i bought my 98 chevy prizm in 2014 with 223,000 miles on it 5 speed and can say it,s still running like a wet dream but as for the body its starting to show its age as far as rust.
Yesss it just gives you that feeling of realness. Straight to the point no gimmick but still engages you enough to appreciate it for what it is! It's honesty is what gets us I believe ❤
my husband's 2000 prism is burns 1 quart of oil per tank of gas. The drivers door release handle is constantly breaking. Other than that, it's a beautiful beater.
This channel does some amazing videos. Seriously bravo. It also uploads and gives the chance to videos so utterly boring; like this one, for some reason I feel compelled to watch them. In this case; 12 minutes in, I am admittedly struggling a bit. There’s also videos where they seem to get the most flat, un-charismatic people to talk about their Fords.. please don’t stop, the videos are gold 😊!
I fully agree and I’m obsessed - as a car crazy guy I use them to fall asleep sometimes and a good 90s sh1tbox makes me doze off right away. TECHNOLOGY on a Prizm 😂😂😂
This all stemmed from the NUMMI partnership GM and Toyota ran. New United Motor Manufacturing, Inc. GM had some compact car gaps to fill during various periods of time and the NUMMI partnership allowed for it to happen. 1984-1988 Chevy Nova was the same as the Corolla. The Geo brand was all made up of rebadged imports, most of them being Isuzu and Suzuki rebadges except for the Geo Prism, which obviously went on to become the Chevy Prism as they killed Geo. Prism was a Corolla. Prism was 1989-2002. The product NUMMI built that to me was the most popular/successful? 2003-2010, the Pontiac Vibe, which was a rebodied Toyota Matrix. Both the GM and Toyota products were assembled at the NUMMI facility in Freemont, California until they disbanded NUMMI on April 1st 2010. Who has the assembly plant now? Tesla.
My grandparents bought this honestly because they only bought Chevrolets. My grandma had a base 2001 Prizm and before that was a 1992 GEO Prizm. My grandfather had no idea it was a rebadged Corolla 😂
It had front driver and passenger airbags. The side airbags were not required in 2002, so not a huge shock that a car designed to compete on price didnt have them as standard. I'm guessing that changed a few years later.
As if they needed a training video for this car... you turn the key, it starts. You put the car in D, it goes. Turn the dial to the red, the heat comes on, blue it stays cool. Did salespeople need a video to show them how the assist handles work? Change the oil and filters every now and again (like every other ICE car ever) and it'll run longer than the body could repel rust and rot. There really was not a lot of mechanical innovation in this car and would be utterly forgettable except that it was also incredibly reliable, tough and relatively comfortable for its price point. Performance was more theoretical than actual but it did deliver outstanding fuel economy. I still see the Toyota Corolla version of this on the road every now and again (I think the Geos were less loved and less common.) Oh, and it was built in the current Tesla factory, but that was meaningless in 2002.
It's harder to sell/get customers excited about a basic/shitty car than a high end model. If a customer, particularly they type who buys these things, and sees Car A and the guy goes "its a car, take it or leave it" and they see Car B and the salesman says "Look electronic tuned radio, big cupholders, 525 mile range, stainless steel exhaust (required by law anyway)" which one is he more likely to buy?
Indeed. But nothing beats how GDR television advertised the very little improvements of the Wartburg. On YT: DDR Verkehrsmagazin Wartburg 353 W Deluxe 1981
In this era, they put manuals on because they were cheaper to make than automatics. You had to pay more for an auto. With the 4 speed autos at the time, you got more power with the manual, which was definitely noticeable with low powered cars, and a bit better fuel mileage. It's not like today where in the US, they only put manuals on sports cars.
i bought my 98 chevy prizm in 2014 with 223,000 miles on it 5 speed and can say it,s still running like a wet dream but as for the body its starting to show its age as far as rust.
Its not my first choice by any stretch of the imagination, but there's certainly some charm to such a barebones car.
Yesss it just gives you that feeling of realness. Straight to the point no gimmick but still engages you enough to appreciate it for what it is!
