Any regrets?

[TwoBearWisconsin]

Originally Posted by UTVitz

No regrets about the car itself-it is perfectly reliable, comfortable, and gets great gas mileage. But, I really, really wanted a smart and couldn't buy one at the time since they were all spoken for unless you ordered one. So I bought the smallest toyota made hoping it would suffice. I still want the smart-darn it. I think I like how anti-car the smart is-it's barely above the usefulness of a motorcycle for transportation. The toyota is definitley more grown up than a smart-it's no street legal go-cart. The Yaris is a real car and a very well made one at a killer price.

Have you taken a smart for a test drive? I'd wanted one, too, ever since I first saw them in Europe. I even had my $99 down on one when they first announced that they'd finally be coming here. I finally got to drive one this summer and decided it is NOT the car for me. "Slow" doesn't begin to describe it, and the transmission and shifting are horrendous. I'm very glad I got my Yaris now instead.