responsibility too. As long as it didn't strand you someplace an OK car is way good enough.
Chevy production codes. Did any other automaker try to use order sheet codes in such abundance? I guess cousin Pontiac did with the WS6 but that’s the only one that comes to mind. Z24, Z28, Z32, Z71, ZR-1,ZR-2, and who knows how many more.
Badge engineering ruins everything, in Europe where we didn't have the Chevy version the Grand Vitara was never uncool. And also, Suzuki Escudo Pikes Peak from Gran Turismo
Jackson Shelton, Suzuki Auto pulled form US and Canada for MARRIAGE CHEATING with VW (they had an EXPLOSIVE DIVORCE not so long ago). The only chance a new Samurai could make it Stateside is that Toyota (who owns or is about to own the stocks that were first GM's and then VW's) Would make a pact with Suzuki Auto to make them US-spec and sell them here through Toyota's dealers... (You could only wish)
their mistake was focusing on the kizashi, while a good car, it was destined to fail... had they instead focused on an all new Grand Vitara they could have rode the Crossover wave to profit! instead they let the poor thing rot on the vine...
Mike S, most likely the problem would be in HOW MANY UNITS is Suzuki able to supply Toyota if it wound up to just that. Most likely the price for a "Toyota Samurai" would run from ~ U$22K for the convertible and ~ U$25K for the "metal top". If Suzuki can't supply enough for the demand (and it's NOT PROFITABLE ENOUGH) Toyota wouldn't be interested and I'M SURE THEY'RE NOT!
I happen to have a fair bit of experience with the '03 Chevy Tracker, with the same engine and the same ZR-2 package. I don't know what you mean by noisy engine as the one I am familiar with has a very quiet engine. I can tell you from first hand experience that the Tracker is not forgettable if you have ever tried to repair one. Oh no. No, you will remember trying to get to parts and belts in that engine compartment! Though to be fair, changing the brakes is pretty easy. Other things of note is that the Tracker is just a little bit weird. It is technically a Suzuki Grand Vitara, which is good to know if you need to find parts, because looking for Chevy Tracker parts is a nightmare of "Sorry! We don't have that!" The lug pattern is weird. It's that familiar 5 lug pattern, but way bigger than normal. So good luck finding wheels for it at a cheap price. The original key is so long and big that it got bent. If you want to get a spare key made, good luck finding a key that long. It took going to three different hardware stores to get the right key type. If the driver's side window regulator wears out, then rolling up your window can cause the window to break. I agree that the interior is very cheap. if that driver's side door handle has not broken off yet, it will. The arm rests are so small and cheap they should have just been omitted. Really they just get in the way. Now that said, it is very good in snow. The Tracker shines best on streets that have snow on them. Just put it in 4 wheel drive, and don't drive like an idiot. Also, they painted the frame which has helped to slow down the corrosion. It even has little built in grooves that the jack that it comes with fits into. One last thing of note. DO NOT put a remote starter into a Chevy Tracker unless you are damn sure it will work. Maybe we just used a crappy remote starter, maybe it's the Tracker's weirdness, but now the damn thing is obsessed with locking its doors and leaving the headlights on. More than once it has locked itself with the keys inside and the engine running. Good thing we did manage to get spare keys made. Upon reflection, the Tracker is not that different that the Suburu Loyale you guys reviewed a few years ago. Both are bland oatmeal cars with a dated aesthetic. Yet both are pretty reliable overall, and both have just a little bit of weirdness to them. Anyway it is nice to see what truly is a regular car being reviewed.
I can attest to the fragile door handles. I had to get a set of junkyard ones for my '02 tracker. Also in regards to offroading due to the dimensions of the vehicle it does lend itself quite nicely to trails meant for ATV's/ side by side's.
@FriendlyFreeThinker The driver door one was coming off in mine and the passenger(!) door handle broke off. I took a couple from a junkyard Suzuki XL-7 and put them in. Chrome handles to give a little flash to the interior. They're VERY easy to install, just gotta be careful removing them.
That's exactly what I fucking said man, you will never forget that motherfuker if you ever have to work on it. I know these cars engines are produced before they're dropped into the engine bay on the car oh, my God damn they could have at least left a little bit more room than what a four-year-old Malaysian kids hand can fit in... trying to put belts on the piece is ridiculous, I think the spark plugs in the easiest thing to mess with on this vehicle. Hey can you aid me in a question I have because I can't find the name of a part that's giving me trouble on the throttle body? It's the copper piece on the upper passenger side of the throttle body and it has a pin or plunger that is held in by a metal spring loaded bracket that rests on the accelerator cables bracket and when you press the gas pedal, the cable bracket moves out and allows the pin to move out of the copper piece. I am trying to figure out what it is its literally the only copper part on the throttle body and I can't find any info on it specifically. If you could tell me what that part is called I would be greatly appreciative to you, it's making me want to rip my hair out...
They weirdly have kind of Italian/USSR character. My first car was a 4 year old '86 Nissan Sentra. It was an ultra appliance. Four doors, yes it was very brown including the interior, but had a stick with no tach. It was one of two Sentra's from that generation I would own. Cold, heartless, boxes that made Toyota Tercel's feel like something you aspire to.
Seegal Galguntijak, the Vitara / Grand Vitara / Escudo / Sidekick... ISN'T RELATED to the Samurai / Jimny, which is still RWD-based now on the approximate footprint of the 2-door Sidekick. The Jimny / Samurai was made since its' beginning in the '70s to Kei size rules (you can still buy it in JDM w/a 660cc engine and narrow body), while the export versions were always wider and had more powerful engines (from 770cc originally to today's 1.5L, all I4s). Somewhere along the line Vitara / Escudo transitioned from a true SUV to another compact crossover.
@@WayneMoyer Great description. My sister in law had an 89 Sentra that she bought new. It was a two door car. She had the choice of air conditioning or a digital radio, in her budget. she went with the radio. "Cold heartless boxes" is the best description I've heard....great car either way.
It’s literally a Suzuki engine and drivetrain. That’s deadass the only thing that made it reliable. The only thing that was absolute shit was the interior. All Chevy had do was make a decent interior, and they couldn’t even do that.
