I Owned A Smart TwoFour 3.5 Years (What I Learned) (Ten Things)

 1.  It was a 2004 model of the car (bought used....used for 3 years)....with max  horsepower of 40. This meant that as you entered the autobahn....you needed every inch possible to get the car up to around 90 kph, and roughly 12 seconds later....you'd finally hit 130 kph (81 mph).

2.   The glass roof was crap.  In summer, it pumped the interior heat index up by 200-percent.

3.  The suspension was 4-star CRAP.....meaning a trip of  one hour....gave you roughly three hours of backache.

4.  To give some decent traction in winter....you needed a 100-pound sand-bag on the passenger side.

5. There was no drain-plug for oil. My local mechanic said it had to be vacuumed-out....and he didn't have the fancy 'box' to do that.  So it meant once a year to visit the dealer shop for a 200 Euro oil change.

6.  Headlights were impossible to change out.  I'd have to get my son (8 at the time)....to reach through a tiny area....handle the old bulb, and install the new one.  I went to the mechanic once....thinking it could be more  easily done.  He had to spend 40 minutes removing the whole front hood physically from the car.

7.  On the autobahn, in a storm.....you could feel tons of 'push' going on.  It was dangerous to drive the car in a storm.

8.   The gas tank held just enough fuel to drive to work and back....4.5 days a week, and then you had to refuel.  Twenty-two liter tank (just over 5 gallons of gas).  

9.  The door swung so wide....that a 500-pound guy could easily sit in the driver's seat.

10.  The AC unit was about the size of two soda cans, and anything above 32 C (90 F)....was impossible to actually cool.