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Although I'm not exactly keen on strapping my life's most precious cargo into the Smart's passenger seat, I have on occasion offered to take my eight-year-old daughter for a ride around the block just so she could see what the diminutive ForTwo feels like.
She vehemently refuses. Just doesn't seem safe, she says.
She's always happy to pose in the Smart Fortwo, just don't ask her to ride in it.
Kelly Toepke, News Editor @ 16,335 miles
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compliance says:
10:53 AM, 05/ 7/09
Sounds like paranoia to me
Monocrom says:
11:20 AM, 05/ 7/09
Sounds like your 8 year-old is far more intelligent than a lot of adults.... Especially those who paid money to drive around in the (so called) Smart car.
DLu says:
11:23 AM, 05/ 7/09
LOL. agree w/ above, sometimes it takes a kid to show us how we probably missed the forest for the trees ...
dougtheeng says:
11:24 AM, 05/ 7/09
I'll stick with the line I've been towing for sometime now: Safe is all relative.
actualsize says:
11:28 AM, 05/ 7/09
Smart kid. She already has a grasp of basic physics.
mlh says:
12:50 PM, 05/ 7/09
Most younger kids tend to repeat opinions they've already heard from their parents.
altimadude00 says:
10:15 PM, 05/ 7/09
Reminds me of those coin operated cars in the mall....or in front of K-mart.
She looks like she's outgrown those kinds of things anyway.
Monocrom says:
01:01 AM, 05/ 8/09
"Be sure to get your little girl the new, life size, Barbie Dream Mobile."
*Warning: Not for use on actual roads.
banhugh says:
05:17 AM, 05/ 8/09
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/684541/mercedes_s_and_smart_crash_test/
After this, I wouldn't even like to drive next to it.
brn says:
09:04 AM, 05/ 8/09
The car doesn't look so small in that pic. Smart should use little kids in their ads.
huisj says:
10:28 AM, 05/ 8/09
Does she ever ride a bike?
chuckdaly says:
02:52 PM, 05/12/09
The 8 year old's comments say more about her parents than they do about herself.
For the peanut gallery, move on over to www.safeandsmart.com
augustus76 says:
03:55 PM, 05/22/09
Should say your daughters that bigger is not safer...
There's no car in the whole world that could save your life in a big crash. It's a matter of luck I think...
Look at this clip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ju6t-yyoU8s
We cannot compare an S class Mercedes with a Smart. In Europe an S class costs around 200.000 Euros and a Smart costs 7.000 Euros. Different type of cars with completely different materials.
Greetings from Portugal.