Although the Tracker / Grand Vitara are not spectacular looking machines, and arguably quite boring, I still feel as though these are very special and unique vehicles. This 'segment' is quite small and specialized. You can't find many body-on-frame, true 4x4, compacts suv's out there (especially stateside). I loved your automotive humanism idea in this episode.
weve had one in my family for over10 years and its seen HELL. and it keeps on trucking, its a like a mule, it might not be the stalion or wild mustang everybody romanticize. But it will keep on going.
i have a 2002 tracker 4 door 4x4 2.5l v6, love it. it's great at doing a lot of things well. it's a very reliable solid machine. i can play in 2wd or get there in 4x4 when the weather gets bad.
You couldn't kill a Tracker if you tried; Chevy Trackers are one of the most underrated vehicles ever made. Their bulletproof reliability as well as their functional, unpretentious and utilitarian design sees many people run these things easily over 400 000 miles without much more than regular maintenance. These Chevy Trackers will run for as long as you wish to drive them ...
An equivalent of a cheap cheap ramen eater cooking his ramen in his dead mother's house.. Its like a girl that loves you, but you have absolute zero affection to her, not even as a friend. It's like going to church on Monday
Nick please make more videos here or start your own channel. I stopped watching RCR about a year ago but clicked on the video due to actually seeing a regular car in the thumbnail. Your presentation style is great
Just discovered this video and gotta say, I love my 2002 Tracker. It has been with me for over 200k miles now and still holding strong. Even managed to pull my old jobs work f350 out of a muddy ditch
One difficulty this had with selling was this was during the early stages of the Iraq war when gas prices spiked up to $5-$6 per gallon, suvs were a rare sight during that time where I was. Now crossovers are all you see.
I remember going to an offroad park in my K5 Blazer and watching a two-door version of this blasting through the atv/motorcycle trails. He could go places my Blazer couldn't fit and he never got stuck on the steep hills so long as he got a run at them. Bone stock looking too.
I have a 2001 Chevy Tracker (non-zr2 non 4x4) and it is the most reliable vehicle for a first car (which mine was). I love it due to simplicity and reliability, but it is not comfortable or flashy. I also acquired a 2 door 4x4 2000 Suzuki Vitara with soft top (mechanically same vehicle aside from 4x4), and it can pull my tracker out of bottom-land mud of a Tennessee hollow. Calling it a regular is super-fitting. My Tracker just goes and goes and goes.
Having owned a decently wide selection of vehicles, two-wheeled and four-wheeled, almost none come with the same joy of ownership and drivership (is that even a word?) as my old '91 2-door GMC Tracker. A beast off-road, could go anywhere, particularly fun to blast down gravel roads with the aplomb of a 2WD rally car.
I really, really want this car. Cheap, very small and light for an SUV, but rugged and large enough to take my single ass and a bike over a washed out dirt road. Plus, it's just modern enough to be safe.
I had the 2004 LT version of this as my first car. I kind of enjoyed driving it for the three years I had it. Interstate travel sucked but in town it was quite fun to whip it around corners. Oh the nostalgia from this video is immense.
just got the 2004 LT for my first car i just turned 18 and i already know im gonna remember it for a lifetime i love it and i cant wait to start working so i can get money to make sure every part of it is fixed and will last as long as i can get it to
THIS CAR is The most RC that this channel has ever RCR'd. This car is objectively the precipice of this channel. You could stop right now and this series would be complete. I don't see how you can top this. You should've saved this car for the last episode ever. P.S. has anyone ever "Retired" from UA-cam yet? Boy that's going to be weird if it ever happens.
These cars are actually surprisingly robust off-road. I would never buy one to lift put bigger tires on, lockers etc a serious off roader. But as a stock vehicle theyre so cheap you can beat on them relentlessly and they do not care. The ground clearance isnt great from the factory, but the lowest hanging part of the undercarriage is the frame rails (yes these dinky little things are legit body on frame). The transmission transfer case etc all are tucked up high, so if you do high center it tends to just keep sliding along. Also a legit low range transfercase on a vehicle in this class is a rarity. Theyre light, good approach angles, and just bounce around really well. Search "tracker jump" and you will find a plethora of videos where peopl are launching these things off completely underengineered jumps, jumps that launch you straight to flats, jumps that break raptors.
Good to see someone who knows what they are talking about. For some reason this car has more bullshit around it than any other, thanks to badge blind idiots
I had a '95 Corsica with a 2.2L engine. Drove it from senior year of HS and then kept it for another 11 years untill rust took the front wheel control arm. At that point I've gone through several other cars and was driving a '13 STI. Sill, that car gave me so much joy of careless driving, regardless of having EVERY component you can image broken, to the point of having only 3 functioning brakes. I loved that car! With that said, I will daily just about anything with a manual. Because a manual in itself, is an experience forth having every day!
I remember meeting this very nice but also entirely too trusting lady that found me working as a cashier at a Sunoco gas station and decided that I was the perfect person to maintain her vehicles. She literally left her 2000 Honda Civic with me 10 minutes after meeting me trusting me to do the repairs that she requested. Anyways, she also had a 2 door Chevrolet tracker with the 4 cylinder, 2WD, and a manual transmission. When I first saw it I hated the way it looked but it only took one drive to fall in love with it. The manual transmission was actually quite good (I far preferred it over her Civic's transmission) and it was fun to drive. The handling was shockingly good and the ride quality was nearly car-like. I put 4 people in it and no one was uncomfortable and that little 4 cylinder was still peppy enough even with all the weight. It may have had a cheap interior but it just had the feel of a car that was going to last forever. None of the panels rattled and it just felt very solid. The turning radius was excellent and it was very nimble. If I ever found a manual ZR-2 I would buy it in an instant.
mine is an automatic, I just got it. I WISH it was a manual - but it does have a 'power' switch that seems to male the transmission much more alert. The thing can scream, but the gas pedal has to be pushed to make it really preform,
Oh wow yeah...yeah it is actually... And I don't know why, but the Grand Vitara ( Escudo in Asian markets) seems more interesting, exciting, and capable that this Chevy tracker... My grandfather used to own one in silver and I love to ride in it and my favorite part of the car, is weirdly it's rear passenger doors... And ever since that car, my family is absent of any kind of off-roaders because my dad is too focused on gas mileage despite loving off-roaders too. so for now, my grandfather's late Suzuki Grand Vitara ( or Escudo) is truly the last off-roader to ever grace my family's garage... And yeah Roman's right... I made so many memories in it, and even went to unforgettable trips too... All in that silver Grand Vitara... ( my grandfather's was the second gen btw)
Tex Kaba Wasn’t the first gen Suzuki counterpart the Sidekick? I had a 1st gen Tracker. I liked it for what it was, it would have been a great second vehicle but for an only vehicle it was usually a pain in the ass. Mine was the 2 door soft top so it had no room inside and was noisy on the highway.
