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The Smart car is coming
Sure, the tiny autos are perfectly suited for the narrow lanes of Paris and Rome. But here in the land of freeways and monster SUVs, are we ready to downsize so far?
By Katharine Mieszkowski [2007-11-12]

  • parking!

    I'd love one of these--I could actually find parking in San Francisco in one of those not-quite-a-spaces you see for ten minutes before you find a place big enough for your compact.

    And my understanding is they're short enough you can actually park them perpendicular to the curb. The writer scared of pulling out into the street could park it back-end to the curb, even.

    But I'd like it better with an electric conversion. Damn would I like a tiny parkable plug-in highway-capable runabout. (An NEV isn't practical for the Bay area because there's no way to drive a 30-mph-tops car across the Bay.) Damn, would I.

    --Anonymous
    Sunday, November 11, 2007 07:13 PM
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