Graybeard wrote:
> Those little "Smart" cars have been running around in Europe for 7 or 8
> years, but the times that I have been there, we never saw very many of them
> on the road. The Mercedes name sells them to some people, but there are
> much better buys for better transportation in Europe, the same as there is
> here.
> If they could get the price down to $10,000, they might make a good
> substitute for a golf cart.
> (Yes, I know, the model sold here is a little different).

DiamlerBenz reportedly spent over 1,000,000,000 Euros on development of
the car. But they are far from recovering their investment.

So this program was much better than their merger of equals with Chrysler.

Jeff

> "Mike Hunter" <mikehunt2@mailcity.com> wrote in message
> news:rMCdnRTkqfsNyxjbnZ2dnUVZ_s2vnZ2d@ptd.net...
>> At the price of $16,000 for that midget two passenger car, to drive on
>> American highways, to save a relative few hundred dollars a year, one
>> would be better off just buying a actual
>> coffin for $5,000
>>
>> mike
>>
>>
>> "Useful Info" <useful_inf@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>> news:1183136367.519154.19160@k79g2000hse.googlegro ups.com...
>>> Read all about it, here: http://Muvy.org
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