On the way home last night I was driving behind a Brabus Smart car, the ForTwo variety.
I noticed it had very sooty tailpipes, something I don't often see these days on modern petrol cars with their lean burn engines and catalysts and all the emissions malarkey.
Anyway, boy did this thing go! I honestly had trouble keeping up in the Ti, where everybody blasts through the tunnels under Manchester Airport to get past the inevitable slow gits - except for every time the driver changed gear when I could see the Smart lurching about and slowing down a lot while it waited for the comedy gearbox to do something :)
The last I saw of the Smart was as it rocketed off down the sliproad to the M56 in the right-hand lane. I was behind a Jag XKR in the left lane and once I joined the M56 I couldn't see the Smart at all.
I know that the Brabus Smarts aren't really that quick but the sooty tailpipes hinted to me at some tuning. Anybody else seen it or got any ideas?