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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Only enviormentalists drive SUV by bluGill · 2004-10-09 01:18 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I'm not sure why, but when I see a political bumper sticker, I can tell who it is for by the size: small cars with good gas milage (Geo metro, VW TDI, etc) tend to have Bush stickers, while SUVs have Kerry stickers. The biggest SUVs often also have a greenpeace bumper sticker.
Other than hypocrite I don't know what this means.
Note that this is a generalization, there are plenty of exceptions. It could easily be just the stretch of freeway I drive. I'm observing.