Chevrolet Sprint

The Chevrolet Sprint was a small car that Chevrolet sold in North America from 1984 to 1988. It was a lightly changed Suzuki Swift built in Japan, and its name was a reuse of the earlier GMC Sprint. It was sold from spring 1984 first as a three-door and from late 1985 also as a larger five-door, with a one litre three-cylinder engine of 49 PS (36 kW). The Sprint ER, built for economy, was rated at 4.3 litres per 100 kilometres, the most economical car offered in North America at the time. From 1987 a turbocharged version of the one litre engine was sold as the Sprint Turbo, in white or red only, with about 1,550 sold in the United States in the 1988 model year. For 1988 the naturally aspirated cars were renamed Sprint Metro, and from autumn 1988 the Sprint was replaced by the Geo Metro under the new Geo marque, though in Canada the car stayed on sale as the Chevrolet Sprint and was also sold as the Suzuki Forsa and Pontiac Firefly.