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?
Thanks!
Thanks!
Forum Discussion
- Robb, interesting trailer you got there. It looks comfortable inside, but too claustrophobic for me.
RobbF67 wrote:
Geez that sounds serious!
What does?- Geez that sounds serious!
- My experience with camping includes living for a weekend with what I can carry five miles into the woods on my back (when I was about 55 years younger). So camping in a Smart car tends to take me out of "dragging around a house" mode, into "what can I pack into a Smart car" mode, which might be almost as much as what I could pack into my Renault 8 forty-eight years ago. Camping, not RVing.
campigloo wrote:
My first thought to your post was "surely he's not serious". After reading through and seeing what is available, my next thought is how cool is that!!! So I will now get my bowl of Cheerios topped with crow feathers. Yummmm!
Oh I am serious LOL- When a smart car is in auto mode it feels exactly like you are driving a standard. At a certain RPM throttle comes off, clutch goes in, gear changes, clutch comes out and throttle comes back on. Exactly like a standard transmission because it is a standard transmission. This was done do make more efficient power train and higher mileage. In North America people often complain about the jerky transmission when in fact it is the smoothest standard transmission on the market. Unfortunately the US market got the least fuel inefficient smart car drive train available of the 5 drive train combinations available. It is still the most fuel efficient non hybrid vehicle on the market in the US but pales in comparison to the high mpg drive trains available in Europe including the amazing 71 mpg of the little diesel like ours. Rumour has it the 1 litre used in the US was easiest to modify for the simulated "park, drive, reverse" mode required for the US market. DOT figured American drivers would not be able to figure out the forward,neutral,reverse modes. Mercedes had to figure a way to make the car "creep" when put in "drive" just like a normal automatic transmission. European smarts don't to that nor do our Canadian Diesels.
JaxDad wrote:
Grit dog wrote:
John & Angela wrote:
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.
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.
Umm If it has auto mode, it is not a standard transmission!
It's an auto with standard mode!
My Charger has an auto stick that you can up and down shift manually, along with every auto trans truck I've had since 2010. They are not manual trans just because you can select the gear.
If you can't go up or down more than one gear at a time, it's an auto!
No, it's a standard transmission. It has no torque converter, it has a standard dry disc CLUTCH, it just has no clutch PEDAL or shifter for the driver to operate.
As clearly stated above, the computer operates the clutch for the driver, either when the driver decides to (in manual shift mode) or when the computer decides to (auto shift mode).
Yes- My first thought to your post was "surely he's not serious". After reading through and seeing what is available, my next thought is how cool is that!!! So I will now get my bowl of Cheerios topped with crow feathers. Yummmm!
Grit dog wrote:
John & Angela wrote:
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.
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.
Umm If it has auto mode, it is not a standard transmission!
It's an auto with standard mode!
My Charger has an auto stick that you can up and down shift manually, along with every auto trans truck I've had since 2010. They are not manual trans just because you can select the gear.
If you can't go up or down more than one gear at a time, it's an auto!
No, it's a standard transmission. It has no torque converter, it has a standard dry disc CLUTCH, it just has no clutch PEDAL or shifter for the driver to operate.
As clearly stated above, the computer operates the clutch for the driver, either when the driver decides to (in manual shift mode) or when the computer decides to (auto shift mode).John & Angela wrote:
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.
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.
Umm If it has auto mode, it is not a standard transmission!
It's an auto with standard mode!
My Charger has an auto stick that you can up and down shift manually, along with every auto trans truck I've had since 2010. They are not manual trans just because you can select the gear.
If you can't go up or down more than one gear at a time, it's an auto!
