Like most things in France, it's either virulently hated or wondrously beloved: The Smart car. Now the car, designed by a watchmaker, is making the pilgrimage to the New World. About 30,000 Americans have already plunked down $99 to get dibs on the first ones as they zoom down the gangways and onto dealer lots this month.
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An auto writer in Business Week last year argued, perhaps wryly, that the Smart may be too smart for Americans in love with "preposterous" vehicles like the Hummer H2. "Vehicles like the Chevy Tahoe and GMC Yukon are necessary for people who pull boats and horse trailers, just as many buy them because they have irrational and selfish insecurities about riding around in anything smaller than a tank."
On the other hand, truck sales are down.
The big question with these little beauties, which retail for about 12 grand, is how they stack up, safetywise, darting between semis on US interstates.
(Pix: They actually have smaller wheels in real life.)
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