Smart Car- 0-60 in 4.5. 12.4 1/4. Laugh and discuss.

I have :eek4dance A local racer bought one for his daily. He lives on Mt Washington and works in Carrick, so for that commute & parking situation he said the car serves its purpose well. He brought it out just once to race it and see what would happen, and I got to do a fun run in the car. Whats really suprising is how bad the thing understeers. I’m sure MB tuned the car like this to because its NOT something I’d want having the tail end coming out on me. The apparent easy fix is to get another set of the wider back wheels and mount them on the front. I didn’t mind driving the car till I made a hard right. At which point a quick glance out the drivers window made me realize how much closer the ground was. Still that aside it wasn’t bad. The owner said he almost never drives it in automatic mode, otherwise the car won’t get out of its own way. In manual mode the car felt not much worse than your average run of the mill 4 banger sedan. The interior was surpising for such a small car. Fit & finish was good, car was quiet & solid, lots of features, etc. He drove it in the winter (with snow tires) and said it went fine.

And on at least 2 occastions while he was pumping gas, people walked up to him all excited and asked “Is it electric?”