Last month, a blue Geo was lampooned in a FreeCreditReport.com advert as the "used subcompact" which the underfunded and overspent protagonist was forced to buy instead of "lookin’ fly and rollin’ phat." This month, the beleaguered blue Geo returns in a FedEx Super Bowl ad, where it is picked up by a mutant carrier pigeon and lofted through the plate glass window of an office building several stories up. Would someone please give this car some respect? It’s hard to be the three-cylinder lightweight of the auto industry. More importantly, where are these blue Geos coming from? I haven’t seen one in real life in three years!

Darin Cosgrove and Ivan Limburg didn’t have any experience with electric cars when they decided to convert a 1992 Geo Metro, but they did a bang-up job. Using parts from an old forklift and eight six-volt batteries, the buddies built a machine which does 40 MPH and travels up to 15 miles on a single charge. The coolest part? They did it for the low, low price of $672. So, um, why is Detroit still whining about the new CAFE standards? For more info on the build, check out 2Solitudes, and to see the it run for the first time, watch the video below.

This guy’s serious: he’s building an audio-competition car out of a Geo Metro, with sponsorship and everything. The car’s name, of course, refers to the Metro’s standard three-cylinder engine, rated at 55 hp. Look out!