Spotted: Mercedes Smart Roadster

[inline6turbo]

One of my good friends John just bought this cute little guy! I know it's not a spotted by me on the street type thing but I thought I'd share considering our lack of cool cars up here

Here's what he had to say in his email about the car:

"I have just bought a small sports car, to make the drive a bit of fun, and that has helped a lot. It also saves me a fortune in fuel as it does 24kms to the litre.
I've attached a photo so you can drool over it. It's a Mercedes - Smart Roadster, with some modifications by Brabus. It has a Turbo Charged 698cc 3 cylinder engine and it goes really well. Top speed is about 160 kms per hour, which is way more than I need. The road holding is phenominal, and overtaking really is 'fast and fun, as it seems to be in the power band at 110 kms / hr."

[sputnik]

[SScott]

that so unique.... Weird as fuck.. but unique

[Nissan_Fanboy]

I like it haha,
Looks very unique, i would drive it.
Would deffinintly turn heads

[beyond_ban]

Does this John fellow live in Calgary? Or where is the car located?

[A790]

I think that thing looks sick!

[Eleanor]

Originally posted by beyond_ban
Does this John fellow live in Calgary? Or where is the car located?

Love the Brabus roadster

[GQBalla]

thats pretty pimped but the front end is kinda ugly

[inline6turbo]

John works as an engineer in Australia He used to work up here for ConocoPhillipes when I met him.

[max_boost]

Well that sure is an interesting car.......

[Infinity888]

There are quite a few of those over in europe, great alternative to the ugly as hell fortwo.

[max_boost]

Originally posted by inline6turbo
John works as an engineer in Australia He used to work up here for ConocoPhillipes when I met him.

The guy looks old enough to be your grandpa hehe

[inline6turbo]

Originally posted by max_boost


The guy looks old enough to be your grandpa hehe

Oh come on now! He's aging quite well lol. He's 54 now I believe

[scat19]

These cars have been around forever.

When you say "smart car", people think there is only one. Infact, there are 3+ models.

Not too sure why he's adding mercedes in there? To make it sound cooler?

[AndyL]

Oddly there's a couple on the gov't of canada dispersals auction website... Too bad they're for export only (complete with having to pay CBSA staff to verify the loading into shipping container - and watching it get loaded onto a freighter).

[bjstare]

Originally posted by Infinity888
There are quite a few of those over in europe, great alternative to the ugly as hell fortwo.

Absolutely.

[ZorroAMG]

Breastbug.....

[Pollywog]

Originally posted by Infinity888
There are quite a few of those over in europe, great alternative to the ugly as hell fortwo.

I saw a ton of them when I was over there. Somewhat grotesque looking IMO. Not only that, it still shares the same horrid looking cockpit.


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[jdm_eg6]

i think they look dope. I was over there last summer and i saw a few tuned out in Italy, more specifically rome. Wheels, exhaust, lowered .etc and they looked GOOD!

but i guess to each their own taste correct?

[Pollywog]

I did a bit more searching and found this one. That dropped hatch actually improves the lines quite a bit, looks good! Apparently not much of a driver's car though..


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