production

[kevinran]

does anyone know the production capabilities for this car

[bmx43]

at the moment, very low.

[spdickey]

"production capabilities" meaning what? Production capability at the smart plant in France? How fast the car goes? Vague question Kev.

[centerxtreme]

I think he means numbers built. But the reall question is, How many units will be allocated to USA.

[kevinran]

production as in manufacturing, not how much speed will it produce duh..........

[spdickey]

"It takes four hours to build a smart, and when the lines are running at full capacity, one new car rolls off the production line every 1.5 minutes."

http://www.kraussmaffei.co.uk/cref/dn.html

Max capacity is 220000 per year.

[centerxtreme]

The 450 required 4 hrs The 451 is built in 3.5 hrs

[centerxtreme]

Hambach: exemplary modular production and protection of the environment
The smart fortwo is produced in the French town of Hambach. System partners on site deliver pre-assembled modules straight to the production line. The production process has been optimised and the production time reduced from 9.5 hours to 8 hours. The whole final assembly, which only took 4.5 hours for the predecessor model, now takes just 3.5 hours.

[kevinran]

Ok how many cars have been pre-ordered?

[E-SMART]

on this site the latest unconfirmed resv' number requests stood at about

42,000 ... way beyond what was allocated (25K in '08)