Chevy Metro

The Chevy Sprint was tiny and tinny and slow, but it sold for peanuts and got incredible fuel economy. This one lasted 30 years before washing up in a California self-service wrecking yard.

Okay, we admit it, we're as smitten by emerging and flashy technology as much as the next green geeks. But sometimes we get so caught up in the vehicles of tomorrow that we forget to look back at the incredibly green vehicles that have come before. One of the best – and most lampooned – was the Geo Metro.