[s-cars] NAC: Smart Car = Cyclops Ecce Homo

[Tom Black]

The Smart car has been sold here in Canada for a couple of years.Testers' 
comments are generally in this vein " the worst car I have ever driven"  - 
not a direct quote but close.

Tom.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ian Duff" <iduff at comcast.net>
To: "chris chambers" <fastscirocco_2000 at yahoo.com>
Cc: "s-car-list quattro S List" <s-car-list at audifans.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2006 10:45 PM
Subject: Re: [s-cars] NAC: Smart Car = Cyclops Ecce Homo


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> That's the one my BIL has. I'm looking for eye candy on the Cyclops
> Ecce Homo as an historic comparison.
> - -Ian Duff.
>
>
> On  28 Nov 2006, at 8:50:39PM, chris chambers wrote:
>
>> Is this the car you are talking about?
>>
>> http://www.thesmart.ca/index.cfm?ID=4720
>> http://money.cnn.com/2004/09/09/pf/autos/smart/
>>
>> The Smart from Daimler Chrysler?
>>
>>
>> --- Ian Duff <iduff at comcast.net> wrote:
>>
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>>> So here's on aff-topic post...my brother-in-law in Baltimore got a
>>> new Smart fortwo as a mobile marketing canvas for his company. Pre-
>>> import, "provisional VIN", whatever that is. Pretty cool, REALLY
>>> small. Like you can park two nose to tail in the space my S6 Avant
>>> takes. Pretty good bit of kit, except the automagic transition. Lots
>>>
>>> of hunting, and takes about two Super Bowl commercials to shift.
>>> Handles well, pretty good acceleration for something you can carry in
>>>
>>> your backpack, lots of space given you must put it on rather than get
>>>
>>> into it. Not only that, but it's REAR WHEEL DRIVE. Don't they have
>>> laws against that these days?
>>>
>>> So, this brings me to my next virgin moment, I discovered a gap in
>>> the omniscience of the Internet, a first for me. I've always been
>>> able to find at least _something_ relating to my quest, but not this
>>>
>>> time. No pictures. Nothing. Nada.
>>>
>>> For you geezers in the bunch, from back when we had to get our
>>> vicarious thrills from actual printed magazines, no animation, no
>>> hyperlinks, actual print on paper, there was an infrequent comic in
>>> that paragon of automotive authority, Rod & Truck, about this little
>>>
>>> car, that reminded me of the Smart I drove. The little car was as (if
>>>
>>> not perhaps more) funny looking than the Smart, and was called the
>>> Cyclops Ecce Homo. Yep, that's for real. Made out of recycled Cinzano
>>>
>>> signs, active suspension, one honking headlight prolly brighter than
>>>
>>> those HID upgrades we've been discussing of late. Sort of the iPod of
>>>
>>> Minis. Functional, plus easy on the eyes.
>>>
>>> Now here's the bummer. Neither Google nor Yahoo can find anything
>>> online to show it, for me to email to my BIL. I was born at night,
>>> but not last night. However, in this case, I'm as clueless as a
>>> Luddite CIO.
>>>
>>> Does anyone out there know about this comic car, and know where it
>>> might be found online? Anyone?
>>>
>>> - -Ian Duff, Clueless in New Beige.
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