pinks wrote:
I live in a cooler area (Great white north)...so I use the enricher a bit.......but short runs around town on this thing is about as cheap as running my pickup for short runs .......not to good of mpg!!.....But get it out on the road where it can streach its legs abit and its twice as good on fuel!.....No good mpg on short runs with most motors....except maybe one of them smart car things!


Perry

A Smart car get 50-up MPG regardless of what kind of driving you do. My brother has a 2011 Vette, 2008 Porsche Carerra and a 2015 Smart car and most of the time he drives the Smart car. I have driven it and it is really kind of fun to drive even though it looks silly. They are made by Mercedes Benz (Just FYI)

Wow davej, I honestly thought you would have converted the smart car to hayabusa engine already.

davej wrote:
pinks wrote:
I live in a cooler area (Great white north)...so I use the enricher a bit.......but short runs around town on this thing is about as cheap as running my pickup for short runs .......not to good of mpg!!.....But get it out on the road where it can streach its legs abit and its twice as good on fuel!.....No good mpg on short runs with most motors....except maybe one of them smart car things!


Perry

A Smart car get 50-up MPG regardless of what kind of driving you do. My brother has a 2011 Vette, 2008 Porsche Carerra and a 2015 Smart car and most of the time he drives the Smart car. I have driven it and it is really kind of fun to drive even though it looks silly. They are made by Mercedes Benz (Just FYI)


I thought they got better milage then that.......not that 50mpg isn't good mind you.......yeah they are made by Mercedes.......and sold at our local GMC dealer. Great little buzz around town car forsure!


Perry

pinks wrote:
davej wrote:
pinks wrote:
I live in a cooler area (Great white north)...so I use the enricher a bit.......but short runs around town on this thing is about as cheap as running my pickup for short runs .......not to good of mpg!!.....But get it out on the road where it can streach its legs abit and its twice as good on fuel!.....No good mpg on short runs with most motors....except maybe one of them smart car things!


Perry

A Smart car get 50-up MPG regardless of what kind of driving you do. My brother has a 2011 Vette, 2008 Porsche Carerra and a 2015 Smart car and most of the time he drives the Smart car. I have driven it and it is really kind of fun to drive even though it looks silly. They are made by Mercedes Benz (Just FYI)


I thought they got better milage then that.......not that 50mpg isn't good mind you.......yeah they are made by Mercedes.......and sold at our local GMC dealer. Great little buzz around town car forsure!




Perry

From what my brother has told me he gets 50+ mpg but He has never said anything higher. I would think if he ever hit 60 mpg he would have said so. He also only uses it around town so I'm not sure if he has had a chance to see what HWY mpg would be. I don't know if you have had a chance to drive 1 but if you have the opportunity you should take 1 out for a spin. The shifting is really something to get used to. They are kind of a automatically shifting stick shift. It has and automatic clutch in it. The car pushes in the clutch and also shifts the trans for you. Not like a automatic trans, you can feel the car doing all of this. Hard to explain you have to drive it to understand.

They are also probably 1 of the safest cars on the road. They are basically a grand Prix roll cage surrounded by a plastic body and 8 airbags. I've even thought about buying 1 just for around town.

donk donk donk donk threadjack

is it really a smart car or a smart sales gimmick? ifn it was like 8000$ , maybe it would be a smarter purchase, damn thinks just look goofy tho.

brianmac wrote:
donk donk donk donk threadjack

is it really a smart car or a smart sales gimmick? ifn it was like 8000$ , maybe it would be a smarter purchase, damn thinks just look goofy tho.

At least it isn't a hybrid. That would really call for a smug alert.

http://southpark.cc.com/clips/155193/thanks

brianmac wrote:
donk donk donk donk threadjack

is it really a smart car or a smart sales gimmick? ifn it was like 8000$ , maybe it would be a smarter purchase, damn thinks just look goofy tho.

You can buy 1 a couple years old for less than 8K. Now back to the original thread subject.


Besides that, getting a little off track isn't a big deal when we are waiting for you to report back with some more findings after the subject opinions were made. We're just killin time.