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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. "
These are already popular in parts of the USA.
Yanks won't give up their monstrous SUVs for these. Too insecure about their sexuality.
And also it doesn't have cupholders for the giant Slurpees that you lot consume. Nor is it powerful enough to propel 250lbs of excess flab that most USians have.
I'd rather see smart drivers. Ones that could park one of those small cars in no more than one regular parking spot for example.
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It IS a helmet . . . !
"Anything that size in this country is basically SUV road kill," sneers recent New Yorker Michelle Baran.
To paraphrase Basil Fawlty, "You realise they are equipped with steering wheels?"
Doesn't that presume that you're not being hit by a truck? What about at a 45-degree angle, common for people crossing intersections?
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No. This does not look cool. A Firebird looks cool. A Dodge Viper or a Ford GT looks cool. This thing looks like a golf cart with a plastic shell around it. It looks like a toy. The word "dorky" comes to mind.
In fact, before I bought one of these things I would resort to buying a motorcycle -- and I've never ridden a motorcycle in my life, but I'd learn.
Actually, you're only morbidly obese.
Yes, you are right. The reason is the wheelbase in SUV's is too short and they tip over very easily. The industry widened the wheelbase within the last few years so you should see a dramatic decrease in SUV fatalities.
And when they hit another SUV, everybody dies.
Lars T.
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Keep the box it came in.
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>>problem is, when they hit a Smart even slighly, they kill the occupant.
There's an upside, however. In the event of a collision, the Smart folds conveniently into the shape of a coffin.
so you should see a dramatic decrease in SUV fatalities
Oh well, it was nice whilel it lasted
Smart Cars coming to the US and UK? WOOHOO! No more bad Southern drivers!
Well, with my 4000 pound SUV, I tend to shop a bit differently than most when getting a gallon of milk.
What I do is I look for a person that's coming out of the store with milk, wait for them to get in their vehicle, then drive into the driver's side of the vehicle with my SUV. If they're not dead I pull out my pistol or shotgun and kill them, then proceed to take the milk and whatever else they bought.
Beats paying a cashier in my opinion.