>>> http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5217861/ >> >> Once again, I'm playing catch up on the archives posts online! >> >> I saw this and just wanted to say on my most recent trip to Bavaria this >> past February my rental car was a Smart "For4" or "4For" - whichever. >> Basically a little bigger than the tiny one in the picture from the link >> above and had 4 doors. Not a bad little car. I had it over two weeks, >> and put maybe 500 miles on it, probably got close to 40mpg with it. Not >> sure, even with the gas crunch, how the little ones would sell over here. >> The one I had had good power & quality, but the diesel VW I had the year >> before was way more powerful and economy was about the same... > > Up here in Victoria, Canada, they have become quite popular.. see several > every day.. > Local cities are enacting bylaws that do not allow them backing into the > curb for parking, > I guess they lose revenue, when one parks between regular cars.. [g] > > With our fuel at $1.18 [Cdn] a litre, makes sense for commutes and > shopping.. > >> >> Jim Boone >> Mims, FL near the very wet now-Hurricane Ophelia lingering off the coast >> directly East! > > Hope it continues that way.. you guys don't need any more this year.. -- ___________Slainte!____________________ C D Patterson Web Design: http://www.CbearAssoc.com Langford, BC. Canada _________________________________ Nothing is so smiple that it can't get screwed up.