I saw the “Smart car” going down the highway at about 75 the other day. It looked ridiculous. Like an egg on wheels. The thing gets 33 city and 41 highway and seats 2 people. My old Toyota minivan gets 24 mpg on the highway but it holds up to 7 people. I suppose my wife and I and the 3 kids would take 3 Smart Cars to go visit grandma..
BTW, the Smart Car weighs 1600 lbs. My Camry weighs 3000 lbs. My daugher’s Subaru Forester weighs 3,152. I don’t care what the government crash test show, there is no way I would ever drive (or have one of my daughters drive) a car that can get crushed by a Camry or a Forester...
Let the libs drive their smart cars....especially if they want to go 75 mph.....I consider it population control.....
When Car & Driver tested a Smart, they observed 35mpg in their testing. I can think of several compact sedans that can nearly match that, seat four, cost less, and don’t require premium.
My Harley gets 40-45 mpg and it’s a *trike*.
Stock 2 wheel Night Trains get upwards of 50-60.
[it only seats one wildly happy passenger, though]....:))
If not for my window-scenery gazing habit, we would’ve run over a Smart car last year.
We’d passed a semi on the hill a mile before our exit and were going back into the right lane to catch our exit when I happened to look to the right at a particularly lovely twilit pasture full of Holsteins.
Literally out of nowhere, a Smart car was passing us on the “sui-cide” and if I hadn’t wondered where the headlights beside us were coming from *way* down below my door, we’d have accidentally squashed the guy with our Yukon.
Hubby swerved to miss him and the Smart-ass “gunned it” past us and flipped *us* the bird.
I have not cared for the cars since.
From what ~I’ve~ experienced of them thus far, self-absorbed jerks seem to drive them.
What year is yours?
If they really were serious, they make them again.
Mine is 22 years old, fun, comfy, fast as light'nieng\\, and hardly ever needs gas.
I am so not getting this. A VW diesel does a hell of a lot better than this, and it's a real car. 4 real seats, a trunk, AC, ABS, airbags, etc/ and unlike the smart car, it is not a roll-over waiting to happen.
No one in the DOT knows anything about cars ... is that the problem?
I have seen crash test with Smartcars. They FLY when hit. If the initial impact doesn’t kill you, then being flung about (possibly into another vehicle) will.