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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: ariansworld on October 08, 2008, 08:40:06 PM
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Does anyone have this vehicle? If so, what is your opinion on it? Does it run well, if you do own one what is your average gas mileage? I am serioulsy debating on trading my Ford Focus in on one.
Arian
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Someone at works got one and he never has any problems, hes never even seen the engine cause its that reliable, only thing he has had troble with is hitting kurbs witht the rear tyre with the back being wider. Aparently tho he says it has to go to mercedes dealers for service and MOT.
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Well you have all these options :D
http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,246866.0.html
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You're concerned about 8 litre per 100 kilometers fuel consumption? My mother drives a Focus and it's a great little car. Could you handle having less power than that? I couldn't. My car guzzles more than double what my mother's Focus does and I love every minute of it because of the power and my car is only a 4L I6. In an electric lawn mower you can forget those small gaps in traffic, getting out in front at the lights and ever having fun behind the wheel of your car.
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Oh, and you'll get laughed at constantly. Also, if you are in accident, you're dead. No question... just dead. Don't give up the safety of having a car of substance around you to save a few bucks. If you're paying less than $100 to fill up just deal with it, smart cars are silly.
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Well, personally I like it, I dont need all the power that some on this forums might need. I just want to buy this vehicle because it is easy on gas, isnt going to tempt me to put it at its top speed. I have heard great things about its safety reviews.
I didnt ask to be bashed.
Arian
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Oh, and you'll get laughed at constantly. Also, if you are in accident, you're dead. No question... just dead. Don't give up the safety of having a car of substance around you to save a few bucks. If you're paying less than $100 to fill up just deal with it, smart cars are silly.
Quoted for truth.
Also note that Peugeot brake rotors rust like there is no tomorrow. Much faster than any I have ever seen and this was on a 607.
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Well, personally I like it, I dont need all the power that some on this forums might need. I just want to buy this vehicle because it is easy on gas, isnt going to tempt me to put it at its top speed. I have heard great things about its safety reviews.
I didnt ask to be bashed.
Arian
He isn't bashing, he's simply telling the truth.
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Guy I work with...has one of them...he likes it alot.
He's also....6'5" and weighs about 340lbs. He's enjoying the gas mileage alot...Take all that for what it's worth.
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Guy I work with...has one of them...he likes it alot.
He's also....6'5" and weighs about 340lbs. He's enjoying the gas mileage alot...Take all that for what it's worth.
Does he use it for a shoe??
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Does he use it for a shoe??
LOL...Not long ago....it was a really nice day out...I had washed my SUV I had and drove into work. He was who I was relieving. His car parked out front...I told him all he had to do was spray it down with water and lay on it and wiggle...he'd have it washed.
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LOL...Not long ago....it was a really nice day out...I had washed my SUV I had and drove into work. He was who I was relieving. His car parked out front...I told him all he had to do was spray it down with water and lay on it and wiggle...he'd have it washed.
:rofl
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I'm not trying to give you a hard time, mate, I was just giving you my opinion and having a bit of a laugh while I was at it. The only reason I could see for having a smart car is if you lived and only ever drove in the city. That little bastid thing would fit into tight car parks and narrow side streets with ease. Anywhere else.... just stick with your Focus. If you're looking to save money there are most likely other areas of your life in which you could more easily save a few bucks. <S>
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Tiny Smart car gets crash test kudos
The Smart ForTwo earns the top rating for front and side impact protection in crash tests by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.
By Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNNMoney.com staff writer
Last Updated: June 12, 2008: 4:55 PM EDT
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- The ultra-tiny Smart ForTwo earned top marks in side and front crash tests, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety said Wednesday. The two-seat car did not earn the Institute's Top Safety Pick designation, however, because it didn't earn top marks for whiplash protection.
