Geo Prizm
Registered from 1996 to 1997.
About this model
The Geo Prizm, later called the Chevrolet Prizm, were compact cars that were rebadged versions of the Toyota Sprinter, a vehicle that the Japanese automaker Toyota never directly sold in the North American market. The Sprinter itself was derived from the Toyota Corolla. The Prizm was marketed under the Geo nameplate until it was discontinued after the 1997 model year. After that, the vehicle was marketed under the Chevrolet nameplate. General Motors (GM) referred to this and other Toyota Corolla-derived vehicles as the GM S platform. The cars were produced from 1988 to 2001 alongside the Corolla at NUMMI, an assembly plant operated as a joint venture of GM and Toyota. The Prizm was sold exclusively in the United States and succeeded the 1985–1988 Chevrolet Nova, which was also derived from the Sprinter and produced at NUMMI.
From the Wikipedia article Geo Prizm, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Crash test
| Stability control | No |
| Forward collision warning | No |
| Lane departure warning | No |
Crash-tested by NHTSA, the American road safety agency.
Specification
| Year | Measured |
|---|---|
| 1997 | 9.0 L/100km (EPA) · 10.2 L/100km city · 7.6 motorway |
| 1996 | 9.0 L/100km (EPA) · 10.2 L/100km city · 7.6 motorway |
Regulator investigations
Opened by NHTSA's Office of Defects Investigation. An investigation is a question the regulator asked about a possible defect, not a fault it found — most end without a recall.
Turn signal failures
Engineering analysis, opened July 1997, closed September 1998.
What the maker told its dealers
Service bulletins are the manufacturer's own repair guidance to dealers, filed with NHTSA. A bulletin is not a defect finding; the count rises with how many things a maker writes down, not only with how many go wrong.
Geo filed 18 bulletins about the 1997 Prizm.
- Equipment: 10
- Electrical system: 2
- Engine and engine cooling: 2
- Fuel system, gasoline: 1
- Service brakes, hydraulic: 1
- Steering: 1
- Tires: 1
- Vehicle Recalls · January 2024
- Expanded Availability for Remanufacture and Return (R&R) Electronic Control Modules · December 2023
- This Preliminary Information communicates to the dealer the process for downloading or updating operating software for the Tire Pressure Monitor, Active Fuel Injector tester, multi media tester, PICO… · February 2020
- This Preliminary Information communication provides information to the technician on how to unlock radios that are Delco TheftLock. Technician will use the radio to get the scrambled code. Technician… · December 2019
- This warranty administration bulletin provides information regarding the field action courtesy transportation policy. · October 2019
- This Preliminary Information communication provides information to the technician on how to unlock radios that are Delco TheftLock. Technician will use the radio to get the scrambled code. Technician… · October 2019
- This Preliminary Information communicates to the dealer the process for downloading or updating operating software for the Tire Pressure Monitor, Active Fuel Injector tester, multi media tester, PICO… · April 2019
- This warranty administration bulletin provides information regarding the field action courtesy transportation policy. · March 2019
10 more.
Grouped by NHTSA's top-level system; a bulletin filed under a sub-heading counts toward its system.