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What is the waiting time for a Smartcar?

What is the MPG for the Smartcar?

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1. 0-60 time is about 15 minutes. If I lived in Paris or London, maybe. they're popular there because the can park anywhere and have low carbon taxes (goes up with weight and engine size). You'e probably looking at six months minimum before they become more widely available.
2. There is no waiting time. No one is buying it. I have been to a Smart dealer filled with Smarts. It gets 33mpg city and 40mpg highwy, which is pretty bad. My car makes 10HP more than the Smart and is heavier and bigger and faster. And it only gets 1mpg worse than the Smart. You can buy much better cars that are more practical and more powerful that get the same gas mileage.
3. Currently, after the point of making your $99 refundable reservation, the wait list would be over 12 months..HOWEVER...keep in mind that not all buyers take the cars they reserved 12 months ago, which is a good thing for new reservation holders for two reasons: 1.) as each person that cannot wait drops off the list, the list moves up more quickly, and 2.) whenever someone decides that the car they configured and ordered is something - for whatever reason - they cannot purchase when it arrives, that car is available for immediate sale. Keep in touch with your dealer and they will be more apt to remember to call you when one of these "orphan" cars becomes available. Regarding the gentleman who thinks that his local smart dealer is full of smart cars and that no one is buying them: every car reserved for the next 12+ months is already sold. That's the opposite of no one buying them; that's such incredible popularity and satisfied feedback from the smart owners that EVERY car is sold. The cars are there because they just arrived and are awaiting their owners to come and pick them up. The real-world mileage of a smart car is 37-38mpg in the city and 42-47mpg on the highway; the highest mileage of any gas-only (not hybrid) car that is currently in production. Before anyone states that their car gets more than that, ask yourself if you are comparing these figures to your real mileage or the highest mileage you've ever attained while on the highway in your car, as most people naturally tend to do. i.e. Alot of people state that "My car gets 33 mpg, What's the big deal?" Usually they are saying that and, when they dig deep into what they are saying, they mean that their car has gotten 33mpg at it's most shining highway moment. The smart car does better than that in stop-start in-city driving without breaking a sweat. On the highway, you can add 5-10 MORE mpg. Put in other terms, with a gas price of $3.79/gallon, the smart car will go about 130 miles more on $37.90 than your average good gas mileage car. That's a lot of trips to the grocery store! All of this is impressive news considering the smart car was not produced with the intention of being a gas-sipper. It was produced to be the exact amount of car that the average 1.2 occupants of a vehicle need, to reduce congestion in traffic and parking lots, and to be extremely affordable while not giving up quality, safety, speed, or its tremendously earth-friendly position. Hope this helps! PS. The real-world 0-60 time for a smart car is 10.4 seconds; only about 2 seconds longer than an everyday Pontiac Grand Prix.