I just saw another one of those "Smart Cars"

Makes me laugh every time I see them



I will never be able to understand how so many people could spend so much money on a car so useless.

I prefer this view.

They are everywhere around here.

What practical use can anyone ever find for one of those things:

* It can only carry one passenger

* there no room to carry anything

* gas mileage is horrible for a vehicle so small

* it appears to be as slow as molassas

* it's batshit ugly


Man, I'd rather have one of those old Yugo cars than have something like that.

The only conceivable benefit I can see is parking. Other than that, nada.

Can you belive that the MSRP for that thing starts at $16,900

I actually saw a 4-door version a couple of weeks ago (with a "ForFour" badge on the ass end).

I still wouldn't buy one, but it actually looked much more like an actual "car" than the 2-door version.

It had Mexico plates, though, so I'm not sure if they're even for sale here. I had never seen one before...

My Escort gets better mileage and it's paid for. $20,000 for that isn't in my viewfinder.

If forced to buy one, I would pay $3000 TOPS for that thing.

Wife's festiva has room for 4 and plenty of power and 40mpg average. That thing weighs 400 pounds more than the festiva and has a smaller engine. Plus it has an inline shift, just like a motorcycle.

Guy at work can park his between two of the structural columns in the parking garage that are maybe 8 feet apart. He noses in between them, and the car still doesn't stick out into the traffic lane.

THing looks like something Barbie would drive

I actually wouldn't mind having one for just going around town. go get groceries, pick up my girlfriend, go out to dinner... it would be good for stuff like that.

I'm seeing more and more of them where I live. People seem to be buying them just for the kinds of things you mention.

I think that's the ideal application for them. In a little town like mine where noontime SUV traffic is fucking insane and the center of town is gridlocked, i think they'd help a lot.

But I'd be scared shitless to drive one on a busy highway. A 40-ton trailer rig wouldn't even notice squishing one like a bug.

I think that's a little bit of a stretch. The semi-driver would definately know something had happened - he just wouldn't understand WHAT!

And he'd Roll On (Like I asked you to do)!

You couldn't pay me to drive that tuna can.

If I was in the market for a small car, I'd wait for Chrysler-Fiat to bring over the Fiat 500.

Given the specifications of the Smart Car, I don't see how purchasing one can be considered smart at all.

A darn spiffy golf cart, a highly effective female repellent, and a potential escape pod for human sized vehicles, all rolled into one overpriced mangina mobile!

I start to chuckle when I see one of those things, but then I imagine myself in old age, explaining to some kid how we used to laugh at the tiny vehicles that ended up dominating the roads.

I for one refuse to believe you in old age would talk to some kid other then saying, "Get the FUCK out of my yard."

The interesting thing being that the Festiva was originally the Fiesta, which Ford still sells in Europe...and is poised to relaunch in the US in 2010.
http://www.fiestamovement.com/

Funny you should say that, because that's exactly what happened to one on the Autobahn. The truck driver hit the Smart on an entrance ramp, not only did the driver fail to notice that he'd hit the Smart car, but he couldn't even seen the driver of the Smart car who opened the sunroof, stood up in the car, and was waving at the truck driver to try to get him to stop! It was only after being pulled over by a cop did the driver discover that there was a Smart car wedged into the front of his rig!

Well damn that's one tough car to get smacked by a truck and not get crushed.

Which is what it is designed for.
Inner-city commuting.

Oh has anyone else seen the convertible ones? They are funny. I wouldn't get one of those ones. I wouldn't mind having a plain black one.
OMG maybe I could actually parallel park one of those!!!

But, with the dimensions i've seen, would you have to parallel park or drive straight in?

Wouldn't it look the same?