Comments on: Swatch + Benz = smart

By: mike

mike — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 10:00:48 +0000

SMART stands for : Swatch Mercedes ART (ART = Artistic Retro Transportation) Why is it “retro” ? I don’t know.

By: proudgeek

proudgeek — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 00:15:06 +0000

Anonymous – premium gas? I didn’t know that. Forget it!

WAD – thanks for the story – very interesting and scary. And looks like “art” is supposed to mean it being artistic? That surprises me. The article you linked to seems a bit old – I’m curious if it needs to be updated now that the smart fortwo has been on sale in the USA for a while. While reading the article, I discovered that “fortwo” means “for two.” Ah-ha.

By: WAD

WAD — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 23:46:11 +0000

Off the point story (a real brief one)… My friends and I were traveling to Canada to ski, the car broke. There’s no way they could fix it. The vehicle became a junk. We were forced to rent a car and drove back to the U.S. Guess what? At U.S. custom, they gave us really a hard time because we were driving an illegal car — approx. two hours of arguing with them. When we returned the rental car in Rochester, they made us pay an additional $500 fee because we’re driving an illegal car. It occurred in 1987. I was so young and naive. I did not bother to ask them exact why they considered it illegal. It still bothers me today not knowing why. *shrugs*

By: WAD

WAD — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 23:33:41 +0000

I saw many Smart in Canada (Ontario) while none in Western New York. I wonder why…

Anyway, look at “art” instead of “A.R.T.” (first page in the link)
http://auto.howstuffworks.com/smart-car.htm

p.s. When reading the link I copied n’ pasted above, funny it mentioned about what I noticed Canada — on page 6

By: anonymous

anonymous — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 21:42:50 +0000

you seem to forget and left out a pretty odd requirement

requires PREMIUM GAS

yeah.. that 4.00+ one – the top tier gas.