Congrats sir. Welcome to our community. I bought mine on a whim a few years back and one put about 25k miles on it already. Fun little cars.
Regarding dealer service, it's pretty bad from what you can read, add to that the fact that smart is no longer on the market, dealers that service smarts are very few...
Would I say it's underpowered? Yes definitely. But it handles a lot better than the SUVs and trucks and blobs out there. I have mine on lowering springs and it handles even better. I often get tailgated by some nugget on straight lines, but as soon as we got a corner I don't even have to lift off, just take corners at 60 and watch them in the rear view struggling to keep up, understand and almost run off the road sometimes
Regarding dealer service, it's pretty bad from what you can read, add to that the fact that smart is no longer on the market, dealers that service smarts are very few...
Would I say it's underpowered? Yes definitely. But it handles a lot better than the SUVs and trucks and blobs out there. I have mine on lowering springs and it handles even better. I often get tailgated by some nugget on straight lines, but as soon as we got a corner I don't even have to lift off, just take corners at 60 and watch them in the rear view struggling to keep up, understand and almost run off the road sometimes
