Joseph Tainter mused: > > Way OT, but while we're at it... > > Re: Smart Cars > > One sees quite a few of these in Paris, and probably other congested > European cities, which is where they belong. I recall seeing them first > being advertised in London in late 1999.
My mother's next door neighbour had a Smart car. Mind you, he had it rechipped - it was capable of 120mph. Or that's what he claimed, although he admitted he'd never had the nerve to find out. Nowadays he drived a MINI Cooper with the John Cooper Works package (not a Cooper S, because it's also his M25 commuter car, which makes the automatic transmission desirable).
