Smart Roadster (Smart Car)

Member Name: daniel2010

Product:	Smart Car
Date:	10/01/05 (4457 review reads)
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Advantages: Good fuel economy, Sounds Great, Makes the next car you buy seem so much better

Disadvantages: Very Jerky Gear-Box, A lot of money for what you get, If you are over male and over 30 you look a pratt driving one. (I was 19 when I brought mine)

I brought my Smart Roadster just over a year ago when they first started selling them in the UK. When I first brought my car I though it was the best thing in the world, it was nippy, sounded great, cheap to run, fun to drive and everyone stopped and looked as you drove past.

However it doesn't take long for the little things to start to annoy you such as the very jerky gearbox, the fact that it is so low that when driving in the day the only thing you can see in front of you is the car in front's number plate and when you drive at night you not only get blinded by the headlights of the cars coming towards you, if you get even a normal car behind you the headlights shine through the rear window and reflect in the wing-mirrors so you are nearly driving blind.

Storage is another annoying factor, if you dare put anything in the boot behind you, as soon as you have to brake all the contents of the boot end up in the front of the car on your lap. As for the storage in the front of the car good luck if you can find room for more that one cd without having to throw it on the floor to get scratched.

It is cheap to run untill you have to pay £185.00 to get it serviced every 8000 miles and the money you have saved on petrol soon goes.

As I said I have had this car just over a year and I have decided to part exchange it for a New MINI Cooper Convertible, a much nicer car with a proper gear-box and much better storage space.

So overall if you change your car every 6 months buy one, if you plan to keep your next car longer than a year buy something else.

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