Worst made car on the road right there. Gas milleage doesn't really mean a whole lot when you are a red smear on the highway.
Worst made car on the road right there. Gas milleage doesn't really mean a whole lot when you are a red smear on the highway.
It’s for people who missed their change to buy a Yugo...
It’s a golf cart with a body...
When did this go electric? I thought the “Smart” car was gas powered??? The gas version is a joke. My Mercury Milan with a 5 speed and 4 cylinder gets better highway mileage thet the Smart car. I want a 2010 Ford Fusion or Milan with 4 cylinder and a 6 speed manual gearbox. I would guess it gets 40 to 42 mpg highway.
The Ford Fusion/Mercury Milan also has a great safety rating.
Isn’t the Volt also seriously overpriced? Somewhere I read the MSRP exceeded $30K.
For less protection and speed than the Aveo, a crappy car in its own right with a 36 MPG rating, you can put 144,000 miles on an Aveo even with $5 per gallon gas and still come out ahead once the time value of money is calculated.
That isn’t a car designed for 20 years of use. It is a marketing plan to get Americans to give up the idea of driving a personal motor vehicle wherever they want to go.
It is a transitionary device to get people into less purposeful vehicles, carrying very little about, and eventually giving up the “headache” of a car altogether.
Actually one of the best-made cars on the road. Don’t confuse small with poorly made. It gets safety ratings the equivalent of much larger cars.
But....but....but.....test after (government-sanctioned and developed) test has shown that these compact cars are safer than 95.4% of every other vehicle on the road!
Wait....wait... "I'm a good enough driver so that I don't NEED to worry about getting turned into a red smear on the road."
Oop...wait.... "Dammit! It's my life and my prerogative, and I can risk it by driving whatever car I want to, Dammit!"
Does that about cover all of the FReeper arguments for the "smart car" thread? :-)
FWIW, I think that in a big car, the car takes the beating and in a small car, you take the beating. It's simple physics, really. But logic and reason have no place for "what car to drive" threads. :-) :-)
Those are better than motorcycles at least....
I’ll agree that Smart Cars don’t make a lot of sense for most American drivers, but in Europe, where all the cars are small, streets are narrow, and people don’t commute every day on freeways, they make a lot more sense. You just couldn’t drive something like a Suburban around Rome or London, and you’d never find a place to park it.
