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Replying to: priggly (Jun 30, 2008 8:46 am)
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Replying to: priggly (Jun 30, 2008 8:33 am)
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Replying to: gregg_vw (Jun 30, 2008 8:58 am) |
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Replying to: gregg_vw (Jun 30, 2008 9:02 am) Incidentally, I wasn't denigrating anyone. That is more your style.
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Replying to: priggly (Jun 30, 2008 9:12 am) Dennis |
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Let's stop this personal stuff before it gets out of hand please. Thank you. |
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60% of all auto deaths are people not wearing a seatbelt. So choosing to wear a seatbelt will contribute more to one's safety than which car they drive. If you want to know how a Smart car fares in an actual accident, here in the states, here ya go. http://www.smartcarofamerica.com/smart_car_of_america/front/the_smart_car_saves_- - a_life.html |
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| Saw and read up on the Smart DIESEL. When will this be coming from the other side of the pond? It is rating it to get 80 MPG !!!!? | |
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I resent the car being called a death trap! I realize that it is one, if not the smallest vehicle currently on the road. I also owned beetles in the past where the only safety features were government imposed seat belts and a design change preventing the steering wheel column from becoming imbedded in a driver's body on frontal impact. There will always be larger cars on the road no matter what you own. Unless you drive a garbage truck or a commercial truck. Driving a smart makes one realize that one must be more on the defensive and alert than driving an older Impala for example, yet that is not the issue here. Times are a changing! Future vehicles will be more attractive just because of over crowding and the unreasonable gas cost issue. Squeezing the obese into these cars is another matter... I own my smart now since February and am satisfied with it, as a matter of fact I am delighted with it. It sat at the dealership for two weeks until I broke down and finally took it home. I too feared the strange transmission and the two year warranty really stinks, yet I embraced the smart and it's little foibles and have not regretted yet buying it. When I drive 90 mph on I-75 the mileage certainly drops and I don't do it often because the gendarmes don't appreciate it. In addition the A/C lowers the mileage too. So I then only see about 33mph all around, otherwise I get about 38 on the average with minimal A/C use. Never hit 40 mpg yet, but so what...and the transmission... it is now a non issue. |
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