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Smart Cars Coming to Canada and U.S.
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. "
the steel frame makes it safe in an accident
Yeah maybe if it gets hit by another of these little cars at low speed. If it gets hit by anything larger then it will be a coffin on wheels. No ifs ands ors or buts.
Compact car versus "Smart Car" -> Compact wins.
Mid size sedan versus "Smart Car" -> Mid size sedan wins.
Luxury car versus "Smart Car" -> Luxury car wins.
Pickup truck versus "Smart Car" -> Pickup truck wins.
SUV versus "Smart Car" -> SUV wins.
Get hit by anything larger than a kid on a skateboard or a mountain bike and you won't think this is a very "Smart Car". If you survive that is.
are you that stupid??
the car is less than 1/2 the weight of the mercedes, so the mercedes is giving over 2X the force to the little car.
blows my mind how incredibly stupid some people are, please go learn physics before you open your mouth again.
"Yanks won't give up their monstrous SUVs for these. Too insecure about their sexuality."
I'm a Yank, and I HATE SUVs. I drive a VW Mark 2 16V Gti.
Generalizing like you have above just makes you sound like an ignorant fool ( you'd fit right in, here in the US ).
Oh, and by the way, I will NOT be voting for that lying sack of shit George Bush.
Do you support your lying sack of shit Tony Blair ?
Oh, and if I die tomorrow, I have already gotten more pussy than you ever will...
Don't forget that this car was originaly developped for the european market. In europe safety in a car is regarded as very important.
Bullshit, we Europeans like big cars as much as everyone else. We JUST CAN'T AFFORD THEM. Otherwise everyone here would be driving a V8, just like in the states.
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.