@@mcearl8073 The Tracker/Sidekick is worthless as an only vehicle and priceless as a 2nd/3rd (or in my case 8th/9th) vehicle. They are the most fun when driven off-road and like you are chasing down someone that just kicked your dog
me3333 Yea mine would have been great as a 3rd. It was technically a second, just not the right second at the time, my other was a regular cab Ranger. I liked it though, if I ever come across another for the right price I wouldn’t hesitate to pick it up as long as it’s a 2 door and a 5 speed.
crazy thing is tho the stock suspention in those suv or what ever it is will drive through a crazy deep and crazy steep ditch then up a hill. amazed me
You know what else takes dirt and gravel roads surprisingly well? ANYTHING ON STOCK SUSPENSION AND TIRES. Even a '93 325is will fly through gravel State Reserve paths.
You stick 31" Tires on it, tweak the suspension, a roof rack, a trailer hitch and winch on a plate with some snatch blocks you can go damn near anywhere that's not under water. It's also small enough to get down four wheeler trails. Not bad for something you can take on the highway. I really want one in a stick.
James Josker I miss my 2002. I miss those big windows. I miss the utilitarian feel of it. I miss being able to take it through creek beds and having fun in the snow with it. I just dont miss the way it felt like it would roll in a corner at any speed over 40 MPH. And when the subframe rusted through on my way down a mountain in Oregon in February, that was the end of it for me. Lol. Still, I find myself wanting to find another one if I can get it cheap with minimal rust. They are so good in the snow and for mild off roading.
I've taken a Tracker where I wouldn't dare go in a RAV4 or CRV, mine was a 2 door convertible with 4 cylinder 5 speed. If you want to know where they all went, go to a tractor pull, they make excellent support vehicles. Tough enough to pull competition vehicles around, compact enough to fit in the trailer, street legal to drive to the motel, cheaper than a side by side.
Holy shit dude I forgot you existed until I searched a review specific to this car. I'm sorry the algorithm made us lose touch. I want you to know you ARE the best car channel on UA-cam. Subscribed.
My parents gave me one of these in 2002. Was bright yellow, had the base four cylinder (128 HP, yay), and rear wheel drive. Drove it for six years (until I bought a Pontiac G8 in 2008), then one of my younger sisters drove it for a few years more until my dad sold it to one of his employees. It's still driving around my parents' town to this day, and they see it every once in a while. Hard to miss with that bright yellow paint. Heh, although once I traded up to my Pontiac G8 in 2008, I never looked back. Well, I kinda miss the Tracker's ground clearance. I really scratched up my G8's bumper trying to adjust to its low ground clearance.
These are excellent off-roaders. I took my stock '04 Vitara on rock crawling trails intended only for modified vehicles and it went through with ease. It even pulled out my friend's Disco when he got stuck! Excellent in the snow too. Great little car.
Damn i had the same exact one🤣🤣that thing was a beast in the snow. Also i had two of them.the first one had over 250k miles...that one i blew up doing 110 down hill🤣🤣
man, you hit the nail on the head with the memories of this car. It was my car in high school, and heading to the beach every weekend with the top down created some great memories... I also laughed at all the suspension jokes...
The Tracker.... A car brought to the US by GM that was never engineered for the driving conditions in this country. It never had a place in the world of adventure because it was smaller than a Jeep Wrangler and could not be modified like the Samurai. It was never made for the open highways in middle America and was not at home on the massive freeways along the coasts. It worked well on the surface streets in urban areas. It was at home on a country road, even it that country road was not paved. But it never had a place in American culture because GM had lost their skill at "brand engineering" a concept into a niche market.
I've been waiting for that for so long!!!! Thanks Mr.Roman!! I used to have a Grand Vitara, same thing but slightly better looking. I freakin loved that car and how I could spent a snowy night going around neighborhoods and drifting along the curves
More like they were lazing around. All Geo’s were were Japanese cars rebadged as a GM. Geo Prizm: Corolla. Geo Tracker: Suzuki. Geo Storm and Spectrum: Isuzu’s.
My husband brought a Tracker home a couple days ago. It's yellow need a little work. But is still in pretty good shape. Now I can put my 93 toyota carolla wagon down to fix it up.
Second owner of a 2000 Tracker, bought from my cousin five years ago, and it has been a sturdy little trooper. It served my wife first, carrying the kiddos through snowy winters and dirt road summers, now it's my daily. Having owned a Suzuki Samurai in my youth, I saw that the Tracker lineup was really just a newer and bigger version of the small SUV I remembered. Body on frame construction, simple transfer case w/ 4High & Low, Airbags, Automatic transmission coupled to a gutsy 2.0 DOHC 4-cylinder engine. There are TONS of these in Tracker & Vitara form in Southeast Alaska, because like old Subaru wagons, they seem adept at taking a beating from everyone from young drivers to old ladies. Mine is getting ready to hit 200k and if it does it's getting a well-deserved set of new oil seals and some other maintenence I've been putting off. Is it a memorable drive? No. Will I remember it when it's gone? Yes, because it's EARNED a place of respect from me. I appreciate it for simply doing whatever I needed or wanted of it with minimum amount of drama or grief.
no they're not, i've tried. the strut towers will break and front suspention will start shaking it to pices, the motor is underpowered and the 2.5l v6 usually sounds like skeletons having sex on a thin metal roof due to notoriously bad chain tensioners
I drove my grandma's 2 door, soft top, ZR-2 Tracker for a summer a couple years ago. You're on point with the description of how vanilla it is in almost every way. That's kind of the charm though. Also can confirm that it's off-road abilities are a lot better than you think they would be. I took it down trails, through mud, and even up a rocky incline. I was easily keeping up with the Jeep XJ and F250 I was driving with. It's so light and narrow you can easily skirt around mud pits that trucks can't and the 4x4 is pretty strong.
I personally have always liked the Chevy Tracker, especially compared to the Honda CR-V and Toyota RAV4. I feel like it was the last of the tough small SUV. Everything after this just went car based crossover, and lost that rugged edge that makes driving an SUV more fun than driving a basic hatchback. I mean, that's what all of these compact crossovers are nowaday: just hatchbacks on stilts. But most people, at least here in America, still pretentiously believe that they are getting an SUV because the ride height is tall. And when do they end up realizing they don't have a real SUV? In Slippery conditions, when that front-wheel drive is failing, and the optional all-wheel-drive isn't worth its viscous coupling that's failing miserably. Only then do people realize the value of a differential...
