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2008 Smart commuter car gets 40 mpg and will selling in USA for $12k.
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2008 Smart commuter car gets 40 mpg and will selling in USA for $12k.
At the price of $16,000 for that midget two passenger car, to drive on
American highways, to save a relative few hundred dollars a year, one would be better off just buying a actual coffin for $5,000 mike "Useful Info" > wrote in message ups.com... > Read all about it, he http://Muvy.org > |
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2008 Smart commuter car gets 40 mpg and will selling in USA for$12k.
Useful Info wrote: > Read all about it, he http://Muvy.org > Both, my '82 & '83 Honda Civics get better than that and they are bigger... Whoopty doo! JT |
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2008 Smart commuter car gets 40 mpg and will selling in USA for$12k.
Mike Hunter wrote:
> At the price of $16,000 for that midget two passenger car, to drive on > American highways, to save a relative few hundred dollars a year, one would > be better off just buying a actual > coffin for $5,000 > > mike Actually, it is a perfect car for people in NYC. They're small enough so that you can just drive them into the elevator and park them in the corner of your cubical for the day. Jeff |
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2008 Smart commuter car gets 40 mpg and will selling in USA for $12k.
Those little "Smart" cars have been running around in Europe for 7 or 8
years, but the times that I have been there, we never saw very many of them on the road. The Mercedes name sells them to some people, but there are much better buys for better transportation in Europe, the same as there is here. If they could get the price down to $10,000, they might make a good substitute for a golf cart. (Yes, I know, the model sold here is a little different). "Mike Hunter" > wrote in message ... > At the price of $16,000 for that midget two passenger car, to drive on > American highways, to save a relative few hundred dollars a year, one > would be better off just buying a actual > coffin for $5,000 > > mike > > > "Useful Info" > wrote in message > ups.com... >> Read all about it, he http://Muvy.org >> > > |
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2008 Smart commuter car gets 40 mpg and will selling in USA for$12k.
Graybeard wrote:
> Those little "Smart" cars have been running around in Europe for 7 or 8 > years, but the times that I have been there, we never saw very many of them > on the road. The Mercedes name sells them to some people, but there are > much better buys for better transportation in Europe, the same as there is > here. > If they could get the price down to $10,000, they might make a good > substitute for a golf cart. > (Yes, I know, the model sold here is a little different). DiamlerBenz reportedly spent over 1,000,000,000 Euros on development of the car. But they are far from recovering their investment. So this program was much better than their merger of equals with Chrysler. Jeff > "Mike Hunter" > wrote in message > ... >> At the price of $16,000 for that midget two passenger car, to drive on >> American highways, to save a relative few hundred dollars a year, one >> would be better off just buying a actual >> coffin for $5,000 >> >> mike >> >> >> "Useful Info" > wrote in message >> ups.com... >>> Read all about it, he http://Muvy.org >>> >> > > |
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2008 Smart commuter car gets 40 mpg and will selling in USA for $12k.
"Graybeard" > wrote in message
... > Those little "Smart" cars have been running around in Europe for 7 or 8 > years, but the times that I have been there, we never saw very many of > them on the road. That was what my daughter reported when she returned from France about 6 years ago. She saw them parked and being towed, but didn't see one actually on the road. Logically, if they were parked or being towed they must have been on the road at some point... unless they were being towed from parking place to parking place. Mike |
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2008 Smart commuter car gets 40 mpg and will selling in USA for $12k.
"Useful Info" > wrote in message
ups.com... > Read all about it, he http://Muvy.org > > You spammed us before with this same subject, remember? As for the SMART car, I checked some user forums a few months ago. The engine is notoriously flimsy; the conventional wisdom is that it is good for 60-100K km. One owner got good news, though. His engine with 70+ K km appeared to be seized but on advice from a more experienced owner he loosened the alternator belt. Sure enough - it was the alternator that was seized ( a very common problem, apparently). The starter didn't have enough torque to turn the dinky diesel with a seized alternator. I sure don't want to trade in my 45-60 mpg (real world) five passenger Prius with climate control for a two passenger, noisier, thirstier, far less reliable, much more sluggish vehicle that - at present - is not even available with A/C. (Putting A/C on a 50 hp engine is not likely to be in the cards, either.) SMART cars have been a money pit for Daimler-Chrysler - can Mercedes make it pay? Mike |
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2008 Smart commuter car gets 40 mpg and will selling in USA for $12k.
"Mike Hunter" > wrote in message
... > At the price of $16,000 for that midget two passenger car, to drive on > American highways, to save a relative few hundred dollars a year, one > would be better off just buying a actual > coffin for $5,000 > > mike > > Okay, Mike - I have to give you a gold star for that! Mike |
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