re: #229 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

How does it ride? I’d assume a short wheelbase car might be a bit bumpy on rough roads. And how about gas mileage?

M-B really ought to use you in an advert. Most people figure a SmartCar is an urban commuter car, not a highway cruiser. You’d dispel that notion.

I have a photo of the car parked on the primitive road next to Courthouse and Jail Rocks.

It rides about as well as you might expect for a short wheelbase car that is fairly light: firmly. On bumpy roads (all of them Katie around here), you just don’t drive very fast; we do have three or four paved ones in this county.

On the Interstate, I have a problem with a lead foot sometimes (the first time I drove the car home, I had it up to ninety-five before I realised I was -ah- speeding just a bit).

We get better mileage than Smart advertises: We get about fifty miles per gallon with the air conditioner on (our general store owner really hates our car since he sells us so little gasoline) on the highway. I don’t have a very good figure for city mileage since we have no cities and are only rarely in Cheyenne or Denver.