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. =^.^=

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Re: Um...

[shepherdwolf.livejournal.com]

You get friended just for being able to argue convincingly that a SCION XA is excessive. :D You are a master!

I imagine that if you don't need to carry five people and their camping trip, you REALLY don't need to carry SEVEN people and their washer/dryer set, so I can see why a SmartUV is not for you.

As for why get room that you don't need (yet): I'm of the mindset that if you can get extra features for about the same price, you might as well get it. Then again, it's that sort of "we might need this, so we'd better get it just in case" thinking that brought the H2 to our shopping malls, so perhaps you have a point. @_@ Just don't get your groceries at Costco and you should be fine.

You're absolutely right about the front end - I forget that most crumple-zone technology is put in place to keep the engine from exploding through the dashboard. So...um...where IS the engine in the Smart? o_0 Does it really run on AA batteries? 0=)

Then again, I'm all for unconventional vehicles (my idea of The Worse Car Evar is a gold Honda Civic), but I just can't get over the looks. And I drive an xB (aka xBox). I don't know if it's because the xB is the polar opposite of the smart (big and boxy meets tiny and spherical...now we should REALLY go cruising!) or the fact that I just drove it through Minnesota and Wisconsin, and from the looks people were giving me, you'd think I was tooling around in the #$&%ing Oscar Mayer Weinermobile. I had a guy actually drift over the center line because he was so befuddled by my car. -_-;;; Geez, people, think outside the pickup truck.

...this free-associational rambling brought to you by the letter SLEEP DEPRIVATION. ^^;;

Please feel free to friend; I shall do the same =D adios for now!

Re: Um...

[wolfwings.livejournal.com]

My thinking is that when I don't need large amounts of space or what-ever, I don't want to always be stuck carrying it around. :-) I'm all for possibilities, but for a daily commuter car and a car for driving around in by myself primarilly, I don't need a car able to carry five. =^.^= And there is three different SUV's on the property, two of which I can make use of whenever I need to. (Eight people and nine vehicles equals a LOT of variety.)

And the engine in the Smart is behind the front seats. Yes, you read that right, it's a mid-engine, rear-wheel-drive ultra-econo-car. With the engine under the level of the legs of the passengers. Meaning LOW center of gravity, and in an accident the bottom of the seats basically serves to punt the engine out of the way already if you get rear-ended.