Body on frame, and not draining a texas oil rigs daily run every time you turn the ignition.
I turned mine into a tractor.
I have a 2001 Honda CR-V that I absolutely love and is very much rigged and capable of off-roading given its high ground clearance. Despite the 1st generation ending in 2001, the 2 generation was still a tough small SUV, and didn't quite take the crossover name until 2007 when the redesign began. So I disagree that it was the last car based crossover; the Honda CR-V was tough and small until 2006, as I've seen many people taking the 1st and 2nd generation CRVs off-road, and they are both small and tough. The Toyota RAV4 stayed a small, tough SUV until about 2005, when it was redesigned in 2006, though it held a very similar body shape to previous generations until its crossover redesign in 2013. All that said, though, the Tracker I think was good for what it was, but died because of the competition from the similar small and tough SUVs that were the CR-V and the RAV4.
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I have the same with 230000 miles on it. It is still running strong. Just spent over $800 for new struts and shocks. All fluid changes. Tune up, this is my routine maintenance every three years
It's all about the two speed transfer case.
throw the 2004 jeep liberty in there with the rugged CUVs. i have one and it’s a decent cute little off-roader. it’s got 4Lo too
Finally an actually regular car for once.
This and the Trailblazer were THE regular car for the Great Lakes. Easy to buy, easy to run, and easy to get around during the winter months with. It's hard to find a brand new vehicle with these qualities anymore, for better or for worse. But these will always be putting around in the "$500 and a case of Budweiser" category of Craigslist, where Dustin can find his first vehicle for the job at Burger King he got, and where weirdos like us get inane ideas in our head about taking these things on a 500-mile rally across the USA. Not even the Rav4 can match the accessibility and idiot-proof design the Tracker and Blazer has.
@@trashrabbit69 except that the Blazer was shit
@@ddoormatt4834 The Blazer (especially the S10) has always been pretty much shit when the Tahoe came out. But when you bought a Blazer, you never had quality in mind. It was a big ass box that could take all your stuff, your dog, and your boat to the Dells with comfort and ease. You got 4WD for the inevitable winter storms, and that's about it. No tech (I mean the effing 94 Yukon GT I had still used SEALED BEAM HEADLIGHTS), terrible handling, terrible mileage, and more shit came off of my Blazer just from pulling too hard you could've sworn it was a drivable Jenga tower. It never had trouble starting however, and that's what made it such a mainstay of our region for so long. I mean, the Vortec V6 is pretty much an SBC with two cylinders lopped off and a fuel injection system hammered on. If the transmission on the S10 Blazer wasn't assembled with twigs, I feel like you'd still be seeing as many on the road today as you do old Camry's or F-150s. I still see the GMT360 Trailblazers (and their Envoy counterparts) pretty commonly here. They're like roaches!
I would honestly like to see more international RCR episode. The UK speciales had actual fitting cars and having a RCR meet at the Nürburgring would be nice.
And we Germans have come nice common cars. Mk4 golf's with TDIs. Opel Vivaro Van's. Opel corsas. Renault Twingos. And many Audis and Mercedeses will suddenly make sense out on the autobahn
Too bad it was voiced by the under study. I was all excited till I realized
Seems like you don't know much about these cars Roman, cause if you did, you'd realize they are a solid 4x4 with actual capabilities. One of the biggest secrets in the used SUV market imo
Even the GoPro committed suicide looking at it for too long.
Edit: thanks for the upboats 🛥️🛥️🛥️🛥️
I loved my ZR2 tracker. Great offroad, wouldnt get stuck on anything. Rolled 330,000km before the rust took it. Serving the rest of its days as a faithful field car.
I loved my Tracker. It was a little beast, would've kept it my whole life, but a drunk driver hit me doing about 65 and caused me to flip twice. The car was totaled and way beyond repair but I came out with only minor contusions.
I feel the same way about my 93 toyota carolla wagon. People could knock it but every mechanic i've had worked on it loves my car especially its engine. Husband brought home a tracker so I can fix up the carolla use it to haul shit instead of my wagon. Man my wagon has hauled some shit, sips gas, and fun as hell to drive like you stole it.
I was rear-ended hard once in a Tracker on a 6 lane highway and drove the car home with minor scratches on the rear bumber. Much, much less could be said about the brand new Sonata that hit me, especially since it needed to be towed ...
" a vehicle is a blank canvas awaiting the attachment of value".... that is a phenomenal explanation of why we love cars!
It's less so today with Uber and Lyft but getting a car meant freedom. Responsibility too. As long as it didn't strand you someplace an OK car is way good enough.
I never knew the C4 Corvette ZR-1 got a follow up; the ZR-2 is a more disappointing sequel than Batman Forever.
Chevy production codes. Did any other automaker try to use order sheet codes in such abundance? I guess cousin Pontiac did with the WS6 but that’s the only one that comes to mind. Z24, Z28, Z32, Z71, ZR-1,ZR-2, and who knows how many more.
Corvette (GM/Chevrolet) did have a ZR (Zora Racer )-2 follow up prototype (only) with a big block.
@@MyDailyUpload ZO6, IROC-Z
MyDailyUpload z66 avalanches are a thing too 😂
There’s a z82 that is just chrome wheels and other doodads on a two wheel drive silverado
Mahk’s favourite car
How many JD Powahs did this puppy win?
interpol007 100000000000000000000000000000000 JD PAWAH POWAHS PASH!
1999 Suzuki Grand Vitara
Who?
Benevolent google it
How many did it get? Probably about 12,000,000. How many did it deserve? None.
The official car of
Hey umm I don't have a condom
But will a sandwich bag be fine?
Desmond moonbear I knew a kid back in high school that used a plastic bag from Walmart as a condom
@@hi1000ish that's the life
It's Japanese
It's way better than any American pile of $%!]
That final shot was GOLD! ..."Back up Evie. More."
You can tell it's a Nick video when the thumbnail features a weird angle of the car.
For me it was the sn95 mustang in the back
His older reviews always had a different font for the thumbnail too
+Augustas better way to tell is when you can't make it through the first two minutes of the video
@@tonywellington7854 to be fair he's improving
DUTCH ANGLES
Badge engineering ruins everything, in Europe where we didn't have the Chevy version the Grand Vitara was never uncool.
