http://www.cnn.com/2006/AUTOS/06/07/...une/index.html

It just doesn't have the utililty of an xB.

 

I hope those come here - ive been wanting one for a long time

 

They are cute - I've seen a good number of them scooting about in traffic in BC. Awfully expensive, though.

 

Didnt the Germans have a cheap small car they imported here once?? It was called a bug or something like that.......

 

Well, Ferdinand Porsche's Volkswagen (people's car) was introduced in 1939, and HAS to be
the world's longest running model production.

(And of course the SMART car is DaimlerChrysler.)

There HAVE been other tiny german cars, like BMW's Isetta 250, 300, and
600 which was sold here in the us back in the mid '50s, early '60s - I remember
laughing at them then. Earlier there were 'things' like the Messerschmitt 'bubble car' (let's face
it, the Germans just may have the record for the, er, strangest little cars)...



Actually, here's an interesting bunch of odd cars...

http://www.lexam.net/peter/carnut/oddball.html

Some of those things look like something designed after a long night of anchovy pizza and
beer...

Tom

 

Yeah--I think this Ferdinand guy made some other air cooled rear enginged cars when he was through with the bug. Some of those liitle cars make our boxes look like Hummers...........

 

If you get the chance to be in Nashville,Tn. go to the Lane Motor Museum..
they have a large assortment of "micro cars"...be sure to have several memory sticks for yer camera



btw.. pops is 6' tall

 

Aww, how cute. The cream, aqua, and white cars on the bottom left shelf are smiling!

 

...I think they may be happy 'cause they are convertibles. :D

(They do look like smiling frogs. )

 

The Smart car is acutally here already.... I have seen one running around in Denver,NC....that thing is tiny

 

Isn't this the dealership where Steve Urkle got his car from?

 

i've seen some down here in texas... people drive them up from mexico.

 

I have a chair in my dining room that's bigger than the "car" on the left!

 

I WANT ONE!!!! But alas, at 6'7" I would never fit