Smart Cars Coming to Canada and U.S.

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Saturday October 9, 2004 @12:04AM from the golf-cart-gone-feral dept.

AgniTheSane writes "Most importantly the Smart Car looks cool. It also gets 60 mpg, is four feet smaller than a Mini Cooper (you can park two in a standard parking spot), the plastic panels are easily swappable and one color all the way through (so you can't scratch the paint), the steel frame makes it safe in an accident, and you can get it with in-dash Bluetooth (and in Europe can read and write email via the car speakers and a microphone). The Smart car is coming to the US soon, and will cost as little as $12,000. You can read about it in Wired or on MSNBC, or you can go straight to ZAP who will be selling them in the US soon, or the smart car website in the UK. "

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Re:Acceleration by bluGill · 2004-10-09 01:40 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Speaking as a driver of a GEO metro that only runs on 2 cylinders I think I'm qualified to comment. These cars are still more safer than Corvettes, based on the fact that every time I'm following a corvette on an on-ramp I'm unable to use the maximum acceleration of my car. Corvettes just don't have any acceleration.
Yes I'm serious. Fortunately there are few Corvettes on the road. I don't know if it is the drivers or the car, but my car can easily out acceleration them.