SmartCar - revisited. New age SC

[Justin S]

One reason to not get a smart car:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ju6t-yyoU8s (Skip to around 2:10).

I think you are actually safer on a bike then in that thing...

[Rick V]

Originally Posted by HardDrive

(So sorry, but as a former boxster owner, you have no idea how much dung I had to endure )

Dude, I figured out the secret of being a happy Boxster owner. I bought my wife one. I get to have fun with it, and I can always just say, Naw it belongs to the wife, I have a 911.

[creaturecat]

Originally Posted by Justin S

One reason to not get a smart car:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ju6t-yyoU8s (Skip to around 2:10

I think you are actually safer on a bike then in that thing...

70 mph into a concrete barrier, shell intact. Pretty impressive. For both cars.
The comparison between the 2 small cars is barely valid, too many variables, ex: the small white car hit at a less acute angle.

Want to test your theory, with the bicycle ?

[stomachmonkey]

I was considering a Smart Car.

Crash rating is pretty good on it for the size.

Do the Hyabusa upgrade.

[cantdrv55]

That's nuts.

[svandamme]

coworker of mine is doing a tube frame Fiat 500 with FG shell with bike engine...

[atlporsche]

Originally Posted by creaturecat

Fantastic bike, the steel DeRosa.
Have 2 of them.
My Tomassini is sublime.
Too bad .....very little appreciation
for the truly finer things in life.








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oooh sweet...come play in the vintage cycling thread...

sjd