Thought this was too good to pass up. From Steve Mouzon, fellow urbanist, traditional architecture guru, and Miami Beach resident, who recently bought a smart car.
That’s my new car… a Smart. Finally, we have a car equal in compactness to our 747 square foot condo, which is just behind the car, on the first floor. I’ll have more to say later about the Smart purchasing experience, but the design of the car largely lives up to its name. Shockingly, it doesn’t feel small. Unless you look behind you and realize that the back end of the car is about 3 feet away, you feel as if you’re in a fairly normal-size car. And the payload area behind the seats is actually larger than in our previous car, a Mini Cooper. In theory, it gets 33 in town and 41 on the road, but we appear to be averaging about 40 so far, and that’s with mostly in-town driving. And Bill McDonough would be proud… the Smart is highly recyclable, as McDonough called for in his Cradle to Cradle book several years ago. But on top of all that “responsible” stuff, it just looks cool. Similar to driving a Mini several years ago, people on the road tend to look at it… and smile. The “anti-road rage!”
Check out Steve’s blog Useful Stuff. It’s about, well, useful stuff.
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