I want a Smart Car for Christmas ...
... so I better start dropping hints now. What is it? A little car originally made by the Smart Company and Mecedes Benz. This will give you an idea of what the European version looked like. It has been sold in Europe and Canada for years now but despite numerous teases has never come to the US (unless you paid big bucks to convert a supposedly cheap Euro car into a street legal US car). Supposedly it goes on sale first of next year - and in a week or two some test models are coming to Charlotte.
Its attraction? It's cute as a doodlebug, can park anywhere, and gets nearly 60 mpg. What was the holdup for the American version? Don't know but apparently they had to tweak the design for American taste so that it is 6 inches bigger and geared properly to get 41 mpg.
Who says American car engineers have lost their edge!
... so I better start dropping hints now. What is it? A little car originally made by the Smart Company and Mecedes Benz. This will give you an idea of what the European version looked like. It has been sold in Europe and Canada for years now but despite numerous teases has never come to the US (unless you paid big bucks to convert a supposedly cheap Euro car into a street legal US car). Supposedly it goes on sale first of next year - and in a week or two some test models are coming to Charlotte.
Its attraction? It's cute as a doodlebug, can park anywhere, and gets nearly 60 mpg. What was the holdup for the American version? Don't know but apparently they had to tweak the design for American taste so that it is 6 inches bigger and geared properly to get 41 mpg.
Who says American car engineers have lost their edge!
posted by Clemens | 8:05 PM
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Cute as a doodlebug?
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