Another reason to buy a Corolla................
................if any more were needed

The lack of Euros is possibly actual support for Mark's "lazy fairy" theory of Evolution... market balances and all.

Goes like this... "If you can't afford a new European vehicle... you DEFINATELY can't afford a second hand one!"

Perhap these guys are more intelligent than we mistake them for... Crim for MP!

That's funny... they remind me of an older version...

The Messerschmit (?) BUBBLE car...!

Anyway, Smarts are nice looking cars Mark... hope you enjoy it...

700cc, like a go-kart around the hills (Banks Peninsula). Great fun (and $20 petrol to get from Christchurch to the Marlborough Sounds).

Mark Hubbard - "The only thing that worries me is, people might think I'm a "¦ you know [greenie]." - Personally i'd be more worried people might mistake me for Rodney Hide.

Do you have your portrait on the side?

I have Barry Manilow CDs displayed prominently. That deters them :)

... I don't want misconceptions here. I am no greenie!

Important we understand this Mouse.

Damn, I'm going to have to stop driving it.

Geez Louise Mark : How do you start that thing , wind up a clockwork spring mechanism ? ........ I did have a cobber with a Fiat Bambina ......... no worries of theft there . The cops could catch the culprits with a forklift !

Roger Thompson - You may be a Babe Magnet... for the decerning Woman... It's Steve Netwriter I'm worried about...Barry Manilow? - I'm suprised he does'nt get phone numbers slipped under his windscreen wipers.

[I've got a big 2 litre Focus too, AndrewJ. Big manly Ford. That cancels out a Smartcar in terms of sexual orientation.]

Yeh,but what colours the Focus ,Pink?

I am not a greenie!

Oh god, what have I done.

(And my Focus is a virginal white, Andrew. Do you reckon Tarquian is a blokes name? :) )

To be sure Mark , I heard dat you're turned Greenie now . As a native of the land of the bogs and little people , I commend you on da good taste . Welcome brother O'Hubbard . .............. . Pints of Guinness all 'round . Your shout !

Mark - why are you so worried about perceptions of your sexuality? Your comments seem to imply a strong homophobic streak. I thought libertarians were all for personal freedom?

please explain

Edited by Bernard. A gentle nudge to all to avoid any language that might be considered abusive or defamatory. We're not that sort of site. cheers bernard

No no no. No problems with the homophobic issue.

It's just the Greenie label: that would kill me. Scared of a palm kernal for Heaven's sake.

Thinking of putting the Smartcar on Trademe.

oh OK
whats the basis for the smart car if its not green-ness? presumably purely economic?

Mark: I'd be more embarrassed about the make of dog than the car or greenness if I were you. Does a dog have a carbon pawprint?

You'll be pleased to know the Smart car is quite safe too - 'though if you try this with your car, I'd suggest a doggy harness for the Cavoodle

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJHpUO-S0i8

Speaking of "Greenie""
Green cars are bad luck..garranteed to be dented...
Well they always used to be bad luck till the AA came out a while back with stats of claims and car colour...dont own a green car...

mouse Says:
"Villans these day's have no Class"¦ where are the European cars on this list?"
Or maybe Euro s have no class lol
Really, what turns a head a 1950 Bradford or a Euro?
Or a 40 yr old Camaro?
And these dont depreicate last longer than any disposable 'greenie car'
I often wonder how much energy/pollution is created to mantacture a dispoable greenie car per yr of its life time, compared to a car built to last 40 or 50 yrs..?
And just how eco friendly are these old cars Realy? Are they the polution makers we ar told they are?
When they get rebuilt ..to run on modern fuels (91 octane instead of the old British pool fuel 65 octane) ...A 40 yr old sb Chevy runs just as well, and still pumps out more grunt than a modern muscle car....
Another case of the greenies , who have never lifted a spanner or know why the jaws are off set, spouting off unsubstantiated BS.

When a 40 yr old muscle car does better in a economy run (without trying) than a modern computer controled , injected v6 callais, and still blow it doors off..certainly raises some questions.

When they get rebuilt ..to run on modern fuels (91 octane instead of the old British pool fuel 65 octane) "¦A 40 yr old sb Chevy runs just as well, and still pumps out more grunt than a modern muscle car"¦.

Completely off topic, and working from memory of you stating your age on another tread, Steps, which would put us a generation apart, but closer, apparently, than to the current boy racer generation coming through ...

... the single fact that has always mystified me about the current cult of boy racers is that they drive Japanese cars! Hondas. Back even in my day you would have been a laughing stock if you were trying to hold yourself out as some type of 'tough' and you were driving a Honda :) Like the Japanese car in the movie The Gumball Rally: Japanese cars were for nerds.

What on Earth happened?

My father was a Chevy freak, I grew up in them, the last a Chev Impala. They sounded like cars. Real cars.

@ Mark Hubbard

"the single fact that has always mystified me about the current cult of boy racers is that they drive Japanese cars!"

Because they're cheap and once the tipping point's reached, they're the norm

Simple as