Come see Smart Madness at the Motor Trend Orange County Auto Show

SmartMadness · 10-12-2009, 02:00 PM

Hey guys and gals,

We, Smart Madness will have our custom smart cars on display at the Motor Trend Orange County Auto Show this coming weekend (October 15th-18th). If you are in the OC area this weekend and plan to check out the Auto Show stop by and say Hello.

We will be located right next to the Lotus booth and DUB.

Hope to see you there!

Here is the link to the Auto Show:

The Orange County Auto Show

h20m0f0 · 10-12-2009, 05:27 PM

Does my car count as a smart madness car?

OCMike · 10-18-2009, 02:08 PM

Hey Boris! It was great talking to you at the show. Love how they had you nestled in with all the Ferrari's, Lotus', and Lambo's. It was sad that Mercedes and smart wasn't there though. Got some great info from one of the Tesla guys about an ev retro fit for current smart owners coming down the line soon. Now I just have to do some research to see how much truth there is to that.

h20m0f0 · 10-19-2009, 06:08 AM

Boris, I know you had your camera with you, Lets see some pictures....

BigWarpGuy · 10-19-2009, 09:45 AM

Motor Trend Orange County Motor Show site.

Photo gallery for the Smart (just one photo

).

SmartMadness · 10-20-2009, 07:53 AM

It turned out to be a good show.

Corporate smart was not present at the show. Too bad...

We spend 90% of our time fielding questions about the smart. You know the usual (speed, safety, price and etc). Luckily we had a ton of info cards to pass out. Must of passed out over 500-600 and I am sure we sold some smart cars for the area dealers.

We ended up meeting some of our existing customers and had a chance to chat a bit and at times put a face on the name. Met a number of existing owners that had no idea they could do anything like what we were displaying to their smart cars and promised to come visit us at the shop.

Over the Loooong 4 days we received some TV and print media coverage and even ended up being on the Fox 11 Good Morning LA Show. They started their Auto Show coverage in front of our smart cars and even talked about our Vertical Doors. Here is a little shot of that (sorry for the low quality camera phone pics):

Here are some shots of the booth before the show opened:

and here is my favorite TShirt of the show:

SmartMadness · 10-20-2009, 07:55 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by h20m0f0

Does my car count as a smart madness car?

Of course! :-)

SmartMadness · 10-20-2009, 07:58 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by OCMike

Hey Boris! It was great talking to you at the show. Love how they had you nestled in with all the Ferrari's, Lotus', and Lambo's. It was sad that Mercedes and smart wasn't there though. Got some great info from one of the Tesla guys about an ev retro fit for current smart owners coming down the line soon. Now I just have to do some research to see how much truth there is to that.

We got to know the Tesla people a little. Great folks! Three of them own a smart car.

It was interesting... One of them (great guy) was talking to us and said he bought a new BRABUS smart and the first thing the other two owners told them is "Go check out Smart Madness". It was great to hear that.

Over the course of the show we had a chance to speak to them and while I was asked to keep much info to myself I can tell you that the electric smart is on its way!

SmartDrive · 10-20-2009, 06:35 PM

Very cool!

h20m0f0 · 10-20-2009, 06:48 PM

It looks like you guys had lots of fun. I'm not so sure I like what you did to the turbo (wheels) I will have to see them in person before I give you my aproval

Talk to you soon Tell Rachel Heidi and I said hello....

Jimmy Vegas