And also, Suzuki Escudo Pikes Peak from Gran Turismo
Hard to believe that the pikes peak used the same boring H25A that this thing probably has...
I think badge engineering is cool.
You think that’s underwhelming? Drive my 2017 Chevy Trax.
Suzuki pulled out of the United States and yet still has post-nut regret.
WE WANT THE JIMMY!
not wanting to be an asshole but its a Jimny, even though I've only ever heard it pronounced as you spelt it.
Jackson Shelton, Suzuki Auto pulled form US and Canada for MARRIAGE CHEATING with VW (they had an EXPLOSIVE DIVORCE not so long ago).
The only chance a new Samurai could make it Stateside is that Toyota (who owns or is about to own the stocks that were first GM's and then VW's) Would make a pact with Suzuki Auto to make them US-spec and sell them here through Toyota's dealers... (You could only wish)
@@dave1the1deer1hunter you're being an asshole (:--[o
their mistake was focusing on the kizashi, while a good car, it was destined to fail...
had they instead focused on an all new Grand Vitara they could have rode the Crossover wave to profit! instead they let the poor thing rot on the vine...
Mike S, most likely the problem would be in HOW MANY UNITS is Suzuki able to supply Toyota if it wound up to just that. Most likely the price for a "Toyota Samurai" would run from ~ U$22K for the convertible and ~ U$25K for the "metal top". If Suzuki can't supply enough for the demand (and it's NOT PROFITABLE ENOUGH) Toyota wouldn't be interested and I'M SURE THEY'RE NOT!
I am watching this while sitting on a throne, making B R O W N
How did your shit go?
Some say he's still going
Imsonumbxx HOT DICKS
@@ANDREWSAMY562
Green
@@RileyL32
Yellow
Mahk approves. Don't let the badge fool ya, he knows what it really is deep down inside
Rick C you mean his 1999 Suzuki Vitara? Yes
Cham JDM
That's Grand Vitara to you, Mr. Cham JDM 😅
I happen to have a fair bit of experience with the '03 Chevy Tracker, with the same engine and the same ZR-2 package. I don't know what you mean by noisy engine as the one I am familiar with has a very quiet engine. I can tell you from first hand experience that the Tracker is not forgettable if you have ever tried to repair one. Oh no. No, you will remember trying to get to parts and belts in that engine compartment! Though to be fair, changing the brakes is pretty easy.
Other things of note is that the Tracker is just a little bit weird. It is technically a Suzuki Grand Vitara, which is good to know if you need to find parts, because looking for Chevy Tracker parts is a nightmare of "Sorry! We don't have that!" The lug pattern is weird. It's that familiar 5 lug pattern, but way bigger than normal. So good luck finding wheels for it at a cheap price. The original key is so long and big that it got bent. If you want to get a spare key made, good luck finding a key that long. It took going to three different hardware stores to get the right key type. If the driver's side window regulator wears out, then rolling up your window can cause the window to break. I agree that the interior is very cheap. if that driver's side door handle has not broken off yet, it will. The arm rests are so small and cheap they should have just been omitted. Really they just get in the way.
Now that said, it is very good in snow. The Tracker shines best on streets that have snow on them. Just put it in 4 wheel drive, and don't drive like an idiot. Also, they painted the frame which has helped to slow down the corrosion. It even has little built in grooves that the jack that it comes with fits into.
One last thing of note. DO NOT put a remote starter into a Chevy Tracker unless you are damn sure it will work. Maybe we just used a crappy remote starter, maybe it's the Tracker's weirdness, but now the damn thing is obsessed with locking its doors and leaving the headlights on. More than once it has locked itself with the keys inside and the engine running. Good thing we did manage to get spare keys made.
Upon reflection, the Tracker is not that different that the Suburu Loyale you guys reviewed a few years ago. Both are bland oatmeal cars with a dated aesthetic. Yet both are pretty reliable overall, and both have just a little bit of weirdness to them.
Anyway it is nice to see what truly is a regular car being reviewed.
Speaking of remote statrter i had one on the first tracker i had it was nice in the winter. Ive often thought about getting another tracker🤔
I can attest to the fragile door handles. I had to get a set of junkyard ones for my '02 tracker. Also in regards to offroading due to the dimensions of the vehicle it does lend itself quite nicely to trails meant for ATV's/ side by side's.
@FriendlyFreeThinker The driver door one was coming off in mine and the passenger(!) door handle broke off. I took a couple from a junkyard Suzuki XL-7 and put them in. Chrome handles to give a little flash to the interior. They're VERY easy to install, just gotta be careful removing them.
That's exactly what I fucking said man, you will never forget that motherfuker if you ever have to work on it. I know these cars engines are produced before they're dropped into the engine bay on the car oh, my God damn they could have at least left a little bit more room than what a four-year-old Malaysian kids hand can fit in... trying to put belts on the piece is ridiculous, I think the spark plugs in the easiest thing to mess with on this vehicle.
Hey can you aid me in a question I have because I can't find the name of a part that's giving me trouble on the throttle body? It's the copper piece on the upper passenger side of the throttle body and it has a pin or plunger that is held in by a metal spring loaded bracket that rests on the accelerator cables bracket and when you press the gas pedal, the cable bracket moves out and allows the pin to move out of the copper piece. I am trying to figure out what it is its literally the only copper part on the throttle body and I can't find any info on it specifically. If you could tell me what that part is called I would be greatly appreciative to you, it's making me want to rip my hair out...
Back when a majority of SUV’s had actual off-road ability
So it's basically a Suzuki Grand Vitara. That's how I know the vehicle. And that's probably also where its reliability originates from.
They weirdly have kind of Italian/USSR character. My first car was a 4 year old '86 Nissan Sentra. It was an ultra appliance. Four doors, yes it was very brown including the interior, but had a stick with no tach. It was one of two Sentra's from that generation I would own. Cold, heartless, boxes that made Toyota Tercel's feel like something you aspire to.
The Vitara is actually a descendant of the Suzuki Samurai, so it has the genes of a true off-road vehicle.
Seegal Galguntijak, the Vitara / Grand Vitara / Escudo / Sidekick... ISN'T RELATED to the Samurai / Jimny, which is still RWD-based now on the approximate footprint of the 2-door Sidekick.
The Jimny / Samurai was made since its' beginning in the '70s to Kei size rules (you can still buy it in JDM w/a 660cc engine and narrow body), while the export versions were always wider and had more powerful engines (from 770cc originally to today's 1.5L, all I4s). Somewhere along the line Vitara / Escudo transitioned from a true SUV to another compact crossover.
