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What’s the Point of Urban Microcars?
Ariel Atom vs. REVA G-Wiz in London
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What’s the Point of Urban Microcars? |
Ariel Atom vs. REVA G-Wiz in London |
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Actually, they do serve at least one purpose here in the states. I giggle whenever I see one. Humor is a valid reason, right?
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James Dean would have walked away from his crash if he'd been hit by a Smart car instead of a '50 Ford.
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I think I need some coffee...
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His daily rides have left him in better shape, with lots of energy when he gets home: enough to play with the kids, make dinner, and then make mad, passionate monkey love to his wife.
Then, on Saturday morning, he gets up, makes a big pot of tea and heads out to the garage, where a 1970 240Z with a specialty-imported LS1, Volks, race suspension, and JDM flares is ready to go out and kick heads at the track all weekend.
In contrast, the G-Wiz guy spends all weekend alone watching Tivo'd shows and talking to his mom. He then argues on an eco-forum about climate change, and reads Jeremy Clarkson's column in the Daily Telegraph, just so he can get really mad.
The guy who owns the MGB GT arrives with a box of tools on Saturday morning. He is wearing a hair shirt and is flogging himself with birch branches.
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I could become "the Jalopdick".
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Wait, there's PM's here?
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On the other hand, I've seen its overpriced image-driven ideal tooling around on suburban American highways where it has virtually no advantage over other small cars.
So "why buy more than you need" is dead-on accurate for the first group, but just confusing for the second group. In the latter case, it's far LESS than you actually need when a Civic/Corolla/Prius/tdi posts similar economy numbers, or better.
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It might not make the car truly practical for most Americans, but it'd be at least twice as good as with the current gas engine.
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I just felt like stirring the pot a little...
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Unless your microcar has 500hp.....it has no interest in the US to any car people who know better.
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P.S. Smarts are eight feet long, so they still don't park all that well nose-in. I doubt you could get away with it in most cities in the US.
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/rant
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Corvettes don't make any sense either, but people still buy them too!
And *which* Larger and Cheaper car gets better mileage than a Smart?
I'd really like to know because I know that all the hybrids and VW diesels cost more...
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So Civic and Corolla are both at least twice the car, similar economy, for less money. For a couple grand more, you can get a Prius or tdi.
That's the other main problem with Smart--a typical American looks at it for the first time and thinks "Nice, someone is finally offering a $6k car"
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In the interest of full disclosure, I love motorcycles and am considering getting one when I go back to California this summer.
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This is a well written article, but when God tells you that you need a microspeck car in order to park where you live, He is also telling you to move.
Eeew.
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As the BGT shows, a small car doesn't necessarily mean an awful car.
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Which came first, the MG or the puddle?
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My MG is leaking
Its vital fluids on the ground
The temperature gauge is peaking
and there's steam all around
I pray that it makes it
To my final destination
Before the engine bakes it
To my eternal consternation
I drive a B despite
The troubles it has entailed
It sets my heart aflight
Because I think the brakes just failed
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I always thought the chopsticks used to be used for building the Wembley Arena and now the Olympics stadia to cut costs? Or have they been used in G-Wizes all along?
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On a side note, being a hot rod/muscle car guy, I am not entirely sure what that little coupe is. I think that it is an MB GT, but the prince-of-darkness-era British cars are a mystery to me in every sense of the term.
Is it an MB GT, or is it some other Lucas monstrosity?
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I think this post is like one of those pictures of a busty woman with something unremarkable in the background.
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