Posted on 11/19/2007 9:00:06 AM PST by Slapshot68
Yeah but you get 100% wetter on a rainy day.
LOL! It might be good for big parking lots - you park your vehicle and use this thingy to get up to the store. There could be a row of special parking near the mall entrance, just like for handicaped users.
Yeah, I’d love to haul around a dog, groceries, etc., in a patented February NH Nor-easter. That thing would hit a snowdrift and disintegrate immediately.
I'm not saying it wouldn't work for some circumstances, particularly if you have plenty of money to have multiple vehicles, or if it's just you and the missus and you have no friends, or never have them ride with you. But for most Americans, it would probably be supreme idiocy to go out and buy this car.
All of which brings us back to marketing. The reason why casinos have the biggest, flashiest signs and brightest lights is the same reason why this is called a "Smart Car." Because a lot of people are just stupid enough to buy whatever label you put on something, whether it's true or not.
Even if your product is precisely the opposite of what you claim it to be.
They’re particularly popular in European cities where parking is extremely scarce and gas is extremely expensive. THAT is what they are made for, not broad long US roads powered by cheap (and yes, $3/gal is relatively cheap) gas.
I’ve seen ‘em doing over 100MPH on the Autobahn.
IIRC, they’re actually built by Mercedes, and are amazingly well-built for crash safety (we’re talking Autobahn material here). In a crash, pretty much the whole thing goes to pieces, leaving the passengers relatively unscathed.
And FWIW the owner of a major weapons company in the USA drives one (all black, of course).
SMART used to make a sports car version - very cool actually, a pity they stopped.
It already looks like its been hit in the rear end...In fact your ass is the rear bumber!
I was blown from the inside lane of steel grates to the outside lane of asphalt while traveling north over Big Mac one night in my 1973 C10 pickup truck. I think it was the same night the Edmund Fitz. went down not all that far north from there.
In my worst day my “05 Prius never got below 47 mpg. Seats 4, nice hatch back
and is rock solid running at 75mph. on the pike. I have 3 in the family now.
Of course a Harley Davidson gets better millage, costs the same, and you get to look cool...
Yeah but it's been a pretty dry year. What rain we do get, the rain-drops are only wet on one side.
IIRC. It had a 350cc 2 stroke motor.
I drove one of those to school. Thanks to my Grandpa.
A diesel VW will get you 45MPG on the highway and have substantially more room and comfort than this roller skate.
Post above refers to whay my car nut brother has on order....in addition to his Smart Car.
I thought the regular Camry got about this mileage.
keep it at 60 MPH and I'll get 42 mpg.....crank her up to 70 mph and I'll get 32 mpg...
My Aspire has a little over 200,000 miles on her...the engine runs good....the suspension needs some work....real soon
Don’t you love how they photoshopped those guys in there? You know you’d be driving that with your kneecaps.
Bring back the VW Bug instead of that POS toy.
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