@@WayneMoyer Great description. My sister in law had an 89 Sentra that she bought new. It was a two door car. She had the choice of air conditioning or a digital radio, in her budget. she went with the radio. "Cold heartless boxes" is the best description I've heard....great car either way.
It’s literally a Suzuki engine and drivetrain. That’s deadass the only thing that made it reliable. The only thing that was absolute shit was the interior. All Chevy had do was make a decent interior, and they couldn’t even do that.
Although the Tracker / Grand Vitara are not spectacular looking machines, and arguably quite boring, I still feel as though these are very special and unique vehicles. This 'segment' is quite small and specialized. You can't find many body-on-frame, true 4x4, compacts suv's out there (especially stateside). I loved your automotive humanism idea in this episode.
90s ones were better imo. I had a 95 5 spd and I miss it.
weve had one in my family for over10 years and its seen HELL. and it keeps on trucking, its a like a mule, it might not be the stalion or wild mustang everybody romanticize. But it will keep on going.
The last track on the mix tape is The Silence of a Dying College Relationship
Oh look it’s a Geo Tracker
With a Chevy badge
it's a rebadged Suzuki
He says that like 4 times. Way to be original.
geo badges have chevy badges inside of them lol
I argue that it actually competed with the jeep liberty as well
And sure as hell lasts longer
Automotive Humanism ? Dude, its Monday....
Also, more Roman episodes please. I loved this one
Please no more Roman
Roman is great.
i have a 2002 tracker 4 door 4x4 2.5l v6, love it. it's great at doing a lot of things well. it's a very reliable solid machine. i can play in 2wd or get there in 4x4 when the weather gets bad.
You couldn't kill a Tracker if you tried; Chevy Trackers are one of the most underrated vehicles ever made. Their bulletproof reliability as well as their functional, unpretentious and utilitarian design sees many people run these things easily over 400 000 miles without much more than regular maintenance. These Chevy Trackers will run for as long as you wish to drive them ...
What engine option do you recommend
@@recklessvector8886 The 2.0 L, 4 Cylinder.
Regular Car Reviews reviews a car that's too regular and doesn't like it
"... a pillar of salt Isuzu or GEO TRACKER!" -RCR RAV4 review
YES, Someone else still remembers that video!
@@CPD0123a Season 1 is art. I love it for how experimental it was and ThE b0oK.
Kikker861 I C A N T T H I N K A B O U T T H E B O O K
An equivalent of a cheap cheap ramen eater cooking his ramen in his dead mother's house.. Its like a girl that loves you, but you have absolute zero affection to her, not even as a friend. It's like going to church on Monday
There’s a club in AZ called Zuks of Arizona and guys build these, Samurais, and Sidekicks into super capable crawlers (for their size)
Ahem. The blue shell is known as "Where tf do you think you're going?" Thank you
This is what I subscribed for. Acutal REGULAR car reviews. specialty cars and Non cars are ok, but I get most excited for reviews of THESE.
Nick please make more videos here or start your own channel. I stopped watching RCR about a year ago but clicked on the video due to actually seeing a regular car in the thumbnail. Your presentation style is great
Just discovered this video and gotta say, I love my 2002 Tracker. It has been with me for over 200k miles now and still holding strong. Even managed to pull my old jobs work f350 out of a muddy ditch
Good review.
Time to watch it now
It's a Roman episode. Sorry. Did I say episode? I meant to say essay.
No it was a Chevy badge geo that it’s self was a Suzuki
As we learned recently from Cleetus, this car is a less-than-stellar bogger.
It’s still 100x better than the ford escape
For sure!!
You mean the Mazda whatchamacallit
Still 100x worse than a pickup truck which at the time was the choice most people made.
Is it that bad? That platform was pretty popular in Australia
Which one is still being produced? 🤔
One difficulty this had with selling was this was during the early stages of the Iraq war when gas prices spiked up to $5-$6 per gallon, suvs were a rare sight during that time where I was. Now crossovers are all you see.
I remember going to an offroad park in my K5 Blazer and watching a two-door version of this blasting through the atv/motorcycle trails. He could go places my Blazer couldn't fit and he never got stuck on the steep hills so long as he got a run at them. Bone stock looking too.
I have a 2001 Chevy Tracker (non-zr2 non 4x4) and it is the most reliable vehicle for a first car (which mine was). I love it due to simplicity and reliability, but it is not comfortable or flashy.
I also acquired a 2 door 4x4 2000 Suzuki Vitara with soft top (mechanically same vehicle aside from 4x4), and it can pull my tracker out of bottom-land mud of a Tennessee hollow.
Calling it a regular is super-fitting.
My Tracker just goes and goes and goes.
Having owned a decently wide selection of vehicles, two-wheeled and four-wheeled, almost none come with the same joy of ownership and drivership (is that even a word?) as my old '91 2-door GMC Tracker. A beast off-road, could go anywhere, particularly fun to blast down gravel roads with the aplomb of a 2WD rally car.
I had the same fun with my '98 Suzuki X90. I never got it stuck, and you're right in saying that it was like a rally car on gravel roads
Came here to agree. My sidekick was silly fun.
That's because you never took it OFFROAD! They are amazing offroad
I really, really want this car. Cheap, very small and light for an SUV, but rugged and large enough to take my single ass and a bike over a washed out dirt road. Plus, it's just modern enough to be safe.
One of the best kept secrets in the used suv market. I highly recommend
I LOVED mine! Had it for 15 years. Best vehicle I ever owned. If it weren't for the rust it would probably still be running!
if chevy wanted to upmarket a vitara to go against a rav4 and wrangler... they weren't aiming right
I think this is your best work thus far, Roman.
My CD mix tapes in mid 2000s was all those 128kbps anime song I got from kingdom hearts insider
This video its funy,, mines has 250k miles and it's still new.. I love this Chevy and how smooth it drives. I dont even feel the road..
I had the 2004 LT version of this as my first car. I kind of enjoyed driving it for the three years I had it. Interstate travel sucked but in town it was quite fun to whip it around corners. Oh the nostalgia from this video is immense.
just got the 2004 LT for my first car i just turned 18 and i already know im gonna remember it for a lifetime i love it and i cant wait to start working so i can get money to make sure every part of it is fixed and will last as long as i can get it to
I love your reviews man! They bring something so good to table that you just have to enjoy them! Keep on keeping on!
