What's with the dinky cars?

[Justoo]

Do they look sorta like this Pootsy?

[K C Muffin]

Do they look sorta like this Pootsy?

huh uh, Justoo, that's a Mini Cooper and they've been out for a while. I think what Poots is referring to are the itty-bitty cars - I think Mercedes has one out. But the Mercedes is priced fairly reasonably (considering it's a Mercedes) and it's road-legal for all intents and purposes.

There are others and they're just a tad hideous (they almost look like little bitty triangles - and not at all safe triangles!), but they are transportation and I care less and less about what my transportation looks like than how much it costs me in gas!

[jackknife]

Here is the Smart Car. Lots of folks are driving them around here. I wouldn't mind having one but they have good safety ratings for everything but a rear end hit and I'm not sure I'll feel safe.

http://misslissa.files.wordpress.com.../smart-car.jpg

[Justoo]

Wonder how that would do on 5 miles of dirt road every day.

[K C Muffin]

I sure wouldn't wanna follow anybody down that dirt road in one of those. You couldn't see at all! I dunno. I have to see some crash tests on it. Says it's safe - I just have a hard time believing it.

[Justoo]

Of course they say they are safe. And sewer plants don't stink.

[pootsy]

Jack got it. those are the cars I have been seeing on the hwy, not just in town.

[Aereth]

The ones I've seen look kind of like this



Only not square-backed.. it had the butt missing, kind of looked like a deformed truck, with a small truckbed and all that stuff. LOL

[jackknife]

Of course they say they are safe. And sewer plants don't stink.

Well it's independent testing.

[Bandit]

Here is the Smart Car. Lots of folks are driving them around here. I wouldn't mind having one but they have good safety ratings for everything but a rear end hit and I'm not sure I'll feel safe.

http://misslissa.files.wordpress.com.../smart-car.jpg

To me, the smart car is horribly overrated. The Europeans get the version that has an available turbodiesel that gets 70 mpg. We get a neutered 3 cylinder gas engine variety that barely gets better mileage than a Civic or Corolla and has half the capacity for about the same price. Yes, they are supposed to be safe, as they have a very strong cage structure. But I imagine anything over 40 mph would scramble your internal organs, as the car has no crumple zones to absorb the impact.