Purchased a 2005 Passion/D'Vinci with 2300 miles on it in Mesa, Arizona. All silver with the glass roof, CD-AM/FM. and Air Conditioning. Vanity plates "SMART05". We use it for 70% - 80% of our driving including freeway travel.
Right now we are getting around 43 MPG around town and about 52 MPG on the freeway . . . we think it is primarily because my wife likes to hot rod from every stop sign just to show she can keep up with all of the traffic, but mainly it's because we use the A/C 100% of the time.
Gray Smart Car Comes To Clairsvillle in Belmont County, Ohio.
It's a car so small, it gets some peculiar glances on the road. Now there are a handful in Belmont County.
ST. CLAIRSVILLE, Ohio -- The Mercedes Benz Smart Car gets gas mileage that other car owners can only dream about.
They are so small, you could almost fit two of them in one parking space.
The three-cylinder, turbo-charged engine has enough power to go up to 80 miles an hour.
The phone provided is a residential number. However, there is a video from a local news station. CLICK HERE
I was just surfing through this site and realized that I have never signed in to be counted as a 450 owner.
My car is a 2005 450 Passion Cpe. Silver Trid/Jack Black panels. Purchased it on Ebay, flew to Columbia, MO to pick up and leisurely drove to Oregon and registered in home city. Drove to Cal. to stay for winter.
Mods so far are:
Luggage Comp. cover
Delipped
Separated key from remote
Remove headlining to expose Panorama roof
Debadge Smart, badge Mercedes
K&N Filter
S-Mann air scoop
Twin tailpipe tip
Lft side switch for Rt window
Ign off window power
Cruise Control (ordered)
Designing trailer Hitch for Camping trailer
I have tried to meet up with any other Smart car owners in the So. Cal area for coffee, car talk, etc, but, so far nobody is that interested. It's sure isn't like it was in the fifties and owning a sport car.
On a Saturday or Sunday a person could drive his or her sports car (MG-Jag-Austin-Triumph-Morris,etc) out to the city limits (Detroit) and park on the shoulder. In a while one of the above mentioned cars would come along, stop, and ask if you need help. When you said you were just waiting for "Like" people, the other person would wait with you. One by one the group would grow and at some point, the whole group would caravan to some coffee shop in a nearby city to talk car talk and general camaraderie prevailed. Those were the days !
I just found this forum tonight and am thrilled to find other 450 owners in the US. I knew you were out there somewhere! I bought a 2006 Pulse F1 in July and then another one in Oct. One is corvette yellow and the other is raspberry. Both are silver trid. I have done a few mods to each such as cd and cup holders, floor mats, underseat drawers, axle caps, and spin on oil filter adaptors. I really enjoy the cars and the attention they get as I use them for business advertising. You just can't look at one without smiling. Again, I'm glad to have found some of you and hopefully more in the future and I look forward to reading your posts.
This is an interesting board but....... most aren't much interested in us "450s".
Rather than learn from the experienced, they prefer spectulative nonsense.
Fortunately, there are several exceptions and the "Admin" works hard.
Just wait, next year when deliveries start, this board will look like a club made up of "Christopher Columbus"s in 2008, oblivious to the fact we were here all along.
Eat, Drink and buy a Smart car.... Tomorrow ye die
And Welcome to the new people, Sorry I haven't responded sooner.
I too think as the 2008 roll out begins we Gray market people may see an increase in questions.
Would you believe I'm still not done with the cruse control (Warning GEEK content) the CC adds a bias voltage to the brake sense line, this is so if the line is disconnected it floats up to 12 volts emulating the brake peddle being pushed stopping you from enabling the CC. NOW the MB computer senses the minor voltage and gives me a beeping alarm (WOW did this have me going for awhile).
On a side note WOW has this forum grown my first handle (AFineMan) was the 50th and ASM is 100+ to see over 5K WOW Mr. Smart must be doing something correct.
Glad to see you are still at it on the cruse control. Had not heard anything about it for awhile. Have you considered just adding a small switch to the brake pedal, maybe under the car on the master cylinder/booster mechanism?
It could easily be fed from the fuse box with no interference from the ECU. With nothing on the market yet you might find a lot of interest from the 451 people.
This is an interesting board but....... most aren't much interested in us "450s".
Rather than learn from the experienced, they prefer spectulative nonsense.
Fortunately, there are several exceptions and the "Admin" works hard.
Just wait, next year when deliveries start, this board will look like a club made up of "Christopher Columbus"s in 2008, oblivious to the fact we were here all along.
Eat, Drink and buy a Smart car.... Tomorrow ye die
Donald LaFavor
PM me, we can chat via email.
Hey Don, cut us some slack. Most of us were aware of the smart but for a variety of reasons were not ready to buy the "grey market" version. Kudos to those of you who did take the plunge, and I for one am certainly interested any anything you guys can provide in the way of advance info. We are late comers but are here because we're smart enthusiasts also.
I just joined this forum, but have been on others since I bought my 2003 smart car (ZAP G&K conversion) in March 2006. I have one of the first batch of 85 that was shipped out to their dealers, and was on a waiting list for over 2 years to get it.
Our 2003 smart passion coupe is blue with silver tridion, and I have bought a second panel set for it (phat red) which it is currently wearing. We have almost 10,000 miles on the car now since we bought it, and have loved every minute of it!
Tom
Tom,
Where to you get your car serviced? I'm thinking about getting a 450 instead of waiting for the 451. Pros and cons on the 450?
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