THIS CAR is The most RC that this channel has ever RCR'd. This car is objectively the precipice of this channel. You could stop right now and this series would be complete. I don't see how you can top this. You should've saved this car for the last episode ever. P.S. has anyone ever "Retired" from UA-cam yet? Boy that's going to be weird if it ever happens.
Forget about the car, I want a review on the dog. Regular Dog Reviews.
Sup Roman ! It's nice to see videos voiced by you are getting more numerous. Much love
>Hear Roman's voice
>Instant like
>Hear Roman's voice
>Instant dislike
Yeah... I dunno what it is about his voice but I can't do it. I didn't even make it past the halfway mark this time.
These cars are actually surprisingly robust off-road. I would never buy one to lift put bigger tires on, lockers etc a serious off roader. But as a stock vehicle theyre so cheap you can beat on them relentlessly and they do not care. The ground clearance isnt great from the factory, but the lowest hanging part of the undercarriage is the frame rails (yes these dinky little things are legit body on frame). The transmission transfer case etc all are tucked up high, so if you do high center it tends to just keep sliding along. Also a legit low range transfercase on a vehicle in this class is a rarity. Theyre light, good approach angles, and just bounce around really well. Search "tracker jump" and you will find a plethora of videos where peopl are launching these things off completely underengineered jumps, jumps that launch you straight to flats, jumps that break raptors.
Good to see someone who knows what they are talking about. For some reason this car has more bullshit around it than any other, thanks to badge blind idiots
1-800-KARS-4 KIDS, donate your car today!
I had a '95 Corsica with a 2.2L engine. Drove it from senior year of HS and then kept it for another 11 years untill rust took the front wheel control arm. At that point I've gone through several other cars and was driving a '13 STI. Sill, that car gave me so much joy of careless driving, regardless of having EVERY component you can image broken, to the point of having only 3 functioning brakes. I loved that car!
With that said, I will daily just about anything with a manual. Because a manual in itself, is an experience forth having every day!
How do you not say it is Japanese product made and designed by Suzuki?
This is why Suzuki failed in the US, Americans have absolutely no understanding of the brand or it's cars
@@FluffyBuzzard2TheMax idk in which episode they talked about underdog stories but Suzuki is the automotive equivalent of one.
Love seeing you do more reviews lately, Roman! Hilarious, thoughtful, insightful, and relatable. Keep it up
Suzuki Vitara?
Gran Vitara - less cool, more practical
@@fraserwright9482 American version less safe
@@scannaunderscore1 What?
@@josema6694 it's a Suzuki vitara
@@scannaunderscore1 Yes, it's a rebadged Grand Vitara.
This feels like a season 3 review...
I love it
The zr2 adhesives on the doors are from 20th century, not from 2004
I remember meeting this very nice but also entirely too trusting lady that found me working as a cashier at a Sunoco gas station and decided that I was the perfect person to maintain her vehicles. She literally left her 2000 Honda Civic with me 10 minutes after meeting me trusting me to do the repairs that she requested. Anyways, she also had a 2 door Chevrolet tracker with the 4 cylinder, 2WD, and a manual transmission. When I first saw it I hated the way it looked but it only took one drive to fall in love with it. The manual transmission was actually quite good (I far preferred it over her Civic's transmission) and it was fun to drive. The handling was shockingly good and the ride quality was nearly car-like. I put 4 people in it and no one was uncomfortable and that little 4 cylinder was still peppy enough even with all the weight. It may have had a cheap interior but it just had the feel of a car that was going to last forever. None of the panels rattled and it just felt very solid. The turning radius was excellent and it was very nimble. If I ever found a manual ZR-2 I would buy it in an instant.
mine is an automatic, I just got it. I WISH it was a manual - but it does have a 'power' switch that seems to male the transmission much more alert. The thing can scream, but the gas pedal has to be pushed to make it really preform,
…is that a first-gen Tracker/Vitara spotted @6:17?
I salute you sir well done
Oh wow yeah...yeah it is actually... And I don't know why, but the Grand Vitara ( Escudo in Asian markets) seems more interesting, exciting, and capable that this Chevy tracker... My grandfather used to own one in silver and I love to ride in it and my favorite part of the car, is weirdly it's rear passenger doors...
And ever since that car, my family is absent of any kind of off-roaders because my dad is too focused on gas mileage despite loving off-roaders too. so for now, my grandfather's late Suzuki Grand Vitara ( or Escudo) is truly the last off-roader to ever grace my family's garage... And yeah Roman's right... I made so many memories in it, and even went to unforgettable trips too... All in that silver Grand Vitara...
( my grandfather's was the second gen btw)
Tex Kaba Wasn’t the first gen Suzuki counterpart the Sidekick?
I had a 1st gen Tracker. I liked it for what it was, it would have been a great second vehicle but for an only vehicle it was usually a pain in the ass. Mine was the 2 door soft top so it had no room inside and was noisy on the highway.
@@mcearl8073 The Tracker/Sidekick is worthless as an only vehicle and priceless as a 2nd/3rd (or in my case 8th/9th) vehicle. They are the most fun when driven off-road and like you are chasing down someone that just kicked your dog
me3333 Yea mine would have been great as a 3rd. It was technically a second, just not the right second at the time, my other was a regular cab Ranger.
I liked it though, if I ever come across another for the right price I wouldn’t hesitate to pick it up as long as it’s a 2 door and a 5 speed.
Holy fuck! A car review that has me going all existential? Roman, you are my fucking hero!
I was happy to see a tracker review but instead I got a college professor lecture.
Roman, that closing line is my new life motto. I've loved your episodes.
crazy thing is tho the stock suspention in those suv or what ever it is will drive through a crazy deep and crazy steep ditch then up a hill. amazed me
You know what else takes dirt and gravel roads surprisingly well?
ANYTHING ON STOCK SUSPENSION AND TIRES. Even a '93 325is will fly through gravel State Reserve paths.
Damn, I was looking forward to Regular talking about GM and Suzuki...
Thank you for this review. It's a car I love but could never find the words to say why. Your voice is that of a generation.
At the end it turned into a regular GoPro review. :O That could've ended badly. Keep doing your stuff, RCR!
You stick 31" Tires on it, tweak the suspension, a roof rack, a trailer hitch and winch on a plate with some snatch blocks you can go damn near anywhere that's not under water. It's also small enough to get down four wheeler trails. Not bad for something you can take on the highway. I really want one in a stick.
I daily a 2003 2 door and I love it.
