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18 years ago
Runt mobile
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18 years ago
That is an interesting little beast. Prolly gets 50 mpg, but man oh man, it would suck when the clowns come pouring out!
Kate
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18 years ago
You know, if that got rearended by an F250 while sitting behind anothger full size... anything, it would be a blood pancake.
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18 years ago
Maybe it is meant to be hosed off and used as a casket at that point.
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18 years ago
I actually like it a lot. I would drive that. I wouldn't give up my real car though.
mort
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18 years ago
I rented two while in Italy last year. They are very comfortable inside. One was a gas burner the other a turbo Diesel. Got 53 MPG on tilt on the Autostrada. Tilt is about 85 MPH, but it seems like a hundred:) They have a very interesting transmission. It's a manual with a computer controlled clutch, no pedal. The gas job would even shift by itself. The gas gauge is 4 LED's. Full, 3/4, half and 1/4. Under that the odometer changes to Kilometers to empty and the gas gauge starts over at 1/4 as full. The car is loaded with features. Even the radio is way out. The manual for the radio was a thick as the manual for the car. I looked for the engine for a long time before I found it. It's right under the rear hatch latch, stuffed in an impossible space. A little 699 CC three cylinder. (Gas.) I was very impressed by them, and if anyone is interested I have some pictures:)
Al
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18 years ago
Just like an F-250 that was hit by an 18 wheeler while sitting behind a garbage truck:) Some day we all might be driving tiny cars and riding 50 CC scooters, like they do in Europe now. Just let gas get up to $5.00 a gallon and stay there a while. I put $75 worth of regular in my pickup the other day and decided to stop before I got sick. If my truck was empty and gas was $3.00 a gallon, I could put over $110 in it. That's sick!
Al
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18 years ago
Gotta admit, you guys are pretty witty somedays. :)
Up here in Calgary, these cars are becoming pretty popular. They ARE small but as a commute car, traffic never gets going anyway.
Brad
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18 years ago
I can see where one of these type of cars could be very useful. It could be used as a supplement to a larger car, SUV or truck when you don't need to drive something so big. Give it a folding top so it can be open on sunny days and I bet it would sell here too. What is the price for them up there?
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18 years ago
There is a company called Zap that have gotten them certified for the US Market and are establishing a dealer network. They were at the CES show back in January looking for investors. They have a website up & running at
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18 years ago
Well that's just stupid. It's made by Daimler-Chrysler, why not just put "PLYMOUTH" on the front and sell them from the side building at Chrysler dealers....
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18 years ago
In Europ they have a neat convertable top. You can open the front, rear or put the top down. Top opens or closes from the keyless remote too.
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18 years ago
I like the roadster. Too bad they are so expensive. They just might sell fairly well here at the right price.
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18 years ago
Because Daimler never really had any intention of bringing them to the states. I guess their research showed that they would sell real well here. However, with gas reaching European price levels they just might rethink that process.
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18 years ago
They really haven't done as well as Daimler expected them to do. Most sources say they are losing their ass on them.
I spent quite a bit of time talking with the Zap representative about them and what they have had to go through to get them certified for here in the states. It was a really expensive process. The conversions that they have to go through along with the strength of the Euro verses the dollar right now makes it a very expensive little toy. However, as the prices of gas continue to skyrocket perhaps more people will begin looking for alternatives to SUVs for commuting purposes.
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18 years ago
I think they start at $17K CDN (so about $13K US). But make it a drop top and add some options and it goes over $23K pretty fast (so maybe $17K US). But they do get 60mpg or so on the highway.
Build your own here
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18 years ago
its the new smart car
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18 years ago
Big Al wrote: .
.Performance Max speed (mph): 85mph.
0-62.5 mph (seconds): 16.8 (Softip) / 17.1 (Softouch)Forget about stopped behind a garbage truck. The 18 wheeler might be able to run down the Smart under all out acceleration.
Remember when the yardstick for used cars was, "starts and runs, $50"? Now the gas in the tank is worth more than that.
Remember when you could cruise your bigblock car all night long for $5? I don't even like to drive my old heaps anymore. Thinking about that $15-20 going out the tailpipe every 60 minutes takes all the fun out of it.
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18 years ago
Thinking about that
Gas is so high I'm thinking about trading in my GT for a Yugo.....