SAY WHAT?
Posted on 11/10/2006 5:35:49 AM PST by Red Badger
I saw this car several times in a busy parking lot and it looked like some of it was missing; it's very short.
Yes, it looks like someone stole the trunk......
Just pull up real close to the tailgate of that semi and put her in neutral…and that semi will suck you to wherever you're headed:-)
I believe in the BMW theory of accident survival ... don't have one -- avoid them.
I also owned and campaigned a 'race car' (an F Production Spitfire) for years without real incident. THAT is a small car at very high speeds.
The size of the Smart car doesn't concern me as much as it does you.
FWIW, my daily driver right now is an F-150 :-)
I drive a '95 Ford Aspire 2-door for work. Deathtrap if I ever get hit bad...........
I might have to get one for the daughter in a few years when she's able to drive. One running on diesel.
I don't get it. Are they lace-up or slip-ons?
This is to cars what flip-flops are to shoes........
So that's what is making all those corn mazes!
They seem to be used a lot for advertising in Europe. When I was there last summer every other Smart car had logos on it, something like this:
You almost NEVER see them on the Autobahn however....just too small to cruise in. Comfortable and actually roomy for two in the city...and they work especially well on Europe's small city streets. One cool thing is that Smart cars can be parked perpendicular...in a parallel place...two actually in one parking place, as they are only as long as a typical car is wide.
Safety-wise , being Mercedes they are really very safe...the cabin is a kind of geometric cage, and their 10+ year history has been very good, as far as safety is concerned...(granted very few ever make it to the Autobahn, so...)
It will be interesting to see if they ever catch on here...my European friends are skeptical that will ever happen.
Rolling off the assembly line in July 1972, the first-generation Civic greeted a wave of hopes and expectations.
It will soon have a diesel descendant on the US roads......
1970: The first Honda automobile imported to the U.S. was the 1970 Honda N600 2-Door Sedan. It was introduced in March 1970. This car was powered by a 2-cylinder, air-cooled engine and featured front-wheel drive. These cars were very small by U.S. standards at that time, and with a price of around $1,300, those first Hondas in the U.S. sold for about a dollar per pound!
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