Get Smart??

Some good pics from work. So I parked the '86 Caprice next to my co-workers new Smart car. I love this. Which would you feel safer in??

These are not trick pics. The rear bumper of the Caprice and the rear bumper of the Smart were perfectly lined up. Ha! My co-workers were cracking up. Wish I'd had the Roadmaster there, it's even longer than the Caprice. ; )

Great pics! And it's not even a longroof.

HAHAHA thats awesome Lorne!

I parked our F250 next to a Smart once. God help the Smart driver if they ever get hit by one.

Always thought that the Smart had some awkward dimensions but your pics just showed how UGLY that little bastard is.One wagon is about the
same length as 2 Smart cars parked bumper to bumper.Never understood why someone would pay all that money for a Smart when the same money
will buy a much larger and just as economical car.I guess it boils down to what you want to be seen driving versus a rational purchase of a much
more functional automobile.
"To each his or hers own"
Take Care
Jim Gordon

At first I thought you spotted a Sunbeam Tiger and snapped a few pics...LOL

Most Smart drivers are just trying to save the planet...They're PC to the max...I'll keep my politics off of the forum but politics are what killed the great American car (Body on frame, RWD,V8) . We all drive a vehicle that is more funtional, and safe, and loads more comfortable than any "smartcar".

I've driven a couple, I felt like I was in an enclosed go cart. Room for 2 people & that's pretty much it. If I lived in a retirement community, I guess it would be cooler than the neighbours golf cart...just my 2cts

This explains it

http://www.caranddriver.com/features/10q2/a_dna_analysis_of_the_kia_soul_and_the_smart_fortwo-feature

Jon

Yea, thats pretty much what I was trying to say.

Having just got back from a college campus and not being able to find hardly a SINGLE spot to park the wagon, I can see why having one of these cars would be useful - to park it. Period. That's it. That's the only smart feature.

I never have trouble finding a spot for the wagon on campus. I'm also the only person they don't care if I take two spots. LOL

Jon that Car and Driver article is priceless. ; ) Am going to send it to Jill, the girl who owns the yellow Smart.

Her husband is an Austin Firefighter. I told her she needs to take a pic of the Smart next to a fire truck. It'll really look like a flyspeck!

Hey Lou you're right on the money about these being a "PC" purchase. Austin is the San Francisco of Texas. PC to the max.

The parking lot at work is full of little Prius-type spuds and the like. I catch hell for all my big old cars...but I never have trouble finding them in the parking lot at the end of the day. ; )

Oh and hey Lou, you're showing your age with the Sunbeam comment!

It was a good TV show though. ; )

81X11 wrote:

Hey Lou you're right on the money about these being a "PC" purchase. Austin is the San Francisco of Texas. PC to the max.

The parking lot at work is full of little Prius-type spuds and the like. I catch hell for all my big old cars...but I never have trouble finding them in the parking lot at the end of the day. ; )

I was out on the bike trail in Northampton, which is a super liberal nutbar area up here and I took the Caprice as I dont have a bike rack on my Jetta yet, well while I was our riding someone wrote Eco Terrorist on the back window in the dust. F**king hippies

LOL I kind of find that amusing.

thinking of getting a smart car ,. a couple of ramps, put it up behind the bunk on the kenworth,.

Nick

phantom 309 wrote:

thinking of getting a smart car ,. a couple of ramps, put it up behind the bunk on the kenworth,.

Nick

My friends joke I should get one as an escape pod for the wagon

I've toyed with painting the wagon silver to say my friend's 2000 Civic hatchback as a lifeboat.

Stingroo wrote:

I've toyed with painting the wagon silver to say my friend's 2000 Civic hatchback as a lifeboat.

Hahaha nice.

I told him that and he got all offended. :p

Cadet57 wrote:

yet, well while I was our riding someone wrote Eco Terrorist on the back window in the dust. F**king hippies

2 things you can place on the windows to phuk with the eco-nazi's.

(From the Glenn Beck website: http://glennbeck.shop.musictoday.com/Product.aspx?cp=29940_39635&pc=BXAS004 )



And:

God Belss America!! I believe any one can drive whatever they want,.... but, writing anything on someone elses car, in dirt or not, is just not cool... When we had the Hummer franchise @ work they threw bird seed on the roofs of trucks so they'd pek chips in the paint and painted stuff on the trucks and the building...I guess poisioning birds damaging someone elses property is an acceptable form of protest in some circles.

Agent 99 and that Sunbeam Tiger...my first crushes....LOL

I ever catch someone writing something on my car, they will learn what terror is, lol.

Get Smart-er??

OK FOLKS! Someone at work got an even funnier-colored Smart and I could not resist some wagon pics today!

Keep in mind the front bumpers are lined up perfectly. ENJOY!








AHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA!

-Mike

At least it's parked straight Looks like Dell is one of those places that believe in small parking spots to discourage people from driving big cars I alsmost got us kicked out of Ronald McDonald house the first time we stayed when Jordan was in the hospital. They have those little bitty parking spots and the first morning we were there 9after VERY little sleep) a woman started giving me grief about how my car was parked. I went off on her and it turned out she was the director...

Jon

LOL, the wagon is parked crooked so it makes it look shorter......c'mon

there are a few smart cars around here too. they look like they could fit in the cargo area.

Jon I try to park by Suburbans and Silverado's so my car normally doesn't appear to be sticking out so much. ; )

The only Smart Car dealer in Central Texas is here in Round Rock, and the ugly little spuds are all over this town. Greenies love them, even though they do not get nearly the mileage they look like they should get.

We've got an "all natural organic" pizza place called "Promise Pizza" and all their delivery cars are white and green Smarts.

I just don't see the draw of driving a car shaped like my son's baby shoes.....

-Mike

Oh and the yellow Smart next to my old Caprice at the start of this post was traded in on a Prius recently. Jill kept it less than a year. It was in the shop for warranty issues a lot, and the dealer had to order parts from overseas. She said there was always a light on or a part breaking off. So much for Mercedes quality!

She loves her new Prius, says it gets tons better mileage, has a lot more room, is a lot quieter, and so far nothing has broken. Not that I'm pitching a Prius, I think they also look like rolling footwear...... ; )

81X11 wrote:

She loves her new Prius, says it gets tons better mileage, has a lot more room, is a lot quieter, and so far nothing has broken. Not that I'm pitching a Prius, I think they also look like rolling footwear...... ; )

Id call it something else, but i'd get in trouble.

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