Those aren't parking sensors; they are tabs to remove the plastic body panels. The colored pieces of this car are interchangeable.

 

We have a Smart dealership attached to the Jaguar dealership here in Sarasota (which is next door to the Lexus dealership), but I was fully familiar with this vehicle after living 6 years in Mexico where it started out as a gray market import. They do have some decent pickup, not spectacular, but I know of some cases down there where they basically got batted like a billiard ball in an accident, rather than getting crushed (though that happened to). But then again, I have seen other small subcompacts down there (not sold in the U.S.) also get batted off the freeway by semis.

 

I forget who did a crash test with one, i think it was SmashLab on discovery channel...but it actually faired as well as a Kia Rio, and better than the mini cooper. but has anyone checked the price tag?

 

That explains why I've seen several of them in the last couple of weeks around Bradenton. A couple of them on the Skyway during my daily commute, don't know if I would feel safe in that little car.

 

5th gear i think it was that did a crash test against a vauxhall, and a concrete wall.

 

price tag I believe is $12000ish here in the US. that's base model though. adding optiions will get you to $14k ish, then convertible adds a few thousands more. Not worth it IMO, honda fit is more worth it for $14/15k ish.

 

Right on Clark Road is the dealership. I saw on of those cabrio models last night at the Bonefish on Cortez in Bradenton. These U.S. Smarts seem a bit bigger than the ones I was used to down in Mexico (I guess that would be a good thing).

 

LOL...

My Parents got one and I drove it around for an hour and I loved the little thing. It had plenty of power to do all the normal things and got smiles + at every light someone asks you a question about it...lol

Its pretty big on the inside, didn't feel like how it looked from the outside!!!

I felt very safe, I even drove it on the 57 freeway out in Los Angles, i think most people think that its crap because its so tiny but you have to drive it to really know what it is!!!!

When I drove theirs I got around 81.3 MPG, I don't know how but thats what the car says!!!

 

They are all nice now, wait till you guys see tons of them on the road

 

I saw one yesterday on the road. I would not want to be in even a minor accident driving that. My son's Little Tikes Cozy Coupe looks safer.

 

there are a TON of these in the seattle area, the first ones i saw here were from BC now we have like 1 or 2 dealers in the area. i also saw a MB b200 it had canadian plates, it looked pretty cool i think the a3 looks better though.

 

If they would go ahead and put the handles on the side we can carry the passengers straight on in rather than waste effort cutting them out.

 

b200 is also a neat little car, had those on the road when I was back in Mexico, a big improvement over the A160/A190.

 

They say its supposed to be safe...but this test is not re-assuring

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ju6t-yyoU8s

 

Yaris gets better gas mileage than one of these.