Lexmex

I still think if you are going to consider a Smart, to consider a Mini.

CK6Speed

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I rather get a Sciont tC. The tC is a small enough car as it is. If you have a hard time parking a Scion you can't park period. Cruple zones on a car is a good thind. It may completely total the car, but you will be safer as engergy is absorbed. With a car like the Smart Car being so small, there isn't much of a crumpe zone at all. The engergy has to be dissapated another way. There could be more reinforcement, but that engergy will still be tranfered somewhere else. Anyway, if I had to choose to get slammed by a Hummer driving a Smart car or a Honda Accord or Camry I'd take the later.

whlkev

this is the only smart i'll rock

bruce van

The only place in California where I would even consider a Smart is the Bay Area where parking is very limited. Sometimes small cars have problems fitting in tight spots and this is probably the only car that would squeeze into the spot where only a motorcycle would fit.

There are no MPG advantages and it only sits two. Mini Copper FTW.

Bean

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You saved me the trouble from saying all that

I feel bad for the first person to get into a nasty wreck with one; but the moment it happens; that company won't exist anymore. Those things and the other related joke-of-a-vehicle things that some little backyard companies come up with are a deathtrap. There's a REASON modern cars weigh as much as they do, children.

valgs350

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LOL...

There is a reason they have sold in Europe since 1998 and some countries like Spain and France are flooded with them, there was a story about a guy in France going on the motor-way and bam got hit by a huge truck, the truck didn't notice he hit the smart until he got to his destination but the guy in the smart walked away. 4 Star Crash test but I think if you hit a brick wall your dead but if you hit a car or truck your fine because the smarts tridion saftey cell, which enacts the other car or trucks crumple zone and its proven, there have been accidents in Europe and people have walked away!!!!

Remember when Honda first came to America people thought it was junk and a deathtrap also but look now....

I also think the smart is only for city driving or running errands!!!

It would be a neat toy to have!

herbvdh

I do not get the price at all less than $20,000 I know of someone that paid $30,000 for it as a Mercedes Benz Passion now I also see they have one as a Smart Car both are this luminescent Green. I could have bought one quite awhile back at this crazy price. Now it is legal to dump them in America. The original ones were getting excellent MPG but they were diesels now they are gas guzzlers. A friend of ours came back from Italy where the kids drive them with a 2 cylinder engine.
I questioned the Smart people at the car show about an all electric and was told several more years I politely told them to go up to the mezzanine area where http://www.hybridtechnologies.com/ has them available I got this you are crazy look about to call me a liar but not saying it out. I would consider this at its price.

Nextourer

Wow that has got to be the most uninformed post I've read on CL. Even morso than those for the Prius!

Sure it's roomier. Does your Yaris/Fit come with Brake Assist? Traction Control? Stability control? TPMS? What about heated seats? heated mirrors? leather? didn't think so. What about a convertible version?

I don't know why people think one car is a one-car-do-all. Maybe that's why people buy SUVs "just in case". Most people have more than one car you know. If you have 4 people in the house, you don't need two 7-passenger SUVs. One is enough, get a second commuter car. Use the SUV for Home Depot etc.

Remember small != unsafe. What about the Chinese SUV? It's an SUV so it must be safe right?

http://truthaboutsmart.co.uk

Those aren't parking sensors. They're tow hook covers. Like the one for the front of your car... but at the back instead.

Those aren't parking sensors. They're tow hook covers. Like the one for the front of your car... but at the back instead.

No it doesn't. At least not in Canada . In Canada, it's the 3rd most fuel efficient car after the Prius and Civic Hybrid.

MINI is more expensive though and still uses premium fuel.




http://truthaboutsmart.co.uk. See the safety bit.

Nextourer

That's because everyone wants power everything and wants it for cheap. What's cheaper, steel or aluminium?

Now you know why a Caliber R/T weighs MORE than a 2002 Camry XLE 4 cylinder. Heck, an automatic TSX weighs more and it's a smaller car than the Camry.

Faymester

yup yup, we've had both the fortwo and the b-klasse for a little over a year now (correct me if i'm wrong guys) ... i see quite a few if each

i wouldn't have one but their road presence doesn't offend me ... that said, shoulder checking has gotten more important because the fortwo can completely fit into even the smallest blind spot

Gojirra99

Quite a bit longer B-Class launched in Canada since October 2005, Smart-fortwo since late 2004

Faymester

mmm yes we are in 2008 now ... it seems like a lot shorter time than that, but then again my university years seem to all be mushing together

Hil

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hmm my dad wants one of these for my sis

Macgyver

I see them pretty often in my area.

Bean

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Europes roads and driving conditions are completely different. You don't have H2s and Escalades running around with idiots on their cell phones.

Thats cool about the crash tests and thats cool people survived. But you can't beat physics, the car is small; if it gets creamed by a larger vehicle; the energy has to go somewhere... there's not enough body in the car to absorb it.

There's nothing wrong with small cars; but this is a bit too much.