"We´re the Big Three. We don´t need to compete."

[NSXType-R]

it's not little, it is midsized, and that's where ways already separate between the USA and Europe. (I have just been to Rome for a couple of days, and there a Focus is almost big....)

Big for you guys is little for us.

[ThisBlood147]

Big for you guys is little for us.

Yea, when we want to drive something smaller than that over here........we hop into a go-cart.

[kingofthering]

I wonder, is the Toyota Tundra available elsewhere?

They thought about selling some of their larger models in the Middle Eastern countries a few months or so ago.

[Ferrer]

Well apparently they will need to compete...

[LeonOfTheDead]

Big for you guys is little for us.

not in Rome. it's one of the few cities that make the Smart a sensed car.

Well apparently they will need to compete...

YouTube - Slevin - ****ed!

[wwgkd]

not in Rome. it's one of the few cities that make the Smart a sensed car.



YouTube - Slevin - ****ed!

Yes, but we have a lot more open space which makes a smart annoying as hell. Especially when you're stuck behind one and the nuttard driving it can't go anywhere near the speedlimit (happened to me this morning on the way back from the store.)

[Kitdy]

I saw a guy in a smart yesterday zipping along at like 130 in the fastlane and undertaking.

That is some vast power.

[Ferrer]

I saw a guy in a smart yesterday zipping along at like 130 in the fastlane and undertaking.

That is some vast power.

IIRC Current Smarts can do up to 150km/h, which is more than enough in the US.

[wwgkd]

IIRC Current Smarts can do up to 150km/h, which is more than enough in the US.

Not on uphills. Then they putt along at about 40mph in a 60 zone.

[Kitdy]

IIRC Current Smarts can do up to 150km/h, which is more than enough in the US.

You say that as though it's not enough for everywhere.

It does take almost 17 seconds to get to 100 though and you know, I am not sure that that is enough power in certain merging situations on on-ramps to eb safe.

Keep in mind I don't have a problem with smart cars like many seem to do due to their small size and low power, I have rode in one and it was kinda fun. My problem with this car is it's cost. Checking, it's lower than I thought but still 15k - you can get a City Golf for 16k, and a Hyundai Accent for 10k and either of those would have far more space and be more practical in all likelihood. It's a city car but without a city car price. If it cost say 7k, it''d be exceptional and would probably fly off the lots.

But it's more than double that.

[Ferrer]

You say that as though it's not enough for everywhere.

It does take almost 17 seconds to get to 100 though and you know, I am not sure that that is enough power in certain merging situations on on-ramps to eb safe.

Keep in mind I don't have a problem with smart cars like many seem to do due to their small size and low power, I have rode in one and it was kinda fun. My problem with this car is it's cost. Checking, it's lower than I thought but still 15k - you can get a City Golf for 16k, and a Hyundai Accent for 10k and either of those would have far more space and be more practical in all likelihood. It's a city car but without a city car price. If it cost say 7k, it''d be exceptional and would probably fly off the lots.

But it's more than double that.

I personally think that the Smart is an overpriced toy, but well nevermind.

[wwgkd]

You say that as though it's not enough for everywhere.

It does take almost 17 seconds to get to 100 though and you know, I am not sure that that is enough power in certain merging situations on on-ramps to eb safe.

Keep in mind I don't have a problem with smart cars like many seem to do due to their small size and low power, I have rode in one and it was kinda fun. My problem with this car is it's cost. Checking, it's lower than I thought but still 15k - you can get a City Golf for 16k, and a Hyundai Accent for 10k and either of those would have far more space and be more practical in all likelihood. It's a city car but without a city car price. If it cost say 7k, it''d be exceptional and would probably fly off the lots.

But it's more than double that.

That's a very good point. And according to a guy I know with one (one of two in the area, it's the other one I was following) they require premium gas, which seems pretty annoying in an economy car. Plus the fact that if you drive them like a normal car you only get 32mpg! C&D got that number and it was verified by the guy I know who usually gets near there.

[LeonOfTheDead]

old ones was capable of a limited top speed of 135 km/h. fair enough since Italy has the higher speed limit and it's 130 km/h (not going to talk about autobahn)

[Ferrer]

old ones was capable of a limited top speed of 135 km/h. fair enough since Italy has the higher speed limit and it's 130 km/h (not going to talk about autobahn)

Italy may have a 130km/h speed limit, but I don't think driving a Smart on the autostrada is really a sensible idea.

[wwgkd]

Italy may have a 130km/h speed limit, but I don't think driving a Smart on the autostrada is really a sensible idea.

We have speedlimits close to that and I've been passed by semis doing higher. I'm not one of those guys afraid to drive a small car because I think it's horribly unsafe, but I'd at least like to be able to get out of the way.