SmartCar tragedy...

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[Basil]

I've driven golf carts bigger that that thing!

 

[Boink]

I understand that they have a pretty good cage inside them, but I'd not want to be on an American freeway in one.
In Europe I've seen them park perpendicular to a curb (like a motorcycle), and strikes me as their main value.

 

[JPSmit]

As a Midget owner who drives on the highway "people who live in glass houses......" (should change in the basement) :grin:

 

[mikephillips]

Ran across a comment on a car BBS once that said a survey of Smart car owners revealed the number one complaint about the was, Not big enough to haul a passenger and a load of groceries or other stuff. Which to me was a kind of "well, duh" moment...

 

[Tiger]

Ran across a comment on a car BBS once that said a survey of Smart car owners revealed the number one complaint about the was, Not big enough to haul a passenger and a load of groceries or other stuff. Which to me was a kind of "well, duh" moment...

People seem amused that we have to hitch a trailer behind the Honda S2000 just to go to Costco shopping, that's as practical a car as we own. I think with a SmartCar, you need a trailer just to go through the drive-through line at Wendy's!

 

[Geo Hahn]

I believe this is the actual crash...

Really pretty impressive but I still do not want one.

 

[Boink]

Yeah, I thought it might be. Not particularly fair. 70mph straight-on into concrete.
The trouble with a cage is that too much energy is transferred in... and opposed to more shock-absorption.
Still, pretty amazing survival on that passenger side!

 

[Popeye]

https://jalopnik.com/the-smart-car-is-such-shameful-excess-so-big-so-bloat-1789197117

kinda puts it in perspective...

 

[Boink]

LOL!!!

 

[Bayless]

Another tragedy.