Reply #16: I had one - bought it in 1986. The 4-door hatchback.

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BEST car I've ever owned. I loved that car. Gave it to my son in 1997 when he left for college (he almost immediately screwed it up and then left it running while he 'ran into a store' and it was stolen). It averaged between 50 and 60 in town and comfortably seated four. I got 70 mpg on the highway. Extraordinary car. Only three cylinders and no, it didn't go fast up steep grades . . . but so what? Our need for speed (even if most of us never us it) is one of the reasons cars like that aren't made anymore.

They added another cylinder to the Sprint a few years after I bought mine. Then it was just your average small car.