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drjohn71a":5zwr8udb said:
Don,

I think the Smart Cars were developed for close-in, downtown, city driving. Short distances and hard to find parking areas.
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Yep John, I agree. On the other hand, that's a lot of what a motorhome doesn't do well with at all!

Most "toads" or "Dinghy's" double as the family second car, so it was high on our list. Heck, the Honda CRV works and most any GM vehicle can be towed without a dolly so it's mostly personal choice. If we went stick shift, the field is really open but after decades of commuting in So Cal traffic with a stick shift, I'm spoiled. My personal 'Druther would be a Toyota but they are very secretive about their transmissions so the after market guys who make them into towed vehicles are stuck with disconnecting the drive shaft and pruning the drive shaft length instead of a simple oil pump arrangement.

I know a few Prius owners who are happy as clams out of reach of Dusty's clamming efforts, but I really didn't like the interior road noise aspect. Otherwise, I agree with earlier posters, it's a great technological leap that opened the door to alternative fuels in a big way.

Don

Don
 
It is remarkable how well it handled the crash. I wonder how the legroom was though. They didn't show that. Still, being able to open both doors after that is quite a feat!

Wouldn't take to much to roll one though.
 
Don,

We jsut returned from Italy and saw plenty of smart cars there. Like Gary, I'd rather have a VW TDI (in fact we traded in our Isuzu Trooper last year and bought a Jetta TDI - 40MPG+ in the city and close to 50 on the hwy.)

However, the smart cars are REALLY cute. Also, there's a lot of 3rd vendors for the snap-on/off panels. In Rome, we saw a smart car on which all the exterior trim was done an in fine leather. Not too practical for the Seattle area but it sure looked sweet.
 
I watched the video and at first viewing it is impressive. But when you view it in stop motion, the impact is not head on. The barricade is at what appears to be a 45 degree angle. That makes a BIG difference in a crash.
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