'07 Smart car to take aim at Yaris, other small cars
07-07-2006, 05:38 AM
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Consumer Reports thinks golf bag toting ability is more important than handling, *******.
The Smart is an impressive piece on engineering. My wife loves it, and if it's on the market when we're ready for another car there's a good chance she'll get one for running around town.
For me personally tho I wouldn't give up my xB for a Four Two, but I imagine I'll be spending alot of time looking at UK Brabus site the way I look at JDM tuner sites now
The Smart is an impressive piece on engineering. My wife loves it, and if it's on the market when we're ready for another car there's a good chance she'll get one for running around town.
For me personally tho I wouldn't give up my xB for a Four Two, but I imagine I'll be spending alot of time looking at UK Brabus site the way I look at JDM tuner sites now
07-07-2006, 06:54 PM
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Re: $27,000????
Originally Posted by Taknitez
Yep, that college prof told me "they start around $27,000. Because they are not "official" imports by Daimler-Chrysler yet, but "special" imports by a private distributor in California, the private company has to put all of this safety equipment, emissions and other junk on them to get them ok'd for U.S roads. That tab adds an instant $10k to the bottom line.....
Yep"",,,that guy did get raped on trying to be the first one in the city to have one. Cool for him I guess, but just saw on ABC's Good Morning America that Daimler-Chysler has decided to "officially" bring them in next year with a price tag to U.S consumers in the $16k-$19k range.
So, pretty soon, he will be feeling like an idiot when all these other people have them on the roads and they paid thousands and thousands less than he did.
Yep"",,,that guy did get raped on trying to be the first one in the city to have one. Cool for him I guess, but just saw on ABC's Good Morning America that Daimler-Chysler has decided to "officially" bring them in next year with a price tag to U.S consumers in the $16k-$19k range.
So, pretty soon, he will be feeling like an idiot when all these other people have them on the roads and they paid thousands and thousands less than he did.
However, even when DCX officially starts importing them, 16k to 19k is still way too much. Why buy a two seater SMART car for 16k when you can get a Yaris for less than 12k or a Scion xA for less than 14k? They would sell well at 9k or so, but at double that? No way.
07-09-2006, 11:50 PM
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my neighbor has a smart, well had a smart, b/c cit got flooded in katrina, he for it about 6 years ago, shippd it over from germany, he was in the army or something, so i guess that's y they let him have it, it was kinda cool, lime green but u can remove the colored parts and change it, but all he had was the green "skin"
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