It's honesty is what gets us I believe ❤
my husband's 2000 prism is burns 1 quart of oil per tank of gas. The drivers door release handle is constantly breaking. Other than that, it's a beautiful beater.
This channel does some amazing videos. Seriously bravo. It also uploads and gives the chance to videos so utterly boring; like this one, for some reason I feel compelled to watch them. In this case; 12 minutes in, I am admittedly struggling a bit. There’s also videos where they seem to get the most flat, un-charismatic people to talk about their Fords.. please don’t stop, the videos are gold 😊!
I fully agree and I’m obsessed - as a car crazy guy I use them to fall asleep sometimes and a good 90s sh1tbox makes me doze off right away. TECHNOLOGY on a Prizm 😂😂😂
Sou do brazil🇧🇷 e estou adorando seus vídeos! ❤
A rebadged Toyota Corolla. Why would anyone choose this over the original?
This all stemmed from the NUMMI partnership GM and Toyota ran. New United Motor Manufacturing, Inc. GM had some compact car gaps to fill during various periods of time and the NUMMI partnership allowed for it to happen. 1984-1988 Chevy Nova was the same as the Corolla. The Geo brand was all made up of rebadged imports, most of them being Isuzu and Suzuki rebadges except for the Geo Prism, which obviously went on to become the Chevy Prism as they killed Geo. Prism was a Corolla. Prism was 1989-2002. The product NUMMI built that to me was the most popular/successful? 2003-2010, the Pontiac Vibe, which was a rebodied Toyota Matrix. Both the GM and Toyota products were assembled at the NUMMI facility in Freemont, California until they disbanded NUMMI on April 1st 2010. Who has the assembly plant now? Tesla.
My grandparents bought this honestly because they only bought Chevrolets. My grandma had a base 2001 Prizm and before that was a 1992 GEO Prizm. My grandfather had no idea it was a rebadged Corolla 😂
Because it's cheaper. It's for people who took the automotive redpill and realized that they can save $1400 just by changing the badges
No Air Bags
It had front driver and passenger airbags. The side airbags were not required in 2002, so not a huge shock that a car designed to compete on price didnt have them as standard. I'm guessing that changed a few years later.
As if they needed a training video for this car... you turn the key, it starts. You put the car in D, it goes. Turn the dial to the red, the heat comes on, blue it stays cool. Did salespeople need a video to show them how the assist handles work? Change the oil and filters every now and again (like every other ICE car ever) and it'll run longer than the body could repel rust and rot.
There really was not a lot of mechanical innovation in this car and would be utterly forgettable except that it was also incredibly reliable, tough and relatively comfortable for its price point. Performance was more theoretical than actual but it did deliver outstanding fuel economy. I still see the Toyota Corolla version of this on the road every now and again (I think the Geos were less loved and less common.)
Oh, and it was built in the current Tesla factory, but that was meaningless in 2002.
It's harder to sell/get customers excited about a basic/shitty car than a high end model. If a customer, particularly they type who buys these things, and sees Car A and the guy goes "its a car, take it or leave it" and they see Car B and the salesman says "Look electronic tuned radio, big cupholders, 525 mile range, stainless steel exhaust (required by law anyway)" which one is he more likely to buy?
Must have been hard work to sell a car as mundane and bland as this car lol
Indeed. But nothing beats how GDR television advertised the very little improvements of the Wartburg. On YT: DDR Verkehrsmagazin Wartburg 353 W Deluxe 1981
there's much more mundane and bland out there bruh, i used to have the toyota corolla version and the engine was actually pretty spunky
Yeah its a wonder anything sold at all in the 2010s
On the contrary its honesty and straightforwardness was its best attribute! No gimmicks.
wow, standard transmission available….. with that lousy engine….
In this era, they put manuals on because they were cheaper to make than automatics. You had to pay more for an auto. With the 4 speed autos at the time, you got more power with the manual, which was definitely noticeable with low powered cars, and a bit better fuel mileage. It's not like today where in the US, they only put manuals on sports cars.