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Originally Posted by Unforgiven
Creature comforts like a trunk release? Metro owners check my memory, for I seem to recall seeing one of those in a Metro before.
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Actually, I think they mean the "release handle inside the trunk", for if some kid gets themselves shut in. Yeah, NBD, but it was in the list I found so I kept it.
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Airbags were a gleam in someone's eye back in the Metro days, and I would suspect that if you added the "luxury" items from the Yaris to the Metro, you would be at almost the same weight.
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I bet you would, or at least be close. Then again, the thin sheet-metal and woeful (by today's standards!) rust protection on the Geo might keep it a little lighter yet.
Like it or not, the standard for "what makes an economy car" has changed. If people start to believe that they can live with a vehicle that takes 15 seconds or more to get to 60 MPH, that doesn't have five hundred and fifty airbags or a massive safety cage, that may feel a little cramped inside, then we may see a return of the small very light weight modestly powered economy car.
I'm not holding my breath.
Thank heaven I have a CRX!
-soD