camping with a smart car
Hello, Robb here. My partner and I are looking to get out and start camping together, he has a smart car and we are looking for options on a trailer we can pull. Anyone have any suggestions? Than...
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Fordlover wrote:JaxDad wrote:pk1023 wrote:
I probably wouldn't trust a smart car as far as I could push it. Which, I dunno, might be farther than I think!
I too would like to hear the story behind that comment. We have had 5 smart cars, both gas and diesel, for the office. They've been driven (collectively) a lot of miles with no problems of any kind.
In fact of all the people I know of thay have had a smart car, one person was unhappy with it, but they were the type of person who could break an anvil with a rubber hammer. They merely beat the car to death.
They are cool little cars, but not for me because:
MPG not very impressive considering size. Geo Metro's from the mid 90's could hit 40MPG no sweat.
Cost too much for what you get.
No standard trans available.
A Ford Fiesta with the 1 liter 3 banger turbo can be had for less than 17 grand and should be far more engaging to drive with the stick and 120hp.
Smart cars are not everyones bag thats for sure. For us it was important to not have a back seat so the choices were limited. The other thing is we wanted a convertible which further limited things. The Miata was a consideration but we were trying to keep the trailered weight of a car under 2500 pounds. Mileage is typically better than 44 once the car has 10K on it.
One correction, all smart cars are standard transmissions. They don't have a clutch pedal as the computer does all the clutching and gas pedal on off during shifting. Most people use the paddles for shifting or select auto mode.
Besides, none of the competition had the cool points...at least from our perspective... :) :) Of course beauty is in the eye of the beholder. :) Here is one of our little diesels.
