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To: DoughtyOne
You’re a brave person. I like the thing, but I’m not convinced I’d feel comfortable at highway speeds in one of them.

No, brave was 120+ mph in a small sports car, looking straight ahead at the tail lights of the other cars and straight to the right at the rims of the truck tires.

The Smart feels pretty safe and secure at 80 mph. If you look at the pictures you are probably basing its size on the height of a normal small car. But the Smart is five feet tall and you sit pretty high up. The only thing strange about it was how short it was, you can reach back and touch the rear window. It's disturbing the first time you turn around to back up, but then you realize it makes backing up very easy.

234 posted on 12/05/2007 7:27:32 AM PST by antiRepublicrat
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To: antiRepublicrat

LOL, yes that does sound rather disconcerting.

Thanks for the additional comments about the Smart Car. I didn’t realize it was so tall.


238 posted on 12/05/2007 9:19:54 AM PST by DoughtyOne (Mr. President, Article IV Section IV is in our Constitution, and the states it refers to are ours.)
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