It's about !@#!@#%! time, Benz...

[wolfwings]

...it's only taken you what... a decade since uber-rich people have been importing your Smart's from Canada and Europe because they like them so much to realize there might be a market for them in the US?

Gods, what arrogant, stupid, greedy pricks. At least they cancelled their original plan, to bastardize the Smart name in the US by planning originally to create an SUV with the badging to try to cash in on the rumbling buzz around the line.

Hell, right now there are places selling (not just advertising, actively selling and getting buyers) for the Smart's at well over double the actual raw price, $30k and up for a car that sells in Canada fully loaded for under $18k. And people have been practically begging on hands and knees for DC to import the Smart's ever since they were first released.

And the best part to me? They're rear-wheel drive. And they'll have a turbo-diesel model available. I smell french-fry-powered burnouts coming in a couple years. =^.^=

Comments

[elfs.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but I can't watch the video associated with the article. MSNBC, for all its good things, assumes that there is no operating system at loose in the world other than Windows. There is no Linux, there is no OS-X. To watch the video, it says "click here for FREE software," and then it leads me down a load of twisty paths that end in "In order to use this software you must be running [at least the $149 edition of] Microsoft Windows XP or better."

I am running something better than XP, dammit. It's called Linux.

Meh...

[(Anonymous)]

...didn't even notice there WAS a video until you just now pointed it out. But I'm in the same boat so it's unlikely I could watch it either, especially since I'm running Athlon 64 so I can't easilly even just load the Windows software or codecs or whatever they're requiring.

Re: Meh...

[wolfwings.livejournal.com]

Grr... that was me. Forgot to log in.