great article - someone finally gets it

[sato7]

someone cut, paste, and post the article here with a GIANT sticky to permanently show it off as the only article that actually GOT IT!

[John_H]

Sadly, the publisher appears to make their living by charging for pdfs. I sincerely doubt that it would be close to legal to try to make the article widely available to this forum's readers without using their site the way we were directed.

[randyzimmer]

Winding Road Magazine | Issue 52

re: absolutely wretched and unintuitive... ... clunky site!!
If you "open your mind" and look at the site as an online magazine that turns pages,
it works fine.
Please give them the same consideration!
This link is to a "for pay" publication and gets you in for free.

[Kermit]

At first glance the website is nervewracking. After that, the article is great where they understand the smart is purpose driven. When used for its purpose, it is practical. Labeling it as a sports car....I dunno. I prefer to think of it as an .....(I'm coining this term! It's mine dang it!!!) The smart is an ECONOBUBBLE.

[fastturb]

$1.49 to own the PDF. I'll coast extra far and keep it under 65 tomorrow to pay for my own version now on my desktop - thanks for sharing this...

[tmartin]

Folks -- thanks for reading the article. Just to be clear: the link above in the OP is to our digital magazine. It is free (in online format).

When you click the link, you'll open to the cover of the magazine (give it a second, the images are big). Just click on the "Honda Fit vs. Smart ForTwo" headline and that will take you directly to the article.

You can also just add the number 134 (...issue/52/134) to the URL shown above and you'll go to the article. I'd post the full URL, but as a newcomer to your community I'm not allowed to post links.

(Of course you can also page though the magazine, jump from article to article or use the table of contents which has links to all articles.)

Tom Martin
Editorial Director
Winding Road magazine

[dancote]

Another thread veering off into oil changes. When will it end?

[powerbookguy]

great read and a fresh perspective.

winding road magazine is awesome.

[John_H]

Originally Posted by tmartin

Folks -- thanks for reading the article.

...

Tom Martin
Editorial Director
Winding Road magazine

Thanks for the Winding Road magazine! It's nice to get a perspective that has a pro-car perspective. Our smarts certainly are fun!

I'll pass this url:

http://magazine.windingroad.com/issue/52/134

along to friends and other interested parties. They can discover the rest of the magazine from there.

Many thanks!

[fierogt]

This is exactly what I say when I try to explain the fortwo to people, but they never understand. Most people only listen to lies and rumors from the media about how easy it will roll over or how it can get crushed flat in a wreck.

My fiancee talked me into trading my Fiero in on "cash for clunkers" and I was reluctant. I was worried that all new cheap cars would feel displaced from the road.

My Fiero was very fun to drive because you could actually feel the road. Which is exactly what sold me on the smart. I drove basically every car under $17K and the fortwo was the only one for me. (and pretty much the only one I could fit in)

Thank you smart for making an awesomely fun car. (But not for crushing my Fiero. )

p.s. I bought the Fiero in '02, it had 16K miles on it. When I gave it to smart to crush it had 109k. One of the guys at smart Buckhead (I think his name was Greg) went crazy when I pulled up. He said his dad used to own a Pontiac dealership and had a Fiero when he was little. They all went outside to check it out. I had done some work to the exhaust so they all had fun with it, taking turns ripping around the side of the dealership. "Greg" couldn't believe I was bringing it to get crushed.

If you didn't already notice, I was very fond of that car. Hit me up if you wanna talk Fiero. Of course I love my smart too. Its a great car.