So maybe you’ve seen the Smart Car zipping around your town, and you’ve thought to yourself, Man, that would really convenient to have, but it’s just so tiny! How would even two people ever fit in there? Well, Smart had already thought of that complaint, and to prove you very, very wrong, they went ahead and fit thirteen people into one of their cars. As in, if I’m at all okay at math at all, 650 percent of its normal capacity. Stick that in your pipe and smoke it, Mister Doubter of Fitting Over a Dozen People in a Tiny Car.
Treehugger.com, which brought us this story, mentions that six years ago, eighteen people fit into one of these vehicles. Which is like 150 percent of the 650 percent of the normal capacity, or 900 percent of the normal capacity. Wait. What? I think I just exploded my brain.
The version of the Smart car available in the United States, called the smart fortwo (or, I guess, forthirteen or foreighteen) gets the highest fuel economy of any non-hybrid vehicle on the market, at 41 mpg on the highway (though in Europe the numbers are even higher).
takepart and learn about some other highly efficient cars on the market today that you might like to be seen around town in.
Also, the Smart people did this. Just, odd.
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Yes, I hope the elite oil and chemical men get passed the pipe!