Park your Smart smart
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Park your Smart smart
Another interesting thing about the Smart is this:
took this picture yesterday out of my office window...because you don't see that very often. It is not allowed here to share parking space! Only some cities have special Smart parking lots. How about in the U.S.?
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took this picture yesterday out of my office window...because you don't see that very often. It is not allowed here to share parking space! Only some cities have special Smart parking lots. How about in the U.S.?
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Unfortunately the USA is not getting "official" smarts until the ForMore SUV with a gas V-6 is introduced in 2006. The UR-smart will never be sold there, so they say.
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Originally posted by easydesign
But you could import the CDI Smart from Canada?
But you could import the CDI Smart from Canada?
Luckily for me I am in Canada
Whether the Canadian fortwo cdi can be imported to the USA and registered there I don't know. I think there would be some problems with that, because our national standards are different. For example, US standards require that the car protect an unbelted driver/passenger and CDN standards do not. The smart has no US-type passive restraints (e.g.knee bolsters, which are dangerous BTW).
But Mercedes-Benz Canada will be taking many steps to prevent Canadian market smart cars from being exported to the USA. Notable among these measures will be a "no export" contract (for 1 or 2 years) signed by the original owner at the time of delivery. No signature, no car.
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puh, that's hard. But are Canadians allowed to enter the U.S with their little Samrts?
I think the Smart is much more safer than most of the big SUV's that you have there driving around...
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I think the Smart is much more safer than most of the big SUV's that you have there driving around...
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visitors
Yes, any car can enter the USA with a visitor for several months.
My wife and I might even drive to Mexico in our smart next year.
The problem for Americans wanting a smart is that they can't buy one from a tourist and then register it in their state.
My wife and I might even drive to Mexico in our smart next year.
The problem for Americans wanting a smart is that they can't buy one from a tourist and then register it in their state.
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Originally posted by W210
Thanks for the pretty impressive crash photos! Any more?
Thanks for the pretty impressive crash photos! Any more?
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crash performance
The smart uses the other car's crush space to dissipate energy. so while the smart remains intact in a collision (relatively speaking) the other (larger) car will come off looking a lot worse. This is normal, the smart is designed to do that. A smart is safer than a W202 C-Class (www.euroncap.com).
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But what would happen to the smart if it hit a concrete wall?
But what would happen to the smart if it hit a concrete wall?
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crush zones
The bottom line for me.
I have seen lots of collisions, where the occupants of the big car call a cab and go home. The occupants of the small car go to the morgue.
But they were saving gas!
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Well if you're that sensitive to crash performace you should unload your four-star EuroNCAP car and buy a Renault Laguna, which gets five stars! Too bad the Renault (first car to get five EuroNCAP stars BTW) is not sold in Canada...
Public transport (any form) is FAR safer than travel in ANY car.
Or better still, get a semi tractor unit, king of the road in collisions! POS to drive, far more likely than a smart to get into a collision in the first place, but what the hell, if you're going to crash, do it in style!
The smart has huge integrity for such a small car and I have no qualms about driving one at all.
What do you do (or how/where do you drive) that you see so many collisions like that?
Also, don't tag smart with the Kia/Yugo/Suzuki Swift folding pop can image, because they're nothing like that.
If you had seen smart drivers being wheeled off to the morgue after a fender bender with a Lincoln then I'd pay more attention to your comment
Public transport (any form) is FAR safer than travel in ANY car.
Or better still, get a semi tractor unit, king of the road in collisions! POS to drive, far more likely than a smart to get into a collision in the first place, but what the hell, if you're going to crash, do it in style!
The smart has huge integrity for such a small car and I have no qualms about driving one at all.
What do you do (or how/where do you drive) that you see so many collisions like that?
Also, don't tag smart with the Kia/Yugo/Suzuki Swift folding pop can image, because they're nothing like that.
If you had seen smart drivers being wheeled off to the morgue after a fender bender with a Lincoln then I'd pay more attention to your comment
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Mike T:
This is the thing, you never know how much expertise anyone has on the internet. Yes I have seen a lot of accidents. I worked 30 years with the Vancouver police, 10 years of that in the traffic division. I have seen a lot of dead motorists.
Mind you I don't hold myself out as a mental health poster boy after riding Harley for ten years. Sometimes it is better to be lucky than "Smart".
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Originally posted by barry S320V
Mike T:
This is the thing, you never know how much expertise anyone has on the internet. Yes I have seen a lot of accidents. I worked 30 years with the Vancouver police, 10 years of that in the traffic division. I have seen a lot of dead motorists.
Mind you I don't hold myself out as a mental health poster boy after riding Harley for ten years. Sometimes it is better to be lucky than "Smart".
Cheers
Barry
Mike T:
This is the thing, you never know how much expertise anyone has on the internet. Yes I have seen a lot of accidents. I worked 30 years with the Vancouver police, 10 years of that in the traffic division. I have seen a lot of dead motorists.
Mind you I don't hold myself out as a mental health poster boy after riding Harley for ten years. Sometimes it is better to be lucky than "Smart".
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Barry
I heard there are lots of accidents in Vancouver as it's too easy to get a licence there?
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Re: smart question
Originally posted by W210
I heard there are lots of accidents in Vancouver as it's too easy to get a licence there?
I heard there are lots of accidents in Vancouver as it's too easy to get a licence there?
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Mike T: has the right idea, in- that safe drivers make safe cars.
The captain of the Titanic managed to drown 1200 people in the un-sinkable safest ship in the world. His ego demanded that he make the world record fastest crossing,so...
I am putting my chips on the w140 S class so thats my bet.
With hundreds of models of cars and different testing methods, who can realy know for sure?
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The captain of the Titanic managed to drown 1200 people in the un-sinkable safest ship in the world. His ego demanded that he make the world record fastest crossing,so...
I am putting my chips on the w140 S class so thats my bet.
With hundreds of models of cars and different testing methods, who can realy know for sure?
ciao
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Re: parking in USA
Originally posted by Mike T.
Unfortunately the USA is not getting "official" smarts until the ForMore SUV with a gas V-6 is introduced in 2006. The UR-smart will never be sold there, so they say.
Unfortunately the USA is not getting "official" smarts until the ForMore SUV with a gas V-6 is introduced in 2006. The UR-smart will never be sold there, so they say.
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Not a very smart crooked examiner.
Originally posted by Mike T.
Probably true, as in many hundreds of cases, people BOUGHT their license from a certain driving school/crooked examiner where the first language was not English....
Probably true, as in many hundreds of cases, people BOUGHT their license from a certain driving school/crooked examiner where the first language was not English....
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Re: parking in USA
Originally posted by Mike T.
Unfortunately the USA is not getting "official" smarts until the ForMore SUV with a gas V-6 is introduced in 2006. The UR-smart will never be sold there, so they say.
Unfortunately the USA is not getting "official" smarts until the ForMore SUV with a gas V-6 is introduced in 2006. The UR-smart will never be sold there, so they say.
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I wish the smart fortwo cabrio came in Citron but it doesn't, so we have to settle for "stream green". It's kind of a light limey green-yellow, not metallic though.
