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« Reply #121 on: June 29, 2006, 01:31:16 PM »
The roadster version looks pretty dam cool. Like a supped-up go-cart.



http://www.smart.com/
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« Reply #122 on: June 29, 2006, 02:30:02 PM »
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let me attempt to have a conversation with one of the mentally impaired blondes in the area then perhaps I'll have the proper practice to follow your logic. :aok

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« Reply #123 on: June 29, 2006, 02:31:41 PM »
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Continuing nukes rational regarding the purchase of this car.

If only poor people are buying this car to save I suppose only poor people are buying fake grass to save water. Since he services only poor people I think you should acceed to nukes superior knowledge of poor people.
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« Reply #124 on: June 29, 2006, 07:51:21 PM »
No thanks.  Other folks should feel free to drive 'em as much as they like though.
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« Reply #125 on: June 29, 2006, 08:02:59 PM »
oversized scooter...and expensive for what your getting, how much does a cobalt cost?


would like to see what would happen if you put a engine from one of those power ranger crotch rockets in it though.

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« Reply #126 on: June 29, 2006, 08:06:53 PM »
Cobalts start about $13k and go on up from there.

A pretty nice one lists $18k, all the options mostly.

Of course, list and sell are two different things. I bought one last year for my mother-in-law. Listed about $16.5, drove it away for $11K.

Pretty nice little car; she loves it. Getting about 24mpg around town.
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« Reply #127 on: June 30, 2006, 02:39:03 AM »
What is this "Cobalt" - any pictures, anyone?

Oh no, just browsing back through this thread - looks like we won't be hearing from Mr. Big any more...

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« Reply #128 on: June 30, 2006, 05:42:09 AM »
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What is this "Cobalt" - any pictures, anyone?




Unfortunately, this car in "some people's eyes" is a "poor" man's/woman's car.
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« Reply #129 on: June 30, 2006, 07:43:06 AM »
I'd personally spend the extra $$ and get a Mini-Diesel before I'd spend money on a Smart car: (58 mpg)
http://www.bmwworld.com/models/mini/diesel.htm


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« Reply #130 on: June 30, 2006, 08:58:16 AM »
I would rather drive a real car half as much or... a motorcycle than that "smart" car but....  that  is just me.

I think that it is good that the private sector is meeting fuel price/shortage problems with inovative designs... I imagine many more will show up...  some may even appeal to me.

When I retire to the boonies I may even get some turbo diesel driveline and stuff it under an old s10 blazer to tinker with...  1,000 gallon tank of diesel stored and it would not be a bad emergency vehicle.   Something to run to town in for a change of pace or when there is a shortage of other fuels...

Maybe not... maybe by then something else will sound better to me.   The options are allmost limitless and growing.

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« Reply #131 on: June 30, 2006, 02:33:55 PM »
One plus point these smarts are backwheel drived cars unlike the mayority of the european cars. :)
They are indeed used by the richer people here.
But they dont need much parking space so u can put em everywhere and that's handy in europe.

now this :)