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Wednesday, July 2, 2008 12:00 AM

Test drive: The Smart car is revolutionary

A car small enough to alter your relationship with the city.
Farhad Manjoo

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  • Tuesday, July 1, 2008 09:27 PM

    what makes it so inefficient?

    Our 1998 Saturn SL/1 is bigger 176 vs 106 in, heavier 2,355 vs 1,609 lbs and is EPA-rated at only a slightly less efficient 28/39 vs 33/41 (which it easily sustains in practical use so it is not some mythical mismeasurement). That is 10 year old technology.

    Yeah we can't park it in a motorcycle space, but why isn't this brand new technology blowing the doors off our old car? I am seriously underwhelmed.

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