
So I’m cruising home on Friday and what do I see poking it’s nose out of the Mercedes Benz dealership: a Smart Car. Finally this thing has come to the States.

I’ve been pining over the Smart Car for a couple years now. It’s a good little commuter car that gets a supposedly impressive 40-mpg. But, did you know there’s already a Mini that gets 50-mpg but they don’t sell it here? Is the Smart car really that smart?

Why won’t they sell the Mini here you ask. It’s all about emissions, or that’s what they say. Is the air in Paris worse that the air in Los Angeles?
Why do we always get ripped off in this country (rhetorical: the answer is of course is money). Europeans have had Smart Cars for years now. They wonder if Americans will drive them. Apparently Americans will drive a car that looks like a football before they get raped one more time at the pumps. We’ve dumped 440 billion+ into annexing Iraq so we can all have “cheap gas” here in the U.S.—oh no wait, we’re speading freedom. These same ass wipes liberators are keeping the technology from us. The Smart Car runs on 3 cylinders and it’s the size of a peanut M&M.

The Honda Insight gets 70pmg. Of course that car has been discontinued—possibly because it looked so ridiculous.

Check out the EV1 above. Seriously, soak it in. If I were driving that thing I would feel like I was being punished. That contraption is an autotmotive pillory that is only suitable for complete environmental zealots or people who own Ham radios. Why does an aerodynamic car have to look tragically laughable? Birds are aerodynamic and they look cool. I don’t want drive a car that looks like a Mexican version of the Jetsons. Call me vain, but I don’t want to look like a douche bag. I don’t need my car to say, “Hey, look at me, I’m driving the future!” I just want a car that looks like all the other cars but has something under the hood that represents that fact that we’re closing out the first decade of the 21st century. I had my first computer in ‘81. It had 4k of RAM. Now, in my laptop, I have the Death Star. In 1980 the average MPG was 20. Today it’s 20. I guess cars are a ot harder than computers. Maybe Apple and Dell should start making cars so we could all catch a fucking break.
This era will come to an end one way or another but jeez…come on people.