duo ,

you were perfectly clear.

What you wanna drive is up to you but I guess I need to be blunt - the smart car looks like a piece of crap. - Americans wouldn't be caught dead in it . In odrer to grab the american market exterior design and  passenger/storage space will have to improve dramatically. As for myself I walk wherever I can, ride a bycycle where possible , a motorcycle when niether of the above are practica and for those heavy loads a pickup truck. Insurance rates are through the roof here. Something like that would be hard to get a good rate on because despite whatever blurbs the company puts out that thing is unsafe at any speed!

sorry NO SALE!. (Where's that Nader guy when you really need him?)