OT - Smart car???? or Smartuki?

[SharkmanBMW]

This is not your regular Smart Car !

Listen to engine, the rev are a lot higher than the Smart Engine.
Also when he lift the gas pedal at end of the straight you hear the exhaust. It sounds like a powerful 4 cylinders motorcycle engine.

It's an "Smartuki" a Smart with an GSXR-1000 Suzuki motorcycle engine !

0-60 in 4.2 sec. 13,000 rpm 180hp

for more details and pictures

http://thekneeslider.com/archives/2005/06/08/smart-car-plus-gsxr-equals-smartuki-a-very-smart-car/

[SharkmanBMW]

and here is a smart car crashing into a wall at 70!
http://www.wimp.com/wall/

[Jay 535i]

With that kind of power I'd be worried about flipping the thing onto its tailgate every time I gun it.

Amusing. And pointless. That engine in a Smart Roadster, though... :D

http://www.tiscali.co.uk/broadband/images/smart_roadster.jpg

[zygoteer]

Whenever I see a Smart or someone mentions one, I inexorably think of this pic ...

[Jay 535i]

Whenever I see a Smart or someone mentions one, I inexorably think of this pic ...

That's exactly what I was thinking of, too! With 180bhp that's gonna happen every time you take off! :)

I've done hundreds of miles in Smarts. Lucky me. They're scary enough with 58bhp.

I once had to move house using only a smart car.

[skr]

damn, if i had one of those i'll spend all day humiliating ricers :) I have to say that car is quite insane, as is it's owner. I've driven a smart and had some nice experiences and some scary experiences. The nice one was spinning it in the snow in a big parking lot. Laughed my ass off.
The scary one was doing 100 (60 mph) on a straight and empty road. I was like: "Oh s&^t, we gonna die. And brakeing/taking of felt like i was gonna flip it... Fun car (maybe funny) , but defenatly not something to drive all day

[SharkmanBMW]

my buddy works at a benz dealer... he has had all the cars, I have tried all the mercedes, but I am too sccared to try the smart.
he really, really likes them.

I drove a new clk500 hardtop ... the power is awesome, it just rips.

[Torque]

Amusing, but not something I'd like to be in.