James Josker I miss my 2002. I miss those big windows. I miss the utilitarian feel of it. I miss being able to take it through creek beds and having fun in the snow with it.
I just dont miss the way it felt like it would roll in a corner at any speed over 40 MPH. And when the subframe rusted through on my way down a mountain in Oregon in February, that was the end of it for me. Lol. Still, I find myself wanting to find another one if I can get it cheap with minimal rust. They are so good in the snow and for mild off roading.
I've taken a Tracker where I wouldn't dare go in a RAV4 or CRV, mine was a 2 door convertible with 4 cylinder 5 speed. If you want to know where they all went, go to a tractor pull, they make excellent support vehicles. Tough enough to pull competition vehicles around, compact enough to fit in the trailer, street legal to drive to the motel, cheaper than a side by side.
This review makes me want to become an over-enthusiastic fan of this car.
Holy shit dude I forgot you existed until I searched a review specific to this car. I'm sorry the algorithm made us lose touch. I want you to know you ARE the best car channel on UA-cam. Subscribed.
my apologies, but i just can't handle the roman doing a review...that's for mr. regular...right?
My parents gave me one of these in 2002. Was bright yellow, had the base four cylinder (128 HP, yay), and rear wheel drive. Drove it for six years (until I bought a Pontiac G8 in 2008), then one of my younger sisters drove it for a few years more until my dad sold it to one of his employees. It's still driving around my parents' town to this day, and they see it every once in a while. Hard to miss with that bright yellow paint.
Heh, although once I traded up to my Pontiac G8 in 2008, I never looked back. Well, I kinda miss the Tracker's ground clearance. I really scratched up my G8's bumper trying to adjust to its low ground clearance.
Geo, no matter what!
Come to think of it every car my sister has ever owned want out of business
Oldsmobile , Pontiac , Geo and Saturn
Right on! Tell her to buy a Tesla next
@@philwilliams45 Ha, Ha!
They didn’t necessarily go out of business, GM just did what it does best and killed off the only decent car brands they had.
These are excellent off-roaders. I took my stock '04 Vitara on rock crawling trails intended only for modified vehicles and it went through with ease. It even pulled out my friend's Disco when he got stuck! Excellent in the snow too. Great little car.
GM makes forgettable cars? You don't say.
opl500 ahem corvettes 😂 unforgettably forgettable car
@@3a.m.284 You'll never forget the corvette after it overheats on a hill climb. You'll want to forget but you never will.
This is Suzuki not gm
Damn, The Roman, that was really good. Well written and well filmed. Thanks!
Damn i had the same exact one🤣🤣that thing was a beast in the snow. Also i had two of them.the first one had over 250k miles...that one i blew up doing 110 down hill🤣🤣
man, you hit the nail on the head with the memories of this car. It was my car in high school, and heading to the beach every weekend with the top down created some great memories... I also laughed at all the suspension jokes...
Geo:
The official car of
UuunnGGGGGNNHHHHHHhhh i have diarrhea but still drink black coffee
The Tracker.... A car brought to the US by GM that was never engineered for the driving conditions in this country. It never had a place in the world of adventure because it was smaller than a Jeep Wrangler and could not be modified like the Samurai. It was never made for the open highways in middle America and was not at home on the massive freeways along the coasts. It worked well on the surface streets in urban areas. It was at home on a country road, even it that country road was not paved. But it never had a place in American culture because GM had lost their skill at "brand engineering" a concept into a niche market.
Don’t get me wrong I love the Roman but where is Mr. Regular. I miss him in the NY Autoshow and such
He was on vacation by the time the NY Show started, i think.
Romans doin more reviews and i couldnt be more happy to see it
This? Or Game of Thrones?
This.
I've been waiting for that for so long!!!! Thanks Mr.Roman!! I used to have a Grand Vitara, same thing but slightly better looking. I freakin loved that car and how I could spent a snowy night going around neighborhoods and drifting along the curves
Sometimes I wonder what General Motors engineers were smoking
More like they were lazing around. All Geo’s were were Japanese cars rebadged as a GM.
Geo Prizm: Corolla. Geo Tracker: Suzuki. Geo Storm and Spectrum: Isuzu’s.
My husband brought a Tracker home a couple days ago. It's yellow need a little work. But is still in pretty good shape. Now I can put my 93 toyota carolla wagon down to fix it up.
Grand Vitara
Thought I recognised it
I love that car in Europe and Asia they still make it
Second owner of a 2000 Tracker, bought from my cousin five years ago, and it has been a sturdy little trooper. It served my wife first, carrying the kiddos through snowy winters and dirt road summers, now it's my daily. Having owned a Suzuki Samurai in my youth, I saw that the Tracker lineup was really just a newer and bigger version of the small SUV I remembered. Body on frame construction, simple transfer case w/ 4High & Low, Airbags, Automatic transmission coupled to a gutsy 2.0 DOHC 4-cylinder engine. There are TONS of these in Tracker & Vitara form in Southeast Alaska, because like old Subaru wagons, they seem adept at taking a beating from everyone from young drivers to old ladies. Mine is getting ready to hit 200k and if it does it's getting a well-deserved set of new oil seals and some other maintenence I've been putting off. Is it a memorable drive? No. Will I remember it when it's gone? Yes, because it's EARNED a place of respect from me. I appreciate it for simply doing whatever I needed or wanted of it with minimum amount of drama or grief.
Its a rebadge Suzuki Grand Vitara and they are incredible off road. Ve a Puerto Rico hermano. Nosotros los usamos para Safari y carreras de fango.
no they're not, i've tried. the strut towers will break and front suspention will start shaking it to pices, the motor is underpowered and the 2.5l v6 usually sounds like skeletons having sex on a thin metal roof due to notoriously bad chain tensioners
They are good off road, better than any soft roader
I drove my grandma's 2 door, soft top, ZR-2 Tracker for a summer a couple years ago. You're on point with the description of how vanilla it is in almost every way. That's kind of the charm though. Also can confirm that it's off-road abilities are a lot better than you think they would be. I took it down trails, through mud, and even up a rocky incline. I was easily keeping up with the Jeep XJ and F250 I was driving with. It's so light and narrow you can easily skirt around mud pits that trucks can't and the 4x4 is pretty strong.
it's not as good as a mazda tribute
Mazda Tribute doesn't have a frame or a solid rear axle. A Chevy Tracker has both, making it a way more rugged vehicle than a Mazda Tribute ever was.