But even if the ForTwo improved its whiplash protection, it would not be named a Top Safety Pick, said IIHS spokesman Russ Rader. The institute does not have a specific size requirement, but the ForTwo is simply too small to be considered safe under all conditions, including highway driving, he said
Smart would not comment on the IIHS's decision regarding the car's eligibility to be a Top Safety Pick.
The ForTwo, which is about three feet shorter and 700 pounds lighter than a Mini Cooper, earned the best possible rating of "Good" for front and side impact protection in tests by the IIHS, a private group funded by insurance companies.
The ForTwo received an "Acceptable" rating, which is the second best possible, for whiplash protection in rear impacts. Technically, that would prevent it from getting a "Top Safety Pick" from the IIHS.
The ForTwo is the smallest car the IIHS has ever tested. "All things being equal in safety, bigger and heavier is always better," said institute president Adrian Lund in an statement. "But among the smallest cars, the engineers at Smart did their homework and designed a high level of safety into a very small package."
The ForTwo, which the IIHS classifies as "microcar," has very little crush space in its short front end. The institute credits the car's seatbelts and airbags with helping minimize crash forces on the occupants. The crash test dummy's head hit the steering wheel through the airbag during the front crash test, but the impact wasn't hard enough to affect the final rating, said spokesman Rader.
"The IIHS frontal crash test is conducted at a higher speed than required by federal safety standards, and it's an offset test that replicates most real-world crashes. The smart's sophisticated safety management system performed as designed," said Smart's Schembri.
A different kind of test
The federal government's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration conducted different crash tests, whose results were released in April and showed some weak points.
In the NHTSA front crash test, the ForTwo earned the top rating of "Five Stars" for driver protection, but just "Three Stars" for passenger protection. Few vehicles today get ratings as low as three stars in NHTSA's front crash tests.
The IIHS uses a different type of front crash test and does not place a crash test dummy in the passenger seat. While NHTSA tests vehicles by crashing them straight into an immovable barrier, the institute crashes vehicles into a deformable barrier so that just part of the vehicle's front end strikes it.
Results from front impact crash tests, no matter how they are conducted, cannot be compared between cars of different sizes. In a real-world front crash, occupants in a smaller vehicle would experience greater crash forces when hitting a larger vehicle going in the opposite direction.
The Smart ForTwo earned the best possible ratings in side impact tests conducted by both NHTSA and IIHS, but in both cases, the door became unlatched during the crash tests. While that didn't affect the final score in either case, it's not ideal, said IIHS's Lund.
Smart is a product of Germany's Daimler (DAI) (DAI), which also makes Mercedes-Benz luxury cars.
http://money.cnn.com/2008/05/14/autos/smart_fortwo_iihs_crash_test/
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roadkill.
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Bullpoop.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ju6t-yyoU8s
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5S1NAMnYKM&feature=related
Beats a Ferrari.
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You're concerned about 8 litre per 100 kilometers fuel consumption? My mother drives a Focus and it's a great little car. Could you handle having less power than that? I couldn't. My car guzzles more than double what my mother's Focus does and I love every minute of it because of the power and my car is only a 4L I6. In an electric lawn mower you can forget those small gaps in traffic, getting out in front at the lights and ever having fun behind the wheel of your car.
i couldn't deal with it. my dakota, and fairmont are parked right now, and i'm driving a 93 geo prism. 35 miles/gallon. 0 to 60 in the time it takes to eat lunch. top speed of about 75 or so. real chick magnet.
i can't friggin stand it....but i need the mileage it provides...and it was free :D
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Well.. in a crash, it would get punted much like my lil CRX did, across the intersection and a 360 and a half according to the skidmarks.
I had a broken left hand (from my grip on the steering wheel) and severely bruised chest from the seat-chest belts.
The car was still idling.
I shut it off before gettin out.
Car that hit me stopped dead at the spot where he hit me, about a 45 degree impact on the front of the right front wheel at approx 50mph.
People at the scene thought I was dead .. LOL.
It was a hard hit.
-GE aka Frank