2008 Smart Fortwo: Help Us Help The Smart

How about getting involved in a smart car club? Its not a modification to the car, but it might be an attitude modification to meet some other smart car owners and get exposed to the culture.

Sell it now while supply is still low and make some extra cash off it.

Affiliate with that Uber World Strong Man Competition so one of the challenges is how many Smarts chained together a guy can pull for a specific distance.

I'd think the couple hundred cars sold to the competition would be a nice sales boost.

park it every night in the office. you know, drive in, into the elevator, and park it in the middle of the office. kind of like J.Clarkson did on that episode of Top Gear.

I vote for the smartuki idea!

Fill it with as many clowns as you can stuff inside, then try to cram it into an air-cooled VW Beetle.

Let the modding begin then...

I would do something like this: http://www.edmunds.com/insideline/do/Drives/FirstDrives/articleId=123441

"Fill it with as many clowns as you can stuff inside"

Two?

Crash it into a wall "Accidentally" and watch the Tridion cell at work. Video tape it "coincidentally" too.

Then its a insurance write-off, lump sum good for contributing to your next, all new, 2009 Mazda Mazda6.

Make it an Art Car for all the editor's kids to paint on.

I really think you ought to do the ForFun! The UniMog (the donated chassis) rocks!

How about a Smart decathalon? I'll suggest the first sport:

Sidewalk cruising. See which staffer can drive the Smart on the sidewalk the longest without hitting anything (or anybody), getting hit or getting your license taken away by the police.

Bonus points if you get air driving up onto the sidewalk.

I'm liking the Smart decathalon.
#2-a judged event: Most unconventional parking space. Each driver takes photos of it parked in the most ridiculous spaces possible.

#3-Marathon: This will be as painful as the real thing. Who can get the furthest on a single tank of gas through the life of the test.

What else?

why not trade it in for a motorcycle?

the point of the smart was to see fuel economy and we know that its not worth it over a honda Fit or something similar.

supercharge it.

Demo Derby

Drive it onto the Silverado's or Tundra's bed and leave it there.

put a 'busa in there
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPQIizRp9ck

ahh, more edmunds import bias.

no one ever asked what they could do to help the aura.

except for maybe kill it

I'm joining the Smart Decathalon bandwagon:

Hook it up to a couple of horses and have a Chariots of Disaster race in the Coliseum; or

Bobbing for Smarts: drive a few into a large swimming pool and use a electromagnet on a crane to try and fish them out before they sink.

A few things I've seen done:

Rial LeMans 15" wheels from Tirerack, 5" and 6" (1/2" wider front and back), then upgrade the tires to 175/55 front and 195/50 rear, same sizes as stock on some European models. Makes the car more stable on the highway and handle better around town.

Cold air intake w/ K&N filter, upped hp by 11% in a trial:

http://www.smartieparts.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=302

Make an intern pull it around the lot with editors inside, kind of like a horse and carriage.

Cut the roof off.

Brabus has a whole range of parts for this car, properly sized/spaced rims, body kits, superchargers, stainless steel exhaust, upgraded suspensions... It could be quite the lovely car.

Personally I'd make it fast. Doesn't have to be Brabus stuff. Let the guys from Horsepower (SpikeTV) work on it for a week or two and transform the little wussy-girly car into a macho Mustang-smoking street machine (albeit still with the wussy I-care-about-the-environment image). Mmm, 315 mm wide meats in the rear...