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Title: Will you drive this Smart Car?
Post by: Gina on May 15, 2013, 03:22:07 PM
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Title: Re: Will you drive this Smart Car?
Post by: ColonelCarrots on May 15, 2013, 03:30:34 PM
Yeah, but it's a German. I'd like something at least American.
Title: Re: Will you drive this Smart Car?
Post by: Dori on May 15, 2013, 03:53:21 PM
No.  I get really claustrophobic in small cars.

Title: Re: Will you drive this Smart Car?
Post by: Chris_ on May 15, 2013, 04:00:16 PM
Yeehaw.

There's one Smart car at work.  The lady that owns it is about 5'4 and 90 pounds.
Title: Re: Will you drive this Smart Car?
Post by: DefiantSix on May 15, 2013, 04:05:59 PM
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No. Next question.
Title: Re: Will you drive this Smart Car?
Post by: Eupher on May 15, 2013, 04:07:09 PM
Yeehaw.

There's one Smart car at work.  The lady that owns it is about 5'4 and 90 pounds.

One of my former commanders dresses out at about 320 lbs. now and scoots around in a Smart car. Damn thing needs heavy duty shocks on the driver's side all the way around.   :-)
Title: Re: Will you drive this Smart Car?
Post by: Chris_ on May 15, 2013, 05:03:44 PM
One of my former commanders dresses out at about 320 lbs. now and scoots around in a Smart car. Damn thing needs heavy duty shocks on the driver's side all the way around.   :-)
They call that the "bachelor lean".

My MGB has a bad case of it.  I'm pretty sure the new bushings will take care of that, at least for a while.
Title: Re: Will you drive this Smart Car?
Post by: Evil_Conservative on May 15, 2013, 06:57:34 PM
Never.

No Smart Car would ever be allowed in my driveway or garage.  I don't care how "cool" it looks.
Title: Re: Will you drive this Smart Car?
Post by: seahorse513 on May 15, 2013, 08:12:05 PM
I would in hot pink, convertible of course!! :-) with a pink lady!! :-)
Title: Re: Will you drive this Smart Car?
Post by: IassaFTots on May 15, 2013, 08:42:16 PM
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No. Next question.

I am with D6 on this.  Not negotiable. 
Title: Re: Will you drive this Smart Car?
Post by: seahorse513 on May 15, 2013, 08:44:58 PM
I am with D6 on this.  Not negotiable. 
Where is your sense of adventure???
Title: Re: Will you drive this Smart Car?
Post by: IassaFTots on May 15, 2013, 08:47:39 PM
Where is your sense of adventure???

Oh I have a sense of adventure, but I prefer not to drive in a death trap.  I love small cars, but ones with a good safety rating.  Smart cars are death traps.  I am not fond of death traps....that's just the way I roll.  :-)
Title: Re: Will you drive this Smart Car?
Post by: thundley4 on May 15, 2013, 09:28:26 PM
I would drive one.




































On a golf course.
Title: Re: Will you drive this Smart Car?
Post by: BattleHymn on May 15, 2013, 09:51:17 PM
I don't understand why anybody would buy a Smart Car.  The proportions are all wrong on them. 

If I wanted something new and smaller, I'd settle for a Fiat 500. 
Title: Re: Will you drive this Smart Car?
Post by: ColonelCarrots on May 15, 2013, 09:57:03 PM
I'd drive a smart car. I'm confident.
Title: Re: Will you drive this Smart Car?
Post by: Chris_ on May 15, 2013, 10:24:31 PM
Where is your sense of adventure???
90% of the vehicles in Texs are pickup trucks.  Anything smaller than a mid-sized car is a death trap there. :-)
Title: Re: Will you drive this Smart Car?
Post by: vesta111 on May 16, 2013, 07:02:49 AM
90% of the vehicles in Texs are pickup trucks.  Anything smaller than a mid-sized car is a death trap there. :-)

Yes but not on a paved road.   I want to be up as high as possible to see over the tops of leading cars or trucks .   Now I would love an old Packard like Grandfather once owned.   That darn thing could take a head on collision from these fiberglass cars and trucks and just need a new bumper.
Title: Re: Will you drive this Smart Car?
Post by: IassaFTots on May 16, 2013, 07:24:50 AM
90% of the vehicles in Texs are pickup trucks.  Anything smaller than a mid-sized car is a death trap there. :-)

Well there's that too.  It's not like that everywhere?
Title: Re: Will you drive this Smart Car?
Post by: DumbAss Tanker on May 16, 2013, 08:53:33 AM
High cool factor, but no thanks.  If it had the length of a van, even a minivan, or mid-size SUV, I'd love to have one.  Something with a track base that short would roll over forward or backward on even a very modest obstacle if you tried to actually take it off-road...and I certainly would!

 :-)
Title: Re: Will you drive this Smart Car?
Post by: Eupher on May 16, 2013, 09:51:24 AM
Would I drive/buy a Smart car?

Not just no, but HELL NO.

I've got dogs and horns to schlep around. (But not usually at the same time.)
Title: Re: Will you drive this Smart Car?
Post by: Gina on May 16, 2013, 10:18:12 AM
Would I drive/buy a Smart car?

Not just no, but HELL NO.

I've got dogs and horns to schlep around. (But not usually at the same time.)

I pass this guy every morning on the way to work. Speed limit is 70 yet he does 50 (I know because I have gotten stuck behind him).  When I pass I laugh.  It's just so comical to see this fat guy in it.   :rotf:

It reminds me of this

(http://www.byrdseed.com/wp-content/uploads/bob-car.jpg)
Title: Re: Will you drive this Smart Car?
Post by: ColonelCarrots on May 16, 2013, 10:46:34 AM
I dated a big girl, and she told me she wanted a smart car. It's sad to say that my first thought was "How would you get in?" It's a terrible thing to think when you're dating someone.
Title: Re: Will you drive this Smart Car?
Post by: NHSparky on May 16, 2013, 11:42:50 AM
Our riding mower is bigger than that.  And probably has a bigger engine as well.
Title: Re: Will you drive this Smart Car?
Post by: NHSparky on May 16, 2013, 11:44:24 AM
I dated a big girl, and she told me she wanted a smart car. It's sad to say that my first thought was "How would you get in?" It's a terrible thing to think when you're dating someone.

Grease her hips and throw in a candy bar.

It's even worse when you express the thought.  Yeah, I know, I'm going to hell.
Title: Re: Will you drive this Smart Car?
Post by: Gina on May 16, 2013, 11:56:20 AM
Grease her hips and throw in a candy bar.

It's even worse when you express the thought.  Yeah, I know, I'm going to hell.

as long as you can outrun them it's okay  :lmao:
Title: Re: Will you drive this Smart Car?
Post by: CG6468 on May 16, 2013, 01:32:06 PM
Would I drive one of them? Not only NO, but NFW!
Title: Re: Will you drive this Smart Car?
Post by: Dacabeti on May 16, 2013, 02:34:43 PM
Oh I have a sense of adventure, but I prefer not to drive in a death trap.  I love small cars, but ones with a good safety rating.  Smart cars are death traps.  I am not fond of death traps....that's just the way I roll.  :-)

Smartcars have a very high safety rating. The frame is High Strength Steel. They scored a 9.1 out of 10. Higher than any subcompact car in the WORLD by an independent Insurance Company. Car and Driver has them rated the top sub compact as does Road N Track and Consumer reports.

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