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Daimler expects huge US demand for tiny Smart car
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| 12/03/2007
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Posted on 12/04/2007 1:36:45 PM PST by Red Badger
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To: JamesP81
My wife's smart car:
My smart car:
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posted on
12/04/2007 3:12:59 PM PST
by
KenHorse
(The Internet. Enabling the village idiot to become the global idiot with the click of the mouse)
To: Walkingfeather
The whole car is a “crumple zone”...............
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posted on
12/04/2007 3:13:14 PM PST
by
Red Badger
( We don't have science, but we do have consensus.......)
To: DoughtyOne
You see them here in the Toronto area but they are not selling like hotcakes. The price alone puts them in the category of many small and compact cars and you would get so much more for your money if you got a corolla or civic.
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posted on
12/04/2007 3:14:38 PM PST
by
xp38
To: Red Badger
It’d be handy to have one of those in the trunk, huh?
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posted on
12/04/2007 3:16:36 PM PST
by
blam
(Secure the border and enforce the law)
To: saganite
I dont know what the results would have been in a larger vehicle such as an SUV though. An SUV would have about three times the energy to dissipate.
To: ctdonath2
Well, there’s your problem. You’ve got something stuck in your grille.
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posted on
12/04/2007 3:17:41 PM PST
by
Squeako
(The fly that landed on Joseph Biden's head was just trying to get plugged in.)
To: xp38
And that’s fine. I don’t really care what people purchase, but I do see a niche for these. They’ll sell.
When it comes down to it, I wouldn’t buy them at that price either. Still, they seem to have a long list of people who want them.
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posted on
12/04/2007 3:17:51 PM PST
by
DoughtyOne
(Mr. President, Article IV Section IV is in our Constitution, and the states it refers to are ours.)
To: Mr. Jeeves
London is full of them, they go well in heavy traffic and you can parkk two of them to a conventional parking place. You can park them so easily.
THat said I would confine myself to short, in the hood drives to and from the store.
To: blam
My wife could carry one in her purse..........
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posted on
12/04/2007 3:22:02 PM PST
by
Red Badger
( We don't have science, but we do have consensus.......)
To: Pinkbell
Its cute. It might be fun to drive around, but I would not feel safe driving 60 mph with it on the highway wedged between to big rigs. They are fun, and you don't get run over on the Autobahn either. You actually sit pretty high so you don't get the feeling of being surrounded that you'd get even in an average compact car.
To: Red Badger
Don't they ever learn? How many times have they tried to sell us those European tiny boxes and thought we would buy them??
That is a death trap on an American road. You could only sell it to a big city metrosexual, or some stupid liberal to stupid to live...yuck.
To: Red Badger
I hoping to get in early on the SmartCar-vending-machine wave.
(But what do you do with the leftover big clear plastic egg?)
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posted on
12/04/2007 3:24:45 PM PST
by
Dagnabitt
(Undocumented Voters for Huckabee - Si se puede!!)
To: Lady Heron
Ya! Ze Yugo did so vell zo ve vill sell a million of zeez!
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posted on
12/04/2007 3:25:07 PM PST
by
KenHorse
(The Internet. Enabling the village idiot to become the global idiot with the click of the mouse)
To: texastoo
The Chinese built an SUV and it did far worse in crashes than this Smart. Got about the lowest safety rating a car has ever gotten from the ADAC (German car club).
To: Red Badger
"My wife could carry one in her purse.........." If she put that 'thang' in her purse...she'd never find it.
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posted on
12/04/2007 3:27:11 PM PST
by
blam
(Secure the border and enforce the law)
To: Anti-Bubba182
It means that the safety of a Smart isn’t an issue for people in the small car market. It’s just designed better than most cars, so it’s far safer than its size would suggest.
To: JamesP81
Go for the Z. Here's my 'smart' car. LOL
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posted on
12/04/2007 3:30:57 PM PST
by
Lurking in Kansas
(Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience.)
To: Red Badger
Some of the comments on this thread are hysterical!
I just gotta say, I would NOT drive the fastest, sexiest Italian sportscar if their press brochure included the following piffle...
"...Smart documents the open-minded attitude of the 'thought leaders,' who choose innovative solutions as an existential part of their everyday lives," the company said in a press brochure.
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posted on
12/04/2007 3:32:01 PM PST
by
lonevoice
(It's always "Apologize to a Muslim Hour"...somewhere)
To: Lurking in Kansas
Hey! My Vette
is a Z!
(Z06 that is)
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posted on
12/04/2007 3:33:52 PM PST
by
KenHorse
(The Internet. Enabling the village idiot to become the global idiot with the click of the mouse)
To: edcoil
Its a German company, somethings just dont translate well.The Germans capture the concept with a single word:
daschuzeninnovatensoluzensexistentenpartenufeverdaylibenstrudel
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