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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
The Smart car is like a canoe. A wonderful design for a Canadian stream, but not particularly practical for Lake Superior. If you limit it to small, slow streets, a la small German or other old European town streets, it's great. You put it on a 120 KPH freeway, it's a deathtrap. And in Texas, at least, freeway driving is necessary, not a luxury.
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I don't know about the US, but Europe has EuroNCAP, a crash assessment regime. The Smart
has been measured by this, and not done too badly. There are
league tables on the site, that are useful for relative comparisons. In fact, the old car I drive is rated worse than the Smart, simply because it is old. Often a smaller newer car can, and is, rated better than older larger cars. Design is an amazing thing.
I also see them quite regularly on the M3 (Motorway/"freeway" into London), usually overtaking me!